#and the conclusion was the comment i wrote lmao

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Wait, quick idea! Twilight looks like the only hylian in his village because everyone else has round ears, so what if he wasn’t as surprised as the others to see their human companion so resilient, but still fairly impressed because of the fact that most if not all people in his village don’t put themselves in as drastic situations as the reader? Or is this just humans from our world?

get out of my head lmao /lh - you, me, and wayfayrr are actually the same person on diff accounts LMAO

im of the belief that (blame @wayfayrr, my beloved) that he knows of humans bc of some in his village but yeah, just not the type of human in drastic situations

(ALSO they wrote me a fun, long, glorious, male reader human space orc au fic for winning their raffle a bit ago, and it brings up their headcanon abt this and i Adore It actually, check it out here pls if u wanna know🤲)

(also if u see this wayfayrr, sorry for the ping, also should i be calling u moss? or wayfayrr?? idk which, i hope thats even ok to ask 😭 i assumed u would call my ass Moon)

Moon: Male-Masc Reader (he/him)

Orbit: short headcanons-ish, rambling mostly

Stars: Twilight Princess Link (Twi/Twilight), mentions of other Links

Comets & Meteors: CWs: none known, & TWs: none known.

Please comment if I missed any. /gen

to reiterate what i said up there, in case u skipped it for the bullet points,

i like the headcanon he knows humans, knows some of their quirks, and how they were the first ppl the other hylian villagers called on to help stuck cows or downed wagons, lots of heavy lifting stuff

but he really hasnt seen the extent of real humans, bc the humans who were in Ordon, well, they lived in hylian society,

why would they need the adrenaline to lift a car when hylians have set up whole tools and systems in all their towns to help lift just a full bucket of water out of the well??

not to mention, i think all the humans in his village were older adults? like at least not the age theyd be doing things like parkour or going to any trampoline parks type of age,

id imagine its more like stories talked about amongst hylians how hard humans can go, and even the humans themselves talked abt things like,

“well compared to u hylians, we have stomachs made of molten lava to you guys really, but we never have to use it, bc u know hylian food works just fine”

when Twi asked they would say stuff like that, but as soon as he saw ur human ass just picking wildflowers and berries off the side of the road to snack on? even random grasses/vines at some point (kudzu)?? easily eating Wild’s Dubious Food that's DEFINITELY got monster parts in it???! gnawing on the bone of a cucco and it just breaks??!!! and you look surprised too, thank fuck finally a normal reaction from u- oh my goddesses u were just curious (damn the elders were right abt human curiosity too) **and are now sucking out the marrow and eating the bone-!!!!!!!!!!!!

Twilight’s perspective of you is actually the equivalent of like, reading stories about vampires all ur life, then this new friend you made starts to get allergic to garlic, crave blood, has crazy strength and advanced senses, etc

and he’s just watching those honest-to-Hylia human mythological feats play out in real time in front of him, like he’s the only self-aware character in the story that immediately clocks the really obvious vampire as a vampire lmao

is the first to either 1. start choking on his laugh as he theoretically knows ur about to jump on the back of a lynel/hinox to ride it around and watch as the others come to the same conclusion OR 2. try to Stop you from jumping on said big monster in an attempt to ride it around bc he gets used to ur human BS quicker than the others and can see it coming a mile away now lol

very much so this meme:

(ur welcome i made it myself <3)

anyway id love to rant abt this dynamic

abt both Twi’s shock at you eating peppers like a god has come down from the sky to prove their immortality,

but also poor rancher esstientally humansitting you too lmao

the Chain/Time/Wars absolutely put him down as the resident human expert like: “ok he just drank like, 5? No- Four stop him from drinking more at least- (dual sighs). okay, 6 stamina potions, will that kill him??”

Twilight, saviour of Hyrule, of the Twili, Link from Twilight Princess himself,

has to keep a record book of all the new shit he’s heard/learned about humans in Ordon, what he has actively learned abt ur ass just fucking around and finding out, and the few bread crumbs of information u give him abt ur species

(that rlly just come off as kind of cryptid statements abt u/humanity, or don't apply in this scenario bc ur only comparison is Earth Rules, which honestly scare every single fucking one of them in the same way as walking on Ganon’s lawn or something, like straight up view ur home planet as enemy territory, the Amazon jungle, the Hyrule wilds if you will-)

Twilight also gets involuntarily volunteered for human-sitting duty too

tbh the only person Not allowed on human-sitting duty, when u guys go new areas esp, is Wild/Hyrule

you’d tell him you wanna get inside the guardian robot to operate it and ride it around and he’d probably be in shock you even fathomed something like that, yet also now EXTREMELY intrigued to watch it play out

(they’re both more of a “u wanna jump off a cliff?? that's actually crazy, wait for me please.” he seems to think he can somehow protect you if he joins you? its worked sometimes to be fair to him ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ just not really conveniently when the rest of the Chain are around lmao)

☆

i live btw, ive been writing/updating fics along with life updates (moving states/new job/online class) so a few asks will hopefully be answered over here in the next 2ish weeks

no promises, my life is kinda girlbossing at the moment too close to the sun and i am Nervous abt disappointing u guys

i already feel like im disappointing my other blog bc i haven't posted in forever bc im writing a fic instead of asks during any free time i dedicate to writing for it so :/

pls excuse my super slowness like a package ur waiting for in the mail or smth type of slow

AGAIN thanks for the ask!! i hope this was at least entertaining to read as some addon to what u said, you guys have gotta check out some of wayfayrr’s stuff if ur into this, bc they're the only other place i can think of that's talked abt humans not just being the same as hylians

have a great week!!

Peace out hugs and chaos,

🌙

[scuderiamh]

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a/n: first smau ever and first thing overall released in months... be easy on me 🙏 as always don't be a ghostreader!

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[a-little-bit-of-ravioli]

20 questions for fic writers

Tagged by @the-real-azalea-scroggs! Had to wait until I was of my phone because doing these is a nightmare on mobile lmao

1. How many works do you have on A03?

18 as of a few days ago!

2. What's your total A03 word count?

157,937! Which is. Only a fraction of the word count in my Docs folder. Be prepared.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I mainly write for The Legend of Zelda; specifically Linked Universe! In fact, that's all that's posted on my Ao3 currently, since my fall into that fandom began with me uploading there! Pre-Ao3 I wrote for Black Cat (Anime/Manga), Megaman NT Warrior, various Pokémon things, Assassin's Creed, Yugioh, Final Fantasy XIV and Octopath Traveler! Some of these I still write privately, but I haven't gotten around to re-posting any.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Whistling on Deaf Ears - My longest fic on Ao3, focusing on Wild and Twilight's friendship and how good intentions can lead to disaster.

Iconoclasm - Warriors deals with the room full of portraits in Cia's palace. The Chain also deals with it, but with a bit more fire.

Deserving - Twilight finally tells Rusl that he was the wolf in the village during TP, but that also means dealing with some heavier topics. Colin half overhears them and forms his own conclusions.

Something Greater - The start of the "Hyrule can see magical auras" series! In this one we deal with Legend and his many rings.

Ocean Magic - Mermaid Legend and Zora Time have a race and then fight one of the Big Octos from WW! Fun times.

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

Every single one!! I love comments, they give me an excuse to ramble about my fic more!! I am always down to ramble about every single insignificant detail of any line and/or section. If you ever want more background info about one of my fics, look to the comments!

So please, I adore comments, I treat them like treasures, not responding to them would be a CRIME.

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

There's no contest; Inevitable, my (so far) only MCD fic.

