#and writing wise she's probably my fave from the show

[antisociallilbrat]

Nancy is such an interesting character because as I’ve said before, she’s determined to change the shitty world around her but it’s not because she’s filled with some unbridled optimism. I wouldn’t even call her an optimist, she’s more of a realist.

Nancy Wheeler is a character that is filled with lifetimes of passed down feminine rage. We’ve seen this since season one. She has watched her mother and presumably her grandmother settle for lives they didn’t want. Marry the first ‘decent’ man that came along, not out of love but because it was expected of them. If they had dreams they didn’t get to pursue them because who would stay home to take care of the kids?

She’s not going to settle. She’s not going to become her mom. Nancy Wheeler won’t fucking stop till the world conforms to her. Even if she has to fight for it with blood and tears. She’s a damn way maker.

[lanymme]

it 1000% feels like, for the lack of time/aid/skill, the translators end up using machine TL for events, and that image you posted as an example feels like a prime candidate for that

fiammetta's file lines to this day are awkward and stunted because they're almost word for word machine TLs

Okay I was gonna wait a little while for this post but you hit the nail on the head.

My (apparently not-so) tinfoil hat theory about this game: nearly all of it is machine translated.

While reading Dorothy's Vision in preparation for Lone Trail, I came across a (probably infamous) stretch of critically story-relevant text that was not translated at all. A friend of mine directed me to the arknights story reader, where I looked into the EN translation and, yep, that's still Chinese. So I ran it through a Machine TL to get the jist of it. It was serviceable, a lot of the terms translated surprisingly well, but the moment to moment writing was obscured to me by the TL quality.

And in a moment of dread I realized it read EXACTLY like any old bit of Arknights story, and everything clicked. The problems I have always had with the sentence structure and word choice feeling strangely disjointed, lacking in logical flow--all of it showed up the same from this raw machine translation.

Y'all. We've been getting a poorly touched-up machine translation of the Chinese text this whole time. All the effort you have to put in to just figure out what's being said--it's not your fault, the story is not too smart for you, it's because you're being asked to read a machine translation, without the context that it will be rough and full of holes.. Everything that writing is--beyond merely conveying information or a sequence of events--we get none of that.

Think about all the nuance we missed of your favorite characters. Your favorite moments. How much of their nuance and depth did we miss?

How many other characters and moments did you dismiss or skim because the writing couldn't convey their emotional core? How many of those could have been as important to you as your current fave?

The fact that Kal'tsit comes across as unintelligible--does she instead sound wise and poetic, in the original?

How much of the full text of Arknights do you think is available to us? 80%? 40%? Who can say.

But I can say one thing. What we have now is not acceptable.

Edit: hey, it’s been put forward by people with actual expertise in this field that MTL is highly unlikely here, and I realize I was a bit bold for this. If this is coming up in your feed pls seek out their explanations of things instead of reblogging the root! Thanks!

[thewalrusespublicist]

What are yours thoughts on Yoko and Sean? Idk How to feel about them. Everyone in This family has some issue It seems.

Hi @dopebananadetective!

I’m not sure if you mean thoughts on their relationship or thoughts on Sean and Yoko separately so I’ll answer both.

On Sean and Yoko I think it’s really nice that he’s so protective of his mother. Does it frustrate me that as a result he perpetuates a few of the Ballad myths? Yeah, but he’s in a tough situation both press wise and psychologically considering the circumstances. I will say it does make me laugh everytime he talks about his conception at Madison Square Gardens as it does give Buster Bluth 11 months in the womb energy. Reading between the lines I don’t think it’s a traditional mother-son relationship but you can’t expect anything traditional from the Ono-Lennon’s. As for Sean himself, well… He speaks well, shows a certain level of grace and I’ve heard fairly good things about his music. His cryptocurrency preoccupation and campaign against the whole Woke agenda are evident of a certain type of indulged nepo baby and a certain type of personality.

What I think about Yoko currently? Well all I know is from tabloid rumours that’s she’s in late stage dementia and has moved to spend her last days in comfort on the farm she and John bought. I hope that this transition period of her life is filled with warmth, affection and peace.

As for my general thoughts on Yoko, I can only answer from someone who is looking at her through a limited lens. I don’t know this woman, I have never spoken with her and there are facets to her personality I will never know nor understand. If I was particularly interested in the Dada/fluxus movement, I would probably have some glowing things to say about her art (aside from the plagiarism business). If I met her in real life before her illness I might have found her funny and unique. If the Beatles were fictional and she was a character in a show she might be my problematic fave. As it is, I can only comment from someone looking at her from a Beatles lens and from a distant view of her relationship with John. In that regard unfortunately my enthusiasm for her is limited. She is not the villain of this story, but neither is she a hero. She has shown time and time again that at her worst she’s an insecure egotistical manipulative bully so threatened by everything that she used her vast wealth to tear down relationships and others peoples work to make herself feel secure. I do pity her need for control and it’s potential roots but it explains not excuses her behaviour and what ended up being her abuse of John (he was also abusive absolutely, one does not discount the other). Nor do I find her sense of entitlement a sufficient excuse for her treatment of staff and laying claim of everything to do with John/minimisation of everything unrelated to their relationship. I’m still angry that John’s official website still barely mentions the Beatles whatsoever and only mentions Paul on the same level of George Martin. I’m still angry that she used her acceptance speech of an award for John not to celebrate him but to make a horrible dig at Paul that indirectly embarrassed John. There’s a line between honouring and exploitating someone’s memory and IMHO she’s crossed that line on quite a few occasions. Her doing things like re-dubbing Number 9 Dream and essentially photoshopping herself into it and May out and trying to take Paul’s name off things he helped write is borderline farcical. If she owned up to any of this shit or even just owned it in general I could respect it a lot more, instead she has lied and lied or pulled out her pathetic ‘I just sat back and did nothing, didn’t even want to be there’ routine that’s both exhausting and disingenuous.

Of course some of this is my own personal bias against wealthy people who think they own and are owed everything. A lot of my antipathy as well is rooted in her say in the legacy of a band she was recorded on tape being snobby and derisive of. I can acknowledge that she’s from my understanding an emotionally unstable and vulnerable woman who went through an awful lot that I can probably never grasp and that pain begets pain. However, that doesn’t make her immune to criticism nor entitled to my admiration as some fans mostly outside of tumblr seem to believe.

[coldflasher]

Fandom ask: DC LOT?

whew im so late responding to this one, i was sooo late clocking off work tonight 😭 anyway

Favourite Female:

There were many incredible women on Legends but I think Zari 2.0 cinches it for me!

