#but i don't have the braincell today

[wtf-amiru]

"Nine people I’d like to know better" aka @cantspelldragoonwithoutgoon drags me out of my pillow fort to expose my crimes

it's not even that i'm shy about tagging, get tagged homies, i just have no brain cells? So if we're moots, and you haven't been tagged in one of these yet, THIS IS ME TAGGING YOU, ILY BITCH [i'm full of spice today]

only if you want of course 🙊

Last Song: Comatose by Coheed and Cambria

Favorite Color: yeah no notes, black and purple here too

Last Movie/T.V. show: freshly out of the annual new year's The Mummy rewatch

Sweet, Spicy or Savory: all of them independently but it depends on the time of day, stock market and alignment of planets which one i prefer at any given moment [i'm not even going to change goon's phrasing of this because it's too real]

Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady (aka single and happy) [this is actually where goon just finds out i'm the canadian version of them?]

Last thing I Googled: "happy hoodie cat" (i need to frequently bath one of my cats, but also look at all these goobs)

Current Obsession: making guys [this is a key term i use for excessively making new characters in video games :3], usually thick elves

[vertigo-tango]

doodle dump

[daily-smol-silm]

Have I heard, creachure ideas??? Ohhh, intriguing!

Creachur Tyleko, perhaps, if you need an idea. Creachur Tyleko nimming on a piece of raw meat, maybe?

Day #87 - Creachur

Uhm well... um you see...... uhhhhhhhh

Creachur Tyelko is a litlle bit... Feral? Unhinged? Would not sit still long enough for me to draw him normally?? So... yeah.

[theflyingfeeling]

I hope everyone's having a nice Sunday, and if not, I hope I can make it more less terrible with the third chapter for my fic let me down slowly, now on AO3 ✨

again, huge thanks to anyone who's been reading this 🥺 the final chapter will be up at some point next week

[esteemed-excellency]

also 12 (date nights) for hiram and the deviless? 👉👈

12. What are their date nights -- or secret trysts -- like?

They usually dine at Dante’s, or at a similar exclusive restaurant, and there they decide where to spend the rest of the evening. They don't always plan in advance, they prefer to see what the city has to offer. After dinner they like to stroll around Veilgarden to see if there's anything new in the bohemian circles. They are both interested in art: the Deviless adores to attend poetry readings and Hiram enjoys all kinds of theatrical performances, and if they plan to go the theatre he always reserves two seats at Mahogany Hall. Their first date was at a concert, and they've canonically been to many dances and private soirées at the Brass Embassy.

They like to be in a busy place together, it makes them gravitate towards each other even more, and the Deviless particularly appreciates the background hum of a crowded place, but they always end their evenings in a quiet place, to spend the rest of the night playing music or slow dancing together, they value their intimacy. They both have a piano and a phonograph at home, but Hiram's townhouse is bigger and there's more space to waltz around so they prefer to go to his place.

Hiram doesn’t sleep much and the Deviless needs to sleep even less, she always remains with him until he falls asleep. Sometimes she stays until the morning comes, and he never has nightmares when she does.

[racingliners]

HELLO i'm asking two fic asks i hope that's okay!

✑ PROCESSING for The Rules of Strategy and ♡ SMALL THINGS for Slowly And Then All at Once please🥰

it is ALWAYS okay to ask me to yell about more than one of my fics!!!

✑ PROCESSING: pick a fic and I’ll tell you what it was like to write it!

Oh my beloved TRoS... (ao3 link)

So one thing to know about is that because I'm autistic I will research the shit out of anything. And while I watched the 2017 season at the time, there was a lot of Mercedes-centric things I missed out on. So a lot of my research for each race weekend chapter consists of tag surfing here on tumblr for pictures and video clips (mainly to see what Lewis was wearing on a specific day if I need it, and if there was anything notable that happened across the weekend), looking up free practice/quali/race reports, and also watching the Mercedes strategy debrief videos so that when I'm writing Strategist!Seb, I have a really good idea of what I'm talking about. In a couple of instances (Bahrain, China and Spain) I've also watched the full races back just to get a proper feel for when writing the race sections, and for any team radio clips.

Then, I'll get writing. I'd actually planned out the vast majority of the chapters many months ago based on the season results and what I could remember from 2017, as well as the various relationship development points. But I do the above stuff to get my brain into the frame of mind for whichever specific race chapter I'm writing (I like to do a balance of actual racing and mushy romance bc that's just how my brain works, and because in a way they both influence each other in the plot).

Sometimes I'll be going about my day and I'll have an idea drift into my head for a future chapter, or even a bit of dialogue, so I'll write it down in whichever relevant notes doc I have so I have it on hand for later.