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

Hmmm, that's hard to quantify. I usually try to end fics on a hopeful note regardless. I'd say possibly either Deserving, where Twilight reconnects with his family, or Shimmering Blue, Striking White, where Time meets the Fierce Deity settled down on Satori Mountain and they both get closure.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Thankfully, no! I've been blessed with mostly amazing and patient readers, even when my upload schedule isn't the best.

9. Do you write smut?

No, not really. I've attempted it, but I'm too asexual for it lol

10. Do you write crossovers?

Very, very rarely. Mostly privately, and only very specific ones. Only a single one has had an actual plot, so far (more on that one in question 15!).

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Also a nope! I tend to write for smaller fandoms, where these things don't tend to happen a lot!

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

I have! But it's been a while. Over a decade, in fact! I tried to find the fic to link it here, but it was on the German fanfic website fanfiktion.de, and my friend who posted it back then must have deactivated her account, because it's nowhere to be seen (I still have the Word file though!). It was a Multi-Crossover that started as an RP in a forum, and we took turns turning the RP into prose one chapter each. "If a Hero Turns to Dark" was its title. We were edgy teenagers.

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

Hissssss. Bad question. Shoo. They are all equally important!!

But it's probably TenRose from Doctor Who.

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

One of the very few crossovers I've ever worked on; a crossover fic between Assassin's Creed and Doctor Who, that I have mapped out in both chronological and timeline order, and yes, those are different. I only ever wrote about a quarter of it, since my primary audience of it disappeared when we graduated. I doubt I'll ever pick it back up properly, and if I do it'll probably go through heavy rewrites first since it's so old. Finishing it is a nice thought, but realistically, after 9 years it'll never be high priority enough for it to actually happen.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, especially arguments, and emotional impact. I've been told I do really well making characters feel alive and believable! Also I like to believe I'm decent at setting a scene and giving it the vibe I want it to have!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I struggle with dialogue tags when nothing much is happening besides the talking. I always feel it's too bland, and fall back on the same phrases. My scene transitions could use some work too.

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

I've done this with Japanese phrases, because I was a massive weeb. Usually I followed them up with their own translations, though; I'm not the biggest fan of footnote translations, unless they are properly linked to. Simple dialogue tags are my favourite way of indicating a language switch.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Black Cat the Manga/Anime! It's a series about an assassin turned bounty hunter trying to live a life separate from his murdery past, but getting dragged back into things by still wanting to avenge his best friend's death. The series has a special place in my heart and my bookshelf, it left an imprint on 13-year-old me that will never leave.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

Probably Jailbreak, uncharacteristically enough! It's one of the only fics I never got stuck in once. Writing it was a great feeling from start to finish. I love writing all of my fics, but that was a special few days.

Tagging @ahrva @nowhere-to-go-but-down @silvercaptain24 and @aeghina! And anyone who wants to do it, really, go wild

[divorcedfiddleford]

Random but - if you were given an opportunity to rewrite Ford's character and his arc in the show (and later J3), how would it be like?

canon gay and trans

so the thing is that i think most of how ford himself is written is really really good! i just think that the writers (particularly alex) have a bias against him, and so a lot of the narrative ends up feeling like he's either being punished or being forced to atone for his past. so i'm gonna ramble and daydream for a bit but i want to be clear i actually really like how he's written in general (yes, even in the book that i have so much beef with!!)

there's very few moments of catharsis for him, and those that he gets are either short (reunion with fiddleford) or undermined by the writers' bias (the ending of journal 3 where he burns all his bill stuff but has to keep reminding us that he was stupid for trusting bill in the first place). so i think a lot of the problems i have would be resolved with tonal shifts and a few cuts, like that fucking scene in the stanchurian candidate with the mind control tie. the implication of reaganite ford is bad enough but then to have a guy who has very specific trauma relating to being mind controlled/not being in control of his own body just hand that over is really fucking stupid. then again i think that whole episode is stupid so i'd end up rewriting all of it lmao

i've said before but if i really had my way i'd cut roadside attraction entirely and replace it with another ford episode. i loved how goofy and fun dd&md was and i think if more of that lighthearted side of him was shown it would endear him to the audience more. a long time ago i had an idea for an episode where they go back to the bunker and ford basically does puppy talk to the shapeshifter who is actively trying to kill them. i never followed this idea through to its conclusion but i think it still sounds entertaining, plus it would also give more time for him to reunite with fiddleford so it wouldn't have to be squeezed in the finale.

speaking of the finale... my personal fantasy is that i'd love to have a scene stuck in there where stan apologizes to ford. it REALLY stood out to me that despite all their fighting, ford still at least says the words "i'm sorry" to stan. stan never apologizes for anything he did to ford - neither for breaking his project, nor for banishing him to the hell dimension for 30 years. i get that they were mistakes, but you still have to apologize for mistakes (and if i allow myself to get very self-indulgent for a second, i've often thought the whole story would be a lot more resonant if stan broke ford's machine on purpose). i had a whole section in here where i talked about what a scene like this would look like but it was so long... if people want to hear more about it i'll say more but it's the kind of thing that warrants its own post.

anyway. moving on from the show itself. so possibly my hottest take is that i think journal 3 should not have been published KJSHDFLGKHSDFGUIWEHRGJSDF. basically i think instead of trying to write the actual journal 3 they should have picked a handful of stories from his research era that they wanted to tell and made a graphic novel about that. i got WAAAAAAAYYYY off topic and wrote PARAGRAPHS about this but it's not related to the question you asked so i'll just summarize by saying i think it would play more to their strengths as writers, leave more to the imagination, and they could leave out all those fucking retcons that i hate

as it is, though, again, i think that ford is written pretty well in the journal. there are a few off-handed comments and lines that give me "he would not fucking say that" vibes but overall it very realistically portrays what it's like for someone to be manipulated, isolated, drawn away from his loved ones, etc. it's a very poignant story which resonated with a lot of people, myself included. again my main problem is that it's undercut with the writers being like "BROOOOO HE'S JUST LIKE ICARUS!! FLEW TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN!!!!!!!!" as though it's all his fault, and that it ends on a very moralizing "i learned my lesson" note. so really the biggest characterization problems i have with journal 3 have to do with fiddleford, but that's a whole other can of worms

anyway i hope this was... interesting? informative?? i hope i answered your question to your satisfaction. have a nice day :)

[duckprintspress]

Thanks so much to the people who've already helped spread the word, it's making a big difference already.

The exact amount of the junk pledge is $2,015.

To overcome it's malicious impact, we need to hit an "actual" amount of $15,515 (instead of our real goal of $13,500) - as in, we need to raise enough over our actual goal to cover the money that'll disappear when this fake pledge is removed.

Someone also suggested in the tags that we report it - we absolutely did. :) Here's what I wrote to KS:

"My campaign has 50 hours left and I just got a huge spam pledge for $2,000. This is absolutely insane, and I'm furious. How can you guys let this happen? When this pledge becomes nothing but air, my campaign either won't fund at the last minute because people who WOULD have backed to help get us over the line will think we're already funded, or it won't get cancelled til after the end and then the money won't exist and we won't actually be able to afford to do our project. I'm absolutely livid. I knew y'all were having problems with spam pledges but jesus f-in christ KS you need to resolve this absolutely immediately or figure out a way to make it up to loyal users like us. It impacts KS too, since if we crash and burn at the last minute because of this spam pledge, y'all can't collect your fees. This pledge and it's timing entirely screws up my ability to get last-minute pledges, and even having it there for a few hours will have a substantial negative impact on my ability to run this campaign.

"If this can't be resolved immediately, please PLEASE extend our campaign a day, anything to make up for the damage that this will do to my ability to get my project funded.

