#astra’s asks

[theicarusconstellation]

astra!! what fics have your fav characterizations of regulus?

OOO great question!

(let me preface this by saying that my characterization might not be everybody’s, and that’s okay. my characterization is “the one” in my head, but that doesn’t mean it has to be everyone else’s “one,” and neither i nor the fics/authors i mention below are “better” in any way, shape, or form than anyone else. everyone in this fandom writes amazing works, and i’m sure there are so many wonderful fics with phenomenal regulus characterization that i haven’t read yet)

i’m gonna sound like a cunt here, but my own fics take first place for me💀i write for myself, so i write the regulus i perceive, yk? but here’s (some of) my reggieverse of madness:

@imdamagecontrol’s regulus is amazing in every fic they write, i.e. in paint it black, which to me really shows not only his “duality” but everything in between (and he’s got the cutest little nose freckles), and i’m really really excited to read more of their regulus study, all these terrible things

user georgia_sk on ao3 (i’m sorry if she has tumblr! i looked for it to try and tag her but couldn’t find it) wrote an amazing fic called whatever happened to the young, young lovers? that really encapsulates regulus for me as well

edge by @pinkpalaceapartmcnts is another one i’m obsessed with

when you were mine by @sequinhaze — their regulus has me giggling kicking my legs kissing the ground he walks upon

sugar high by user ivycore on ao3 (again, couldn’t find their tumblr, so if they have one, i’m sorry!) really explores the toll regulus’ upbringing took on him (+ it’s age gap jegulus with sex worker regulus!!)

devotion by @woobyo has a fucking amazing dark regulus characterization

of his bones by @sophsicle is incredible in how it portrays not only the “purist” mentality he’s fallen victim to + how he deconstructs that, but also the burden on regulus’ shoulders that he learns to take on and grow into

i could go on forever and ever and ever, but these are just the ones off the top of my head that i adore.

[httyd-art-requests]

here's an ask to post whatever you want, even something that's not related to what you normally post :3

I've been holding onto this ask and witing for the right moment

Do you guys wanna guess which recently revived fandom has been consuming my life lately?

You can't tell me this wouldn't be the perfect crossover

[hellsitegenetics]

hi! it would be a BLAST if you could encourage all your usamerican followers to VOTE uwu

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Closest match: Responsible Voter Moth

(Find out where you can vote!)

[tearsofastraeax]

something, something.. simon starting off with paying for your nails, sending you off every couple weeks with way too many bills in your pocket and a promise to treat yourself. then he starts getting involved in what kind of color and design you get, getting way to invested in the seasonal themes and aaaall the possibilities. till one day you manage to drag him with you. he looks so out of place in your usual nail shop, your sweet nail designer kind of scared of him, till you tell her to just not pay him any mind. it takes you at least 3 more times of him joining till you manage to bully him into sitting in the chair as well. next time when he's back on base everyone tries to give him shit for the little pink heart on his ring finger. but he couldn't care less, all he had to think about was his girl at home, happier than ever and with a matching heart on her nails.

[officialclangen]

I got the longest loner name I've ever seen in Clangen. ever. like look at this:

like what??

you. you are weird. who named you this

the game can't even load their name properly in the bio cuz it's so dang long

anyways props to whoever coded this name into the game, you're really going wild with the Loner Names™

Loner/Kittypet names are where the coders have a bit of goofy fun LOL Off the top of my head, other notable long and hilarious ones are First Generation Ipod and Molly Murder Mittens ~Astra

[cesiscribbles]

Is Astra immortal (for all intents and purposes), like her dads are?

Yes, Astra is immortal like her parents :)

[astra-galaxie]

Please Respect Content Creators

I had no intentions of ever posting this, but I feel it needs to be said because recently, people have forgotten that writers, artists, and other content creators are not obligated to fulfill every request they receive. I’m not just speaking for myself, but for everyone who has felt pressured into conforming their content to fit other people’s expectations and are constantly bombarded with requests for things they do not want to do.

However, I am NOT putting words into other people’s mouths, so DO NOT accuse or attack anyone because of what I am about to say. I have seen other people share similar feelings to this, so I do not doubt that fellow content creators will agree with what I have to say. But these are MY words, not theirs, even if other creators agree with them. This post is not to call anyone out, so do not expect me to name anyone from either side of this issue because this is NOT intended to put a target on ANYONE’S back.

