#andromeda-reinvented

[satashiiwrites]

Lockdown 2023

Dear Readers,

I’m sorry to say but I’ve just had to put everything on AO3 locked to signed in users only. I apologize in advance for the inconvenience it causes.

Why am I doing this?

Well, someone decided to copy and paste pages and pages of my work and then take another person’s work and copy and paste pages of their story, change a few names here and there, add maybe a couple of sentences, steal more sentences from a third person and well….

They said to a friend who pointed out that this was wrong that it was their right to do so because it was transformative and fanfiction is inherently plagiarism anyway, so it was alright for them to use my work as well as the other two writers.

They didn’t ask me if they could borrow my words.

They didn’t credit me.

They are matching up my version/headcanon of a character with someone that’s pretty much a NOTP for me at the worst of times and a dull side character with a weird romance option at their best. I don’t go here but everyone else is more than welcome to, just leave me out of it.

One of the other writers they took from is also a dear friend. They feel terrible that they tried to be friendly and welcoming someone to a small, niche fandom where a lot of us writers all vaguely know the others either through friends or friends of friends. Their welcome was taken advantage of and that really is almost worse than having my words taken without my permission.

I get that fandom has become more permissive of things like AI and assistive writing tools. I understand that all of us are in the process of becoming better writers through our writing—but I don’t stand for taking someone else’s words, copying them into a new document and then calling them your own, not giving credit or not bothering to link to the source. To me that is plagiarism. It’s not writing your own fic. It’s not transforming it into something better.

So, I’m putting my writing in the AO3 equivalent of tamper proof packaging. My words have already been stolen and it wasn’t even by something like an AI bot. This doesn’t feel like winning to do this—it feels almost antithetical. I’ve always had a policy that if you want to leave a critique or something negative you need to have your username attached but now I’m saying you can’t read it unless you’re signed in… which yeah.

This isn’t me winning. This is me trying to protect what’s left. I suspect it’s also useless to do so, but it’s the only option I feel I have.

I apologize to those that can’t access my works anymore. Please sign up for a free AO3 account—it’s worth it for more than just my writing. You can subscribe to authors/works in progress and make bookmarks—great benefits in my opinion.

Thank you for your time and for reading this,

Satashii aka satashiiwrites, 26th of May, 2023

[satashiiwrites]

Snippet Sunday—part 1

Let’s call this part one—I’ve got a bit of two things to share. This Might be one the favorite little bits I’ve written that hasn’t been pushed out on AO3 yet and it’s from Reinventing Scott. This is the part of the fic I wrote first. It’s been mothballed for a while on my writing schedule but I’m still working on it.

Tagging @quietborderline @missanniewhimsy @muffinsandsweets @outtoshatter @tkwritesdumbassassins @monsterrae1 @scoobybuddie @kikiroo @alyxmastershipper with no pressure. I know this isn’t some of yours fandom so see snippet sunday part 2 for the family, familia, ohana stuff.

Snippet sunday banner by @radio-chatter

Title: Reinventing Scott, unknown chapter

Fandom: Mass Effect Andromeda

Pairing: MReyder

Fic summary:

Betrayed and left for dead, Scott Ryder gets to reinvent himself how he wants to be. He tried being what others wanted or expected him to be but now he’s going to make his own decisions and it starts with repaying a life for a life. 

They say if you save someone’s life you’re now responsible for them. Scott would argue he owes his rescuer the rest of his life not that they need to watch over him. 

Scott’s second life ends on Eos. His third belongs to Reyes Vidal.

Tags/warnings: first draft—grammerly hasn’t seen this. Fic is NOT Cora friendly. Alternative Universe as Scott gets yeeted out of the Pathfinder team in chapter 1. Alec Ryder’s A+++ parenting skills at work in this fic.

He’d been reborn in the desert and found by his destiny. 

Reinvented. 

Reincarnated. 

Remade. 

The Scott who’d been shoved into the Pathfinder role had disappeared the day that Cora had smashed his connection to SAM.

He found he had no desire to go back to that life that had been forced upon him.  Reyes had given him only choices—asked if he wanted to do things but never assumed. 

Scott chose him. 

Chose Reyes. 

And now Reyes was telling him that he owed him nothing—that he had no desire to just use Scott for his body or his abilities. The way Reyes’ fingers had curled around him to keep him close in direct opposition from his words pushing Scott away. 

Reyes wanted him.  

