#because she failed at getting married

[faejilly]

I just wanted to let you know, I stumbled across your posts after playing Affairs of the Court for the first time in years, and I too have fallen head over heels for Luis!!! My entire heart!!! Anyways, I just wanted to flail in your inbox about him, and your walkthroughs were very helpful for getting the ending I wanted! 😘❤️

YAY! I... do not know how to organize my brain for outside comprehension, so I'm always delighted when a walkthrough/guide thing is actually useful. (Probably also because I am very bad at seeing behind the curtain re: game mechanics, like, I screw up my stats in every game ever because I don't think the line means what the game thinks it means.)

It is such a good time, I do still adore Luis. 😍

[borgialucrezia]

his two younger kids whom he dotes on and made believe they're the light of his life yet the second they don't comply with playing the roles he wants them to/don't play them in a way he expects, he rages at them and instantly rips the affection away from them. but then it only hits him when it's too late how he's failed them as he kneels in front of them and muttering to himself "what have i done?" while looking up with sorrow, guilt, shame and reflection...

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[wormworker]

nervous's story in the sims 2 is so freaking sad. i've been trying out a coping mechanism where i play the game and try to make everyone's dreams come true and he was obviously my first pick because bro.......

[unopenablebox]

this is wading into discourse or whatever i guess technically but that post reminded me that while i do feel that dom/kel is the only non-alanna-and-jonathan halfway compelling canon ship in the entirely of tortall, it is in fact an 8ish-year age gap that meet when kel is 14 and dom is early 20s unspecified

anyway im very aware that the reason it's the best canonical tortall ship is because absolutely nothing ever happens for it onscreen. but somehow that only makes it more annoying that the author later decided to retroactively word-of-god declare that actually kel is aroace and decides she's "too busy with her career" to get married.

which like. first of all you sure did not write her as lacking internal desire for or enjoyment of sex or romance in that book series you wrote! second of all the bar for ~aroace representation~ cannot be "this female character didn't get married to her first or second-ever sex partner at age 18, therefore she must be intrinsically uninterested in romantic relationships". i can imagine a world where the character was actually written this way, including one in which she still had her canonical ~~~dalliances~~~~ but ever seemed even slightly conflicted or reluctant or like she was doing anything out of obligation or ever had any feeling foreshadowing any of it, as just one possible example of how it could have been played! but no. pierce was just like "i don't know what to do with kel because she's tall and didn't get married as a teenager so i guess she's going to be celibate forever??"

mostly i just think this is a pathetic and blatant attempt to retroactively assign some kind of immutable Nature to kel, alone of all protagonists, not being a teen bride; also i think it's both misogynist and an insulting misunderstanding of what "being aroace" would mean; also it makes me worry that im going to get Yelled At for ignoring the Important Representation if i request dom/kel in fic exchanges, and i would prefer not to think about that, bc i don't think we should be dignifying pierce's attempted ex cathedra declarations with a response

[saiwola]

I half-heartedly decided that Alys took after her father in the verses with Antonio because their fcs looked (very) vaguely similar. And then joked about her fc's brother being Anton's younger fc because of it.

But damn, getting hit with t.ikt.oks of when "fathers see themselves in their sons" vs "when fathers see themselves in their daughters" hit weirdly hard right now. Gettig ideas...

[fictionadventurer]

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[ihaveaskeleton]

Before and After: Edna's Ghoulification

Before: Edna Murdoc, four times widow and divorceé.

After: Edna Murder-McCoy—still married to the same man after a century and a half, against all odds.

[emmafallsinlove]

s9 of modern family when the whole family is going on boat trip was a great episode to establish lesbian!alex and bring back andy. there i said it

[turnedinto-themoon]

thinking about Ursa tonight :/

[viiisenyas]

If my brain disrupts my plot with a new idea that changes the entire story ONE MORE TIME

[totally-not-an-awkward-okapi]

Do you think your Earth 3 Nora would be a part of some version of the Gotham City Sirens?

Oooh good question!!!

It really depends on whether in the morality swap of earth-3 you think the Sirens would A. be straight up heroes or B. heroes with a corruption arc to mirror how all three have slowly shifted into anti-heroes. I’m gonna cover both options since I cannot bring myself to choose:

Option A. Not initially, no. Much like Mr Freeze in the main continuity, Nora usually fights Owlman one on one, only joining up with other heroes for larger group team-ups or to try out some tech. Both out of overconfidence and unwillingness to “drag others into her mess” Firefly tries to avoid team-ups. But, I imagine in an ongoing comic the Sirens would team up with her a few times and quickly realize the toll her powers are taking on her body, eventually convincing her to join the Sirens as their tech guy and only occasional big gun.

