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ivyial · 1 year ago

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Okay, I just saw your other ask about leshley/eagleone and felt like I had to get in on this because ever since RE4Make came out, I've been going crazy over this ship. I have always found it cute in RE4 OG, but now it's driving me crazy. I cannot understand how many people miss the many implications that Leon is trying to flirt during certain parts of the game. Like seriously, come on, pals, he's being so awkward, trying to sound cool and give compliments that end up sounding weirder than he intended. And I don't know if it's just me that noticed this, but I find it funny how Leon talks to Ashley in certain moments like it's the easiest thing to do; then, in other parts, he really has no clue how to speak to her. Does that not scream attraction to anyone?

i'm with you on this one. i don't know how people miss EVERYTHING about them. like they don't even go "oh?" at times when they're playing. it probably depends on the mindset you have when you're playing. if you're hyperfocused on the action, maybe you'll miss it. idk. on social media, there are two broad types of people who have negative reactions when it comes to leon/ashley:

1. aeon shippers (mostly, can be other shippers as well, but they're mostly chill because they themselves get forced into a corner by aeon stans) who think it threatens their ship

2. people who are fiercely anti-romance when it comes to whatever media they consume and consider it to be dumb and actively making a good piece of media worse (because in their eyes, romance is a lowly preoccupation to have)

and both groups are super bitter for no reason lmaoooo. you might have noticed a tendency in media discourse recently on social media that is very anti-romance - a few weeks ago, it became a whole thing on twitter because of the bear (the tv show) and the ship between sydney and carmy, to the point where even official media outlets started talking about it. romance is considered dumb. everything that contains romance is essentially a bad soap opera. blah blah blah we're all too smart for that. there's a very strong, almost puritanical anti-sex sentiment going around at the moment as well, and i wish it was just some isolated issue within fandoms overpopulated by young teens, but people lost their minds over two sex scenes in oppenheimer for god's sake. and if i had the time and willpower and knowledge, i'd turn this into a discussion about how that ties into humans being obsessed with moving away from every single instinct that they have, but well.

i also agree with the second part of your ask, about leon's attitude towards ashley. tbh, leon can't flirt for shit: most of the time, he's awkward (RE2R, the fence scene with claire: i can never tell if he's attempting to flirt, or if he's just awkward because there's a cute girl right in front of him) or even downright unfunny (was he trying to flirt with jill in death island? was he trying to lighten the mood? idk man leon is a bit of a whore so). he tries to flirt all the time: we got shen may in infinite darkness, ada, etc. we know he isn't smooth.

so one thing that really sticks out in RE4R is his tone with ashley, in two specific instances (maybe more): the one i mentioned in my previous ask, when he says "i can catch you", and when he sees ashley asleep on the bed in chapter 13 (and calls out to her). these are two very intense and high-stress situations where he kind of reverts back to RE2R leon (nick does a great job at conveying the difference in maturity in leon's voice in both games). he's very distressed. why does that matter? because fucking shouting ashley's name when there are two enemies 10 meters away (we know that, he doesn't, but the island is riddled with ganados, so why would he even try?) is the stupidest decision a special agent could make. and yet he does it anyway. there are other instances of leon being in a similar situation, yet he still retains that deeper tone of his - see his first encounter with krauser in chapter 11.

and it's not just because he's doing his job, which is what one of my friends argued, because you don't go around flirting with the person you're tasked to rescue for shits and giggles. not to mention, that's the president's daughter. if he was just doing his job, he'd stick to the plan, be stoic and get her home and that's it. that's what's required of him. implying that the first daughter is hot as fuck and that he doesn't usually enjoy his regular missions nearly as much as he does when he's with her isn't part of his job description. there's a difference between being a decent guy and not treating her like cargo, and overtly flirting with her.

i think he's also very awkward with her at first because he's toeing the line between what's acceptable and what isn't, so he can figure out if there is grounds for flirting and it's not wholly unwanted on ashley's part. then you get that pep talk in the castle, which is when they really start to get comfortable with each other and when he attempts some physical contact that isn't just 100% necessary. she reacts well, which explains why he takes it further in chapter 9. he spends the rest of the game painfully distressed and by chapter 16, they're all over each other (jetski + taking her hand to run to the elevator - leon, the girl is smart, she knows how to run and follow you).

leon has a crush. plain and simple. he doesn't know how to deal with it, except for the few times when he does and the flirting is technically reciprocated. idk how people can't notice the plain signs of attraction, even in a generation that is as recluse and introverted as mine tends to be, but they're very obvious once you start paying attention.

#leon kennedy #ashley graham #eagleone #leshley #resident evil 4 #resident evil

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skitskatdacat63 · 7 months ago

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23 and 39 for the ask game (both f1) 💫

Hope you have a good day also!!

I hope you have a great day as well!! <3

23. weirdest f1 ship you've read a fic about?

Probably Robert Kubica/Fernando Alonso 😭 just bcs I never knew it existed in the first place! But they have 11 fics on ao3 which is surprising to me. I guess its just one of those things that's too old for me to really understand. I've probably read weirder but that's the first one that popped into my head

39. would you rather learn french from pierre gasly, esteban ocon or charles leclerc?

I'd rather learn from Fernando tbh- hmmmm I really don't know 😭 I think they all wouldn't be great teachers. For some reason though Esteban seems like he'd be the best? Okay but where's the Prost option

#fernando speaks french why isnt that an option 🙄#catie.asks

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tathrin · 2 years ago

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gigolas for the "send me a ship" meme?

