#astreamikaelson13

[hyena-frog]

Would you mind cutting the second Reaperstangmeet cute, please with a foxy on top? 🥺

If you mean the one in the locker room, that is included in the google drive link in that post! But. It's too cute so I'm going to post it individually as well.

[thegorydamnreaper]

Do you like to draw in silence, or with music?

I can’t draw in silence, it makes me go a little crazy.

I usually prefer watching shows or movies, something not super intense so I don’t have to actually look at the screen all that often. Competition shows are perfect for this!

If I need to focus I then go for music, and I have playlists for different moods 😊

[youssefguedira]

Regarding Eva rarely calling Diabolik by his name, it's because she finds it absurd. Well, at least that is what they made it into in the remake of L'arresto di Diabolik. She tells Ginko (actually a Diabolik disguised as Ginko) that it's an absurd name, it's hilarious.

i mean it IS a bit stupid. but the whole concept of eva hearing this name that everyone seems to fear and going 'huh? that's a dumb name' is killing me

[mustangdelicate]

Darrow of Lykos being a badass, a hardass and having a great ass? Darrow of Lykos being able to crush rocks with his bare hands, yet being to sweet and gentle with his beloved? Darrow of Lykos bowing to no one, but always kneeling for Virginia au Augustus, his one true Sovereign? Darrow of Lykos the Apex Killer of the Solar System with a capacity for love that boggles the mind?

The takes all altar, all crowns, all thrones for the title of best male characters. He is miles above his 'competition'. The male charcters in RR are compelling and interesting and well-written. Darrow is just...I simply find him the most fascinating, because he is made out of contrasts and things that should make him a bad person, make him a better person. He inspires hope and love and murders fascist slavers💖🥰.

Absolutely love the beginning darrow's great ass always deserves a special mention.

I can add darrow who cries and shows affection to his friends without giving a shit, Darrow who absolutely respects his beloved wife and her boundaries. Darrow who doesn’t stop fighting for his people even when he’s literally having a heart attack, Darrow who wants so badly to have a peaceful life and to be able to spend time with his family, Darrow who has made mistakes and had his faults but should not be defined just by that. Darrow who risks his ass to protect his friends, Darrow of lykos who prepared food, sang and sought medicine for Virginia when she was sick and when he saw that two bastards wanted to hurt her he went in killer mode in secs, Darrow of lykos who can make a whole group of people shit themselves out of fear just by mentioning his name but blushes easily and loves strawberries and dancing. Yeah 💞 darrow of lykos 💞

Darrow is perfectly imperfect and I love him for that because he is so believable and complex. He is passionate, he loves and feels fiercely, he wants to believe that some people can be better and he gives them second chances even when they don't deserve them, he has too much anger and he uses it as fuel to achieve things and it's not shown as just this bad side of you that needs to be repressed because having anger is just bad 🙄 and I love that. he scares me and makes me want to cry and hold his hand and tell him everything is going to be ok at the same time 😂 i just think hes neat i love him very much

Pierce brown really raised all the standards with this man huh

[elithien]

Opinion on long haired, 20 something Fire Lord Zuko? 👀😍

mmmmmmm i give it a 6/10. I much prefer his top-knot when it’s short if we’re going for regal looks!

[thehaemanthus]

3, 8, 9, 13 for In Pursuit of Power!💖🐺

:D 

Thanks, buddy!

3: What’s your favorite line of narration? Gosh, I don’t know. What’s yours? Everyone, chime off, I want to know, lol.

I did like “Did she just start a game, one with an opponent that had been playing for much longer and never lost? No, something told her. The game had been going on for far longer. It was her fault that she couldn’t see it. No matter. There would be no more mistakes.” when I first wrote it, but eh, not as much anymore. 

How about I give you a preview of something I’ve written for the next chapter?

8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it? Hmmm....not specifically. I suppose you could say I draw ideas of how to write relationships and characters from my own life (so when we are writing young children I’m thinking about my cousins, when I write the relationship between Lucretia and Sabina I think of me and my older sister). But there aren’t specific people that I pick up and implant into a story, you know? 