Desired him—just as much as Scott wanted him. 

The confirmation caused a rushing high to flow through him and he was wrapping himself around Reyes before he could think, their mouths connecting as he pressed forward. 

[undead-potatoes]

I've been informed that this technology apparently came from FIFA of all places, which is just so funny. The football guys figured out the hair and now Bioware is copying their homework (as they should)

I've snuck a few glances of people's Rooks now (a risky move, but I've not been spoiled so far), and the first thing that struck me is how nice the hair looks? I'm not sure if it's the lighting or the style or what, but the hair just looks so soft and fine and might genuinely be the best hair in a video game I've seen in a good while? From a Bioware game??? Wonders never cease

[amorphousbl0b]

Something fascinating about Perseus is that his famous journey is a stitching-together of two separate myths.

First he kills Medusa, then on the way back he takes a random diversion to slay a Ketos and rescue Andromeda. This is hardly unusual for Greek stories, which often feature random diversions, but what interested me is that both seem to actually be explanations for things rather than the usual “a hero killed a monster here and that’s why these particular random crossroads are cool and important” formula these things follow.

First, the story of Perseus and Medusa is connected to the image of the Gorgon, a heavily widespread artistic motif. The gorgoneia are hideous heads that adorn architecture, shields, and coins all over Archaic and Classical Greece. They seem to have served a similar function to gargoyles in Christian myth, driving off evil spirits with their fearsome visage. And Perseus cutting the head from Medusa was the tale of how that icon came to be. Well, that might be a bit backwards: the story would’ve been around for quite a while during the Dark Age before it was written down in the 7th century BCE, around the time those gorgoneia started appearing.

Andromeda is entirely unconnected to this except by the single thread of Perseus himself. This is epitomized, in my opinion, by the recurring indecision over whether Perseus killed the ketos with his sword or with Medusa’s head. Did he even have Medusa’s head in the early tellings of the story? Were they connected later? Because what’s interesting about the story of Perseus, Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Cetus, is that you might recognize all of those names from the stars. Every single character in this myth was a constellation!

Except Phineas, screw him I guess.

Of note, none of the characters from the Medusa adventure are constellations. Not Danaë or Polydectes or Dictys or Medusa herself, all of whom were much more important to Perseus’s life than Cepheus who did absolutely nothing even in the one story where he matters. Unlike Heracles, whose whole life is an extended constellation myth, Perseus has this one incident, but it’s a dense one, producing five whole star formations from a single monster fight.

It’s hard to figure out when and from what this would’ve arisen, given all these transformations happened during the Dark Age before the reinvention of writing. Nonetheless, this is a great example of the evolution that I find incredibly compelling about studying mythology. Every tale has its seams, stitches haphazard or clean, reminders that this was a living culture and all of these stories we might fall into the trap of treating as fun fictions with quirky characters were as real as any of our modern religious texts and histories.

[adarkrainbow]

Hello! Love your ogre research, first of all. So something weird here, in my English translation of Ariosto the monster that threatens Angelica (the orca) is translated as “sea orc”, and the blind ogre who acts like Polyphemus (the orco) is translated as “land orc”. (And by extension “sea orc” evolved into a dragony thing in some modern fantasy books). Any idea why that happened instead of just calling them “orca” and “ogre” or something?

Ah yes the Orlando Furioso. I meant to include this in my big "What makes an ogre" series but never got the time.

So... I have to admit I am not an expert on Italian language, especially old fashioned Italian language, and I also am no expert on the full Orlando Furioso (it is a very complex work I only got started on recently). But here's the thing...

It is well-known that the Orlando Furioso was put together by taking elements of Greco-Roman mythology and reinventing them completely. The Orco and Orca are this. The Orco is basically Polyphemus reinvented - but here with two eyeballs made of bone instead of one eye promptly gouged out. The Orca meanwhile is the sea-dragon of the Andromeda story given a new name. So far so good.

But "Orca" is not meant to evoke the sea animal of the same name, the "killer whale", and that's something everybody has to remind people of (even the Wikipedia article for the Orca in Italian points out it is NOT the "orca" as in the sea creature). Orca is used here as the male form of "orco" - and the "orco" is indeed the same name of creature used by Basile to designate his proto-ogres. The "uercos", which is just "orcos" spelled differently.