"This is the kind of problem that, if KS can't get it under control, I don't know how I'll be able to continue using the platform. Another person I know has had over $10k of spam pledges on his campaign in the last few weeks, and was initially told one of the pledges WASN'T spam and it took over a day to actually resolve. Can you think what it taking over a day will do to my project?

"Sorry, I'm ranty, but I'm livid, and the useless chat bot, my inability to get a human in chat when I've got an urgent problem, the utter lack of FAQ support for what to do when I get a spam pledge like this, and the irrelevant categories on this form I'm filling out now, plus the dozens of uncontrolled spam messages I've gotten about my project across four different platforms, have all combined to make me feel like KS either doesn't care about the spam issue or has zero ability to control it, and honestly neither of these conclusions is heartening when they relate to a company that has taken thousands of dollars in fees from me over the last few years."

I. Might have been a little angry, lmao.

However, their support staff doesn't even get to the office until 9:00 AM Eastern time (one hour from when I'm posting this), and then they'll have however many other e-mails to get through before mine. Our 48-hour window starts at 9:37 am. The odds that the junk pledge will be gone by then are EXTREMELY low. The person I mentioned in that message, it took over a day to get rid of a junk pledge and KS initially told them it WASN'T a junk pledge, so ya know that was awesome for them. I'd been feeling pretty lucky that it hadn't happened to me yet - this happened to them about three weeks ago - but well. guess my luck had run out.

Anyway, if anyone has other questions or comments, I'll see them in tags or you can drop us an ask. The outpouring has already been incredible, folks have pledged (or increased their existing pledges) to a tune of $303 since I put up the post an hour and a half ago, which means we're only about a thousand shy. I was teary-eyed before because I was upset about the junk-pledge, and now I'm teary-eyed instead being grateful about how awesome people are.

Thanks, everyone.

We'll overcome this dipshit scammy bullcrap!

[cfr749]

20 questions for fic writers

tagged by the wonderfully kind and lovely @coraclavia. If you haven't checked out her work, go do it right now!!

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 19

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 354,235

3. What fandoms do you write for? The Rookie!

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Beneath Your Beautiful... queue Isn't it ironic by Alanis Morissette 😬

Want You to Stay

However Do You Want Me

One Time Thing

Lucy's Little Secret

5. Do you respond to comments?

I absolutely try to, but sometimes I get behind. Tbh I usually want to respond the minute I see one come in, but don't want to scare anyone lmao. But I read every single one, often multiple times. And you might just get a response from me two years later 😂

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Oh man... I think this has to be We Built Sandcastles, because I have yet to give it an ending and it hurts me too. I'm so sorry. 😭

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

I'm gonna go with However Do You Want Me... what's happier than banging on an airplane to save the world?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not really... thankfully, 99.9% of the interaction I've had on my fics has been positive and that's a testament to how wonderfully supportive this fandom is of its creators 😭

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yup... the horny kind? Lol... queue Lovin on Me by Jack Harlow. I am pretty vanilla, and I do usually focus a lot on the emotional aspects over the physical. I also generally prefer writing the foreplay over the actual tactics of banging, but I try.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Lol... well... one time when I was 13 I may have written an AU where Justin Timberlake and Nick Carter were normal boys attending the same high school 😂...

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Thankfully, I don't think so!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? 

I don't think so, but any time someone does comment on one of my fics in another language, I am just honored and blown away that they found it entertaining enough to work through the language barrier.

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

Yes! Want You to Stay with the amazing @poppypickle. I will always be so thankful that the Chenford fandom brought us together, and so grateful for that creative experience. Truly one of the coolest things I've ever done. ❤️

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

I think Chenford still holds this crown.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

We Built Sandcastles, but I actually haven't written anything I've truly given up on. I still think about this universe and write down bits and pieces here and there. I'm also still working on Beneath Your Beautiful!

16. What are your writing strengths?

Weird reality TV AUs? Sexual tension? Feelings?

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Probably too much exposition / time in the character's heads spelling out their motivations vs. letting readers come to their own conclusions.

I'm not always consciously aware of it in my own writing, but sometimes I suspect I'm a little sappier than what I'd normally I prefer to read.

Also I'm slow and sometimes leave my readers hanging for extremely long periods of time (I'm so sorry).

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

Depends on the context, but, for me, I'd have a hard time without a native speaker to consult with. No strong feelings against it though.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

BSB + NSYNC

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

I'm going to go with one I haven't mentioned yet, which is Cruel Summer because that fic was utterly batshit, came out of literally nowhere, and was so much fun to write!

--

Thanks for the tag, Cora!

I am tagging @poppypickle @queseraone @goodgirlssayiloveyoutoo @rememberthismomentx @thisnightissparkling089 @makeitastrength and @summerongrand (apologies if y'all have already done this and I missed it)!

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Hi, just wanted to ask a honest question because I've seen you post about it a few times and I genuinely don't understand where you're coming from when you say this. How is remake Leon a misogynist?

Most recently I saw you point out him calling Ada heartless, but I don't see how that's him being sexist. He says that in response to her telling him information on where to find Ashley, having previously told him to leave her behind (to presumably die or worse), and I don't think its misogynistic for him to make a jab at her for that. Especially because Leon's big motivation is saving people, of course he wouldn't be a huge fan of anyone telling him to intentionally leave someone to die if he's able to save them. (This is also not to say Ada's a bad person for suggesting that, I love Ada and her character but I also understand why Leon would be upset by such a thing)

If there's anything else in the remakes that I've missed you point out I'm curious to what else makes him misogynistic because I just don't see it.

Also like a sidenote I guess almost all of Leon's misogynistic lines are from original re4 but Luis also has lines like this, so I don't understand why he gets to be distinguished between versions and Leon doesn't when you talk about their characters.

"honest question" and yet, you seem to have already formulated an idea of my answer (and an opinion of me) based off of one post where I casually mentioned it, and you decided to look no further before getting defensive about it. Are you even asking? Do you even care to learn? Or will you just ignore everything I say? And asking anonymously is very funny to me. Literally who are you.

I talked about it here, kinda joked about it here, and I very thoroughly detailed it here, as well as reiterated in the comments. I'm so tired of repeating myself. It's 1am now bc I took the time to find these posts for you lol. Maybe read them before you try attacking a straw man.

But to the Luis point? I absolutely do separate og RE4 Leon and remake Leon… Like literally my entire POINT is that no, remake Leon is still sexist, just differently, and here is why… I really don't understand how you came to this conclusion lmao.

The main idea is, Capcom thinks they've written out Leon's misogyny; but because Capcom itself is a very bigoted company, they perpetrate misogyny in everything they make and they don't even realise it! They genuinely think the way they wrote remake Leon absolves him from the misogyny when it doesn't, it just re-contextualises it in a way that Capcom deems palatable. They still see Ada as an extension of Leon! They still see Ada's worth revolving solely around how Leon feels in response to her actions. It's ridiculous. And the way Leon is written to treat her, the lines he's given towards her, reflect this attitude, and becomes misogynistic when he treats a male character who has done worse than Ada right in front of Leon with respect and empathy.

