#askbox meme replies

[queerbauten]

for fandom discourse meme: neubauten

"Tell me a fandom you know I’m involved with and I’ll tell you my least favourite bit of discourse associated with that fandom"

(Note: "you" here means people in general, not you specifically, OP.)

I would love, well and truly, to have a more original and interesting answer than "the Blixa's gender/pronouns discourse", but... the Blixa's gender/pronouns discourse. I say that knowing I helped instigate the latter portion of that discourse. It's just tiring. For one, if Blixa really cared about not being seen as nonbinary, xe would have disavowed "Seven Screws" ages ago. Xe would have disavowed Tabula Rasa ages ago. Xe would have disavowed "Seele brennt" ages ago. For another, as far as pronouns go... either believe me about them or don't. It really does not matter. Blixa does not care if people use he/him for him. Xe also does not care if you use any other set of pronouns for xem. (Personally, I favour xe/xem and she/her for xem because of reasons—and yes, I have addressed Blixa with xe/xem, and xe was totally fine with it. Again, yes, you will have to take my word for it—it's up to you if you do or don't.) If me using pronouns other than he/him for Blixa bothers you, just block me. It's so easy to block me! You are not personally protecting Blixa from ✨the crazy genderists✨ by bugging me about it.

(Aside: Tabula Rasa has so much gender going on)

[write-it-motherfuckers]

what if we replace fuck marry kill with hug adopt slap for underage characters. better version

How about hug, adopt, therapy? H.A.T for short

[library-seraph]

homestuck or dunmeshi & 6 >:)

Kanaya, in Colour palette 6: Shy

(This probably would've been a better Rose palette, but never let it be said I like to make things easy for myself)

[brynnmclean]

hi Brynn!! if you feel like it, no pressure :) 💬 ❤️

Stitch!!! Hello there!!! :D Thank you, friend!

For 💬 I'll pull from the Forge chapter in fell in love with the fire:

“Did Curumo tell you where I was?” Mairon asks finally, and watches Aulë’s mouth twist beneath his beard into half of a smile. “Yes, but I spoke with Ulmo first. It made sense for you to have gone to the Sea and to stay in Alqualondë.” He must catch Mairon’s bewilderment even at a half-glance because he nods again, solemnly. “I know you go to the shore when you are upset. You have since Almaren.” Almaren. Almaren. “Oh, you noticed?” Mairon says, fury flaring so sudden it leaves him reeling. “And what is it that upset me this time, I wonder? Could it have been the Great Enemy that walked in through the door?” The air around Aulë ripples with heat, but he is otherwise unmoved. “Melkor served his sentence. He is welcome in Valmar and is kept under the watchful eye of all of us.” Mairon grips the edge of the table at his back and bares his teeth. “Why was he allowed in here? He has no craft, he can make nothing. He only—” Pinned Mairon to a wall, pressed a heavy hand on his chest, and crooned in his ear a mouthful of lies that still echo in the sweet, sickening dark: I see you, I know what you crave, I will make you a king at my side, you will build such wonderful things for me, my bright thing— “He brings ruin. He should not be here.” Aulë’s fingers run over a bend in the tilkal, calluses rasping along the surface. “We must obey the judgment of Manwë,” he says. “We who defend authority against rebellion must not ourselves rebel. And I have also erred in the past and gone against the will of the One. Repentance and redemption is possible.”

There is SO MUCH that Aulë and Mairon don't talk about, and little bits and pieces are finally coming out in this chapter, but there are still underlying things that aren't voiced. I had Aulë work with tilkal very intentionally-- it's the metal that the chain that bound Melkor was made of. I like the thought that even though Aulë has to obey Manwë's judgment and in some part agrees with it-- at least the possibility of Melkor's repentance being true-- there is a part of him that is disquieted enough that he is working with a metal that he knows has bound Melkor before. Of course Mairon is too distressed to recognize that.

For the ❤️, keeping to the subject of Mairon and Aulë just a little, I went back to an end to bitter frosts and found this section in chapter 9 and even though it's long, I couldn't bear to cut any of it out!