Option B. This one means there’s just far fewer heroes, making Nora a whole lot quicker to seek out allies. But in this much meaner continuity, it also doesn’t take her long to figure out that the work is corrupting the other Sirens. Even if they're still heroes, she’s a morally righteous hothead. Firefly would try to drift out of the group, trying to force herself to just play guy in the chair and then make a break, but it would probably come to a head pretty quick. In the end she’s not on the best terms with the Sirens, but they're still allies more often than she’d like.

Agh I made myself sad. TLDR She’s got fire powers so of course she’s the edgy anime guy who refuses to officially be part of the team.

[janitorpostman]

some implying that Betty's desire to please Simon automatically make her a victim and Simon an abuser make me go 😑

[cursed-clock-shop]

Mortimer and John N actually had a wedding ceremony, but technically aren't legally married because they used Gerty's birth certificate

[faolonfiendrender]

Okay, I’m gonna write something.

Miss Le Miestre kicked the church door shut as she jumped to the inside. Two shots followed her in.

“Those connards are back. Barely got away, but this ol girl can still weave like she used to. Please tell me the rest of ya have more than that rifle Madame Reyes carries between ya.”

Miss Reyes spoke up first “Got a Colt in my boot. Same one the knife is strapped to. Draw it to surprise fools who think I’m going for a knife.”

Mr. Darby was the next, he said nothing, simply produced a derringer seemingly out of thin air, and then a stiletto in his other hand.

Mister Mori was the last to say anything.

“I apologize, but I have not had a chance to purchase a gun yet. If I could borrow one from one of you, I’d be quite grateful. I am better with rifles, but I understand if Miss Reyes doesn’t want to give me her rifle”

Miss Reyes handed Mister Mori her rifle before retrieving the revolver from her boot. She then stared directly at Miss Le Miestre and asked one question.

“You got a gun?”

In response, Miss Le Miestre removed her blue longcoat, revealing that beyond her cutlass, she had kept two flintlocks, one with an ivory handle, the other with jet, as well as an imported European revolver.

“I have a handful of guns, I’ll still never get used to those new-fangled revolvers, even if being able to shoot five times before clubbing someone with it is nice.”

Then she drew the revolver in her left hand, grabbing her cutlass with the right as Mister Mori crouched behind a pew and Mr. Darby and Miss Reyes stepped to the side of the door.

Miss Le Miestre stepped towards the door, deciding that she’d insult them in English so they could understand, and shouted to the men outside, all of whom were dressed in old grey uniforms and wore improvised masks.

“I’m coming out ya damned bastards! I’ll make all you regret not giving up when you could, I’ve been making scared little devils like you die since your grandfathers were cabin boys!”

She kicked open the doors, firing her revolver from the hip to make all eight of the men outside take cover. She then ducked back into the church, drew her jet-handled gun, and made ready.

The first of the men stood up from behind a barrel, Mister Mori put a bullet in his head before he’d fully processed what happened. Seconds which felt like hours passed. One of the survivors stuck his repeating rifle above a wagon and started firing, as soon as Mister Mori ducked to avoid the gunfire the four of the men ran down to flank the door while the three left in the street stood with rifles trained to keep their enemies from shooting out the doorway

Only one of the men going to flank made it, Miss Reyes shot two of them from inside the church window hitting both in the gut. And one made the mistake of trying to pull her through the window. She stabbed him with the knife on her belt as he grabbed her gunarm.

That left one man, one overconfident man. He knew he had to shoot Miss Reyes first, and then that rifleman. He knew there was no way the one who had attacked them had reloaded yet, and the limey one didn’t have a weapon.

So he tried just that, before a puff of smoke and the smell of black powder filled the air, and he fell to a weapon nearly a century older than he was.

During all this, Mr. Darby had slipped away out one of the other windows. He slipped back as he jumped from an awning behind the gunmen. He managed to shoot one of the men on the way down before stabbing another in the gut as he stood. The third man had his gun pointed at Mr. Darby in time to make him pause. Another click made the last man standing pause.

“Hey, we got business here, and I see that officer sabre on your belt. Think you can take an old woman in a swordfight? Get done with all this guns business?”

So, the last man standing out down the gun and drew. He figured that he’s more likely to survive this fight than the previous one.

At the same time, the man who fell in the church began crawling along. He knew to fake injury when shot. He’d take care of the rifleman first, a knife to the gut should work and then he’d shoot the vacquero.