[coldresolve]

fun facts about the torture in moneymakers while were at it. spoilers if you're not caught up

the torture is not done in any attempt to gather reliable intel, induce compliance or as a punishment to deter unwanted behavior, none of which are things that torture can do. instead it is perpetrated for the sadistic gratification of the torturer, and for a profit incentive

except for that one time in pt34 when it was done to induce fear and make conrad's escape physically impossible, under the guise of teaching him a lesson. davin knew what he was doing

conrad complying with demands is always, always under duress. i wouldn't call that obedience, personally

you'll notice that conrad's fear of renee has turned into contempt and disgust, a subtle nod to the fact that torture victims dont typically build a whole lot of positive associations with their torturers

conrad gets more resistant over time, not less. but im sure thats just because he hasn't been beaten into submission yet

davin talks pretty openly about exploiting the media as a way to get attention in that one scene. not only a comment about the media's sensationalism of torture/violence, but also a hint to the fact that it can be exploited lol

theres not a whole lot of talk about sophisticated torture, in fact i think i even wrote a thing where renee admits that it doesnt require a whole lot of finesse to hit people. or maybe im just misremembering. its supposed to be in there tho

speaking of renee, i dont know if you noticed, but he isnt doing so well. could this have something to do with his actions? the world may never know

that part where renee thinks about the way we culturally view perpetrators... he comes to the wrong conclusion and you as a reader are not only expected to realize that on your own, but also think about what thought processes led him to be wrong. but also ive been throwing around ideas as to how i might add another perspective about it in the future so theres that

i have a whole tirade about the concept of being 'broken' coming up. spoilers ig

davin is doing just fine. davin is a machiavellian. davin, get this, also acts as an argument to the fact that the insidious parts of torture aren't in the people who act it out, but in the people who facilitate it. the people who act it out just tend to be useful idiots. sorry for the diss renee ily

anyway yeah so. that whole thing about davin building a strenuous trust with conrad in the beginning by seeming like the lesser of two evils was intentional

something about that darn profit incentive might be meaningful to the theme here but alas this falls beyond the comprehension of my feeble mind (aka spoilers lmao)

[nowoyas]

Koi no Yokan Outtake 2: Stop Being Weird (nishinoya yuu/reader)

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A/N: happy koiny day! this is just a fun little outtake I wrote after having some fun replying to comments lmao. unlike the previous outtake this one is NOT meant to be read as a standalone, but can still be skipped at no loss to the plot. takes place during the previous chapter.

Summary: In which we see the livetexting of the wake-up scene through new eyes.

Warnings and Tags: none!

Words: ~700

In Yamamoto Taketora's boldest move to date, he took one of the closest possible seats to the managers' table in the cafeteria at dinner. It's not that he meant to stare or meant to eavesdrop, and truly, eavesdropping takes effort with somewhere between fifty and a hundred guys all crammed into the room for dinner at the same time.

It's because of this—and the staring habit he's failing to get rid of—that he's close enough to notice when Noya marches right up to the girls and starts talking. Definitely close enough to notice him leave with Eri from Ubugawa, a tray of food in his hand.

The conclusion's easy enough to draw—Noya had mentioned your concussion, and you were notably absent from dinner, so he figures Noya's probably going with Eri to bring you food, wherever you're currently holed up. The explanation does little for the pang of jealousy—lucky bastard, going to bring food to one beautiful woman while accompanied by the adorable Miyanoshita Eri, pigtails and smile and all—but at least he can try to explain it away as all innocent.

Anyway, there's still five beautiful women to try not to stare too openly at, so Tora's a little busy with other concerns right now. Yukie, from Fukurodani, is trying to get away with stealing food off Kaori's plate by pretending to be focused on her phone.

Part of Tora thinks he should be normal and stop staring, but then he's watching Yukie show her phone to Kaori and say something to the rest of the girls, and then Mako's reaching for her own phone and so is Kaori, and Tora realizes that the girls must have a group chat.

What he wouldn't give to know what they use it for.

Mako is passing her phone across the table to two of the three most recent additions to the manager squad, and then Yukie is gasping loudly, sparkles in the air above her at something on her phone. A smattering of giggles from the other girls follows.

He's heard of this. They're gossiping.

Mako's getting her phone back as Kiyoko says something too quiet to hear, but Tora hardly needs to strain to hear the aghast response from the three non-Karasuno managers.

"What?" Mako says. "No, there's no way. You've gotta be messing with us."

Kiyoko shakes her head, and Hitoka raises a hand, adding something at an equal volume to Kiyoko. In other words, inaudible to him, in spite of his best efforts.

Hitoka and Kiyoko are now producing their own cell phones. He's now watching five beautiful women stare at their phones, three of five tittering and giggling at some update or another. He desperately wants to know what it is they're so focused on, but—it's not like he can ask. He's not strong enough for that.

Some other text must have come in to the mythic girls' group chat, because all five of them jolt in surprise at something on their phones at the same time.

"Okay, so they're dating, then," Kaori says confidently. "That's dating behavior."

"Trust me," says Kiyoko, "everyone in Japan would know if he'd gotten a girlfriend."

Correction: they're not just gossiping.

They're gossiping about boys.

He downs the rest of his drink and tunes in until he's getting roughly elbowed by Yaku. "Stop being weird."

"Right," he says. "Sorry."

~

Yachi to Fukurodani Group Managers!!! at 22:13

Yachi: don't forget to add [name]-chan! I've got her number

Yachi: [attachment: 1 new contact, labeled "[full name]"]

Kaori: we definitely need to. We need her to answer for whatever is making her NOT date cute concerned libero boy

Mako has added [name] to the group Fukurodani Group Managers!!!

[name]: …

[name]: did you guys know that I can read the chat history?

Eri: oh cool! I didn't!!

[name]: stop being weird. senpai's just my best friend, that's all

Shimizu: the BEST friend upgrade is new

Eri: ok thanks for the clarification. you know it’s a good idea to marry your best friend?

[name]: I actually hate it here

Tags: @deeplightgarden @idonthaveanameideayet @dusstory @kazunish

[beautifulpersonpeach]

namjoon only reworked on face-off and like crazy. the subs for both the commentary and the live show were pretty atrocious and korean is extremely nuanced. plus jimin is probably one of the most humble members who has historically played off his own merit of work before. no one denies that namjoon helped or reworked lyrics, he's there in the credits for a reason. it's just astounding that ppl think he wrote everything when jimin released at least 4 different contents showing his own lyrics.

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Ask 2: NAMJOON DID NOT WRITE LIKE CRAZY. What is so hard for you to get??? Fuck you armys acting like he wrote the whole album are you so desperate for clout because your fav is flopping???? Did he even write any lines? Jimin is too humble. He probably just credited Namjoon to be generous. Maybe he wrote one word or two but Jimin showed us his writing process FOUR TIMES you stupid bitch!!! You hagmys keep trying to discredit Jimin. You steal every credit from him and give it to that flopmonster who has to BEG armys to stream his flop music! Jimin did that ogre a favor and instead of you to be grateful you discredit him and give it to RfloppingM like he has any influence on Jimin’s work. You’re worse than shit. With fans like you Jimin doesn’t need enemies. Leave Jimin ALONE.

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I’ll be getting back to fun asks soon but the volume of asks like this (and worse) that I’ve received since Jimin’s documentary is astounding lmao. It’s as though there’s an epidemic of lack of critical thought that just begs me to clear up. Especially because in this case, the source of confusion: Jimin’s live and the takeaway, is very clear cut and the fact people are struggling with what should be basic, is a damning indication of where too many are headed in this fandom.

Hi Anon in ask 1,

Lol it’s clear you can’t be someone who reads my blog, because if you were you’d know how ironic it is to tell me “Korean is extremely nuanced” given who I am and where I am this very minute lmao. Also, the second posted ask is here for your benefit, given your comment of “no one denies Namjoon helped…”

That said, your ask is a very good mild example of how some people struggle with processing information that contradicts their own views, and care more about signals/actions/words of other akgaes than the reality right in front of them. It’s like that ask I got right after the contract renewals were announced when someone claimed that ‘BTS only renewed group contracts, solo contracts renewals will come later’ despite all of us being privy to the same press release where HYBE announced the renewals… just because that person could not accept that BTS (specifically Jimin) had renewed both group and solo contracts with BigHit.