Favourite Male:

John Constantine my beloved... im a sucker for a terrible bisexual man

3 Other Favourite Characters:

Leonard obviously... he'd have been my number 1 but I feel considering he was only really in season 1 he barely counts as being on the show in my opinion

Martin Stein!! I love that old man :( his death is still up there with the saddest tv deaths of all time for me

Aaaand I probably have to go with Mick for my number 3! His truly bizarre character development from violent pyromaniac to successful romance novelist with a clutch of alien babies born via ear might be one of my favourite twists of all time and it's genuinely so impossible to describe it to anyone who hasn't seen the show. Flash Mick and Legends Mick are absolutely not the same man but Legends Mick is so much fucking funnier

3 OTPs:

John and Zari Tarazi

Zarlie

Avalance (basic of me I'm afraid but what can I say I genuinely think they're really cute)

Notp:

Nate/Zari 💀 they make zero sense to me

Behrad/Astra (same, and also the writing for that ship is sooo dodgy cos one half of the writers' room was gunning for it and the other half didn't give a shit and you can really tell which writers were writing which episodes imo)

Funniest character:

Ava! Jes Macallan's comedic timing is unmatched and some of the funniest moments of the show hinge on her deadpan line delivery. Shoutout to "I wrote that review 😐", the episode where she writes Sara a card saying she's glad Oliver is dead and wishes Sara had never met him (I usually hate the "lesbian character despises her bisexual girlfriend's male exes" trope but I gave them a pass for that one cos it was genuinely very funny), and the time she just goes "goodbye!" and liea down in the middle of the road

That being said, the hardest I have ever laughed at a joke on Legends was the dad joke that Damien Darkh makes in the ep where John and Nora fake an engagement. It was during the peak of the pandemic. Me and my friend were locked in our tiny 2 bed student house rewatching all of Legends on my laptop because we didnt have a TV. we hadnt left the house in days because of all the restrictions, literally all we did for like a straight week or two was watch legends. and something about this dad joke ("Hi annoyed, i'm dad!") caught us so off-guard that it literally made us cry laughing, like that full-on painful, can't even breathe kind of laughter, for about 10 solid minutes. i can't even explain why it was that funny!! whenever i have seen that episode since, that joke has never got more than a giggle out of me. but at the time we were absolutely howling.

Prettiest character:

charlie is genuinely so beautiful (and having met maisie in person i can say that they are even more indescribably beautiful in person and have the most calming presence)

Most Annoying Character:

I don't want to jump on the Mona hate train cos poor Ramona got treated terribly by the fans but Mona was... not my fave. She got shafted by terrible writing. In my opinion her annoying characterization was 100% fixable with some good development but they just chose to write her out instead? Cowards.

Most badass character:

It has to be Sara, I feel!

Character I’d like as my BFF:

Honestly I'm not sure I'd personally get on with literally any of them 😭 I love them all but I'm not sure our personalities would gel. That being said I think I'd say Ray because he seems like an easygoing man and I think you'd have to actively try to not get along with him.

Female Character I’d Marry:

I'd say Charlie but she is too wild for me. She'd defo get bored and we'd end up having to divorce. I'd probably go for Ava... I'm not sure we'd be a good fit personality-wise but I appreciate her risk aversion and I need that kind of organized presence in my life. She'd probably also divorce me though, on account of the fact that i am not organized at all.

Male Character I’d Marry:

Again I feel Ray is the only safe choice here. John may be my fave but I would 100% end up dead if I married him because he has terrible luck with relationships. Also he tends to lash out and be horrible when he's experiencing difficult emotions and I am way too sensitive for that shit lmao. Also he smokes and that's a dealbreaker for me (I say, having previously dated a smoker. Must stick to my convictions next time.)

Character I hate/dislike/least like:

you know that meme that's like "I love all my children equally." *jumpcut* "I don't care for Michael" (or whatever the guy's name is)?

That's me with Behrad. They just shoehorned the guy in and I fear I need a few more personality traits other than "stoner" for me to be interested. They never gave Shayan anything to work with really and it's a shame cos Behrad could have been so interesting...

[freneticfloetry]

Okay, Nice Ask Week Ask -

Okay, because I know you've watched a bunch of the same old school fandom shows I've watched - what was your fandom journey? Where did you start? What did you first read? Where'd you go next? (following authors or shows?) Livejournal - yes or no?

The noise of distress that I just made cannot be accurately described.

Okay so, I started both reading and writing fic in OG Roswell fandom. As I’m sure you know, fandom activity back then tended to be splintered into silos by pairing, and I lived in Polar land (Michael/Liz. All the Roswell ships had names. It was A Time.). The compulsion was more about Michael than anything — broken boy soldiers are always my weakness. I was intrigued by the scrapped storyline that was supposed to be a love triangle, especially since they had chemistry, but I didn’t love Liz as written, she just made the most sense with him, to me. Canon-wise, I was mainly there for Michael, Kyle, and Isabel (something that was ultimately painfully apparent in my fics).

(I did finally watch the reboot recently, and while I liked Liz a hell of a lot more, Kyle and Isabel were still my faves. Go figure!)

I was a one fandom reader and writer for a long time, though I did dabble in crossovers. Then I wrote a tiny little ficlet for Lost, and it opened the floodgates — I started writing Firefly, then Smallville (specifically Chlollie, another silo, which was definitely a LiveJournal thing), then Supernatural. And once I signed up for my first year of Yuletide, all bets were off — I got into the habit of writing my one perfect fic in a fandom and then fleeing to flit off to another, never to return.

I just realized that I’ve only ever followed a few of authors to new fandoms — @earlgreytea68’s Sherlock fic, for instance, was what made me start reading Arthur/Eames. What happens most often is that I randomly get a bunny for a canon I enjoy (or one that’s wildly pissed me off) that won’t leave me alone until I start writing.

The Magicians is the canon that made me settle down again, and nurture more than one idea for the same fandom. And even though I’ve had to step away from it for awhile (because just thinking about it still makes me anxious and angry), I think it was exactly what I needed to prime my brain for the Tarlos takeover — I think I would’ve been overwhelmed otherwise, and probably never written anything for them at all.

Sorry so long. I’m ridiculous.

[dutchforstrangers]

Digimon Adventure: 2023 - The newborn chronicles 1/?

Since approx three weeks, I'm head deep into diapers, broken nights and feeding sessions, trying to navigate through life with a newborn. All the while, coming here feels like this could be both my escape from and way of dealing with everything. So I might as well throw in some drabbles about my faves during pregnancy/labor and/or with newborns! Don't expect too much shipping or even shipping at all, just these mofos being newborn parents and not knowing sh*t about all of this.

If you have any suggestions or requests for this series (character(s) and/or prompt/idea), please crawl into my ask box and leave a message (: It's great writing exercise for me after being out of it for so long! I'm taking everything on a scale from everyday domestic fluff to drama with a funny twist and from comedy with a serious touch to dark and heavy angsty emotional rollercoaster.

[1/?]

Episode 1: Taichi & newborn Souta, pt. 1

"Well, just kill me now..."

He said as he exhaled loudly, his hands desperately buried in his hair that seemed wilder than ever before. The bags underneath his eyes in combination with the messy hair and stinky boxers indicating the lack of sleep and showering.

A small piece of Taichi hoped his wife would hear him sigh, wake and come to his rescue. The biggest piece, however, wanted to let her have a peaceful night after all the tough ones she already had and show her he could actually do this by himself.

Thing was he wasn't sure how to.

He reached for his phone on top of the dresser, next to his one week old son. Their eyes met, one set of brown eyes expectingly piercing through his own pair.

"I'm sorry I'm letting you wait, I just... I just need to be sure. So stop looking at me like that."