...I don't think I've posted anything like that? Certainly not recently enough that I have any idea what you're talking about anon, I'm so sorry. This is the most recent thing that anyone I follow has posted that fits that criteria, so that's what I'm going to respond using because idk where else to go looking for something to use. If you're looking for a response to something else please send me a link or a more specific tag so I can find it?

who’s the werewolf and who’s the hunter

Legolas seems the obvious choice for the hunter motif with the archery and forest stuff, but tbh I think I'd rather go the other way on this one because Mirkwood = great place for cryptids and monsters. So we'll have Gimli be the monster hunter, and he can still use his axes (silver-tipped of course) only of course he's always been more thoughtful and poetic than just any old hunter, so it doesn't take him long to realize that there's more going on than it seems when he walks into that little village in Dale. Seems like the werewolf that's been "terrorizing" them only started doing so when they went after him first, and this weird skittish feral creature doesn't seem like he actually enjoys hurting people — although oh boy will he if he gets pushed to it, as Gimli discovers when he accidentally stumbles on the real source of the problems in Dale that the shy werewolf was being scapegoated for. All of a sudden there's a wolf between him and the biggest fucking spider he's ever seen and it's snarling and oh shit. Oh shit, he has feelings now. Gimli's uncles are never going to let him live this down.

who’s the mermaid and who’s the fisherman

Yeah I feel like if there's a "weird creature" involved, then the weird creature is going to have to be Legolas, sorry to be repetitive. But. Gimli is just trying to mind his own business and have a simple, ordinary life on the shore, and this fucking fish-man keeps popping-up to pester him and sing and oh my gods does he ever stop singing? And when did Gimli start liking the damn songs? Capsizing during the storm is entirely Legolas's fault, because if Gimli hadn't been so damn distracted by all the fucking songs and flirting he wouldn't have been so behind on his catch that he'd have gone out in that weather, so getting saved by the damn fish is just what Legolas owes him for creating this situation in the first place, really. (Anyway surely there's a better way to keep someone from drowning then giving them air via kisses, right!?) Dammit. His uncles are never going to let him live this down.

who’s the witch and who’s the familiar

Okay and this time we're going to reverse things, and Legolas isn't the weird creature...he's the weirder witch. The witch in the woods, people call him, but they say it in a very different tone than the one they use when they talk about the witch in the other woods, the pretty light-dappled one with the golden leaves. People are so judgemental about things like growth so thick no light gets through, and fungus growing up the sides of your cottage, and spiderwebs thick enough to spin cloth from, and rivers that put you to sleep for three days...and, well, the spiders can be a problem, yes, but only because their natural predators have been hunted nearly to extinction. So they're running rampant, and it's not good for the balance of the forest, so they have to be culled now and then or it's going to throw the whole ecosystem completely out of balance. It's not Legolas's fault that the old book he found for Spider's Bane was damaged in a fire sometime during the previous witch's tenure, and that part of the instructions were unreadable. He thought he was just going to summon a few magical stone-bears who would eat some of the spiders. He didn't realize he was binding himself to a familiar...or that said familiar would start looking less and less like a bear and more and more like a person the longer he was there. He certainly didn't realize that the stone-bear was doing it on purpose, because it had taken a fancy to Legolas. It was supposed to be a semi-sentient magical construct, not a...not a person! With feelings, and thoughts, and the ability to tailor its own shape to suit its whims (it wasn't even supposed to have whims!), and the most fantastic beard that Legolas has ever seen...

who’s the barista and who’s the coffee addict

Gimli is quite happy working at the coffee shop, thank you very much everyone who thinks it's funny to make jokes about his English Degree In Coffee ha ha. The owner is nicely chill (all the weed probably contributes) even when Gimli has to get curt with problem customers. He gets to work on his novel in between busy periods, and most of the really annoying would-be-customers go to the corporate shop down the street instead of this hole-in-the-wall that serves real coffee, thank you. Of course, the owner also seems to know veritable tons of the weirdest people, including Gimli's own uncles (how old is he, anyway?) which he didn't discover until after he'd been working there for six months and Fili came in shouting "Yo, Gandalf, how's the rugrat doing?" and embarrassing him half to death, thanks. Honestly it would be a perfect job if it wasn't for that weird-ass perky blonde who drinks way more caffeine than can possibly be healthy even before he covers it in twenty ounces of whipped cream and sprinkles, ugh. He's in there all the time, so much so that Gimli forgot he was there when he started muttering plot-points out loud, which blondie apparently decided to treat as story-time, and now he comes in every day asking for the next section and sure, it's helping Gimli actually get the damn thing written if only to stop blondie from pestering him, but he's pretty sure he's going to strangle him in a month and even Gandalf isn't a chill enough boss to be chill with that, Gimli is pretty sure, and...and then he gets just the worst rejection letter from that poetry zine, and he can't stop crying at the counter, and suddenly blondie is hugging him and offering to "show the editors the error of their ways, no really it's gotta be fixed if they rejected you because your stuff is so good, Gimli! And that's not okay. I'll get some of my pals, we'll ride over and explain things to them and—" and the kiss didn't mean anything, Gimli was just sad and confused and tired, and now blondie's bringing him flowers when he comes in, what the fuck—?

who’s the professor and who’s the TA

I think I'm skipping this one because I'm not a fan of the power-dynamics here, sorry. I'm sure lots of people have written lovely fics with this sort of premise that manage to find a way to balance them (or to lean-in on the power-imbalance taboo) but I'm gonna. skip it. sorry.

I think having them be professors of rival departments would be lovely, though. So substitute that, there we go.

who’s the knight and who’s the prince(ss)

Maybe I'm getting lazy at this point, but I'm just going to go with Prince Legolas of Mirkwood, and Gimli son of Glóin, noble knight of Erebor. There have always been monsters in those woods, but they were little things that could be dealt with relatively easily as long as one knew the proper techniques and took the proper precautions. (Gimli had never seen a castle with anti-spider fire-netting before. It was...unsettling, to say the least.) But then bigger, nastier things started being sighted. Then rumors spread of some sort of witch, some sort of Necromancer, lurking in the forest, likely in the ruined tower in the south. The queen took a company of soldiers to investigate, and never came home. Distraught, King Thranduil forbid any of his people from going near it—but the monsters kept coming, kept getting worse. So he put out a call for knights and battle-wizards, and knowing the riches of the Woodland Kingdom, many came.