To begin this rant, I do not mind receiving suggestions for my series; I do not mind receiving asks on Tumblr for headcanons or what I think about aspects of Criminal Case; I do not mind people, anonymously or not, sending in their ideas to me to post on their behalf. I LOVE receiving feedback and questions from people, but there is a line I feel people are not realizing they are crossing where their requests start to come across as demands.

So what I DO mind is when people take advantage of my kindness and begin demanding things from me that I do not want to do. No means no, and people need to learn to respect when they are told no. If I do not want to do something, if ANY content creator does not want to do something, do NOT push the subject and instead, DROP IT! Leave them alone and respect their decision!

Many content creators, including me, are doing what they do as a hobby. We are not getting paid for what we create, and unless you have commissioned us to make something for you, we are under no obligation to fulfill every request we receive. Even so, content creators are allowed to refuse a commission, so if you are told no, please accept it and move on. We are real people behind our online personas, we have lives outside the internet, and real feelings people seem to forget can be hurt. We are not emotionless machines designed to create content; we are human beings making content we want and sharing it for people to enjoy.

I have had people abuse my kindness before, people who have hurt me by using me to get what they want and then abandoning me. Maybe that was never their intention when they first reached out, and I won’t accuse anyone of malicious intent without proof, but it still hurts. It hurts to think someone considered me their friend, or at least someone they could trust to share their ideas with, and then ghosted me without warning. I am truly happy when people find friends with whom they can better connect, but I cannot deny that it deeply hurts to be abandoned. I have been abandoned more times than I can count online and IRL, and it never stops hurting.

People can ALWAYS send me their ideas for me to share on their behalf because I know how scary it can be to post your ideas online. Do you know how terrified I was when I started posting my stories when I was 17? If my blog can be a safe space for people to share their work (anonymous or not), I will be accomplished as a blog owner. I WANT people to feel safe about sharing their ideas, people have done it for me, and I want to return the favour.

Going back to the point of this post, content creators are not obligated to fulfill every request they receive. I LOVE receiving suggestions for my series because whenever I can include them in it, it makes me feel like my series is more than just my writing. It makes me feel like I’m giving back to the people who have given me so much love and support. However, not every suggestion can be incorporated into my series, and I feel some people have forgotten what the word “no” means.

Have I fulfilled suggestions just because I wanted to make fans happy? Yes. I have saved characters I had no intention of saving. I’ve included extra scenes I never would have originally written. I’ve even rewritten parts of published chapters to make them better after receiving reader feedback!

But PLEASE understand that my series is still MY SERIES, even if I have included people’s suggestions. I am the one figuring out how to write the ideas into the plot and how to change aspects to make the suggestions work. For example, just saying “Hey, can you save [insert character name here] in your story?” doesn't mean it's simply a matter of not writing their death. The case they die in is centred around them; therefore, the entire plot sometimes needs to be rewritten to work with a new victim and most often, the OG victim as a suspect! I don’t know if I make it look easy or something, but rest assured, it's a challenge rewriting canon cases to save their victims, especially when the deaths are vital to the game’s plot! It's why I cannot, nor will I, save every requested victim.

So when I say no to a suggestion, it's not because it's a terrible idea, it's because it will not work for my series. I have a lot planned out for my series, so much so that I had to create a Discord Server for me, myself, and all my ideas to try and organize them. When ideas are suggested, I have to not only see if they're something I can write, but also if I can incorporate them with the ideas I have already planned for my series. So please, please, PLEASE, listen when I say no to an idea. I promise I am not saying no because I don’t like it, but because it won’t fit into my series’s plans.

Now, I am going to be very blunt and probably sound a little heartless, but I have been broken too many times to care about keeping quiet anymore. If you are upset that no one will fulfill your requests, try doing it yourself. I know writing, drawing, and other forms of media creation are not easy, stars know I can’t draw for shit but that doesn't mean I’ve never at least tried. I took an art class in high school, something I never thought I would do. Do you know what happened? I collaborated on a mural that is still in my high school. My name is on a piece of artwork that will be displayed in that school for years to come, and I was SO proud of myself for getting out of my comfort zone and trying something I was scared to do.