Durin grunts. “Never trust an Elf to build something that lasts,” he tells Halbrand. “Dwarves build to endure. Elves are far too fond of rebuilding to have learnt to make things that last.” An unfair retelling of the lost kingdoms of Beleriand. “Elves are more used to their cities falling to ruin,” Halbrand says diplomatically. The king eyes him narrowly, but only says, “Dwarven kingdoms do not fall to ruin.” “All things come to ruin when they are abandoned,” Halbrand says, thinking of Nogrod and Belegost, the Dwarven realms of the First Age. They survived the drowning of Beleriand, but their peoples left them anyway, journeying east to Khazad-dûm and beyond.  “There’s a difference between outgrowing something and abandoning it,” Durin says peevishly. “You’re old enough to have learnt that by now.” Halbrand considers this. “There’s a semantic difference, perhaps. I’m not sure there’s a difference in effect, though. Motive doesn’t change the fact that you’ve been abandoned.” Durin looks at him sharply, his eyes seeing far more than Halbrand would like them to do. “Perhaps not,” he says slowly. “But understanding motives can help you recover from abandonment. Particularly if it wasn’t about you at all.” “That’s worse,” Halbrand says before he can think better of it. “That just means you didn’t matter.” Durin is quiet for a long moment. “Wounds to the spirit cut deep,” he says at last, “and they heal but slowly. I cannot speak to your past, Sindri. But Khazad-dûm will not abandon you—not unless you abandon us first.” As comforts go, it’s hollow. Why must everyone set conditions on their commitment? Shouldn’t commitment be unconditional? His commitment to the Khazâd, to Galadriel, is unconditional. To Galadriel especially—she could do nothing that would turn him from her. She could turn from him—she could betray him to the host of the Valar—she could kill this fana—he would still love her, still be loyal to her, still seek to advance her ends even from the other side of the world. She wants a better world; he would forge one for her, even if she would not admit him to it.  He might resort to armies and sieges and battering rams to stand at her side again—but he would not turn from her, as she has made clear she will turn from him if he breaks their accord.  “All relationships are conditional,” the king says, the words too close to Halbrand’s thoughts for comfort. “Everyone has limits—things they cannot tolerate. I’m sure you do, too.” Halbrand shakes his head.  “You left Mahal’s forge,” Durin points out, almost gently. “Was that not an abandonment?” Left is such a bland euphemism for what had happened. He had fled; he had been driven out. But he had been abandoned first.  But what good would it do to say that to the descendent of Durin the Deathless, Aulë’s most beloved student, a Dwarf whose people still revere Aulë as Lord of Making and their creator, whose alliance with him and Galadriel is founded in large part on their shared connection to Aulë? There is no advantage to saying any of this.  He says nothing.  Durin nods, as though this confirms something, and likewise keeps his silence.

I still adore that fic as a whole and how you write Halbrand in general-- calculating and slowly (reluctantly, I might even say!) learning from past mistakes. I can't say I'm the biggest fan of Durin III as a character in Rings of Power but I LOVE how you write the interactions between him and Halbrand in your fic and this scene in particular is fascinating-- the insight that Durin has on Halbrand, even as Halbrand doesn't seem to realize it. And you know I'm ravenous for any mention of the relationship between Halbrand and Aulë!!!!!

[ask me about fic quotes!] 

[the-trinket-witch]

🌹 for Albert and Ellis methinks! What dastardly things will they get up to!

(Outfit meme)

Maybe less Dastardly, more Swashbuckly?

[st-just]

From the "50 questions just because" list:

Do you have any keychains on your home or car keys? Describe them!

The one I actually use I got for christmass from an aunt forever ago and haven't really bothered to swap out since - just a novelty bottle opener in the shape of one of those big old timey keys.

[angelicgentleman]

🔥

I believe this was the unpopular opinion meme; correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't have that many unpopular opinions to share, I already voiced the "controversial creek take" multiple times and I don't want to anymore.

So, how about this.

The Internet used to be much more... Chill. If someone didn't like the things you did, they would block you and move on. Callouts were rarer and usually only for an actual reason and not because you shipped something 'icky'. Dramas were usually resolved in private, and everyone just went on about their business. It was fun, you didn't have to tiptoe your way around everyone, and I'm only talking about time a decade ago. The biggest insult someone could throw at you back then was calling your OTP a NOTP.