Not many Dwarven Knights were interested, there being too many years of bad-blood between their people and the elves, but Gimli was young and eager to prove himself. He figured that he would be able to easily dispatch whatever monster had the flighty, feckless elves in a tither, and take his renown and his treasure home in a fortnight or so. The sight of so many warriors returning bloody and reeling, or not returning at all, was disquieting...but Gimli was young, and bold, and once the elvish prince accidentally insulted his honor and his courage there was no way he was going to turn tail and go home now, no sir! Of course, the prince was just frustrated because his father wouldn't allow him to risk his life going after the Necromancer himself, and lashing-out at Gimli because Gimli was unlucky enough to say the wrong thing at the wrong time—but it still happened, and it happened in front of the entire damn court as well as all the experienced warriors who'd come for their chance at the treasure and the glory too, and there's no way the story isn't going to get back to Gimli's uncles and they'll never let him hear the end of the time he got into a shouting-match like a child with a fucking elf-prince. Ugh. At this point, it would almost be a mercy if the Necromancer did kill him—but at least if Gimli's the one who does the job, he'll be able to reclaim at least some of his dignity. So he leaves early, hoping to beat the next round of knights to the tower by himself.

The last thing Gimli expected—or wanted—was for the fucking prince to follow him...!

who’s the teacher and who’s the single parent

Tough, because I'm honestly struggling to see either of them as a parent, but I'm going to go with Gimli as the dad here. Probably for something between kindergarten and third grade; I feel like Legolas would be best suited as a teacher for little kids. He's got the optimism and the energy and the complete willingness to go sit in the mud puddle beside them and listen very seriously to their long and incoherent stories and act like he's understanding every word (and honestly he somehow probably is, he's like the Kid Whisperer). Gimli is still struggling to get little Moli to open-up to him two years after the kid's parents died and left their single nephew juggling sudden parenthood and shared grief. When Moli comes home from school not just smiling but chattering, Gimli thinks it's a miracle. The miracle turns out to have a name, and that's Legolas. Unfortunately, Gimli doesn't realize that until they've already ended up as PTA Enemies For Life over an argument so stupid that frankly Gimli can't even remember what it was. Something about jewelry and the dress code, he thinks? Ugh, Legolas might be great with kids but that's clearly his only skill. Whatever, Gimli can deal with him for one school year. Unfortunately, he has to deal with him all the time because Moli adores the asshole. Well, fine. Gimli can do this, for the kid. He can do this. It would be a lot easier if Legolas wasn't every bit as pretty as he is annoying, dammit...

who’s the writer and who’s the editor

Whoops I probably should have read through all these before I started writing them, huh? Already used the Gimli Is A Writer on the coffee shop one, oh well. Anyway: Gimli Silvertongue is obviously the writer, because his skill with word-smithing is literally canonical. So Legolas is the keen-eyed editor working for Mirkwood Publishing, and he falls in love with the author behind the novels long before ever meeting him in person, and he certainly didn't expect a short, hairy slab of muscle who looks like he does caber-tossing as a daily warm-up when he pictured the guy who wrote all these sweet, soaring, poetry-riddled stories, but. well, everyone says not to judge a book by its cover (although Legolas knows how important good cover design is, thank you, and always sulks a little over that saying because hello are you paying attention?) so maybe he shouldn't have been so caught off-guard when he failed to accurately judge the author by the interior...now he just needs to figure out to get un-tongue-tied enough that he can go talk to the guy whose over-use of semi-colons he's spent literally hours arguing over, shit.

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Anyway, I'm sorry if this isn't what you wanted, anon. But thank you for sending it in (or...sending something in, at least, oops) because it actually ended up being a lot of fun to answer. Hopefully you enjoyed it too, whether it was what you were actually looking for or not! And if it wasn't, feel free to clarify what you were really after and I'll try again. Sorry!

#gigolas #gimleaf #ask meme #gimli #legolas #aus #shipping #gimleaf aus #long post #my writing #my stuff

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drunktuesdays · 2 years ago

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It’s okay if you just didn’t want to respond for some reason but this is your 1d anon and I sent an ask last night that I feel like maybe did not go thru so I’m debating sending it again! But if you did get it please just ignore me! I’m not entirely sure I can remember what I said a mere 24 hours ago anyway tbh

oh yes sorry!!! wednesday night is the big wrestling night so i had to stop hockey posting and watch my dang show and then i forgot to reopen the topic.

HERE'S SOME ASKS I HAVE RECEIVED ON THE TOPIC OF HOCKEY IN THE PAST 24 HOURS

okay, i love that. a) the og ask burned my ass bc i think you said something like "i followed you in 2011 for one direction content and you only get into weirder and weirder stuff" which remains THE funniest thing anyone has ever said to me and i think about it ALL THE TIME. b) i love that a MONTH ago you would have been like "lea....." but now you're into it. you and helenish just FALLING INTO HOCKEY in 2023. i love that in some ways, hockey is the ship of theseus where the men keep changing and the fans drift in and out but the fandom keeps powering forward.

oh you think this guy looks like a fairy tale character? that guy? you think that guy and his friend might look like something out of aesop's fables? joe thornton and brent burns look like they've been instructed to make you an answer a riddle if they catch you in their forest, but sometimes they just feel pretty chill and the riddle is like "do you think it smells like updog in here?"

he RIPPED OUT HIS BEARD???? i'm losing it. i was already losing in trying to understand how this guy tucked away his big ass beard when he was playing, but what, he DOESN'T?? it just hANGS OUT for other dudes to grab????? why are you as a man putting a handle on your face for other men to reel you in? that's a real question. anyway i hope the team raffled off the beard chunk and a witch bought it and has been using it for woodland spells.

i can't even blame sashayed who kept saying "i'm not trying to get you into this, i just think you would appreciate him" and i do. so next week if i post a 50K story where joe thornton carries merry and pippin to isengard, it's not even going to be her fault.

anyway, helenish describing connor mcdavid as "the yellow wallpaper but a man wrote it and it's bad" is the funniest thing i've read today. this has been hockey talk with lea.