So should we translated "Orco" as "ogre" and "Orca" as "ogress"? Well... No, it wouldn't work. At least for the Orco it can work since he sports typical ogre traits and DID influence the rise of the ogre figure in France (I don't think it is a random choice if madame d'Aulnoy's ogres are cyclops). But the Orca clearly isn't the same kind of creature - it is a sea dragon, or a sea monster, or some big sea snake. So this hints at the fact that "orco/orca" doesn't actually translated, in the context of the Orlando, as "ogre"...

You see, by Basile's Pentamerone, the "orco" is clearly an "ogre" in the fairytale sense of the word - though some English translators decided to go for "ghoul" because they didn't understand why an ogre would have magical powers, unaware that ogres were originally sorcerers/fairies of their own rights. They preferred to evoke the shapeshifting Arabian demons, allowing for an easier explanation of "Oh yes the ogre turns into all sorts of animals and curses people when it can't eat them".

[Note: As I write this I realized "orchi" is apparently the plural of "orco"? Well... I'll keep calling them "orcos" for now, but another proof I am not expert when it comes to these things]

But the author of the Orlando Furioso seems to have had a different and more ancient meaning in head for "orco". If you ask me, what seems very likely (though I am no expert) is that "orco"/"orca" is here taken as meaning "man-eating monster". Not just a fairytale ogre, but any kind of creature that wants to devour human beings. As a result the "orco" is an ogre-like giant, while the orca is a sea monster-dragon. "Orco/a" is used in the same broad sense as how "fairy" could be used in the British Isles to refer to all sorts of creatures, or yokai in Japan - or at least, that's what it seems to me. This is probably why the translator chose to prefer the term "orc", more neutral and evoking the older roots and mysterious figures behind the word "orc" before Tolkien made it famous. Calling the sea creature "orca" feeds the confusion with the killer whale ; while calling the land monster "ogre" might remove the idea that he is another form of the sea creature met earlier. One could keep the cohesion by having "ogre / ogress" but it would be mistranslating to call the sea monster "ogress" when it is clearly not just a female version of the land creature. So ultimately I think this is why the terms "sea orc" and "land orc" were chosen - it keeps the unity, while pointing out that the term does not designate a specific type of being, more a large class of man-eating beings. You could easily go with "sea monster" and "land monster" too.

At least that's how I perceive things - but again I am NO expert and any actual Italian insight on this topic would be more than welcome.

[sapphim]

So I've heard about how mod-unfriendly Dragon Age Inquisition is (to the point that even changing walk animations isn't a thing I've heard of people doing). Do you think the developers do that on purpose, or was that an unfortunate side-effect of EA forcing Bioware to use Frostbite (which wasn't made for action RPGs, but shooters of all things)?

I can't imagine DAI was easy to develop, especially considering how weird everything is under the hood (like how changing skin tints might result in only a character's head changing), and the game being rushed. It's a miracle the game even got made in the first place, to be honest, considering all the limitations.

In the same way that the mod friendliness of the Eclipse engine is a direct result of it being developed for roleplaying games with player-created expansions in mind, the mod unfriendliness of the Frostbite engine is the result of it being developed for multiplayer shooters.

(Making something mod friendly is an active and not neutral state. You have to make that choice and commit development resources to making it so, and you have to do so right from the start. It can't be tacked on later on a whim.)

I know the talking point is that EA forced their studios to switch to Frostbite but the word from Bioware is that they would have needed to switch to an engine with more modern capabilities regardless and the choice to switch to Frostbite was made in-house for various reasons, including cost.

There were a multitude of problems coming from the top down that troubled development of Inquisition and Andromeda. More has been said on the failure of Andromeda because it failed so spectacularly (that article features a lot of quotes from the devs on the experience of working with Frostbite btw) but one of the more notable problems was not simply that the developers had to create the tools necessary to handle the required RPG subsystems (which is not in and of itself a problem! engines aren't born capable of everything, and this was meant to be faster and cheaper than creating their own engine from scratch like they'd done before) but that because of the way the development timeframes on Inquisition and Andromeda overlapped, both teams had to independently reinvent the wheel on a lot of systems, rather than be able to benefit from each other's work.

That said a lot of the specific things you're noting don't indicate that Frostbite is mod unfriendly. They're just weird quirks of how things happened to be implemented. Eclipse has those things too. Hell, changing a character's skin tint in DA2 may result in only their head changing as well! And although DA2 wasn't built with mod support in mind the way Neverwinter Nights or Origins were (and they quite frankly couldn't with the time and money they were given) that's not a condemnation of the engine. The things that make Frostbite mod unfriendly (as opposed to mod neutral) are the ones you don't see, under the hood. Hell, I can't see those things either, I just have to take it on the word of the developers who created the modding tools.