Taichi's eyes quickly moved from the baby to his phone, scrolling through the names in his contacts.

If he'd call Hikari, or Sora, they would immediately mother and scold him for not knowing "anything". They were an easy skip.

He could call Yamato, but the scenario in his head made him skip his friend faster than lightning.*

Jyou could be useful knowledge-wise, but he'd probably be in a night shift and too busy picking up.

Mimi wasn't an option either, feeling she would leave him with unuseful anecdotes about her traveling life and more questions than answers.

Takeru he felt too awkward to call and Daisuke was simply a hard no.

That left him with one last option. And even though Taichi wasn't sure about that person's knowledge regarding this specific topic, he was sure that he would help him in the best way possible.

"Taichi-san?"

Plus, the voice on the other end weirdly soothed him.

With his gaze fixed on his son's overly yellow-brownish body, Taichi started rambling.

"Koushiro, you've got to help me. What do you know about changing diapers and cleaning one week old babies after they covered themselves in their own poop?"

x x x

* The Taichi - Yamato scenario/convo I envisioned:

Y: "Oi, Taichi, why you're calling me in the middle of the night?"

T: "Why are you picking up in the middle of the night?"

Y: "... F*ck you." *hangs up*

[twotangledsisters]

What have been your favourite 10 chapters of the Two Tangled Sisters series to write and why?

What has been your favourite fic from the series to write so far?

Oh, I love this question, although with your permission I will switch chapters to arcs cause that makes more sense for my series!

Answer under read more due to length!

1.-  No Detours, Just Romance and Shenanigans

Without any hesitation! This is the arc where CandyCaine became a thing after much back and forth. This is the payoff of all that flirting and I was looking forward to it! It was really fun to write, you have Eugene trying to prepare this perfect engagement! Keira, Catalina being mischievous. Lance taking a well-deserved break. Caine sooo excited to show Cass her pride and joy, her ship! While Cass is desperately trying to hide the fact she's terrified of the ocean.

I love writing arcs where there's a lot going on, lots of different emotions!

The way Eugene accepted the ship wasn't the right spot for his engagement allowing Cass and Caine to do their thing! And just, the setting sun as Cass really pours her feelings out, Caine accepted Cass as she is, Cass reiterating her feelings cause she's scared Caine doesn't understand and Caine's line:

"I want to be with you, and I would never ask you to give me more than you have to give. I can do a relationship on your terms. For you… I think I could do anything.”

You can't say she hasn't lived by that promise!

It was such a joy to write and lead to my fave ship to write to this day.

But anyway, talking about Eugene's engagement!!

2.- The start to Shimmering Stones and Uncertain Destinies

Technically this fic is in chapters not arcs but I wrote a lot of the start in one sitting and it was a lot of fun, very emotional, and still makes my heart flutter.

Cassandra trying to hide the fact she now sees her dead mother, Rapunzel having an actual panic attack at the idea of the moonstone and Eugene finally getting down on one knew asking Rapunzel to marry him! (For the first time, mind you!)

And she says yes!!

Digging into their emotions before the season finale or before any large conflict is something I really, really enjoy writing! And the engagement, adorable!

And then the appearance of Edmund to finish off! Cassandra giving that man a piece of her mind and of course acquiring her beloved axe.

3.- Birds and Magic

Based on the episode Freebird this was one of my favorite re-imagining! It only really kept the characters and setting but it was just sooo much fun lore wise!

Cassandra is aware she has magic (only she and Eugene know) and after hesitantly asking the group what they think of magic the response isn't great, and Caine especially is highly against magic. (I kinda love the miscommunication trope so writing this was ajoy) Cassandra goes and finds her own teachers and learns in private!

Caine respects Cassandra's frequent bird-watching excursions at first but eventually gets worried, goes to check on her and overhears a plan to kill Cass. She gets captured and Cass is told Caine was attempting to kill them for their magic!

A poor speechless Caine unable to explain the danger Cass is in while Cass's rambling on about how sorry she is for hiding the magic and she'd understand if Caine wants to leave and blah, blah, blah- I could not stop laughing as I wrote it. I love miscommunication. And when Cass does Caine the ability to speak and the woman blurts out an 'I love you'.

Caine could not have picked a more awkward moment and I love it and I love them and I think it's perfect.

Plus, Cass uses her magic to save Caine and Caine still loves her no matter how weird she is!!

Everything about this was a joy to write from the lore to Cass' awkwardness to the miscommunication, the supportive Eugene and Cass conversations, Caine giving Cass time to think about the declaration of love, just everything about this arc was sooo fun!

4.- Mirrors 

Probably the most tragic chapter in this fic... perhaps amongst the most tragic of the series.

Basically Ari and Frederic are looking through these old mirrors of Gothel's that depict tests done in a lab on a young Cassandra.

And the last mirror they stumble upon they discover that Cassandra, their Cassandra, is only the latest in a series of lab experiments and all of those who came prior to her were 'terminated'.

I mean, my heart is heavy to this day thinking of this chapter... It was a chapter that was very hard to write but in a good way. It's a chapter that whenever I re-read I have to re-read it slowly due to how heavy what's going on is... and that's something I really really love.

This is also one of those moments where we see Frederic being more of a rock for Arianna as her heart is absolutely broken as she thinks of all those who came before Cass, but Frederic is able to focus in one their Cass, the one who's still alive and out on an adventure!

What can I say, I love writing angst.

5.-  To Burn a Witch

Talking about heavy emotions this is another arc I was looking forward to for a long, long time! This is where Equis tries once more to kill Cassandra.

It's the arc in which Quaid dies, a chapter that was very emotional to write.

But it's more important the first time Cassandra has knowingly and purposefully killed somebody.

It's a very dark arc, but I really enjoy writing dark stuff, I enjoy writing stuff that makes my heart sink, I enjoy digging into the emotions and I enjoy pushing characters past their limit.

6.- The Wishing Fountain

I also enjoy fluff! Even if this does end with angst...

This is the arc in which Rapunzel and Cassandra throw coins into a wishing fountain and the very innocent wish of 'I wish we'd gotten to grow up in Corona like normal children' become Arianna and Frederic's problem (is it really a problem?) when their adult daughters are handed to them as a baby and four-year-old.

I think it's not a secret I ADORE writing cute kids fluff, I mean, it's how this series starts!!

And this one is just so sweet cause Ari and Fred lost their chance at raising little children so be to given these few days is a true gift that they enjoy... you know, until the babies need returning to the fountain.

7.-  Criminals of Corona

Everybody wants a Caine redemption right? Well, Cass is no exception! After an argument with Eugene about boundaries she decides to try and help this Lady Caine using community service!

At first Caine is skeptical but accepts and slowly it seems Cassandra is getting through to her until she admits to overstepping one of Caine's boundaries at which point Caine shuts down, stops opening up to Cass and all that.

Caine kidnaps Cassandra the very next day as part of her escape plan but apologizes in advance as well as eventually letting her go.

Here we get to see one of the main ways Cass varies from series-Cass, wasn't raised by Captain, instead her first experience with a criminal is Eugene who despite their banter she's very close to, because of this she is determined to just redeem every villain ever!