#HOCKEY #ASKS

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gcfmug · 2 years ago

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ZeroRanger is an interesting game

i haven't played all that many kinds of shmups. only Touhou and R-type, which i played when i was like 12 and haven't touched either franchise since. the closest to a bullet hell game that i've played otherwise has probably been The Binding of Isaac and Nuclear Throne

ZeroRanger is much more of a normal shmup than a bullet hell. it has fairly simple bullet patterns, and it's rare to see a "heat seeking curving laser" , the closest you get to that are streams of bomber ships trying to blow you up by ramming into you

mechanically spaking, the game is pretty simple. you have omnidirectional movement (though that requries playing with a joystick), but no speed up / slow down function (unless, again, you play with a stick). your ship starts out with only it's main fire, and as you advance through the stages you gain more weapons, finishing with the ability to turn your ship into a goddamn mecha

the first time i saw the transformation sequence cutscene, i was completely sold

there are 2 ships. rybb and decker, type-b and type-c respectively. every weapon you have fills the same function on both ships, but they fire differently or have special attributes. an example is that rybb's charge shot explodes into a fireball upon impact, while decker's has infinite piercing. there are nuances for every weapon, but from my time playing, both ships are just as strong and capable of finishing the game

what, to my opinion, sets ZeroRanger apart from other shmups is it's visuals, it's story and it's soundtrack. the story is... honestly a bit too complex to get at first, mostly because it is shrouded in symbolism and mystery.

it starts out fairly simply — a massive alien fleet invades earth, leaded by Green Orange. earth's defense systems are compromised, and the ace pilot that was supposed to fight off the invasion is MIA. you're one of two sisters (of a trio, where the other is the ace pilot) and you got a ship that is barely functioning. time to save the world

the beginning couldn't be more generic, and it stays that way for a few stages as well. you fight off waves of enemies — most of them are earthen ships, flying drones, tanks, battlecruisers. there're hints that things might be a bit... weirder than it is immediately apparent - as the bosses you fight take more and more damage, they reveal a massive glowing Orange eye at the center of their bodies upon reaching their last health bar, and upon defeat, they bestow you two glowing orbs where you find your upgrade weapons

grabbing one plays a short cutscene with an ominuous backing track, ending with a strange symbol. if you're familiar with buddhism, or know sanskrit, you will quickly realise that this symbol a number, written in sanskrit. destroying an orb, however... well, destroys it. you gain nothing but a massive distorted explosion.

if you're starting out, and you haven't played many shmups, it's probably fair to say you have died, either on stage 1 (probably to the first miniboss, tbh) or on stage 2 (probably to the miniboss, again. or-typo is a binch). when you die for the first time you get this cute little message that goes something like "you have entered an endless cycle of life and death"

upon dying, your score is converted into extra continues, filling up an eight pronged gauge that looks like this

at this point, the symbolism is fairly clear, and it only becomes clearer as you play. ZeroRanger's story is one that mixes sci-fi and Buddhism, where your goal is to escape the cycle of reincarnation by... well

as you continue playing, you will eventually reach higher stages. stage 3 is where you gain the ability to transform into a mecha — a power bestowed to you after defeating the stage's boss, a humanoid mecha that fights with a swarm of sword-like drones, who uses said drones to create an impenetrable shield around them

the game after stage 3 is where all pretenses of this being a simple story gets thrown out of the window. enemies now are filled with eyes, you fight the reincarnated minibosses from stage 1 and 2 together, who upon being defeated turn into flying buddha heads (which turn into flying heat seeking bombs when killed). as you fly into the enemy base, you destroy wave after wave of skulls, gaining entry after defeating a giant skull with a single eye in it's forehead

you enter the base by being devoured

fighting onwards, you are pitted against overwhelming odds, waves of controlled earthen fighters oppose you, and the better you have played thus far the harder the difficulty becomes. stage 4 seems to finish once you destroy a strange skull shaped boss, which spews large orbs... similar to the ones you've used to power yourself up, though touching these is a deadly mistake.

inside the skull, you find the center of Green Orange's command, and as the pre-boss text indicates, you are going to have a pretty awkward reuinion.

for the first time you find someone, or something, willing to talk with you. Erasure. a computer created using a mysterious artifact found a long time ago by earth's government. this computer predicted the alien invasion, and using it's peculiar powers of reality manipulation, you and your sisters were trained to become the fighters who would one day destroy the invading fleet.

sadly, Erasure was hijacked by Green Orange, and thus now fights for the opponent.

still, Erasure seems to have some amount of regret over the whole thing, telling you that your chances of survival are zero. but that you must "do not give up". it then sends you into a gauntlet of bosses

of these, 3 are mandatory fights, and one is not. you are transported to a strange, dark room, where instead of a ship you seem to have become a small, orange sphere. a large, humanoid monk — corpse like and desiccated — seems to be sleeping. hitting them triggers a fight.

if you pop their snot bubble, they wake up, and begin a tale:

a long, long time ago, manusya such as us were invaded by an alien fleet. using the power of the Lotus Jewel, we created fighters to destroy these aliens. manusya, fearing that the skies would covet the power of the Jewel, sent it's strongest fighter into the great beyond — to kill, destroy, and annihilate any form of life in a pre-emptive strike.

this, they say, is the story of a god who wanted to become...

and then Erasure pulls you back.

if you manage to win against every boss, Erasure gets stumped by your perseverance and skill. however, it says that "Green Orange would not be happy seeing you still alive, but i got a solution!"

the solution is sending you to the past.

this is where i am, so far. i keep dying to the last boss of 2-2, so this is where this review? ends. i kinda know the rest of the story, but i want to experience myself

and if this shitty cliffhanger makes you want to experience the story, well, there're a few full playthroughs on youtube, and the game is pretty cheap. go listen to the soundtrack, it fucks hard

#mugpostin #zeroranger

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gali-la · 1 year ago

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for the fanfic writer asks!! i got a whole bunch so answer whatever you feel like (or all of them!)