[evesaintyves]

989 words, for @remadoramicrofics prompt "haunted."

Read it below or on AO3 🎸

Tonks's old bedroom floor is a mess of rumpled t-shirts and her rattiest underpants. Five days since Remus took off his ring, knotted the strings on his traveling case, and told her he'd made a terrible error. All she's done is sleep. She dozed off on the macrame throw pillow and it left a crisscross red rash on her cheek, went downstairs before she noticed, and her Dad gasped, "Dora?" 

She just fled back upstairs without breakfast.

It's not even her throw pillow. Mum has snuck them in her old room sometime since she's been gone. Other things, too, an elegant white bowl to hold all the knuts and plastic hair clips and ticket stubs that were scattered across her chest of drawers. Mum's things, minimal and clean, make Tonks's stuff, the fairy lights and the thrashing band posters, seem like they're trying too hard. It's just like her last year at school, the stress-cracking of all the faultlines between who she is and who she is supposed to be. She was constantly reinventing herself back then—a new chin, a chelsea cut, a ring in her eyebrow. But she's not the only one in charge of her body anymore. It's making decisions without her.

And it's so shit to want Remus here to settle behind her on her squeaky old bed, tuck his bony knees into the parenthesis of her legs, stroke his skinny fingers up her arm and say, like he does, that he's sorry—but at the same time to want to scream at him so hard he vapourizes into a fine red mist.

In the afternoon, her mother does her two-tap no-time-to-pull-your-knickers-up knock and comes in with cups of tea.

"Your father tells me you've been looking ill."

"I'm not."

Andromeda sits on the side of the bed.

"You were a terrible pregnancy," she says. "I'd have sworn you were trying to fight me from the inside."

Tonks pulls her knees to her chest. "This one's a scrapper. I can tell already."

Andromeda smiles into her cup.

Tender moments have a way of making Tonks show her belly. Her mother doesn't say much, just sits and keeps her company, and before long Tonks is compelled to overshare. That she isn't even sure Remus ever really loved her, but maybe loved an idea of her that she led him on into believing while they were still just awkwardly clicking teeth in stolen moments at headquarters; an idea worn smooth and shiny by those months they were apart.

Almost as soon as she married him she was up the duff and puking, breaking out in spots faster than she could morph them away. Still having dreams that Sirius was just tilting on his heels—suspended in the moment he might have been saved—waking up choking. Remus seemed perturbed that she could spend hours staring at the telly, not watching, just trying to shush the noise in her head. It seems so stupid now, but she'd really thought that he, of all people, would understand.

"My mother used to tell me," Andromeda says, "that I'd better stop all my moping about, that men don't care for girls who brood. And that I'd never get married and out of her hair, acting that way."

"What did you say?"

"I didn't say anything. I made a plan and then I climbed out my window in the middle of the night. Your father picked me up in his old car and took me to his parents' flat—you know the story. Let me tell you, Nymphadora—" She pins Tonks with a look. "—how much brooding I did in his old bedroom. I was a wreck. The room smelt of some horrible potion he used on his model railway. The carpet crunched underfoot. And I was worried about what was going to happen to—to some of the people I left. I was crying every night. Waiting until your grandparents left for work in the morning to creep into the kitchen like a ghoul. I had..." She pulls her posture up straight. "Difficulty adjusting, at first."

Tonks's throat is getting tight, and tears are needling the rims of her eyes. It's not just that she's grabbed for that kind of love story and missed; it's also that her mother never talks to her like this—spilling the way Tonks sometimes does, talking fast, saying things she probably shouldn't. It makes the world feel all the more unfixably cracked.

"Dad—Was Dad...?" Tonks can't even finish, her voice is cracking and squeaking. She curls forward and hides her face in her mother's sleeve.

"He'd lie with me—and touch my hair. He used to tell me if I didn't eat I'd disappear and it was going to be very difficult to explain to the officiant why he had an invisible bride."

She says it gently, sadly, as if she knows what it'll do to Tonks, and she's right. It's full waterworks now, the type Tonks has always sworn she wasn't going to do over a bloke. It's coming out her eyes and nose, it's thick and salty in her mouth, it's getting all over her mum's silk blouse. She's going to hate that. Tonks flops back against her pillows, sniffling, wiping her face with her palms, automatically morphing the puffiness out of her eyelids.