Obviously when I actually get to writing things will change a bit in terms of what scenes I do end up including. I have my notes as a guide and just go with the flow in terms of what feels best for the development of the story. The only exception when I've done a complete 180 for what I originally had planned was the Monaco chapter, which I ended up setting post-race at the Mercedes factory and at Seb's house. IRL it was a rough weekend for Mercedes and I felt like I'd already written that to an extent with the Bahrain chapter, so I opted to change it and I'm really happy with how it ended up turning out.

♡ SMALL THINGS: pick a fic and I’ll tell you my favourite minor detail from it!

I am SO happy someone asked me about this fic bc I just love it so so much! (ao3 link)

I'd say I'm definitely a very detail orientated writer, so I just love sprinkling little things in here and there in the hope that someone else notices them and loves them as much as I do.

One of which was definitely in the hotel room confession scene towards the end, where I very specifically had Jenson wear a mint green shirt (what was about to become Team Brackley aka Mercedes colours) to foreshadow him and Shov getting together.

He adjusted the fabric of his shirt, a mint green button down with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and slowly walked over towards Shov. The best case scenario of them going to be at different teams in a couple of months’ time meant that if what Jenson was about to say completely blew up in his face, it would be somewhat easy for neither of them to see or speak to each other ever again. As painful a prospect as it was.

Team colours are such a huge identifier, especially in F1 where every team has their own distinct colour scheme, so it's something I love to play around with a lot for the symbolism of it all (I did a very similar thing in Life In the Fast Lane where I had Sophie and Benedikt wearing each others helmet colours, also to foreshadow their romantic relationship). And at this point in 2009, Jenson had already signed his contract to join McLaren in 2010, so it was because of that I had Jenson wear a Mercedes colour (instead of BrawnGP white or yellow) to signify to the reader that they're about to become each other's person as he and Shov only had a very short about of time left at the same team.

fic ask game

[crow-posting]

Publicly defining my OCs' relations bc I forgor. Enjoy my disaster Awoken (and robot).

The Awoken Brigade

RZ and Takara: Lilo and Stitch. Dolores and Camilo. siblings who will flip each other off when entering and turn off the lights when exiting, but can't eat alone because it "feels wrong." and RZ may be the Young Wolf but the only thing Takara is jealous of is his height.

RZ and Avraam: queerplatonic. a boy and his cat. Avraam is enamored with RZ and RZ loves Avraam so much that he helped revive him twice Allows This™. everything and nothing has changed between them since the Yang Liwei.

RZ and Riley: RZ doesn't have a set opinion on Riley, since Riley is a New Light, but RZ was the one who brought Arsträd's (Riley's) body back from the Dreadnaught so. 👀

Takara and Avraam: Takara had a crush on Avraam on the Yang Liwei and she's finally got him!! and Avraam is just happy to have a girlfriend after all these years. Corgi and Saint Bernard vibes.

Avraam and Riley: Avraam was a "friend of a friend" with Arsträd [before he died] and that dynamic hasn't changed much with Riley. Avraam does mentor Riley whenever he can, as Riley has found himself a bit of an outcast with other Awoken.

bonus

RZ and Crow: queerplatonic, maybe mutual pining, definitely complicated. Uldren aside, RZ had(?) crush on Crow and never figured out if it was romantic; and Crow admires RZ deeply but insists it's "like a bromance." the situation gets even more complicated when RZ's [definitely romantic] crush on Ada and Crow's relationships with Jolyon / Amanda (and @onyeenhok's OC Mitch) are factored in. they'll figure it out... maybe.

[altruistic-meme]

WIP tag game

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

i got tagged by @irregularcollapse eheheh thank you B i have no complaints about being forever tagged cus i loooove tag games (even if i can be really slow/forgetful a lot of times skdhfskdhf)

again i think im going to just stick to my BSD ideas from my discord threads lmao, im also going to limit it down a considerable amount bc the plot bunnies have been. multiplying. a LOT. and many of the WIPs don't actually have anything more than just plotting/ideas.

who tf is "slug"????

blackhole time fuckery

will you be mine? (no sir)

it's a safehouse, right?

dazai and the horrible crush

the port mafia boss's most loyal dog

ex roommate

11 birthdays au

happy pills

selfish

surprising how many of these are actual.... NAMES that i will probably actually keep for the fics vs placeholder names that are just the first thing my mind could think of to let me immediately know what the doc contains lmao

mmm i shall tag @iworshipsappho @daylightaftertherain @zee-has-commitment-issues @cozy-fish-crow and @kevin-day-is-bi for this for now <3

[redwinterroses]

I'm so slow at the writing things these days but I got almost 2k of dark fibre au out of my brain today on two ends of the spectrum.

Fluff:

and angst:

Anyway Tango's having a bad time.