7, 16, 20, 41, 58, 62

thank you my dearest 💖

you know I love a challenge, darling, here we go!!

It ended up being long, so take a peek under the cut <3

7: tell us about the plot of the first fanfic you ever wrote

The first fanfic I ever wrote... I had to dig this one up, tbh, it is from a while ago. it was deathbed confession, or, well, what they thought was their deathbed—I'm too fuckin' sappy to let people die XD God, it was in first person POV. Ugh, I cringed just reading it. Thank god no one will ever find it!

16: where is your favorite place to write?

I'm not sure I have one, to be completely honest. I do a lot of my writing sitting at the kitchen table, or—oh!! That's a lie; my favorite place is the couch, when my beloved dog decides that it is a good day for cuddles. Happens once in a blue moon, though, so I guess I'll stick with my kitchen table :(

20: what is your favorite trope to write?

My favorite trope... god, what a good question. There's so manyyyyy A while ago, I was very fond of coffeeshop AUs. The simplicity just made me so happy, the lack of extra-terrestrial worries and whatnot... Now, I think I'd have to go with soulmate aus. they're so versatile!! they have the potential to be shoved in anywhere, canon-compliant or not, alternate universe or not! I'm just a big sad romantic, I love the idea of people destined to be together. Or, destined not to be alone, sometimes. makes my heart flutter 🥰

41: what is the weirdest story idea you’ve ever had.

Awww, fudge, I dunno. There's probably weirder ones, but the one I can remember/is on my list is.... oh. It's not that weird, but the general idea was that Marco, for some reason or another, encounters the straw hats, and is persuaded into eating one of chopper's rumble balls. it was quite chaotic after that.

Another one I had was a Cora Lives AU, but he was for some reason on Zou with some disease that kept him comatose for 14 years. and then bam, happy reunion with Law. That one... wasn't great. Thank god I didn't spend a lot of time on it XD

58: what is the last thing that a fic made you google when you were writing it?

Okay, I have a feeling you know where this is going, so I'm going to go with the second to last thing I had to google, which was... the blueprints/x-ray of the Wholecake Chateau. That isn't really all that interesting, though, so let's pull up another one...

Ah, yes! The flavor of the filling of a common jelly donut. If ya know, ya know 😏

and, last but not least, 62: what’s the weirdest reason you’ve ever shipped something?

Well, damn. Really makin' me go through my history here, huh? I think I've got to settle on Armin/Eren from Attack on Titan. I wish I could say I saw some pretty flowers intertwined blasting their souls at me but no. I just wanted them to be so mercilessly violent and murdery and arson-y together. Was that too much to ask??

I just wanted to watch them burn down the world together T^T

That was a fun mental exercise!! thank you for the ask, my dear <3 I hope this has satisfied some of your curiosity

#thank you for the ask <3 #asks #ask game #fanfic writer

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vanillashusband · 2 years ago

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I finished aggr/etsuko season 5 and. hm. I have some Thoughts

I normally don't talk about the media I watch unless its f/o related but its been bugging me so spoilers below!

ok. this season really felt a lot like all the themes of previous seasons were coming to a head and all the pieces were coming into place but then... they just wasted it. idk just all the talk of how life just sucks and there needs to be a change I really thought that retsuko was gonna usher in that change. as someone who was so desperate to get out of the "work grind" cycle of wake up, work, go home and repeat in previous seasons that she wanted to rush into getting married purely to escape from her shitty job just to go right back to that after when she found an obvious passion in otemgirls. like. i saw other people also discussing how it kinda sucked and that retsuko will never take risks and will always return to the status quo. and this season just kinda cemented that. haida experiencing how awful it is to be down on his luck, struggling with addiction, and being homeless. seeing other people struggling with that. shikabane struck me immediately as a hikikomori and seeing both of them stuck in their own cycles of shorts hit a cord with me. haida's speech about change and how if you try to change things and rock the boat you will be thrown overboard without another thought and left to drown only for the show to drop the ball was really unsatisfying to me. its like the show doesn't acknowledge its own message and just shut down season 5s ongoing theme and everything leading up to retsuko running for office to stick her right back where she was to maintain the status quo. and retsuko and haida dating felt so sudden to me hkjghfjg (and i'm totally not saying that because i've had a stupid gay crush on haida since season 1 but have been too self conscious and afraid to ship with him 🙄) and them GETTING MARRIED??? it was so out of no where to me and they just. rushed into it. idk even though they were dating there was nothing that made you think they were in love. like its not a children's cartoon but there wasn't even any hand holding or anything and haida maybe called retsuko a pet name like. once khjgfkjgf it just felt weird to me tbh (I'M NOT JEALOUS /j). all in all it was kinda... "eh..." to me jklgjhfj I really expected retsuko to beat jiro and be the voice to the tired and beaten masses like her who want OUT of their suffocating cycles and become the prime minister cause why the fuck not?? weirder stuff has happened hgjfdg but that would be too anti-capitalistic i guess 🙄

anyway. those are my thoughts hdfjgdf nonsensical and dumb please don't take it seriously

#bug dad txt #shikabane's 'why bother' and the sentiment of 'we vote new people in but nothing ever changes' is also a big. HMMMMM #in the face of this season so like. YEAH. season after season its the same and the show won't stick to its guns about its message #its all wishy washy :/#OK I'M DONE IGNORE MY RAMBLINGS #I'm writing this at almost 1am so don't judge me if my analysis sucks hgjhfg also i'm dumb