Her mother turns to inspect the shiny web of snot Tonks has left on her sleeve. Her face gets that pinched, long-suffering look for just an instant. Then she takes Tonks's empty cup of tea and stacks it in her own, and tucks Tonks's feral bedhead back behind each ear with her cool fingers.

"Supper's at seven," she says. "Your father's trying out a lasagna."

She shuts the door behind her when she goes, and it's just Tonks and the frenzy of the rock bands on her walls: forever joyfully flailing, forever faithful to their own silent beat.

image: egon schiele, woman lying on her back

[andromeda--system]

hey for all our mutuals, our blog used to be fuit--gummy but is now andromeda--system on account of us wanting to reinvent our internet persona to not just be a jojo meme. the banner is staying the same tho, that shit slaps.

[rustingcat]

My mass effect 3 thoughts!

Mass effect 3 is the perfect example of consequences and continuation of a series. While mass effect 2 somewhat diverted in stracture and story from the first one (mainly because they needed to reinvent a lot of mechanics as the old ones were really out dated), but its story felt disconnected from the first one in many ways. I can't blame it really, it wanted to give bigger depth to characters and to explore more in regard to the lore of the world, but it still felt a bit too high of a jump.

Mass effect 3, on the ither hand, was build on top of everything that was established and used that as its base, using every setup the previous entery left it, and executed it beautifully. You have many unique interactions and story beats with characters you saved and connected with 2 games ago that enriched the world so much and made each one feel special. I can't think of many games that ever managed anything like that.

The mechanics are, of course, greatly improved. I can run! Like properly run! It's amazing! There's also fewer meaningless planet scannings, and overall, it feels more fun to play.

I think this game has the best cohisivness when it comes to side mission plots. They feel much more interesting and connected to the main plot as a whole than previous games. Also, as a bonus, this game has some amazing DLC content, with the citadel DLC being probably the best mission to play in the entire trilogy! It was a love letter for the franchise in every possible way. Just dont make my mistake and accidentally start it as soon as you get it, this is the kind of missions that want to play right before the end (I would highly recommend checking the names of those mission just to make sure).

The relationship with your crewmates is also far more dynamic. They can be found in different places on the ship or on the citadel, often with unique dialogues and interaction either with you or with another character.

I felt like the main story woreked better overall than the second one, continuing and interwining the choices and reletionship carried over from the previous games. It was the perfect conclusions to this serious all the way. Well, up until the very very end. I knew the ending was mixed, but I didn't expect it to come so late.

I have so much to say about it, but I also don't want to spoil anything! So if you're interest to hear my thoughts, feel free to dm me.

I felt like the combat was utilised way more in this game than the others. I could be wrong, but that's just what I felt. I definitely reached the point when it got repetative and boring. There was a larger selection of weapons and mods to pick from, but if it wasn't a sniper, I didn't care.

In conclusion, I'd say that it was an epic conclusion to this trilogy and more than worth your time. (Especially the citadel DLC.) The series as a whole is amazing, and if you hadn't played it, I recommend giving it a try.

Out of the three games I think I still like the main story of the first one the best, it felt the most cohesive and natural with enough mystery to keep you intrigued (despite the very dated game mechanics). The second game really raised the bar when it came to consequences, and dove much deeper into the characters' lore, and I also feel like had the best atmosphere and variaty of mission typs. But the third one had the best interactivity when it came to the relationship with your crew mates, best consistency of combining main story and side mission and of course the value of your choises from all the previous games.

I'm very glad I played this trilogy. Thank you to everyone who pushed me to continue after the first game! Is Andromeda worth playing? Had anyone actually played it?

[grimdarkfandango]

Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

got tagged in an ask meme by @saltedpin thank you!!! I love oversharing on the internet!!!