Caine proves two things to Cass: That it won't be easy, but it's very much worth it. (not both in this arc)

But writing Caine as she tried to be stern and against this princess while struggling... The way she eventually lets Cass go, the way Eugene shows up to rescue Cass. It was sooo much fun to write!

Most important, this is my first time properly writing Caine as a character and I obviously fell in love with her.

8.- .Paint and Law 

This arc takes place after the 'Queen For a Day' re-imagining. Snow is gone but the damage is still very much present! We see how Rapunzel and Cassandra cope with the aftermath of trauma and stress. Rapunzel disassociates and wants to make no decisions. Cassandra buries herself in her work.

We get to see Arianna's stress and how Frederic supports her.

We see our first disciple of Zhan Tirir which was sooo fun to write especially with Sugracha aknowing of Cassandra's origin!

Arianna gets to be a really badass mum, obviously!

And all the fluff mixed in with the drama and the recovery, it has all the stuff I love from a good arc :D

The conversation Frederic has with Cassandra after she overworks is still amongst my fave moments of the father-daughter duo. Honestly, I love writing heartfelt conversations!

9.- The ending to The Princess, The Pirate and The Prosecutor

From the moment Caine rescues Cass, the race to get back to Corona in time to save Eugene from the gallows, the gallows chapter, Rapunzel's rescue! And the recovery and politics that come after...

Again, all my fave things, angst, fluff, epic fights, fantasy politics!!

How could I not love writing this?

Although the truth is at the time I actually didn't like what I wrote (that's why it's so low on the list), I enjoyed writing it but didn't like the results, but reader reception is amongst the best I've ever has so I guess it goes to show sometimes it's fine.

10.-  What Mother Wouldn't Do Anything For Their Child 

Amaris' first introduction!!! Do I need to say more?

This arc takes place in the Inn of Yesterday's Tomorrow and each of the three main cast has a weird dream. Eugene is visited by his ancestor, Rapunzel talks to Arianna and Cass sees her late-mother. Three dreams with different tones and there's no way to know how real or not any of them are!

I love writing dream sequences and I love writing weird cryptic characters, so this was great!

Favorite fic to write??

Within the Walls of Corona, definitely!

It was soooo fun to write this fic because I had all this relationships to build from New Dream, Eugene and Cassandra's friendship had some growing, Arianna and Frederic both needed to bond with their daughters a bit more, Lance has a first appearance, Keira and Catalina have a first appearance, characters like Cap and Nigel learn the princesses are to be respected, Caine has the start to her redemption....

And all of this while having a very clear roadmap which is the show!

Don't get me wrong, I love the current fics but as far as enjoying the process goes I have to put in a lot more work to figure out the order of things and balancing lowers and higher stakes... I didn't have that problem in Within the Walls of Corona XD

It was a very, very enjoyable experience and those first four fics, Two Tangled Sisters, Two Princesses, The Coronation and Within the Walls of Corona, had that perfect lightness with dark undertones but they were the calm before the storm (quite literally cause to Rule A Kingdom is all about a storm!! XD)

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Anyway, thanks a ton for such an awesome question!

I hope this served as a nostalgic look back for you as it definitely did for me :D

[timeandspacenovelist]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thank you for the tag, @eriadu-in-the-wildwood!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

77 currently. Writing is one of my ways to relax so I've written a lot over the last three years.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

A nice roundy 446,376 (so far)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Doctor Who and some occasional jaunts into the world of WWE

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

You Must Remember This (one of my all time faves) 2. Bus Ride (unexpected, but still a fun one) 3. An Impossible Reunion (another all time fave) 4. Wounds (This was a cute one shot but it did so damn well) 5. Hopeless Romantic (another all time fave)

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

As much as I can. I want people to feel as welcome in my comments, as I've felt in others.

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

I'd say Replay. The ending does have closure but it's certainly not happy.

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

I'll say With You, I'll Stay As Long As Possible. It gave Yaz and 13 their relationship that they deserved with the promise of it being a decade long.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I do not, no.

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

I don't, no. Don't think I have the skill for it.

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

I have in the past, yes! Doctor Nightmare features Rhea Ripley meeting the 13th Doctor, The Victorian Visitation has 13 and Clara meeting Queen Victoria (more specifically the version from the 2016 show), The Impossible Nobody had Clara meeting Rey from Star Wars, Bus Ride had 13 meeting Johanna Constantine from the Sandman and Warrior...Princess...Doctor had 13 and Yaz meeting Xena and Gabrielle. In terms of craziest? Probably Doctor Nightmare for how different both universes are.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of!

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

I have! The on-going For The Woman Who Has Everything was written by myself and @anotherfrench. She's given me free rein to finish it however, so I'm on my own now!

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

Might be a tie with Thasmin and Whouffaldi at this point.

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

I've had this idea of the Doctor and Yaz and Clara heading back to the 90s, and stopping an alien who is using anti-aging cream to suck the youth from people. But I've never been able to make any sufficient headway with it. No matter how much I try.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Personally, I've no idea. But I've been told my dialogue is very realistic and sensible.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Descriptions are just not my thing. I cannot naturally do it and need all the help I can get. Which involves getting help books.

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

I've done it before, but just for small moments.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Gotta be Doctor Who.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

Jeez, that's a hard one. Umm...I'll give a finished and unfinished one (you'll understand in a sec). In terms of finished, it has to be You Must Remember This. Just a really fun concept that I really wanted to get right and I exceeded my own expectations for it. It feels so real and so powerful while still feeling true to both characters and their histories. Unfinished wise? Has to be Heaven Knows I've Tried. My first proper AU and it's been bundles of fun. I've come to just adore the characters and it feels like such a labor of love. I feel writing it has made me a better writer as it has gone on and for that, it has to be my favorite

I'll tag @lex144, @colemansdimple and @sweetbraveclara. Excited to see what you guys talk about! Thanks again for the tag, @eriadu-in-the-wildwood !

[kcrabb88]

Oh fun questions! 🎬 If a movie or show were based on your fic, which fic would you choose and who would you fancast? also, who is the hardest to write for you?:D

Ohhhh gosh that is a HARD choice, but my first instinct was my girl Raoul/bisexual Christine fic, She Was Bound to Love You? I feel like it could make a good little miniseries, and it would make Andy Lloyd Webber SO MAD probably, which is a bonus. Plus plot wise it's one of the simplest to do, and it has super high drama (not that all of my fics don't ahahaha) which would be good for a show or movie. For my Christine I would want Meghan Picerno, probably, who was my favorite Christine that I ever saw. For Raoul it's a little tougher, because I picture a kind of Theresa Palmer-ish person in my head, but a younger version of her. For Erik my fave performer for him is Hugh Panaro, and so that would be my first choice!

There is a tough character in every fandom I every write for, I think! For Les Mis, it's usually Valjean? I feel like I've gotten a lot better handle on him in recent years, but trying to wrestle him into being happy is always kind of a Trial, and I'm always trying to write fics where he is. In Phantom it's Erik because ... idk, he's Erik, and he's frustrating. In Star Wars it's definitely Ahsoka, because I find her POV just difficult to pin down because she kind of changes a lot from show to show in SW world, and it just makes me ???? Much as I love Flint in Black Sails, I've also found him tough to get down on the page when I've written him, because his POV is SO layered, and it's hard to get him to like, talk to me??? He's just SUCH a intriguing character that I think I get nervous when writing him, too, like I won't do his simmering rage and grief justice.