For some people, unless every single thing is spelled out for them, and even when the piece of referenced media is extremely clear cut, they fill in the gaps with their insecurities to arrive at a conclusion that’s more palatable to their own views. And that’s what you’re showing in this case. I’ll explain what I mean.

The context for your ask is Jimin’s Wlive commentary mentioning how Namjoon stopped by, how Jimin and the pd-nims played the tracklist for him expecting a clap on the back, and instead what they got is Namjoon telling them to go back to the drawing board. Yes the subtitles on Wlive can sometimes be overly simplified, but what both Jimin and Namjoon said, in the Wlive and documentary itself respectively, was itself pretty simple too. Like, what you’ve read is what they actually said. Various ARMYs pointed out Jimin’s reaction to that scene, how he laughed at the shocked and flustered reaction from the production team to Namjoon’s advice to revise it all. That’s the context.

Here’s how akgaes responded:

Pre-emptively claiming it was a mistranslation (it’s not).

Then when faced with the reality that they’d overreacted, claimed ARMYs were saying Namjoon wrote the whole album. Which of course is bonkers and saying this simply because ARMYs mention Jimin and Joon’s words is more an expression of their own insecurity. The only people who could (even in theory) reach that conclusion, are akgaes. Either akgaes for Jimin and Namjoon.

Played up tropes many PJMs are already insecure about which include Jimin being “too humble”, so that Jimin’s comments about Namjoon’s contribution to the album (which we now all know is not a mistranslation), is in part due to Jimin underselling himself.

All three things is what you’ve shown in your ask, despite it being divorced from the reality we all saw.

What Joon actually talked about is how the basis for writing lyrics is the narrative you want to build, which is something that should flow through the whole song and album, and that they’d need to rework it to show this.

Like, again, there is literally no reason this very simple, accessible piece of media should be causing so much grief lmao.

The only reason there’s so much uproar over it is because some very insecure people have hinged their egos on the idea that their chosen idol is infallible and cannot possibly need significant support from members they consider to be below him and his competition. So naturally, they absolutely cannot accept when the members they’ve pitted against Jimin as competition, offer him critical and helpful advise that revamped and improved on the work he did; it pisses them off when ARMYs note it and draw attention to it; and now, given Jimin’s added insight of Namjoon’s critical assessment of the first draft, now they know that when they praise Like Crazy, they are also essentially praising Namjoon’s work, and so they actively look to diminish it.

When the sane response to all this is that it can both be true that Jimin primarily wrote his album, Namjoon contributed not just in writing (based on the credits he has for Like Crazy and Face-off), but also in refining the lyrical message for the project (which he’s not credited for but is now clear after watching the documentary), and that nothing about these facts removed from the quality of work either member put into Jimin’s debut album. FACE is ultimately a culmination of Jimin’s vision, Jimin’s efforts, and Jimin’s talent.

My god, all of this would be obvious if the toxic, mind-rotting disease of intra-fandom competition hadn’t fully infected so many people in Chapter 2. Like, see all I wrote, way too many words, to state yet again something that should be painfully, almost tragically, obvious. All akgae rhetoric has succeeded in doing is dumbing down the quality of conversations we have in fandom spaces, and given how that already was something of a problem within some ARMY pockets, the state of affairs now since the akgae disease caught on presents a pretty grim prognosis.

Anon in ask 1, you might not think you’re an akgae and perhaps you’d struggle to identify yourself with the anon in ask 2, but the underlying assumptions in your ask are identical. And my unsolicited comment is that really should give you pause more than anything else.

Stream Like Crazy for healthy cuticles.

[pikapeppa]

Hi there. It’s me again. I’m having so many feelings right now. I wanted to thank you AGAIN for your tutorials and your incredible writing inspiration. 

I’ve been a fan of your Horizon fics and your writing style for years. The way you capture voices, the way you write smut, the consistency with which you update and finish your fics… And your writing feels so accessible, which I hope you take as a compliment. It’s easy and enjoyable to read while still capturing such incredible emotion and story beats.

I wanted to tell you that I DID IT. I finished my first longfic! 9 chapters, 90,300 words! (It’s called Secret Fandom: Avatar Legend of Korra)

I wrote a story about two characters in a secret relationship. It’s got romance, smut, humor, and the teensiest bit of angst. I’ve had parts of this fic in my head for literally YEARS but I didn’t know where to start or how to actually follow through with this story! But YOU. Your fics. Your writing tutorials! They gave me the courage to buckle down and write it!

I wanted to capture their voices, I DID. I have received numerous comments complimenting the way I portrayed the characters. One person literally said “I could hear her voice in my head” about one of the characters and I just about passed out.

I wanted to finish this fic, I DID. I followed your guide: I knew how I wanted it to end. I outlined. I wrote the story in order. I held on to some chapters here and there to space it out and build anticipation. (I also found a couple of beta readers who helped me TREMENDOUSLY with the editing process.)

I run a blog for the pairing I wrote, and I actually got people reaching out and asking me when I’d have the next chapter and if they could have previews… Just an incredible reception overall to this fic, given that it’s a smaller fanbase.

I just really need to say thank you for the part you played in this. Your writing really did inspire me, in particular Becoming Whole gave me lots of inspiration for the way I wrote and even some parts of the plot (an experienced character guiding an inexperienced character through his first relationship!) and of course your tutorials really gave me a lot of help and insight on how to accomplish what I wanted!

PIKAPEPPA you are a HERO and an INSPIRATION.

Thank you A MILLION TIMES.

MY FRIEND. BABE. MY BELOVED. OMFG I'M SO SO FUCKING HAPPY FOR YOU AND SO PROUD I JUST 😭❤❤❤ I AM IN A GLASS CAGE OF EMOTION!!!

No but forreal OH MY GOD. This is so incredible and momentous and I'm absolutely thrilled for you!! There is nothing like being told that your readers can hear your characters' voices in your writing and I AM SO SO THRILLED FOR YOU 😭❤❤ Also, can I just say, the fact that I've been able to kind of track the progress of your writing journey through the asks you've sent me, and for this to be the culmination of it? I AM OVER THE MOON FOR YOU OMG SERIOUSLY okay I'm going to stop screaming at you I swear. I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU THOUGH OMG. YOU DID THE THING!!!!!

And also, THANK YOU for saying my writing is accessible, that is absolutely a compliment!! I know that one of the things I look for in a fic is the feeling that you can just breeze through it and enjoy it without getting bogged down trying to decipher complex prose LMAO so I'm thrilled to hear it!!

In conclusion: I am SO FUCKING PROUD OF YOU that you created the story that had been kicking around in your head for years. And I'm thrilled that my tutorials and writing could play a role in that! THANK YOU FOR BRINGING ME ALONG WITH YOUR JOURNEY, THIS MEANS SO MUCH TO ME 😭❤❤❤

Everyone, check out SweetVenom's fic Secret here on AO3! It's Mako/Prince Wu (Legend of Korra), ~90k words, rated E! And if anyone wants a peek at my tutorials, you can find a list of them here on Tumblr!

--all the love from your friendly neighbourhood Pika! xoxo

[shinygoku]

Abbey Road (1969)

It's always bittersweet when things come to an end. Especially when the times were good, you want more of that! But nothing can last forever, and sometimes the best one can do is to go out on a high, a tribute to and capping off of the fun had over a decade of creating music as such a close unit. I'm not going into the ins and outs of the foregone conclusion, partly as it's too sad and messy, yet oddly commercial lol, but this Album helps soothe the pain.