And you know what? You don’t even have to go as far as writing a story or drawing something if you don’t want to, no one will force you to do it, and if anyone tries, say no. If you’d prefer, you can share the idea as a little post or something if you’re comfortable doing that. But if you’re not, send it to someone anonymously to post on your behalf. People have imaginations they can use to envision the idea as more than a WIP, and they may even add to the idea to help it grow into something more. You’ll never know how far an idea can go until it's out there, but please don’t expect OTHER PEOPLE to always make YOUR IDEAS a reality!

This rant went much further than I thought, but I am so tired and broken because of recent events that I needed to get this off my chest before I did something drastic. I have been in this fandom for over a decade, I have been in it long before I even started posting my writing, and I have lost count of the number of times I’ve thought about leaving. I went through a lot of shit years ago that I was SO CLOSE to leaving CC and I am so grateful to all of you who have helped me find happiness in it again.

But recently, I have reconsidered walking away and giving up on my dream of finishing my series. If it weren’t for all the ideas I want to bring to life and for the AMAZING friends and fans I have met after overcoming the darkness I used to be trapped in, I would be long gone. That’s a whole other post I could make, but I am not ready to make that public yet, as it ties into a lot of my trauma with CC and specifically Pacific Bay. One day, I will be ready to share about that dark time in my life, but not today.

So please, think before you act and respect people’s decisions. Do not try to control others’ work because it undermines us and makes us feel like failures when we cannot fulfill requests. Do not take the joy out of our hobbies by trying to force us to do things we do not want, because, without that joy, it makes us want to give up. Where is the fun in pursuing something if it's shrouded in feelings of failure and sadness?

I think I’m done now… I’m sorry if my words have hurt in any way; my intention is not to offend anyone but to protect myself and fellow content creators who have been taken advantage of. I do not make posts like this often because I fully believe in trying to spread kindness, especially with how much hate is in this world. But sometimes I cannot stay quiet, and in this case, I needed to break my silence. People need to remember that content creators make the content they want to create and are more than allowed to say no. If you still want something so badly after being told no, you can see about getting it commissioned or try to make it yourself. I always offer to assist people with their projects, but I will not do the work for you, nor should you expect others to.

When I get gifts, I NEVER demand that people change anything about them because I love and treasure every gift I receive. I know how much time and effort is put into making them, and I appreciate it so, SO much when people take the time out of their busy lives to make something for me. One of my biggest dreams when I started writing was to one day receive gifts from fans for my series, and if you told little 17-year-old Astra that one day, not only would she receive gifts but also have FRIENDS in CC, she wouldn’t believe you. Some days, even 25-year-old Astra still doesn’t believe she’s made it this far…

Alright, I’m actually done now. If you made it this far, thank you for reading this rollercoaster of an emotional rant. I hope some people will reevaluate how they treat content creators and realize that sometimes their words can hurt even if there was no malicious intent when writing them.

Thank you to everyone for your continued love and support of my series and other work. I love and appreciate each and every one of you who takes the time to share with me what you love about it and ways it can be improved. I will see you guys in my next chapter once I have it ready to post, and I look forward to sharing the rest of my ideas with you, however long it may take me to reveal them.

Astra G.✨

[stopmyhearts]

😳

[stardial]

enlighten me on ur characters, i wish to learn more about all of em. also is it fine for others to draw em?

YES ABSOLUTELY!! i have them up on artfight and am currently in the process of making new ref sheets for them :33 id LOVE to have them drawn

To summarize them a bit, I have three main ocs who all embody aspects of the night sky: Tana, the stars; Astra, the constellations; and Lux, the comet. They are all dykes, also.

Tana, the Stars, is traveling the world as a wandering wizard, as part of his quest to get back to Astra, his constellations, who he has been separated from. He has been stuck in a world different from hers for decades, and it’s driving him mad. He’s utterly devoted to her, and getting back to her. He is endlessly passionate and driven, often to his own detriment, but lacks structure and direction, which often leaves him aimless.