[olivieraa]

I have 15 mins to spare so I'll talk about that "fujoshi to asexual pipeline" post. heck, prob won't even get this done in 15 mins. I'll draft it and continue when I get back. but anyway.

the first part of the post implies that its probably majority asexuals and aromantics that write the best smut. I can't even express how I personally find this highly untrue. I went back to fanfic land a few years ago. KaiJou is my ultimate pairing and the craving came outta nowhere, so I started reading fanfics for the first time since 2011. I read hundreds. I wanna make this unbelievably clear. I truly don't believe I'm a picky reader. I believe I have very few things that'll make me opt out of a fic. top 3 are probably:

sad ending. generally one of them dying. I can't do it. I feel physically sick for so long afterwards.

the insanely overused and never done right plot-point of "Joey is being molested by his dad. kaiba saves him". I would've considered myself on board with this one (abuse not molestation bc abuse is canon), but they are always done so pathetically bad. my absolute fave KaiJou fic has Joey's dad being abusive as a prominent plot point and it's done v well.

overuse of Japanese words. bruh. might as well write the whole fic in Japanese. I really don't understand this one. someone will literally have a whole sentence from Yugi to Joey going, "Gomensai, Jounouchi-kun." like........... nah.

I don't think any of the above are unreasonable.

but anyway, most fics were bad. very few were good. I was absolutely shocked at how common the bad fics were.

I came across a fic that was incredibly smutty. some of the best written smut I'd ever come across. I was like "how did you... come up with this??" and I left her a review saying her smut was fantastic and she really appreciated it.

the story however could've used some tweaks. but I put it in my faves nevertheless. just for the smut.

my fave fanfic that I mentioned above actually has zero smut in it. honestly, you're just fucking waiting on them to kiss the whole time.

if both these fics had been combined, I'd be re-reading it constantly.

anyway. most fics are bad. they just fucking are. outside of fics tho? oh boy. women have gotten hornier. there's not a single tag that doesn't show the most predominant thing in every tag are "character x self" mini fic scenarios. they. are. everywhere. and they're raunchy as hell. and I highly doubt they're asexual. otherwise they wouldn't be self-insert, no? I immediately thought "Levi", went into his tag, and under like 3 fanart pics, there were 3 self insert fics.

if this is asexuality......... then what the actual fuck is asexuality.

secondly, I wanna talk about this part:

"you're not aromantic/asexual you've just hyped up the ideas of what sex and love are supposed to be like so much that you've alienated yourself from your body and no longer have interest in the real thing that or you've fetishized something you can't actually ever participate in (sex with fictional characters, celebrities, or between homosexuals of the opposite sex) so much so that real sex is unappealing to you. get HELP..."

sexuality wise, idk what I am. I go with bi cause its just easier to explain but I have been told by a few people that I seem asexual. and I know why it seems that way. it's bc everyone around me finds attraction so easy. a dude will talk about how hot margot robbie is and 5 seconds later how hot that girl that walked by is. and women are able to do that too. from henry cavil to ryan gosling or "that cute guy in the canteen" that'll feature collective nodding. it was about 2 months ago I was at a table with 7 women and they just talked about hot male celebs the whole time. at the end of it all I just said, "wow... you're all so straight" which got a laugh.

like yeah, a group of men and women will list off conventionally attractive celebs and the rest of the group will foam at the mouth once the names are mentioned. I don't. I know who is conventionally attractive but that has never been enough for me. I need to know them. and there needs to be a reason for me to want to know them. I actually like ryan gosling. I liked him in barbie, la la land, crazy stupid love or wtv its called, blade runner, etc. and I've seen interviews with him, plenty actually. I think he's an appealing guy. but I feel nothing.

whereas what happened to me one day was that I came across a watchmojo youtube vid and it was "top 10 bill hader performances". my knowledge of bill hader was v little. but I didn't... really like him. I'd remembered when trainwreck came out in 2015 and I saw an interview with him and he seemed rude to me. but the reason watchmojo had posted this video at that time was bc bill was getting rave reviews for his performance in IT, which I hadn't seen yet but was planning to. so casually I was like "fuck it, let's see if IT is number 1 cause I don't even really know what he's in."

to my surprise, and I remember it so clearly, the watchmojo lady said there was a pretty obvious number one spot, and it wasn't IT. in fact, IT was third. so yeah I watched it through to the end and discovered number 1 was from a show called Barry.

I went to see IT. he was brilliant. the best part of the movie.

and let's just say, as someone who absolutely craves originality, and I hadn't watched anime in a couple of years, I ended up watching Barry, my first non-anime in about 10 years.

I fell in love. with the show, and Bill. I thought his acting was absolutely phenomenal. and s2 came out, and it was even better. and he won best actor for both seasons at the emmys. and I was basically obsessed. and I watched every interview with him and he was so funny, so sweet, he had feminist views, he just continously impressed me with every interview. his talent was what made me the most attracted to him originally, but it grew from there.

and so when people hear that the hottest guy in the world to me is Bill Hader, there's a collective

nobody really gets it. like yeah, I would've looked at Bill originally and went "he's definitely not conventionally attractive", but his talent, and then how sweet and funny he was, it what unlocked what he truly looked like for me. and I just couldn't express it to anyone else properly.

I know women are likely to understand me more than men for sure (like jack black has a HUGE female fanbase, whereas you won't get men who have melissa mc carthy high on their list), but women don't get me fully. I've been quite alone with this mindset for a very long time. never knowing how to feel attraction.

one thing I do see irl tho is for men to be with women so out of their league, its clear personality did come first. one of my female friends got with a dude a few years ago that she felt no attraction for whatsoever. but he "saved" her from her abusive household. she lost her virginity to him that same week and they were then bf and gf. she told me "she couldn't believe she couldn't see how handsome he was before". ...girl... trust me, only you are thinking that. you never have to worry about someone tryna steal him, let's just say that. (not that he's ugly, but he's painfully average and she'd be considered a model).

but yeah, me not feeling attraction in any form is like, I also really don't want to have sex with anyone. and men prove how disappointing they are every single day, there's endless proof of that. and with women... its complicated. anytime I go to a gay bar I get hit on my straight men. lesbians don't even glance at me. and then I once went to a strictly lesbian bar and my tall male friend was hit on.

I don't have much luck with women. and I'm not dominant enough to go for it. but I also don't feel attraction to anyone by looks alone.

it's just complicated. and so I choose to be single bc it of how not bothered I am with finding someone. its way too time consuming and it's not a high priority of mine.

so to go back to that post: "you're not aromantic/asexual you've just hyped up the ideas of what sex and love are supposed to be like so much that you've alienated yourself from your body and no longer have interest in the real thing". like... I'm sorry but, all I see constantly are women engaging in sex their man made them be into. choking is talked about so commonly and casually, and I know who started it, who made it as big as it was, but women are convinced men do it for them. oh no no... I've seen it. I've seen how men talk about it. it's honestly been one of the biggest manipulation tactics I've ever seen and women just fell for it. so... damn easily.

kinda like women who aren't gamers but have gamer bf's and its been normalised that playing a video game for 3-4 hours a day isn't that much. when it fucking is. these men don't have "time" to shower. actually, it reminds me of this vid I saw:

Let's just say, the comment section full of women felt called out.