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crunchyharold · 2 years ago

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What are your thoughts on Jo x Brick and Dawn x Dakota?

i fucken love jock whether it's platonic or romantic i just think their dynamic is great. honestly cant believe fresh tv didnt make it canon because they were clearly going in that direction but im also kinda glad they didnt because it means they didnt mess it up lmao

they have some pretty major things in common that they can bond over while having enough differences that they can learn from each other. or. uh. jo can learn some things lmao (though i'd like to think with time spent together brick learns to put himself first sometimes!! just not to the extent that jo does lmao)

the rivalry. the jabs. top tier. i'd love to have seen a progression of jo's mean nicknames turning affectionate but she doesn't notice she's doing it until people call her out on it lmao.

i used to write a lot of fanfic for a different fandom and i've considered writing for td many times and this is definitely one of the ships i'd like to explore

overall, one of the only valid (almost) canon het ships

i haven't really considered dawn x dakota much tbh (dawnkota?) but it'd definitely have potential to be interesting

the only interaction between them i can think of the top of my head (other than PRETEND ITS DADDY'S STEAK KNIFE) is in the dorm when dawn's like "ur need for attention is because ur depressed and deprived of love" or smth but with how dakota responds "wtf did my therapist tell u that" it suggests that she's self aware at least to some extent and it would have been neat to see them discuss this more

i quite like the contrast between how dakota cares so much about how others perceive her to the point where every move she makes is to gain attention and be seen as glamorous and admirable, whereas dawn gives so little of a shit of what people think of her that she'll talk to animals, knowing that it's unorthodox, and tell people to their faces what she thinks is wrong with them. i'd like to see dawn show dakota that she's valuable as a person without the attention and maybe dakota can help dawn feel more like part of the group? (dawn kinda reminds me of my younger self who didn't fit in with my peers so much that the only choice was to be weirder and more offputting on purpose so that having no friends felt intentional)

overall it's not a ship i think about but i can definitely see why people would ship it

#why do i say more things about the stuff i have less thoughts about #td #total drama #ask

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multishipper-baby · 2 years ago

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How do you feel about Yasuleon (Yasuhiro/Leon) OwO. Also Also Shinsai (Shuichi/Kiyo). Two of my beloved ships despite the little to no canon interactions (Tho I find Kiyo’s fte w/ Shuichi to be wonderful as well as their interactions in Summer Camp but that’s just me)

I'll talk about these two ships separately so this is more organized dndhwjsnsa

Yasuleon

I'm pretty ambivalent about them tbh. It's not a ship I dislike, but it also hasn't caught my attention much- mostly because I found Yasuhiro's characterization rather lacking in the first game. He's not really given many interesting or sympathetic qualities, not even in his FTE. And because he didn't appeal to me, I didn't pay him much attention in general, much less in shipping.

(I also selfship with Leon and thus am a bit protective of the characters I ship with him, but shhh).

However I did like Yasuhiro in DR3 a lot more, even if we didn't get to see him much. He really seems like he's grown attached to the other survivors- and I can imagine him and Leon dating in that context, in an AU where Leon survives. Two bros, chilling in the apocalypse, five feet apart because Leon is in denial about being gay (?

Shinsai

Okay so I haven't finished DRV3 yet (because I'm lazy) but I really like this one. I've seen the FTE, the love hotel and love across the universe, and I've found their interactions very interesting.

Korekiyo is such an odd character, and that's clearly shown in the way he treats Shuichi. He's polite, but in a distant way. He's completely fine with people being openly sexual towards him and acts like that's completely normal. He's pretty numb towards violence and has no trouble talking about horrible things. It's clear that Shuichi is unnerved by him many times.

There's a curiosity there, though. Even in the love hotel, when Korekiyo is very clearly trying to rope him into something inappropriate, Shuichi still seems curious in between his moments of fear. And what's weirder is that it actually feels in character for Shuichi (to me, at least). Like... With some characters, it doesn't feel like the protagonist would actually want to spend time with them- you're given the choice to do so, but the dialogue makes the choice feel forced. And with Shuichi and Korekiyo it doesn't feel like that; I get the vibe that Shuichi is genuinely curious about Kiyo and his weirdness.

Also I love the goth aesthetic they have together <3

#ask #asks #kaz3313 #danganronpa #also shinsai has ''me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic vibes''#I don't know why but it does

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davekat-sucks · 2 years ago

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Tbh is it just me or do I wish that there was more content about Rose or Kanaya that wasn't just shipping or "uguu lesbians"? I've always appreciated the darker and weirder sides to them, like every other character, reducing them to just pieces for a ship feels bland and tasteless.

It's strange when the two characters separate, people would draw stuff like Grimdark Rose or Kanaya killing off Eridan, but rarely anybody draws them together in the same room to act in the scenario of What If they were together early and x thing happens. Like how would Kanaya try to snap Rose out of her Grimdark form? Would Rose go farther to obliterate Eridan until he was nothing left? Ignore Karkat's orders to go after Gamzee and the two kill the clown for good? There had been pieces based on HS2 of Kanaya and Rosebot, but that's only for the dubious canon sequel. Never ones that was prior to Epilogues or HS2.

#Rosemary #Rose Lalonde #Kanaya Maryam #Homestuck #Homestuck epilogues #Homestuck^2 #HS2 #Homestuck 2 #Homestuck fandom #Rosebot #RoseKan #Rosenaya #Rose x Kanaya #Kanaya x Rose #KanRose

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jisungshotfirst · 3 years ago

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Can I ask you about something some people might see as controversial?

What do you think about shiping idols together and shiping an idol with yourself?

And which one do you think is worse?