Astra, the Constellations, is wandering her own, dead world, trying to find anything that can give her the power to get back to her stars. She's the most powerful of the three, having forsaken her physical form to completely embrace her nature. She is depressed and cold and endlessly lonely, and acts as the catalyst for the whole story when she rips the stars out of the sky in a desperate attempt to feel anything.

Lux, the Comet, is an artificer and merchant who travels across the world in his little ship. He has lived in the world for hundreds of years, and knows most of it like the back of his hand. As the comet, he cannot truly exist without a star nearby to light him up, and to tear him apart. Without the star, life loses all meaning.

[theicarusconstellation]

61 jegulus 😊😊😊😊

you and @ecstarry requested this one so here’s this for both of you😈😈

prompt: 61). “I love you. I’m completely and utterly in love with you. Please don’t get married.” // jegulus // sfw // words: 944

Regulus studies the wedding rings on the ring bearer’s pillow in his dressing room with loathing. His stiff, old-fashioned dress robes make him fidget, wanting to crawl out of his own skin the closer he gets to the ceremony.

The ceremony. The event that will ruin his life and chain him to a woman he has no room in his heart to love.

Not that there is anything wrong with Cereus Greengrass; she just…

Isn’t him, a small, despicable voice in his head whispers. She isn’t the one who has seen his scars. She isn’t the one who broke down his brainwashed mentality and helped him see that his former truths were bigotry and hatred.

She isn’t the one who begged him not to go when he announced his engagement.

Regulus had been betrothed since birth to Adelaide Rosier, but that all fell through once Sirius ran away, plummeting the Black family’s status down to the bottom of the totem pole. For a brief while — two glorious years — he allowed himself to believe that he would be able to marry someone of his own choosing. This hope only grew stronger once he fell in love with him.

Beautiful brown skin and golden wire-rimmed glasses. Forested eyes and warm muscles that flexed and relaxed on the Quidditch pitch (and in the soft retreat of the Come-and-Go Room). A secret just for Regulus, one he could hold close to his heart until the time came to reveal it to the world.

Then, Lucius properly introduced Walburga and Orion to the Greengrass family. As it turned out, their eldest daughter was in need of a husband, and Regulus fit the bill down to the letter.

He could see no way out. Voldemort himself believed that it was something that had to be done. Regulus had no choice.

Or so he tells himself.

Yet sitting at his dressing room vanity, listening to the orchestra play the tune of noon, he cannot help but wonder what would have happened if he went with James. If he had accepted that extended hand and trusted that whatever plan his boyfriend had concocted on the spot would be successful. Would it be their wedding happening at this venue today instead?

No, he cannot dwell on the past. James has gone away, and Regulus himself is at fault for that.

He hasn’t had any lovers since you left him, that voice whispers again.

“Shut up,” Regulus hisses aloud through gritted teeth.

“Well, damn, Reg. I just got here, and you’re already sending me away.”

That voice. He knows that voice. He’s dreamt of that voice.

His back stiffens, and he uses all his courage to drag his eyes up from the vanity counter and to the mirror, where he sees behind him —

“Jamie?”

The nickname slips out like a desperate plea, begging to be heard after eons of disuse.

“Surprise.” The boy in the mirror grins weakly, though his voice cracks and trembles.

“You can’t be here.” Please don’t leave.

“I had to try. I won’t stop trying until both of us are dead. I had to take a few months to plan after you told me about…this, but I’m here now, and Regulus —“ James walks closer to him, and Regulus’ legs lift him up against his will, pulling him toward old familiar comforts.

James’ hands find his face — he’s in an old Gryffindor sweatshirt and jeans, but Regulus couldn’t care less — and he says with no hesitation,

“I love you. I’m completely and utterly in love with you. Please don’t get married. Sirius is in a Muggle car out front waiting for us to come out. We’ll go away, far away, to your uncle Alphard’s place; he’s already agreed. If anyone tries to stop us, I’ve gotten Crouch and Rosier on board to cause a diversion. Regulus, please, I —“ His voice catches, and Regulus feels his entire world change in the span of a second.

Could he do it? Could he leave behind everything, the altar, the rings, the loveless marriage, his parents? But what about the dangers? What about Voldemort? If he goes with James, will the Dark Lord find them? And Sirius — they haven’t spoken in years. Is he really outside, willing and eager to help him escape?