So... no. I really don't feel like I'm missing out when the average man is an unwashed gamer dude who think he's deserves to be fucking a model for a total of 3 mins until he, and just he, has an orgasm.

What am I supposed to feel attracted to? Talent and intelligence are my first indicators of feeling attraction, and yet... I don't... see it... anywhere. Am I lacking in feeling attraction or are my standards just above the ground and not in hell like every other woman's seems to be? IDFK.

So yeah, maybe I've "hyped up the idea of what sex and love are supposed to be" in my own way bc I don't... want the above. I don't find that at all appealing. that looks depressing af to me. I don't get it. and I don't want it.

omg to even bring it back to Bill Hader for a sec. he was dating Rachel Bilson for like a year and then split up. but this story went around:

so my man out there makes women cum. that upped his attractiveness to me even more. like it took being with HIM for her to come in her mid-30's. he's either skilled or went out of his way to please her. EITHER WAY, hot.

am I WRONG for wanting this kinda man??? (if even a man, I'd prefer to be w a woman but still).

but yes, to go back to the post again: "you've fetishized something you can't actually ever participate in (sex with fictional characters, celebrities, or between homosexuals of the opposite sex) so much so that real sex is unappealing to you"

I do get this. celeb wise, I couldn't give a fuck about celebs. I don't even go to concerts cause I don't care enough. my attraction to Bill isn't bc he's a celeb. but yes, there's a definite problem on here with women writing self-insert fics of them fucking harry sytles, or timothee chalamet, or the supernatural lads. whoever the in-thing is.

...and then yes, obviously the same with fictional characters.

there's no problem finding them hot. they have flawless faces and bodies and appealing voices. everyone finds one or ten fictional characters hot.

but yeah......... the self-insert with them, idk if that's even worse than with celebs.

like, the post is half right and half wrong. real men aren't appealing, but these women will literally claim they're asexual and write the smuttiest fic of them getting banged by pedro pascal.

you're not asexual. at this point is asexuality even real? I have not ever seen proof. honestly.

anyway, I didn't explain that well at all but wtv.

[live-love-laugh-lesbian]

hii!! me again and damnnn you have taste!! and true crime>>>>>

also i almost died when i realised you watch hazbin hotel this is literally fate idc im so obsessed w it rn!! its probably the only one i know a lot of stuff about askdifkejskfr so this ask will probably be focused on that akskrjens

so!!! who's your favourite character(s) x and your favourite ep (if you have one) fav dynamics?

aksjrkwd sorry abt my limited knowledge abt everything else haha!

have an awesome day!!!

-swiftie spring anon exchange

:D :D :D We have similarities!!

Okay so my favourite character is a complicated question...see, I have a soft spot for Lute and Velvet (because my type in fictional women is evil, basically), and I would consider Velvet one of my faves based on how cool she seems so far (cool and evil). But Angel Dust's character has been expanded on so much it's hard not to adore him, you know? And I love Vaggie and Charlie, courtesy of their dynamic. Charlie's so :D and Vaggie's so >:( and it's great, I love it. I also didn't expect to enjoy Sir Pentious so much?? He's a dork and a sweetheart and he's great.

(Ship wise I still ship Vox and Alastor. I can't help it, there's just so many scenarios that would be cool with those two. But I've found I'm pretty fond of most ships that have come about from this show, which is interesting to me.)

I think my favourite episodes are...actually idk. I tend to go based on the songs that stand out XD But episodes 4, 5, 6 and 8 (so only half the episodes...) were especially good to me. And Hell's Greatest Dad, You Didn't Know, Poison and Respectless...ahh I loved them so much. Respectless was what sold me on Velvet. I was like, yes, she's perfect, she's great. I love an evil respectless woman.

I look forwards to seeing where they go with season 2. I'm hoping the Vee's become bigger villains, but also I want to see Lute have a bigger villain role. But also I want to see what's going on with Lilith and Alastor?? And also I feel sad for Sir Pentious being seperated from the others so I want him to see them again :( I really hope we get more than 8 episodes too ngl XD

As I write this, my girlfriend is taunting me with her fanfiction in which she's about to kill off a character >:( She tells me it'll be ok in the end but she's written very sad endings before and is an evil evil writer (affectionate) so do I believe her? ...a little, but not fully. XD

And you don't need to apologise!! I look forwards to hearing from you again!

[echantedtoon]

Allison Chapter Eighteen

(Hey everyone. I just wanted to thank everyone who read this far and liked my story enough to read it to it's end. I had a lot of fun writing it and it makes me happy knowing some people loved it enough to read it fully. Thanks to everyone for reading this, faving it, or leaving a nice comment. If you liked this consider checking out my other works. And thank you to Vivziepop for creating such wonderful characters and giving me the opportunity to make this wonderful story. The ending is referenced from Zootopia by Disney )

Two Months.

It had been two months since her little adventure and the first things she did that night was take a long deserved shower and FINALLY get her some good freaking food!! A whole minced meat pie she cooked herself and as much leftovers she wanted. She deserved it after so much work to back here. Chesire was a bit sheepish around her blaming himself for getting her stuck down there in the first place but she forgave him. How couldn't she? He meant too much to her and helped her too much to NOT forgive him, and he gladly accepted her accepting him. But he also promised to never keep anything from her again, and next time she wanted to go exploring he'd make SURE he was right there with her to help her out in any sticky situations. Well Allison wasn't planning on going back there anytime soon, and she had a feeling she would be able to handle herself a little bit better from now on. Besides. She was currently all adventured out and perfectly content to be staying here for a long, long time.

Present day she was busy working in the garden out back watering the flowers and pulling out all the weeds. Hard work, but hard work was always rewarded and her reward was having all these beautiful flowers WITHOUT faces to look at. And off course a giggling blue companion to talk too as well. Her red eyes looked over to the blue cat who was currently reading over some kind of red paper in his paws with a raised brow, from the ground by the flower beds. She had asked Chesire about her weird eyes and he shrugged. Telling her it was probably a side effect from being exposed to Wonderland's strange magic, like how his magic's rapid power drainage was a side affect of hers

"Hey. Whatcha got there?"

Chesire hummed but didn't look up from the paper. "Oh nothing important. Just an invintation to Queen Hearts Wedding. Apparently after all this time the wise old Fortune Teller is finally stepping out into the public eye, and marrying her no less."

"Oh, are you going?"

...."Nah!" He snapped his fingers and the paper disappeared as he looked at her. "Never was a big fan of weddings anyways. Always so boring and cliché."

"You know, she probably sent it to show there wasn't any hard feelings between you two." She went back to tending the garden and he chuckled again watching.

"Yes. But Im perfectly content spending my time with my bestest friend!"

"Bestest?"

"Better than best!~"

"Oh haha very funny."