[p-pamda]

oh?? gamedev arc?? maybe one day make nano game...? 👀

gonna be honest and admit that when i started I haven't thought of it, BUT then remembered that Nano was gonna be first a game when I was 8-10, went to comic since I saw the game thing too difficult to be real. I still do-!

i've put thought into it, and Nano is my STUPID baby. I think i would like to (in the good case that I can actually one day put two pieces of code together lmao) Do smaller games first, to build up my skills, to be able to make the idea I want true.

Im reading a lot of shit already and trying to learn math(skull emoji) I got a BIG list of lil projects to work on already-! Silly ideas that i keep rounding up the more i learn!Its fun

If my brain allows it, Nano game, will be a yes (I can dream) But first others will come, and I hope yall enjoy them aswell-!<3 I'll be sharing more about them when I can finally put things together by myself-!

But for now, theyre all just thought bubbles that I keep getting excited to share with everyone one day!

[queerbauten]

🎧

Neuronen neu gekoppelt Fingerspitzengefühl Hypothalamus berührt ganz sanft

"Die Sonne" — Gudrun Gut & Blixa Bargeld

[write-it-motherfuckers]

From going through your fmk tag, I've learned that you definitely have a type and it's definitely large men with long(possibly fluffy) hair.

Shhhhhh! It wasn't a secret but shhhhhh!

[antihibikase-archive]

Been busy for weeks due to personal matters + school but :] As always, I'll answer dms in both here and in tumblr and am more than willing to talk! I just don't have much to post rn outside of the occasional little things

[brynnmclean]

i think about this passage from cast some light verse all the time:

“Do you prefer that? Some people don’t want to be touched.”

Jyn’s shoulders curve inward and she shakes her head, but after a moment, adds very quietly, “I don’t know. I didn’t trust anyone back then.”

She rolls over to face Cassian, face twisted into a frown. She brushes her fingertips along his cheekbone down to his lips, the ghost of a kiss. Cassian studies how the dim light catches in her eyes like a decision beginning to grow.

Aw, thank you. I feel very tender toward that fic still! It makes me really happy knowing it's still read and enjoyed. Thank you for sharing this with me!

[Anonymously - or not - tell me what passage, fic, line of narration, or anything you remember me by as a writer.]

[sharky857]

Awakening, Chimera Prologue, and The Maker for your Tenno! 👀

-grineerios

Awakening:

For Tenno: What was their first Warframe? Momo's starter was "Excalibaby", but her original Warframe up until the Old War was an Oberon Prime. Which also explains why she instantly clicked just right with another Oberon Prime (Y'van), after her own awakening. For Warframes: What is their earliest memory? Y'van's earliest memory after recovering self-awareness was probably a clawed, not very human-looking hand covered in blood. The poor Oberon Prime spooked himself when he realised that the hand was his, and the blood from someone else (at that time he was taking up on a mission in a Grineer galleon with Momo; pretty easy to guess whose blood that was). For Non-Tenno: How have they dealt with the sudden return of the Tenno?

Chimera Prologue

Does your character ever feel othered by society? If so, how do they deal with it?

Momo doesn't really feel othered, at least at the current time. She's just one of the many Tenno going about her own Tenno business to keep the Origin system safe.

The Maker

How does your character view the Orokin? Positively? Negatively? Why?

Momo has very mixed feelings. She used to loathe the Orokin with a(n implied) passion, until the Entrati family came along. It was a bit of a bumpy start, but the more they got to know each other, the nicer they seemed to get.

[eliasdrid]

Song rec: "Heavy is the Crown" by Daughtry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PPjXHC_NkU&pp=ygUSaGVhdnkgaXMgdGhlIGNyb3du

Heavy is the Crown - Daughtry

-> it's okay

I really liked the initial instrumental build up and there's other really nice instrumental bits, I may check it out again later but the vocals+lyrics aren't clicking with me much at this moment

[st-just]

🍓

You have generally excellent opinions on books and video games, and also I admire the dedication and passion you have when it comes to hating astrology.

[kikiyo]

idk if there's a prompt for it but should anyone have any character development q's or little anon things etc please know i am always eagerly happily ecstatically accepting my brain is extremely rotten at the moment with kikyo!