And is there a certain level that you think shiping is acceptable but if you cross the line it's just weird and creepy and a no?

Um sure okay fjdj this is all just gonna be my personal opinion!

I basically agree with your last statement there, that things are acceptable until a line is crossed. And that line is where it becomes delusional or it's inappropriate or makes me uncomfortable (underage/big age gaps etc) and everyone has a different level of uncomfort so there's no universal Wrong or Right, it's up to our own morals yk.

I frankly think shipping yourself with idols is a little weirder, it's not something I'm comfortable with. I have never and will never read a y/n fic coz it's not for me! And I think that can quite easily lead to the delusion that you are somehow going to marry this person ur a fan of and it's hard to watch that from an outsiders pov fjdj it's cringey at first and then it's creepy and then it's the whole reason sasaengs exist - and the reason why companies are so insane about idols dating. But I don't Blame fans because it's a major selling point made by companies in order to gain popularity. If these idols are "dateable", companies drag in more fans and feed their delusions and get more money! And it's been that way from the very start. And also some of it is harmless ! But in general I'm more uncomfortable with it

Then with shipping idols together, tbh I do like shipping! I like recognising why I enjoy certain dynamics that idols have together and it makes my little gay heart happy. It's also shipping an idol with literally one of their closest friends and not a random stranger they don't know (in y/n fics etc) which I prefer! But obvs there's still a line and people can easily slip into delusions and look for evidence to "prove" a ship and it can become obsessive and creepy and weird. And I'm also not saying all this like I'm above it, I used to fall into that easily, I've just grown up jfdj and it's possible to move on from that and still enjoy shipping respectfully instead or deciding it's all bad and evil.

What's best tho is just to not interact with it if you're not comfortable ???? There's no way to Stop people from doing it unless you don't give them attention. If someone you follow is making you uncomfortable in any ways just unfollow. Like there is PLENTY of shipping I come across that I'm not comfortable with, I use the filters on ao3 like a lifeline, but ive found a balance and let myself enjoy what I think is right for me!

Well here you go !!!! FJJDD I hope I didn't bore you<3 but thems my opinions nfjdjd have a good day !!!! 😚😚😚💖💖💖

#anons #kit rants

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scraps-pile · 2 years ago

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yeah, I can definitely appreciate all of this, and tbh, I'm absolutely positive that what you've outlined here is what the writers were going for... I'm not even really coming at this from the perspective of someone who wants to tear the ship down. if Steve and Nancy are endgame, I just want to see it done well.

but yeah, based on just my own personal sensibilities, I think the 6 kids part really is just unfortunately executed... like, of course it refers to the party, and the fact that Steve is really starting to feel his best when he has all these kids around to protect and nurture. and they love him for the person he really is... he doesn't have to posture like he's the coolest thing on earth the way he did back in high school. he can let himself be weirder, or kind of lame sometimes, and ironically this makes him actually the coolest person these kids know, because he's mellowed out and come into his own so much.

but I think that has been, and could further be, conveyed in so many other ways... and having him say verbatim that he wants six children someday is one of the more ham fisted methods they could've chosen. not because it's wrong to want something like that, but because it's so specific... he could've just said that he always wanted a big family, implying that he currently feels like he has that right there in the mobile home, and then he could've just told Nancy he's glad she's a part of it. to me, that'd just come off as sincere... like he doesn't mind how he has her, as long as she's with him somehow, because she matters a lot to him, even now, after everything. but in it's current form, the scene almost feels like Steve is acting as a fictional character. writer omniscience allows him to feel confident laying out the future he's imagined for them both, because the narrative is definitely trying to set them up... she won't say no. and idk, they're really shouting this theme to the back wall when I think I kind of already knew this about him, (if not the particulars then at least the sentiment), and if you take his words more literally, it then stumbles into this weird thicket of issues that I described earlier, which a lot of uncharitable viewers will find really easy to take issue with besides. I just don't think this did the ship any favors... I don't think it's regression, I just think it's easy to criticize if a person was already on the fence, or not fond of stancy.

but to clarify, when I mentioned "will-they-won't-they" that was thinking more in a broad sense... I just feel like a lot of the characters end up accidentally having better chemistry when the writers aren't trying to make a romance out of their connection, because there's a sense of consistency to the way they keep steadily liking each other across multiple seasons. and in the current situation between Jonathan, Nancy, and Steve... Nancy has a pretty solid plan for her future, or at least the immediate stuff in terms of college, and that's what's kind of breaking down her connection to Jonathan. their goals might not line up anymore, and it might even go deeper than where they want to go to school. but if that's enough to threaten their relationship, then it makes it frustrating that Nancy didn't say any of it when Steve mentioned his aspirations. isn't the Nancy/Jonathan situation emphasizing that that's important? I get that the moment is Steve's for making the parallel between the current party and what he wants his future to look like, but now I actually am curious about what Nancy sees herself doing going forward, just for the sake of knowing.

and Nancy also seems... not finished yet? as a character? I said a bunch of stuff to this effect in my tags, but Nancy basically feels like she's got huge hangups that still haven't been addressed. I think I've said this in another post, but she and Steve have been consistently trying to escape their initial archetypes this whole time... and while Steve is subverting toxic masculinity and coming out the other side healthier, the things that Nancy is trying to subvert might actually be healthy if she were in a healthy environment/relationship. like, her initial persona was that of a studious, gentle, accommodating, sweet girl... any expectations can be a prison if they're forced, but these aren't necessarily bad qualities. they're just the qualities that she was trying to align with when she lost Barb.