"Oh come on. You know you love me.~"

She hummed and looked over her shoulder with a raised brow. "Do I know that?" He chuckled and rose a brow back as she smiled. "Yes. Yes, I do."

[bigskydreaming]

Spoilery thoughts on the Wheel of Time Season 2 premiere:

The casting remains the show's biggest strength. Nynaeve is still pitch perfect and my absolute fave. She is everything Book Nynaeve always had the potential to be if gently (forcibly) removed from Robert Jordan and his complete inability to write female characters. That scene where she drank the water just to get out of that lesson without technically losing ground......lmao this woman absolutely will cut off her nose to spite her face and say you're damn right I meant to do that, who needs a nose anyway?

Ishmael is also perfectly cast....I'm not familiar with his actor but he conveys the character's emblematic charismatic menace PERFECTLY. His scene gave me chills. Rosamund Pike continues to be great as Moiraine, what more is there to say about Lan other than Best Warder Is Best, I would kill people for Perrin as long as they were completely hypothetical people who don't count stop looking at me like that its a figure of speech you KNOW what I MEAN gosh, and Egwene's character isn't even close to getting to the real meat of her character arc but her actress has already displayed more than enough range to convince me she's going to nail it. Liandrin is perfectly awful, A+ depiction, and of the new characters, Verin is everything I hoped that character would be. Too early to say if I'm sold on this Sheriam though. Same with Elyas though he seems promising, and we only got a glimpse of Lanfear in the 'this season on Wheel of Time' preview, but what little we saw has me excited. (Lanfear is my ultimate fave baddy, I have such high hopes for her character though, you don't even know).

In terms of characters who don't have rave reviews from me, its mostly just a lack of content so far, leaving me undecided as of yet. I still don't know why they recast Mat before last season even ended up airing, and I liked the original actor for Mat quite a lot, but I THINK I'll be just as happy with this one. He didn't have much to do this episode so its hard to gauge, but he seems likable enough, and its not like Mat's currently in a position to be his usual devil-may-care self at this point in the story.

Honestly, Rand remains the weakest link in the show so far, to the point where even though he's nominally the most central character, the fact that he was barely in this episode didn't bother me even a little bit. I think it was a good choice, pacing wise - I'm just not sure what it suggests about the production's view of the character/actor that they were confident they could sideline THE 'main' character of the series for almost the entire first episode of a ten episode season and nobody would mind. And the fact that I didn't really miss him this episode has a lot to do with him easily being the least compelling of the cast in the first season.

That said.....over the course of the books, Rand's character undergoes the most dramatic evolution out of all the major characters, and we're still at a very early part of the narrative where he's just....at most mere hints of the character he ultimately becomes. His character hasn't yet been given a ton to do, relatively speaking.....like in terms of screentime, he's certainly been front and center, but as of right now he's SUPPOSED to be hesitant, mild-mannered, unsure of himself and all that....which is exactly what his actor is delivering. Its just.....not as interesting as what other characters are already undergoing, and especially when you have his book character arc to compare it to, knowing what kinds of things are coming for his character makes what we've seen so far feel a bit like treading water.

Which brings me to my next point, which is that I am pretty impressed with the show's pacing so far. In hindsight, the books start out pretty slow compared to how the story flows once it fully gets going, probably around the fifth book or so, IMO.....and those first books were still just as long as the later ones. So I do think the show's done a good job of condensing an enormously long narrative into something that can viably be told in ten seasons or so, & in such a way as to 'get to the good stuff plotwise' without actually cutting out too many of the early events necessary to build a foundation for the more complicated later storylines.

I do not envy the writers trying to figure out what to keep, what to streamline, what to alter and what to cut out entirely, so it is pretty impressive that as of this episode we very much FEEL like we're in familiar territory, like I recognize whereabouts in the narrative we're supposed to be, but most of the storylines' specific events have been so heavily altered as to make it feel unpredictable and I'm not sure what entirely to expect, in terms of how the show will get from where it is to certain major beats that I'm expecting to happen. Rand's storyline in particular has been pretty dramatically deviated from how the events after the Eye of the World stuff played out in the books....but he's still positioned to be right where he needs to be for all the Lanfear stuff. On the flip side of things, Mat's storyline technically doesn't have him too far removed in the show from where he was in the books at this point, but they've changed just enough that it FEELS completely different and has a much more ominous tone to it than the way that part of his storyline in the books felt like just kinda.....him sitting around until the Seanchan were in place and his storyline could really get going.

And speaking of Mat's storyline, ugh Liandrian is just the worst. I mean. She's supposed to be. So....good job, I guess.

Elayne and Aviendha should be showing up soon, and definitely impatient for that. Aviendha's a fave. I don't dislike Elayne by any means, but Elayne showing up soon also means that Elaida, Galad and Gawyn are all about to show up and I literally hate all three of them. Gawyn hasn't even appeared onscreen yet and I'm already ready for him to shut the fuck up. LMAO. He.....irritates me. Like Galad's full of himself and self-righteous as fuck but at least he KNOWS that and is like yeah, I get why other characters don't like me. Book Gawyn spends several volumes absolutely convinced he's in the right about certain key things he absolutely is NOT in the right about, and he never is actually made to own that or face it, once its made undeniably clear the narrative just kinda....moves on from anyone ever being in a position to point out hey dude, you just spent five books being an absolute dick about this thing that never even actually happened, maybe you should reflect on that. And like. Change. As a person.

Book Gawyn: Nah. Even though I wasn't right I didn't KNOW I wasn't right so I was basically right to do all the stuff that I now know was completely wrong.

Me: Ugh, shut the fuck up Gawyn.

Ohhhh just realized, Faile should be showing up soon too. I love Faile, so that is also something to look forward to. I'm STILL pissed about their totally unnecessary decision to introduce a whole extra helping of backstory trauma upon Perrin when like....nobody fucking asked, and Im very curious who's idea that was exactly and what their precise reasoning for it was, like what the fuck did they think it added to Perrin's arc that he needed, how does it benefit his storyline at all, you didn't need to fucking do that lmfaaaaao, but oh well. Course, its inevitable that its going to alter the shape of his storyline with Faile, particularly their earliest interactions, and I guess I'll wait and see if that's for the better or not, I just....don't see the point of those specific changes. Whatever. I'll die mad about it I guess. Its fine.

Other than all of the above, my biggest remaining thoughts are I want them to hurry up and clarify just which of the Forsaken made the cut and will be appearing in the show and which five got left on the editing floor. I hope they don't drag it out, they better at LEAST get named this season so we know who we're working with and don't have to wait a whole additional year to like, find out whether Sammael will be in the show or if he got scrapped for someone like Belial for some random reason.....mostly I just want to know if Demandred the Dull is going to be taking up one of the slots simply because the books like to pretend he's important even though he literally only appeared in one book and a chapter and there's nothing he does that can't be done just as well by far more developed characters like Aginor. Who unfortunately probably WON'T make the cut. Even though he's fantastically terrible. As a person. Not a character. He's the worst. But in that 'I can't wait to see him get murdered' kinda way. You get it.

Also I hope Asmodean's passive aggressive ass is in this season because the only thing better than Lanfear is Lanfear vs Asmodean: The Passive Aggressive Olympics.