Obviously this picture needs little introduction, it's possibly their most iconic of album covers... maybe even of any band! No shade meant to Revolver or Sgt Pepper, but THIS is one I'd like upon my wall~ It's also more impressive that only a handful of potential snapshots were taken in about 10 minutes, and they happened upon this near-perfect sync! While Paul's irregularity has painful resonance in the band's breakup and tedious conspiracy theories, there ain't a thing I'd change in the picture even if I did have the godly power to do so. It's incredible in its simplicity and the symbolism of them no longer facing the crowds, but walking on into the next stage of their lives. Though many people imitate this at the real Abbey Road crossing, this is yet another instance of The Beatles bottling a bolt of lightning.

SIDE ONE

Come Together: Yes, they were fully aware of the dirty reading of the track name and they lean into it. Also a very funky, catchy song~ There's a theory that the four verses describing "Ol' Flat Top" correspond to each Beatle, though debate rages on the first two being Ringo and George, the John (Walrus gumboots, Ono sideboards) and Paul (Got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see) are clear. How many of us hear the "hold you in his arms, yeah, you can feel his disease" as "hold you in his armchair"? I can detect both and I think the latter has been accepted retroactively lmao. The near-whispered "Shoot me" parts have aged poorly, probably another heroin reference but oof...

Oh! And there's also a cool official music video on yt with Low Poly Beatles grooving around, but if you're photosensitive you may find the flashing colours and strobing effects are pretty overwhelming. The comments have funny snowclone memes too. All in all I dig this number~

Something: Quite possibly George's Magnum Opus, his abilities as a songwriter having been a slow burn with incredible payoff. I've been pretty lukewarm of most of his numbers doing these reviews, but that's partly as I had Something in mind of what he could really do ^^;; The guitars, bass and percussion are all fantastic, with George's gentle but powerful vocals and the mesmerised lyrics. No wonder it even caught the attention and approval of so many, like Frank Sinatra! His cover is fine but kinda blurs into Sinatra-esque sameness, featuring "Jack" (and he missed the memo that George wrote it, oops!)

This also has a very nice music vid with the Bugs and their Girls that can be seen on yt, though it's also painful as it's both after the band split up (Paul's footage clearly being on his farm when I think the others are all in the same, different location) and each and every one of these pairings went awry in the following years either with divorce, death, or both. But uhh, don't let that distract you from the beauty of the song itself ;w;;;;

Maxwell's Silver Hammer: A notoriously controversial song, at least among The Beatles themselves. It's Paul's baby and he made an upbeat, jolly ditty about a serial killer. The other three remember it being a massive pain to record and not worth all that effort (George's critique of it being "fruity" isn't far off though lmao). In my opinion, the song is fine but also far from Paul's best, and it seemingly needed fewer Takes than a lot of their other songs, so I think the JGR distaste isn't with the song itself, but it became a heat sink of their tension with Paul. Anyway, with audiences this seems to be a popular one, at least in tumblr circles, where it's cited as one of their funniest songs. The piano and other instruments are all really strong, too.

Oh! Darling: Paul belting out his anguished declarations to another party that he won't harm them, and please don't leave him. His vocals get extremely intense and raw, nicely counterbalanced with instruments. John was impressed with this song, but annoyed he didn't get a go as it's more a Him Style performance, possibly oblivious or choosing not to see that he's very obviously the other party that Paul is pleading to. Also Ringo's drumwork here is really great~

Octopus's Garden: :D 🐙🌻💐🌷💙

I absolutely loooove this song!! Partially inspired by the real life behaviour of Octopus...s for assembling a nice arrangement of odds and ends in their patch, which Ringo learned during his break from the band in the White Album era. It's not just my Ringo bias, it's such a pretty and charming bop with somewhat profound metaphorical resonance (I'm gonna say indeed influenced by The Conflicts within the Band, ough) and funky, unorthodox instruments like the bubbles lol. Both a groovy Country & Western flavour and a song that works nicely for children, joining the likes of Yellow Submarine (hey, a theme!) and All Together Now. Additional shout out to George for his part in making this song happen and ooohh, what instrumentation there is too! That the Super Mario 3D World main theme seems to have similar key changes(?) is another W I'm giving this song~

I Want You (She's So Heavy): This one gets a lot of praise, and I do dig the shredding, building guitar riff and slowly increasing drama and Oomph of this song, but I also think it maybe goes on a bit longer than it needs to. The abrupt cutoff is a cool moment but my then my brain has usually disconnected some focus, so the effect isn't quite as profound on me ^^;;

SIDE TWO

Here Comes the Sun: In case Something wasn't enough, here's George's optimistic masterpiece. Now, I think this is slightly overplayed (similar to ELO's Thematically The Same Song of Mr Blue Sky ...which is even more overplayed in movies and such maybe due to Royalties being less pricy lmao) but I also like that this one is something like The Most Streamed Song Ever. And it's easy to shrug off the lyrics in summer but when you get weeks and weeks of dreary, overcast, drizzly, dark-at-3pm ass winter weather, a clear sky and bright sun really DOES perk one up! (Remember, The Beatles are from Liverpool, which is in England!) That also works as a metaphor, and indeed it seems George had skived off work to have a day off in the garden when this song came to him, haha

This also has a lovely Video on yt, with animated sequences of a heron flying around as The Beatles cross the road and stand for the Last Photoshoot. The latter of which seems kind of ironic, but I'm not opposed to framing the events as more Sweet than Bitter. Don't be sad it's over, be glad it happened, type of thing :'3

Because: A baroque kind of piano or harpsichord backs the ethereal harmonies, musing about nature. Their harmonies were always a strong part of their songs, and this feels like a logical conclusion. A song I don't have much to say for, but I really like it all the same :)

(...The next songs are officially a Medley, but I'm still talking about each individually...)

You Never Give Me Your Money: This in of itself feels like a seamless mash-up of three distinct songs, and the whole this is such a bop! I'm inclined to doubt the official story that it's directed at the Beatle's then-Manager, who was notoriously awful and scumbaggy, just as this song seems to lack the venom that would be appropriate for such a case of vagueblogging. But maybe Paul's taking the high road here, and WOW it's got a nice view from that path! The three "parts" of it have been theorised to correspond to the other 3 Beatles in yt comments, which doesn't appear to be the case but it's still a fun observation. All that theorising aside, absolutely fab piano with the building addition of guitars, bass and percussion, pivoting to a more ragtime arrangement and then calming down and building up again for the last stretch with much more optimistic (if potentially Ironic) lyrics and a very front-and-centre guitar fading into spoken chants and bells.

Sun King: Starting with the chirping crickets that were faintly heard before (yeah, medleys be like that lol), we have a very mellow and pleasant instrumental. Then we get more harmonised "Ooooohs" and "Here comes the sun ....king" before spoken words and the return of the harmonies. The song closes after a mixing of Romance Language Words, with Ye Olde Liverpool slang mixed in.

Mean Mr. Mustard: The tempo quickly steps up a few levels for a rather dry dragging of some miserly Dirty Old Man (he's not very clean, this one!) with prominent piano and in later years, comparison to the Thomas the Tank Engine theme. Though it seems that may be more based on a bridge of a different song Paul would make, but I digress... - Mister Mustard here cuts off abruptly, perhaps one note early?

Polythene Pam: Strong electric guitar introduces this woman who "is so good looking she looks like a man", which reminds me of Lovely Rita XD;; - John really leans into a Leeverpull accent and there's tambourines, heavy drums and strong guitar, though I find it harder to parse the lyrics due to the loudness. But she was previously mentioned as the sibling of Mister Mustard. What a Beatles Characters Universe we have going!

She Came In Through The Bathroom Window: This gives me strong echolalia pretty much any time going in or out via a window is mentioned ^^;; - It seems to be a wistful kind of song about a "dancer" who needs more money and tries to gain extra cash via breaking and entering, but is less than effective at it. A cool musical assortment but not an all-timer for me.