Outside, metal clashed, the old pirate falling back into her familiar rhythm, high, low, step together and raise the sword at an angle. Try to cut his shoulder as he swung and missed. Skill was on her side, but her opponent was clearly never trained, he kept holding his saber in two hands, and yanking away when he felt a cut bounce off his guard. This made him an unpredictable brute, and somehow, he was gaining ground.

Inside, things had not gone as planned for the man with the knife. He had kicked the rifle away, and the tapestries that hung meant the gunslinger couldn’t get a good shot, but the rifleman was good up close. He seemed to flow around the knife, even as low as both were. A kick found Mister Mori’s hip, and he fell across a familiar sheath. He rolled backwards as the knife tried to reach his gut. He took the sheath with him. He stood up and faced the man with the knife, both out of reach from the other, hand on the hilt of his sword as his foe stepped forwards

Outside, Miss Le Miestre found herself losing ground, so she stepped back, holding her sword out with one hand to stop her opponent’s advance for but a second. Her opponent swatted the cutlass to the side, but he should have paid attention to the other hand instead.

A loud bang echoed. A blade glimmered silently. Both of the gunmen still standing clutched their guts. One felt immense pain, the other felt nothing even as his blood fell on the church floor. Both fell, one backwards and one forwards. A pirate put her ivory-handled pistol back in her belt, and a samurai put his bronze-hilted sword back in its sheath.

Consider:

Victorian England: 1837-1901

American Old West: 1803-1912

Meiji Restoration: 1868-1912

French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830

Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible.

[hauntingblue]

Marineford part 2.... jimbei save me jimbei.....

That's what you get for messing with tashigi

That's the love hurricane....

This is so cute.... Monkey time...

Is this some kind of coqueror's haki?? I am sure it's what zoro uses on monet to cut her without actually doing so... making her so scared she just imagines it but here luffy doesn't get that scared so he actually doesn't let it get that far and that's why mihawk says luffy is much calmer than he expected?? Or maybe he did cut monet but actually didn't idk man.... I don't remember well if tashigi said something about her being cut in half bc if she didn't we can assume that is just a representation of what monet thinks and not reality bc again zoro says fuck all

Oh my god luffy akshaksjak if iirc this is the second time he does this

Buggy's faces are too much akdhaka king of comedy

This shit is so funny.... wdym take two we are live!!!!

I do believe this is true..... like we know squardo has been lied to but whitebeard saw a spark in ace before he even knew who his father was... he wanted him to become like his father by being his successor

"Be good to each other" this is so jesus christ of him to do..... you understand the cross on his jolly roger now (even if it was something else before THAT ALSO MAKES SO MUCH SENSE)

SEE!!! HE SEES ACE'S DESTINY BEING PIRATE KING!!!! IM GOING TO BE SICK!!!

OMG!!! THANK YOU NEGI FROM SAGA!!!

Jesus christ grandpa.....

Bonney crying because of the pacifistas??!!

NOTHING gets spared here I see.... literally no way back home

This is from strong world Chapter 0..... baby ace omg baby ace...... garp I still hate you and fuck you too kuina's father

Hatchi and shakky are just cute omg look how she holds his tentacle aodhakjss

Crocodile doing this still doesn't make sense to me UNLESS........ look at marco being upstaged lmao

MOMONGA I WILL GET YOU!!! STOP!!! Luffy is struggling so much omg.....

Killing myself over these panels goodbye....

Holding him like a fish he just caught 😭😭😭 careful omg he is so hurt!!!

All of this!!!! I LOVE IDIOTS LIKE YOU!!!! OF COURSE HE DOES!!! LIKE HE LOVED ROGER!!!!

I FUCKING FORGOT ABOUT THIS!!! GARP WHEN I FUCKING GET YOU!!!! GARP WHEN I GET YOU GARP!!!!!!!

Ace I will get you out of there omg.... ace hold on....

Is he asking about luffy to see if he feels the same as him? Because people hate his father bc he is a pirate so he asks if people hate garp for being a marine and if that affects him? That's insane..... also MARINE PROPAGANDA!!!! Garp remembering this right now???? We should all kill ourselves but garp goes first

MY GOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!! ACE YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG IT'S THE FUCKING MARINES!!! GARP WHEN I GET YOU!!!!!! Buggy fuck off omg im crying!!!! No time for livestreams

Jesus christ............

Ace does that too.... after....... AAAAAAAHHHHH

Borsalino if you fucking knew my guy.... I guess you do find out lmao also why is ace so scared here

Ace getting captured to protect luffy from ace and then......