In terms of events.... (spoiler alert)

(By Artemisia Gentileschi - Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15394034)

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic? Lol, I’d say there were two. The first time I thought about this, it was adding to someone else’s post. People were talking about Mama Augustus, and I kind of went off on a headcanon. Like...okay, she was like Mustang.....Nero cared about her.......she had to be smart......but why would she marry Nero? I don’t know where that post is, lol. I’ve tried to find it.

The second version was the version in my head when I started and thought this could be like, three chapters. RIP. 

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading? Hahaha! Music! Yes, I listen to a lot of music while writing. For this fic, seasons one and two of The Crown give a nice feeling a grandeur and posh-ness with just enough drama. Some other musical choices are

Stay a Thousand Years, Game of Thrones Season 8

Coronation, Victoria

Across the Stars, Star Wars

Zadok the Priest

I stick to instrumentals while writing, but I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: If I Say by Mumford and Sons absolutely hits the nail on the head for me with these two. By the end of this story, I can only hope to capture the sort of “hey, I think I resent you, I think something is wrong here, but you are saying you love me and I love you too, and there’s no explanation for what we are doing or how we are going forward and there’s no excuses or justifications or reasons for how you make me feel besides ‘if I say I love you, then I love you’” 

put one of my fic titles in my ask + questions about it

[morgondagar]

All the Red Rising characters are more or less 'problematic' (i hate this word, but i'll use it for lack of a better one atm). Who are your favourites despite the horrible things they've done?

Oh that’s a great question! 

I know I might get judged over this, but I still truly love Roque as a friend of Darrow’s. Of course, I hate his guts for his entitled ways, but I can’t help but melt at just how much Darrow loves him throughout RR and GS. The scene right before the gala always makes me emotional, because he truly just wants to keep his poetic friend alive and safe! I love Roque, unfortunately, but I also hate him!

For other, less controversial, characters I would say I actually enjoy Adrius, Lysander and Aja! and writing that sentence really made me realise I might just have a type when it comes to “problmatic” characters... Roque, Adrius and Lysander.... All have a lot in common, don’t they......

[bookofmirth]

Headcanons for Red Rising? :D

I have a headcanon for when Virginia met Darrow’s mom for the first time. (Most of my headcanons come from wanting to know Mustang’s POV.)

So when Virginia went in there and they talked and she found out that Darrow was a Red, and she knew she was pregnant. Darrow’s mother never liked Eo, but I imagine that she would like Virginia better. Eo had, in a way, manipulated Darrow into taking action, while Mustang is so hands-off - even when she knows better. And I think that Darrow’s mother would see that, and appreciate it. It would be really tense at first. A Gold and a protective mother of a Red. Really, two women who want to protect their loved ones, and they aren’t sure if they can trust each other. The society had been set up to make them look at one another and assume they will be enemies. But I think that they are intelligent enough to not let those assumptions override their good sense, and luckily their interests align.

I also love the idea of Mustang hanging around the Telemanuses. I love that family so much, and I think that’s one of the only places where Mustang would be able to let her guard down. They don’t try to get anything from her, to use her in any way. They are just good and wholesome and Virginia has had so little of that in her life. They make her eat delicious and fattening food. At first they tried to shock her with off-color jokes, but she came right back with a few of her own. The most important thing is that they help and serve her by choice, because they respect and care for her, not because they have to, and that difference is everything.

[yume-ship]

Hei sorry to bother! Whatxs up with all the drama around the new vkm chappy? I can't read it for myself atm. It's ok if u don't want to answer.

Hi Alina!

To provide a quick summary, there are some zekis in the fandom that are claiming that ERS’s translation of a particular scene (where Yuuki adomishes Zero for his reckless behaviour) in the recent chapter is biased.

This is, of course, completely false (which has been further reinforced by another scanlation group translating that scene in a very similar manner).