Golden Slumbers: "Once there was a way to get back homeward" would already deal pretty heavy psychic damage to me, given how that links to multiple songs obliquely about the split, but this is also backed with beautiful (yet tasteful! very much unlike the LIB album!) and powerful instruments. Seemingly partially based on an existing lullaby but as none of the Beatles can read sheet music it still stands up as original and lovely, my main complaint only being that it's short and when not in the Medley, it cuts off too sharply. But that's to lead into...

Carry That Weight: BOOOOY! I love it when Ringo is so audible... and oh god, the You Never Give Me Your Money reprise with new verses!! This song is beating me up, especially with the Reality Subtext again, like if the use of YNGMYM is alluding to Paul being the odd one out (who was later proven Correct) but he still lost the band and the heaviness of that continues into this present day?! ...Or, as that's written with the aid of hindsight and my mind quick to make theories, it could also be about the whole group and their Impact, impossible to ignore (though people still try to downplay it ¬¬;; ...lol) and their legacy continues. They were amazing but also Patient Zero for much celebrity culture these days, exposed to absolute horrors as no one knew what to expect or how out of hand things may spiral... I'm rambling. The song itself is also another groovy bop, but the Meanings are maybe a bit more powerful for me =w=;;

(...Oh god the voices in this are Paul and Ringo and not John or George, oh god this song saw the future, paaaaaaain)

The End: This has a very welcome surge of energy and ooohhh man I've not talked enough about the drumming Ringo's done in this album, but I'm glad the others got him to do a solo here, even if he doesn't Need to prove his skills in isolation lol. The following 3 guitar solos are bringing such a cool rock flavour (sorry I can't tell whose is whose yet though, haha), then the climactic, calm, harmonised declaration that closes the song, the album, and even the Band itself.

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Her Majesty: Well, other than this coda! The last note from (iirc) MMM startles one into waking up after having been so thoroughly carried by the power of the previous numbers, and then a cute little ditty postscript. I'm mixed on how much I like this being after The End, which I'm pretty sure is a common take. I will say though, that the Boys doing a little cheeky prank on their way out feels perfectly in character for them, and they liked it as a secret bonus track, so fair's fair.

CONCLUSION

Best 3: How in the hell do I pick just 3 here? Maaaan! I'm gonna hafta go with... Here Comes The Sun, You Never Give Me Your Money and Golden Slumbers. I hope you know how hard it was to not have Octopus's Garden up here!!

Blurst 3: Inversely, finding 3 duds is harder than normal here too lol. I'm gonna say Mean Mr Mustard, Polythene Pam and She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - but only Polythene Pam is actually weak to me, the others just haven't got the same effect or Oomph as the rest of the album.

So... here we are, at the end of the (Abbey) Road. Once again I rue and shake my fist at the stupid corporate bullshit that had Let It Be come out after this, because if anything has a perfect ending, it's Dragonball GT and This Album for their respective franchises. If Her Majesty is contentious for coming out after The End, then that goes 100x more for such a limp noodle assortments of songs with meddling all over it. I'm going on a tangent here, but my point is this:

While the Beatles story ended sadly, this album is a beautiful farewell.

I genuinely wonder how they managed to pull it together for this, but I'm so grateful they found a way. If only the circumstances weren't so dire, they could have made more like this, which sounds selfish of me but it's also, like, something the boys loved to do. If they'd been allowed time and breathing room, and not being manipulated by bean counters and jackasses, if such and such could have been avoided, and so on. Blegh. Sorry for these derailings, the irl lore is too messy and sad for me to cover properly but it's an elephant in the room! Why else would a band shut up shop when they were reaching new heights? But well, they sure did leave an amazing legacy.

Abbey Road truly is the pinnacle of this. The Best album. Firing on all cylinders, no misses, every gear and cog running smoothly for a complete experience.

🪲🪲🪲🪲

So, now what? Well, I've only covered the Albums, and I was quite jammy that there was one for each month XD - However, there's tons of incredibly famous songs that I haven't got to, like She Loves You and I Wanna Hold Your Hand. These are the singles! And while I'm not sure how I'll group them for write-ups like this (by era might be sensible but there's like, a Lot! Hmmm...) there's other Beatle Material I wanna discuss, like their Movies and the previously skipped Yellow Submarine Album (which I actually love, but I feel it'd be better grouped elsewhere~).

What I might do first, though, is a bit of a retrospective on these retrospectives, as I've noticed a slight drift in my style of writing, and having listened to most of the songs again since, some of my opinions may've moved a little bit in transit. This won't be as in depth but should be Fun ^w^

[elevenelvenswords]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @curufiin- thankies <3

How many works do you have on AO3?

Only 8 so far.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

20,718 apparently

3. What fandoms do you write for?

The Silmarillion- it's been an ongoing obsession for approximately 7 years now lol.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Fretting, which is my first ever published fic, is at the top. I'm not super proud of it if I'm being honest but I'm glad others enjoyed it :P Then we've got Inside Out, Unbridled sword and passion, Take a chance and Stutter.

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

I do try to reply to every comment! The fact that someone made time to tell me something nice about my works means the world to me.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Probably this one? None of my fics are fluffy so...

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

My recent Curufinrod fic, I think? It's less... gnarly and angst-driven?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Fortunately no.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Considering that 6 out of those 8 fics are tagged as explicit, you can draw your own conclusions :P I write various flavours of kink :)

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Nope!

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope.

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

No, but certain fics that I wrote were inspired by conversations I had with other fandom members :3

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

I'll go with the good ol' Angbang. I've recently become deeply invested in Curufinrod though, and I'll (hopefully) write for more pairings over the Christmas break.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

There's a very old draft of a multi-chaptered Angbang fic that's been gathering dust on my laptop for a year xD I might polish it up and post it at some point IF I find the motivation for it.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I guess I'm fairly good at descriptions and metaphors?

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Good pacing and finding the right balance between dialogue and narration are both pretty tricky for me.

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

I've never tried this but I find it exquisite in other people's fics :D

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Probably The Hobbit? But what I wrote is between me and god lmao.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

I tend to be very critical of my own works, especially after I post them. I don't really re-read them so it's difficult for me to choose a favourite one when I can't recall half the things I wrote lol. But I was pretty proud of Beyond the pale back when I wrote it! My writing style changed over the years, I believe, so I'm pleased to see the improvement :)

Tagging @polutrope, @crackinthecup, @gardensofthemoon, @havenotwillnotreadthebooks, @i-did-not-mean-to and whoever wants to give this a go!

[bisexualdinahlance]

can you explain the Casey McQuiston thing a little further? I'm pretty brand new to the rwrb fandom and not familiar

There's been rumors for years in the RWRB fandom and outside of it that Casey McQuinston used to be on tumblr and was a fic writer for the Social Network/Social Network RPF fandom. Further, there was a lot of rumors that RWRB was SN RPF with the serial numbers filed off. The original tumblr account people say was Casey I'm pretty sure is either gone or dead now, and the fanfic author that people say they are took down their fics years ago. It's very possible that that person was Casey, but like without them fessing up there's no way to know for sure.

Someone on Youtube did a whole video essay deep dive into investigating the accounts, and even read the fic people claim RWRB is based on. The conclusion the video essayist came to was that she thought the author was Casey but that the fic was nothing like RWRB. (Which of course it wasn't lmao, the intro to the book literally talks about how they wrote it during and after the 2016 election - several years after the fics were deleted.) There's a good chance she's right, but while some of the reasoning is good, one of the reasons was literally that both authors "inserted their media opinions superfluously" into the story that broke their immersion because both authors made fun of "blonde women [the video essayist] liked" lol. So I take the conclusion with a grain of salt even if the investigation work was good.