[starcrossedjedis]

For the Writer (& Artist) Ask Game :

* Who was your first ever OC? Do you still “use” them? How have they evolved over time?

What are your favourite relationships between your OCs? (romantic or platonic!)

What was you first major project? How far along is it?

You have no idea how far back this old lady had to go for this xD

Who was your first ever OC? Do you still “use” them? How have they evolved over time?

My first OC ever was called Selina (FC Kristin Kreuk) for the TV show "The Tribe" - and yes I wrote her while it was on the air, so it's been a while ^^'

She was one of those "universal OCs" where I would write different fics (different plots, different LIs, some AU, some pre!Show, some completely unrelated to the shows plotline etc) for more or less the same character (same name, FC, minor tweaks regarding background). I don't know if I would say she has evolved over time, but I came to love one of her incarnations more than any other so that I only think of her when thinking "Selina, The Tribe OC".

What was you first major project? How far along is it?

(have Selina's last and most important LI for reference^^')

I'll answer this next, because it ties in directly with the last question. My first major project (as in "written only by myself, no collab etc") was the last incarnation of Selina. I had finished the pre-Tribe / prequel story "The Way to Power and Chaos" and was about midway through the second story "From the Shards of Power and Chaos" when the old fan forum died (about a year or so after the show went off the air) and the fandom kinda scattered. That left the whole project at about 70 pages and I still sometimes catch myself wondering where I might have taken it from there ^^

What are your favourite relationships between your OCs? (romantic or platonic!)

HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME PICK FAVES? T_T

My favorite romantic relationship... oof... okay... I can do this...

fandom wise Imma have to go with my children Nyka'a and Jaren from my Star Wars prequel story "Star Crossed"

as for my favourite platonic relationship, I think it's nearly impossible to beat the brother/sister dynamic between Mila Lebedev and Sam Wilson from "Breaking Pointe" <3

Don't ask me for my favesfrom my original stories though, because I can't choose T_T (the most fleshed out relationship tho is probably Alex and Caleb from "Shadow of Olympus")

[raayllum]

My god I bet you'll be the first one to hate the show once it hits the voltron downfall

i was in the vld fandom for 2.5 years and my favourite character was shiro. i don't think anyone who wasn't and who had a different fave can even begin to conceptualize the cluster fuck that was voltron. i don't think any show can even come close to the disaster that was voltron because they 1) broke every bit of their own purposefully established lore, 2) played into albeism and misogynoir to an absurd degree, and 3) did not know how to balance its ensemble cast, regularly sidelined its characters of colour to prop up a white boy's leadership arc, and by virtue of the way the story was structured, certain characters (like hunk, pidge) were completely stagnated for 6/7 and 5/7 seasons of the show because very few characters had over arching arcs and the ones that did took multiple seasons to make any real progress with.

This meant that there's very few seasons, partially due to the chopped up quality of 6-7 episodes > 13, and even then, where you can say "this character Changed." If anything stapling the seasons back together actually makes the cohesion worse planning wise, since S3 (aka where they broke the lore and when I almost quit the show) starts with Keith being made the new leader and if you include S4 in that, he leaves halfway through the season to do a completely different task. And I hated his leadership arc, but like - it's objectively poorly written, good god.

And I had a bad feeling about Voltron from episode 1 of season 2 because I felt like they weren't taking Allura's emotional continuity into account, and called every bit of bad writing S7 and S8 would have months before it happened, because those seasons were the result of 1) non sensical lore breaking and 2) scrambling for the half-assed plot to cover it up.

So TDP would have to sideline Callum and make N'than the new mage character, kill off Rayla and Ezran with zero lead up, and so much more to even come close (probably with some take of "Viren was 100% right to abuse Soren" offered completely uncritically as well). Amaya would lose all ability to be a general for no reason. Every single queer and/or disabled character would be brutally killed off/tortured repeatedly on screen. Don't even get me started on VLD's clone plotline and the druids, in which Haggar is revealed to be Altean, she and the druids practice Altean alchemy, and therefore they should also be Altean. And not only are the druids never explained, but the character who was tortured and experimented on for a year by them is passed over in fighting them to give spotlight to a character who slashes a sword at one of them one (1) time back in s1. I shit you not

AKA to give a sense of what TDP turned VLD would actually look like, please refer to this post

I would take three more season fours easily over any of that bullshit, and TDP would still be an infinitely better show than even TLOK

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axelle judges bl shows > My Ride

summary: Mork, a taxi driver, meets Tawan and the two strike a friendship that helps them get through the difficulties in their lives.

where to watch: dramacool

grade: 8,5/10

pros:

- the characters were amazing imo. usually I prefer characters who have more personality and “bite” to them than mork & tawan, but here even though they’re kinda perfect characters who are lowkey a bit boring, I still loved them so much??? I think it’s because the show really took the time to develop them, and even though personality-wise they’re not the most interesting, I feel like situation & plot-wise, they definitely are, and it made them such endearing characters that I really, really love. also I really enjoyed all of the side characters as well!

- going hand in hand with that, I absolutely love the relationship between these two. they really remind me of phunnoh from love sick who are one of my all-time fave ships, so it really says a lot! I love how they slowly grow from strangers to friends to best friends to lovers, it felt so organic & respectful. they’re also very healthy & communicate really well together, which is probably where the phunnoh comparison comes from. seeing them grow together in such an organic & healthy way truly was such a pleasure, and they really captured my heart!

- the story is basic but super compelling. I genuinely would’ve never thought this show would capture my heart as much as it did, but the writing really managed to take a pretty simple story & make it interesting, quirky & insanely endearing, which is no small feat! there wasn’t one moment where I was bored, and they even managed to make a cheating storyline bearable for me, so the writing really was great!

- the female characters aren’t demonized & actually given some depth! which... is amazing that it’s still a criteria for bl shows in 2022, but it still definitely is. I loved tawan’s best friend & their supportive relationship together, as well as the fact that she got her own love story & was pretty well developed! as for mork’s girlfriend, I loved that they gave her a redemption storyline & once again humanized her instead of trying to make her a villain.

- every ship was interesting imo! I really liked the side ship with yoon & the actor from my dream, I thought their banter was great & it was the most expressive and fun character I’ve ever seen yoon play & I highkey wish he gets more roles like this bc it suits him a lot better imo! as for tawan’s best friend & the coffee shop guy, they were cute as well :)

- gay uncles! BICKERING gay uncles!!! that’s all I have to say <3

cons:

- the boyfriend cheating part is definitely the most annoying part, but honestly even then I feel like it was handled the best it could’ve been?? like I could’ve done without that whole storyline, but it did not impede on my love for the show at all so *shrugs*

- did not LOVE the timejump at the end as I almost always do, and I didn’t LOVE the fact the fact that mork couldn’t just stay a taxi driver & had to aspire to become more specifically for tawan, but oh well. I’m truly nitpicking as this point lol.

would I rewatch it: already did it 😏

I went into this show with very low expectations, and it genuinely blew them away. For such a basic premice, it managed to have so much soul & authenticity, it’s definitely one my favorite shows of 2022 <3