Its just another case of some people wanting to stir unnecessary drama in the fandom, and acting like immature children.

Thank you for your question!

Yume-ship

[white-queen-lacus]

Kuroshitsuji for the fandom ask! 😍😊

And here I go with Kuroshitsuji too!! Thank you for asking, my sweet friend!!

the character I least understand Aleistor Chamber!! Really… who the hell he truly is?? I don’t think he’s really an idiot, I guess he will have a prominent role in the future… somewhere… over the rainbow! XDinteractions I enjoyed the most Cielizzy’s interactions are my favourite ever! the character who scares me the most Your avatar speaks! the character who is mostly like me Rachel, definitely! XD I’m not a mother, but I can feel we’re very similar! I just need a Vincent in my life… u_ùhottest looks character Vincent, he’s even hotter than Sebastian. Also, being UT and Cloudia’s son, as genetics says: genes don’t lie! one thing I dislike about my fave character I’ve been waiting for Yana to write a prequel with Vincent’s disadventures before answering this question! XDone thing I like about my hated character Mh… Hated character… I could open a whole topic about Kelvin and all those horrible nobles who hurt the twins… and I have to say: I like nothing. Or, perhaps… I like the fact they’re all dead in horrible ways.a quote or scene that haunts me *see above*a death that left me indifferent No one. Every death was emotionally hard to bear, for worse and for better… ç_ça character I wish died but didn’t At the time we’re now, nobodymy ship that never sailed Still waiting for Our Cielizzy to become wife and husband, but I fear that it won’t happen… ç______ç

[cherryfury]

I would absolutely love to meet you in person (literally everytime someone asks me what artist would you like to have diner with I say 'arriku - search her on tumblr'), but you live, or at least that's what I remember, in Cali and I live in Vampireland and I can't even hope I'd ever afford to go to NY. Life is a bitch sometimes *sighs* Still in love with your art tho!

Wowowo. I don’t know where Vampireland is but I assume it’s on the east coast? If I’m ever in that general vicinity I’ll definitely say so, and maybe...MAYBE...

Thank you, this message has certainly cheered my day :D

[hyena-frog]

I adore your icon 💖

😊 thank you!! 💕 I had the sudden urge to represent my (correct) Darrow headcanon.

edit: also my friend @catherdrashepard helped me make it! :>

[thegorydamnreaper]

Fave and least fave thing to draw?

Hi!! Faces and hair are some of my faves, and I really like adding final details like trim, lighting, highlights.

Hands are still really tricky for me, and armor can be a real drag because it involves sooooo much rendering/thinking/time 😅 the end result is usually worth it though!

Also backgrounds are evil. I’m trying to get better at them but it’s so hard 😅

[youssefguedira]

Clearer shot of Diabolik and Eva's moment:

Well, as clear as instagram goes.

they're so 💕💞❤️💗💝❣️💖 i cannot WAIT for the obnoxious romanticism i am so used to giving and now i get to receive

[mustangdelicate]

9 and 10

I'm so so sorry for the late reply I didn't remember which ask game you were asking about. 😭

9. Do you like prequels?

yes, if they’re done well.

10. characters that deserved worse? >:]

Roque that bitch didn't deserve a funeral what he deserved was a visit from virginia, victra and sevro at night and for them to give him a slow and painful death. 😤

[harritudur]

The actor who plays Dickon Tarly is taller than Jason Momoa. He is 1.95m and Jason is 1.93m. Sophie is 1.75. You seem like a 'height difference' kind of shipper so I thought I'd share this. Do not ask how I know this tho. I am one hell of a weirdo...

(lol DUDE i looked for his height as well on the internet haha)yes, i like ships with the guy being taller than the girl indeed, and we have 20cm of difference with Dicksa -it is not a lot but Sophie is tall so it’s just Great Content™. For once, she would have been forced to be on her tiptoes to kiss someone BUT WE WILL NEVER SEE THAT *sigh*