Anyone who has read the book I'm sure can tell that Casey probably wrote fanfiction, but it's pretty clear to me that it's not lol. It just has tropes and dynamics that are popular in fandom spaces, as well as some specific turns of phrases. Which isn't a bad thing lol, RWRB is my guilty pleasure fave, I adore it even if it feels a bit lib in the current political climate.

I doubt that Casey ever saw the rumors - for a while it was mostly just snarky tumblr or reddit comments that brought it up to prove moral superiority over not liking the book. But it's still frustrating to me that like an author is essentially being haunted reputationally by fanfic they might or might not have written as a teenager/college student. Even the fanlore page for the book is completely overtaken by people speculating that it's a fanfiction. I would be PISSED if I got published, and everyone claimed my books were Harry Potter fanfiction because I used to be in the HP fandom in high school and college. And then spread around old fanfiction that I deleted off the internet because I got made fun of for how bad the smut was.

(Part of the "proof" that some people used as to the original fic being RWRB was it was deleted off of LJ but the fanlore page on the actual fic speculates it's because the author was getting bitchy messages about the quality of the smut in the fic.)

Anyway, sorry this wasn't super... coherent I have a lot of opinions on the subject. the TL;DR is that Casey might have been a BNF in the Social Network fandom, and because of that people speculated that they turned one of their SNRPF's into RWRB. It's pretty clear that they didn't do that, but these rumors have haunted the fandom for years because people keep spreading them like they're fact.

And I think authors should be allowed to keep their fandom separate from their professional work exactly because of shit like this lol.

[queenofthyme]

Okay this is kinda funny to me but I actually just finished binging your fic (did a descendants marathon, started mid D3, got genuinely interested in RoR, read the rest with bleary eyes and bated breath into what is now 4 am) and. I. I kid you not I was internally lamenting the lack of spicy scenes because you wrote the teasing incredibly well and. Well. I wasn't going to say anything bc ppl are completely within their right to not write something BUT then I saw your post and now that I know(1/?

(cont) and now that I know that not only is it maybe an option but that you'd be willing to write it let me just say. On my knees pleading. I was craving some MalxEviexUma content and you wrote it *so incredibly well* and it was such a delight to read. I appreciate you taking the cheating seriously and I really like how you handled the variety of queer revelations happening in this fic. Genuinely it is because of authors who write characters so well like this that I feel less isolated in my experiences

(cont) especially since things revolving around my identity and sexuality have been pretty present the past few months, and it's almost relieving and somewhat cathartic to get to read characters experiencing similar situations and getting to be accepted and also get together with their beloveds. And also have gay (dragon/tentacle/) sex lol. I like how you took your time with each of the characters to make their conclusions feel natural and anything but rushed, and I really love what a good grasp (3/?

(cont) you have of their voices. I could hear each of them (especially Uma) distinctly in my head the whole time, and could visualize their faces and movements so well because of how you wrote them. Character voices are hard, so many kudos to you!!! You really did a good job staying true to them! Also, somewhat but also not surprisingly, I was not having an easy time finding content for the three of them (or even a few of them) and sometimes when you're low on fics the ones you find aren't the most polished, but yk you take what you find or you make it yourself! But!!! That is not the case here! You wrote a beautiful and enjoyable and fucking sexy fic that exactly hit the spot for me and was a thrill all the way through. You do not know how many times I had to keep myself from jumping ahead or reading to fast to enjoy it because I was so excited. Also the only reason I'm not commenting is bc I don't have an ao3 account set up for this blog yet so I'm bothering you in asks instead!

I would like to be very detailed in my appreciation of how you wrote each character but I seriously need to sleep and I'm probably taking up to much space, so let me know if I can come back and rant to you about your fic in your ask box or if you would prefer me waiting till I can comment on the fic itself :3Thank you SO SO SO SO MUCH for writing such a scrumptious fanfic and for sharing it with the rest of us! /Grins/ Have a delightful rest of your week!

(final. Sorry it got split up! Tumblr was being an ass and giving me a word limit so I switched for Easter so I didn't have to verify w every ask and it fuckin dropped both problems lmao)

This is how you leave a comment, folks. If it's not 4 asks in my inbox when I wake up I don't want it.*

People like @gayafsowhat who leave comments and asks like this are the backbone of the fanfic community. These asks have sat in my inbox for a like a week because there's literally no way to adequately express my gratitude so I'll just say simply: thank you. ❤️

Also authors, if you are hesitating about writing for a smaller fandom or rare pair, fucking do it. Yes, I get more kudos on my drarry fics, but the enthusiasm and support you get from people when you write for pairings with less content is equally fulfilling (if not more - see giant comment above holy shit!??!?).

*This is obviously a joke. For the record, I gratefully accept and apppreciate comments in any format. ❤️

[chiosblog]

Per l'ask game💛:)

12, 17, 21, 25 , 34 e 48

Ce ne sono un sacco quindi non sapevo che scegliere XD ma ovviamente puoi fare solo quelle che vuoi!

Grazieee💛

12.  Describe your perfect writing space

My desk in my room, big bonus points if my cat is on the desk with me.

A requirement I have (but sadly happen very rarely) is being completely alone at home. When I write I like to comment my own work and scream at times lmao so if there is other people around that kinda make it impossible to do.

Also hearing my family talking in the background take me out completely from the writing mood and that's fucking annoying.

The best thing would be being able to have some beautiful view in the wild in front of me but that's not easy to do lmao

17.  What writing habits or rituals do you have?

I don't have specific rituals before writing other than having some spare time and listening to music (well that's a thing I do 24/7 not just while writing XD).

But if I really wanna be in a cozy mood I prepare myself some tea.

21.  Who is/are your favourite character(s) to write?

To be completely honest I love writing characters who are, in some capacity, similar to me; if a character is on a completely different planet compared to me it may be a fun passtime but the writing process become really tiring.

I know a good writer knows how to write every type of character but since I do it just for fun I dont wanna that to become a burden. I abandoned the idea of posting/sharing my works for like 8 years for that exact reason and I've been coming back to that just in the last year but it's not my priority to become the best writer ever lol.

25.  Favourite part of writing

Like you said, having your brain collaborating it's the best part of the writing process XD

But the best moment is having the right inspiration with the right music at the right time and having the best people give you a feedback on your work 💛

34.  What was the hardest scene you ever had to write?

Well I don't usually write heavy stuff (for my own sanity lol) but one scene I remember struggling was the end scene (the beach one) of 'When All Is Said and Done'.

It was the last scene so it had to have meaning for it to be a good conclusion to the story (and thats no easy task lol) but the real problem were the feelings.

That moment of the story in particular gave me the opportunity to externalize some of that melancholic feelings that for some reason I carry around all the time. It's hard to put into words but it helped me handling these feelings cause they can create the most overwhelming experience both in a positive and negative way.

Sorry if that make no sense but thats how my mind work 😵

48.  What’s the most self-insert character/scene you’ve ever written?

Well I dont have self insert characters because, as I said, I write characters I can vibe with, even tho we are not that similar at the end.

But I wrote many self insert scenes if I can call them that lol

I've written most of them just for myself ages ago and dont remember shit about them lmao

But the latest was in 'Ultimately' which I still havent posted yet ooops (I will, soon tho!)

In that fic, Murdock's emotions get real close to what I've been feeling for a big part of my life so putting it down was kinda liberating but at the same time also embarassing on some level cause I was afraid he would become to ooc.

But I enjoyed it at the end cause, you know, that's some good whump for my favorite characters lol