3 Ships you like: god. okay. be cruel then.

Winter/Kitten - yes we're leading with OCs deal with it SOMETIMES you take a beloved archetype pairing, reshape them like silly putty, put them in separate dnd games, and spend four years running continuous RP with a partner in multiple different au variations because they are perfect actually (shout out to @andromeda-reinvented for literally keeping me sane and fed :prayer emoji:)

Kitten is my husband and also my phone lockscreen and has never done anything wrong in his life (the murders are fine)

Songxue - this is the wizard behind the curtain of winter/kitten, but they are different for all that they're the same. otherwise, uh. see above for all other applicable details lmao

Endhawks - the DRAMA the DILFYNESS the LEGEND look all of my pairings need a certain level of unhealthy devotion and self-sacrifice and not to spoil the current manga chapters for anyone but [blood seeps from my mouth as I start screeching incoherently] anyway yeah big man hot little guy feral

Ganlink - hey riley why are you putting an unnecessary fourth pairing, did you think we weren't already very clearly aware of your type here. no. okay. sure. big man hot little guy feral!!!!!

First Ship Ever: oh god bro I don't know if I have the memory details for that. the first ships I remember going and reading fic for were bandom (*nsync, JC/Lance, yes you heard me) or probably good old gundam wing 1x2, despite having seen approximately none of the show lmao

Last song you heard: Nightmares by the sea - jeff buckley when I started / The life I was missing - flannel graph when I finished (all off my Winter playlist. it's 12hrs long)

Favourite childhood book: I was one of those advanced reader kids who turned up my nose at kids books and for many years almost exclusively read sf/f off dad's bookshelf, which is a long way of saying it was the full ten book run of the belgariad and the mallorean, which I would reread twice a year between the ages of 9-16

is it my favourite now? god no. but I cannot deny what shaped me

Currently Reading: I just started the first Dragonlance book so, I guess, some things don't change

Currently Watching: everything currently airing on Dropout, also The Expanse (finally)(slowly)(I like it too much to binge I think)

Currently Craving: D I N N E R

Tagging: HMMMM ok @andromeda-reinvented, @bigneonglitter, @oldcoyote, @prairie-grass, and anyone else who wants to just say I tagged u!!!

[magdalyna]

tagged by @sparklingbinjuice

rules: put the "on repeat playlist" on shuffle and share the top ten results, then tag ten people to do the same! Thank you for the tag!

Alpha Zulu by Phoenix

Foundations of Decay by My Chemical Romance

Monsters by All Time Low ft Blackbear

The Last Of The Real Ones by Fall Out Boy

Lane Boy by 21 Pilots

Happy Face by Jagwar Twin

Synchronize by Milky Chance

I Feel Like I'm Drowning by Two Feet

Bones by Imagine Dragons

Boy Division by My Chemical Romance

Tagging: @fans-on-the-run @waxjism @stele3 @idyllspace @laughingfishandr @andromeda-reinvented @dreamfaerye @dirtydirtychai @this-onegoes @sinsensory

[satashiiwrites]

RULES: Post the names of all the files in your WIP list, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it. And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Tagged by @westernlarch. Thanks for the tag, babe.

Ooooh boy. I am not tagging as many people as i have wip files. This is an ongoing problem and some of these aren’t more than a few sentences i threw on a document so i wouldn’t lose them.

Choices and Regrets (I almost titled this one Choices and Regerts on purpose. The alternative title that is very misleading was ‘the buckaroo switcheroo’). This is my NaNoWriMo/November 2023 Rough trade project.

Family, Familia, ‘Ohana, ch 7-15ish. I’m pretty sure most of y’all know this one.

Alley with a View

Stay

Home Found (Big Moxie December 2023)

Breaking Up In Furniture Mart

Arrival in Andromeda

Reinventing Scott

An All Time High

Reunion

Jack Carter, Wrangler of Starks

Christmas For Cowboys

Afterthoughts

To Be Known

Mana’olana

The First Spectre

Recurrence

Mafia AU

Your Guide to Andromeda

Westworld MReyder

Genetic Manipulation MReyder

Cop!Reyes Firefigher!Scott

MReyder Medical AU

Outlaw/Cartel Boss (aka The Outlaw and the Cartel Boss)

Cassandra!Reyes

The Marks We Leave On One Another

Cousin Harvey

Death, Rebirth and the Jackal

Heat Wave

What Happens in Vegas

Royalty/Fantasy AU

Blank 15

Random Scenes

Blank 14

Blank 21

To Follow

Ellen Ryder fic

To Catch a Fallen Star

Shipwrecked

Andromeda 5-0

Eddie Angst Discard

The Mask of the Charlatan

I think that’s all? I have a bunch of blank numbered ones which are usually just discarded paragraphs from other fics i didn’t want to get rid of (usually because i thought i was being too clever with some line or something).