and like... the amount of responsibility she feels for losing Barb is unfair. and I think that actual subplot firmly ended when Barb's parents were able to stop searching and finally mourn. but I think the lasting effect that this has had on Nancy is a kind of paranoid need to control her own trajectory in life, and a need for power such that she can be the one to fight threats directly. it's the two things she was lacking in the situation with Barb... she was letting other people dictate her actions, and she wasn't expected or invited to have the kind of strength that would've saved her. in claiming power for herself, Nancy can end up doing things like, say, pushing Steve away and ending their relationship, or making Jonathan too nervous about their future college plans to actually talk to her, or coming off as unapproachable to the point where Robin is nervous about even asking if they qualify as friends. and I think Nancy wielding that shotgun against Vecna is a perfect example of how taking power into one's own hands can be subversive and empowering for a female character, while also maybe not coming from the healthiest emotional place, and I'm not sure we've actually seen Nancy grapple with this effectively yet. she just has a harder road, because the subversion of what she was the last time she knew peace is pretty tumultuous, and I think it was always going to be that way for her. any external voice that tries to tell her to settle down is probably going to rub the wrong way in this context... we're missing the part where she decides to let herself settle on her own terms.

and tbh, I'm not sure what this says about Nancy and Steve, or about any ship with Nancy in it. but my biggest nagging fear is that they're going to kill off Steve via some kind of self sacrifice. I honestly think that'd break Nancy, whether she and Steve are platonic or romantic.

having been a nancy fan from day 1, i’ve seen some godawful takes but st4 really brought out some of the worst media analysis i’ve seen.

when and where did nancy say she didn’t want kids?? how did steve imply that nancy was gonna be the one taking care of the kids while he works? who said they would even settle down in hawkins?? y’all took a scene from SEASON 1 where nancy talks about how she doesn’t wanna end up in a loveless marriage like karen and ted and just ran with it…

she’s grown. she’s seen unimaginable horror. i think a bit of normalcy in the suburbs is definitely not the nightmare nancy once thought it was. she just didn’t want to be STUCK. and she’s definitely not giving up her dream of being a journalist. i truly don’t even know how some of y’all came to that conclusion

seeing how many people act like she’s an independent girlboss who shouldn’t have any romantic or familial aspirations is very weird. u know she can have both of those things, right? if u really think that NANCY of all people would let a relationship dissolve any ambitions/goals she has, then u have no understanding of her character

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inactive-syub · 7 years ago

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any tips on writing sex scenes? you write some of the most unique sex scenes I've read because they're so detailed and the way you write is both hot and dirty but also emotional which I feel like most writers chose either or. also it feels so realistic, and very idk in the moment? I really appreciate the lack of kinks bc this fandom is so kink obsessed so ur fics are a nice break. and for someone who writes so much sex, it never feels boring or repetitive which is a huge feat.

oh wow, i am rly honoured tbh, thank u so much??? this got kinda long bc i got excited, lmao, but i rly hope it helps and definitely don’t be afraid to ask if you’ve got any more questions, or want me to elaborate more on any points here. i rly love helping ppl w their writing if i can!

the small details. the small things rly make a smut scene kinda more intimate and whatnot, and usually the smaller things aren’t so sexual, so it’s probably what’s often missing from a lot of more heavily kink focused pwp bc there’s already so much going on, it’s hard to remember to include those little extras. but like, it could be, idk, a kiss on the cheek that seems so weirdly innocent in the moment, or hand-holding, or something said, something that’s more personal to the couple. it’s rly something u need to think about in relation to each scene specifically bc these things will always be different, for every pairing, every story, etc.

emotions. i guess some writers kinda focus on the physical sensations when writing smut and forget about the actual emotions the characters are feeling. for me, in my writing, i rly view smut as a whole emotional experience and like, sex usually is. i’m not saying it’s always a huge, meaningful, soul-ascending thing, but even if it’s just elation and a sense of freedom, the rush of excitement that comes from fucking a stranger, those are still emotions, y’know, if they’re not described, your reader isn’t going to know they’re there and they will sense something missing, even if they don’t know what it is. a lot of the time, i’ll write the smut first, i’ll write plain nastiness, focusing on the physical, then i’ll go back over the scene and add the feelings, just so i can spend some extra time w them, lmao.

dialogue. this is rly important to me and it’s something i get complimented on a lot, managing to work humour and stuff into a sex scene. so, when i say dialogue, i don’t mean “dirty talk” bc dirty talk is kind of a kink? it’s not something all couples necessarily enjoy and are good at? so, i usually like to inject a random bout of bickering over the position or something instead, and it makes the characters more relatable and less like porn actors, y’know. i think writers worry about that spoiling the “mood”, but personally, i don’t think it does.

choreography. there’s nothing weirder than reading a sex scene and not being able to visualise where their limbs are and who’s straddling who and are they still standing or are they on the bed now? no, wait, they’re against the wall?? so, u literally need to choreograph it in your head. you don’t need to write every move they make, but be constantly aware in your own mind of what position they’re in and then drop little hints and details into your narrative to keep your reader updated on their main movements, y’know. like, idk if you read my fic “old habits”, but i rly made a map for that at one point to get them from the door through the apartment to the bed, just to see what obstacles i could throw in and stuff :’)

lastly, sex is gross. u didn’t exactly ask about this, but i wanted to mention it anyway bc i get so mad when sex is over-romanticised. it’s rly a sticky and sweaty and often kinda clumsy process and it’s okay to draw attention to that because that is sex. you can’t say it’s unsexy bc it’s literally what sex is, u know what i mean? and including stuff like that is another aspect that makes it more “real” and relatable, i think.

i actually think those first four aspects especially are the main things that can make a sex scene unique, so keep that in mind, too, maybe. because, like, they’re gonna be totally different for every ship and every story and even every scene, so. they’ll rly set each smut scene apart for you, i think.

god, i hope i made sense, it’s like 2:00AM :’)

anyway, on a more personal note, making every smut scene i write unique is something i worry about a lot and struggle with and rly strive towards, so you coming in here and saying that rly made my day. thank you so much, and i hope i helped you!

#.reply #.advice #it's rly cool to add that tag to smth oh man :')#anon

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