“We all want you back. We need you back. I love you so much, Regulus,” James insists. Regulus’ cheeks heat up between his palms.

I can’t.

“Okay.”

What?

“What? You — you mean it?”

“Okay. I mean it. Take me. Now. Before…”

Before I change my mind. Before the ceremony starts and the music plays and the rings are slipped on and my life stops and my prison begins.

“Oh, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you —“ James half-sobs, cutting himself off by pulling Regulus’ face toward his and crashing their mouths together in the first kiss Regulus has had in a long, long time.

They spend no more moments on words after that. James grabs his hand, and they both hurry out the window, which is apparently what James used to enter the room. How he got in without Regulus noticing is a mystery neither of them will ever solve.

James hasn’t stopped murmuring “thank you”s, doesn’t stop even after they’re hours down the road, headed for a countryside where love grows and happiness shines down in the form of sun rays.

Regulus doesn’t mind, he curls up in the arms of the one he loves and listens to the soft rumblings within James’ chest as he speaks, the vibrations lulling him into his first true moment of relaxation since that night in the Come-and-Go Room so many months ago.

[httyd-art-requests]

Hihihi I NEED more httyd x gf crossover it's everything to me rn <3 <3 Can I ask what kind of wacky hijinks led Hiccup and Toothless to Gravity Falls??

WAAA I'm so glad you're enjoying the crossover! <33

Hiccup actually isn't present in this crossover 👀 not for the story part at least...

Speaking of which!

This is post-Hidden World Toothless, meaning he and Hiccup have already been separated for some time and he can fly on his own thanks to the mechanical tail. Toothless, in an effort to escape some sort of threat while flying, attempts to camouflage and the buildup of energy timed with a plasma blast ends up punching another hole through space-time similar to Ford's portal. He flies through, crashes in the woods of Gravity Falls, and ends up getting stumbled upon by two very excitable kids...

I want to use third movie-Toothless specifically so he can have some fatherly instincts on top of his already protective nature, so he becomes attached to the twins very quickly and tries his best to keep them safe. Ford and Dipper eventually figure out that Toothless doesn't belong in their dimension and help him get back home, but in the meantime... shenanigans ensue <3

[hellsitegenetics]

vertebrates are nothing. this planet is dominated by water which is filled with plankton, algae, countless swarms of critters with a few miserable fish. the reefs are built of cnidarians, sponges, algae; crustaceans and gastropods outnumber chordates a zillion to one. even on land, beetles, flies, hymenopterans reign among the life visible to the naked eye; dwarfing them are the plants, and the fungi, and the microbes which live on and in everything. you will never get a vertebrate in a million years.

unless you're fucking Margaret Thatcher apparently.

I would love a geometrid moth, but I'll take anything without *shudders* bones

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[thecornerofegg]

Something I think about sometimes is that I can't be fully honest when someone asks me what my favorite book is, because its an AU fanfic about characters from the dream smp in the setting of an interstellar world and society ruled by a very powerful dictatorial nationalist empire which exploits the native species of different planets for their own gain written in 86'083 words devided between 3 chapters, and that's apparently not the answer people are looking for :(

It's called Ad Astra and it was written by Hellenite on Ao3. I read it like 2021 and have not been able to stop thinking about it since

THAT'S the level of world building and characterisation that I strive for

[officialclangen]

I had this cat, clover paw. I really wanted her warrior name to be cloverpatch and planned to change it when it auto generated, lo and behold she generates with the patch suffix. Score!

Awh, Cloverpatch sounds very precious! It's always great when your headcannoned warrior name for a cat just so happens to be what the game chose LOL ~Astra

[rhinco]

ooh hell yeah music trade

im big into metal rn but ill take whatever you feel like i would like

my pick for u is the guilty gear strive soundtrack volume 1 partially because i love this game but mostly because the music is sick

ohh this Fucks i love you video game music

i don't listen to much metal (another genre i need recs in tbh..) but an album ive been listening to a lot recently is the father of make believe by coheed and cambria which does have some metal elements in it so that's my rec for you

[desertduality]

scar unprompted revealed more secret life lore on the charity stream and i immediately thought of your fic ad astra especially when he talked about the voices at the monolith/secret keeper statue

he's trying to kill me fr