Tagging @quietborderline @outtoshatter @elisela @tkwritesdumbassassins @rosieposiepuddingnpie @monsterrae1 @whimsyswastry @missanniewhimsy with no obligation. This is all for fun. If you wanna participate and i didn’t tag you, feel free to tag and go wild.

[opinions-about-tiaras]

Did discover really get good? If I hated seasons 1 and 2 (but loved the characters!), will I enjoy seasons 3 onward?

Hoo boy. Okay. That's... a question.

So Discovery deserves a modicum of credit; they realized what they were doing was... not working, and that they needed to either stop, or completely reinvent themselves. They elected for the latter.

The most concise way of describing seasons three onward comes from @abigailnussbaum, who has said that "they basically decided to just make Andromeda."

And they did that, and it works SIGNIFICANTLY better than the first two seasons did.

However, I still wouldn't call it good, because the premise they went with is in the Picard family of bullshit; namely, "what if we destroy the Federation in a completely contrived, nonsensical way that clearly only exists so that Our Heroes can pick up the pieces and put it back together to demonstrate how awesome they are."

If you can get past that, S3 onward can actually be called good. They really get their shit together. However, I cannot. Discovery hasn't EARNED the privilege of its cast being able to carry along a storyline of that magnitude, in the same way, for example, that Captain goddamn Archer hadn't earned the privilege of carrying Surak's fucking katra.

[grimdarkfandango]

oh this is going to expose some things about my listening habits lately, thank you @andromeda-reinvented

rules: put the "on repeat playlist" on shuffle and share the top ten results, then tag ten people to do the same!

Hard - SHINee

Unknown/Nth - Hozier

Drowning - WOODZ

Emotion Sickness - QOTSA

Carnavoyeeur - QOTSA

Sector 1 - ATEEZ

People Pt. 2 - Agust D, IU

Fallin’ Flower (Korean Ver.) - Seventeen

Insomnia - SHINee

Identity - SHINee

LOOK my kpop playlist has been on repeat and QOTSA have a new album I can’t be held responsible for any of my actions. Tagging anyone who sees and wants to do it, and @takemeup2space and @master-tonberry since most of this list is really their fault <3

[flightyquinn]

There is exactly one case where I call "forced diversity" on a fictional setting, and that is when the writer is just being painfully unsubtle.

That's what takes me out of my fantasy. Hamfisted writing. Not just overt mentions of social issues either. I'm mean when the dialogue makes you go, "Who the hell talks like that?" or "That was kind of a lot to dump on someone you've known for all of this one conversation."

Like the character in Mass Effect Andromeda who, from the first time you talk to her, will reveal not just that she is a transwoman who came to the far frontier of space to reinvent herself, but also her deadname. That's pretty damn forced. She was specifically trying to get away from people who knew the old her, but she'll tell you upon your first meeting? That's, "we need players to know we included diversity, but we don't want to waste resources on having to actually get to know the characters before they'll admit personal details about themselves."

That's my standard. Is what the character is saying situationally appropriate? Does it break the fourth wall? Does it sound natural?

(Oh, and regarding the person who said they couldn't perform surgery? Incorrect. You'll find that many ancient peoples had surprisingly advanced knowledge of surgery. They might not have been doing organ transplants, but there's evidence of "primitive" civilizations doing surgery using anesthetic and taking measures to prevent infection. The "Edwin Smith Papyrus", for instance, is a 1600 BC treatise on surgical treatment of trauma - including spinal and head injuries, and gynaecology.)

[aparticularbandit]

I looked at thecreaminhiscoffee (the archive blog) and Jessica seemed to have ships with both Andromeda Tonks and Andromeda Delmona. Are they the same character, or different characters who share a first name?

Same writer, roughly the same character.

I wrote Jess as an RP blog, and you'll find it on Jess, too, how I had modern verses that took Jess and reinvented her for different purposes - if she was in the HP universe (I know she was a Slytherin; I think she was a halfblood?), one of her main ships with Alana was Journey-verse, which was a modern AU (where she was a teenage runaway, taken in by Bedelia, and then joined a band) - Andromeda Delmona was initially (if I remember correctly) a reimagining of Andromeda Tonks that built until she became Ducky's own OC. (She and a similar reimagining of Evanora from Oz, the Great and Powerful were twins - Jess had a ship with Evanora, too, on one of those blogs. Same writer!)

So. Yes and no? Ish?