[b-blushes]

hyping myself up to hammer drill some holes in the wall OOOOOH AAAAAAH SO POWERFUL

[galaxywhump]

Thinking about my stories but nothing specific so it's just my brain going ❗❗❗

[junk-culture]

unironically that peanuts comic where snoopy is like "i need a drastic change in my life" or something and he just lies on his house facing the other way. i will sit on my bed in the exact same spot every single day for months and then feel a monumental Difference in my general state of being if i suddenly switch to sitting at the other end/in a different spot.

[solradguy]

Today has been a day, tell you what

[hyunniesgirl]

I literally don't know how to interact with people on Tumblr(neither irl) I always think people will think I'm weird 😭😭 why am I like this

If I ever sound off interacting with you or if I don't answer your comment in my fic it's because I'm having a mental breakdown trying to figure it out HOW I should answer untill I give up and don't answer at all

[fishsfailureson]

Day 8- Passages (guess who forgot to post this yesterday lmao)

They're going on a trip. Gourmand made them little bags- probably with woven plant material or something.

[daughterofhecata]

Wie wärs mit Peter/Cotta? :D Vielleicht die 17 und/oder 23? 👀🥰

[morning after prompts]

Für die beiden schreibe ich doch immer gerne! (Auch wenns diesmal etwas gedauert hat...) Hoffe, es gefällt dir!

17. "I get that accidents happen... but was this really an accident?" / 23. "I'm up for morning sex if you are." + Peter/Cotta

Die Erinnerung an die Nacht kehrte zurück, noch ehe Peter die Augen ganz geöffnet hatte.

Der Einsatz kurz vor Schichtende, die Leiche in der Wohnung. Cotta, der eine Viertelstunde später zeitgleich mit dem Arzt aufgetaucht war, weil er dummerweise noch im Präsidium gewesen war und der Bereitschaftsdienst genau genommen erst kurz darauf zuständig war. Das sich ewig hinziehende Hin und Her mit dem Arzt und dem Bestatter. Schließlich der Abtransport der Leiche, der Einsatzbericht, der noch geschrieben werden musste.

Der Platten an Peters Fahrrad.

Cotta, der ebenfalls gerade mit dem vorläufigen Bericht fertig geworden war, ihm angeboten hatte, ihn ein Stück mitzunehmen, weil der Fußweg von Cottas Haus aus kürzer war als vom Revier aus. Cottas Angebot, ob Peter noch ein Bier wollte.

Der Moment, als sie viel zu dicht voreinander in der großzügig bemessenen Küche gestanden hatten.

Dann, endlich, Cottas Lippen auf seinen, seine Hände unter Cottas Hemd. Stolpern ins Obergeschoss.

Und hinterher war er offenbar einfach in Cottas Bett eingeschlafen.

Die Erkenntnis störte ihn nicht wirklich, denn auch wenn er sich vielleicht ein wenig seltsam dabei fühlen würde, er war sich sicher, dass Cotta mit der Situation ungefähr so souverän umgehen würde, wie er es mit jeder tat (die nicht damit zu tun hatte, dass sich drei Jugendliche, die nicht näher benannt werden sollen, unnötig in Lebensgefahr gebracht hatten).

Blinzelnd öffnete Peter die Augen, gähnte und streckte sich ein bisschen.

Bemerkte dann, dass Cotta ihn bereits beobachtete, ein Lächeln um seine Mundwinkel spielte.

„Guten Morgen“, sagte Peter.

„Ich weiß ja, das Unfälle passieren“, erklärte Cotta, anstatt den Gruß zu erwidern. „Aber ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob das hier ein Unfall war.“

Peter grinste. „Nee, ich glaub eher nicht“, stimmte er zu. „Ich glaub, wir haben schon ne Weile darauf zugesteuert.“

Und es stimmte – er hatte schon länger etwas für Cotta übrig, doch in letzter Zeit hatte er das immer deutlichere Gefühl bekommen, dass sein Interesse erwidert wurde. Blickkontakte und beiläufige Berührungen, die nur einen Hauch zu lange dauerten, die Spannung zwischen ihnen war stetig gestiegen.

Es war Peter inzwischen fast egal gewesen, ob die anderen Kollegen etwas mitbekamen. Bisher hatte ihn noch niemand darauf angesprochen – er fragte sich, ob sich das ändern würde, nachdem er gestern für alle sichtbar mit Cotta ins Auto gestiegen war.

„Das haben wir wohl“, riss ihn Cottas schmunzelnde Zustimmung aus seiner Überlegung. „Und was machen wir jetzt damit?“, fügte Cotta einen Moment später ernster an.

Offensichtlich wollte er erstmal Peters Meinung hören, bevor er sich selbst äußerte. Aber Peter hatte sowieso schon einen guten Verdacht, in welche Richtung Cotta tendieren würde. Schon von mehreren Kollegen hatte er gehört, dass Cotta keine Beziehungen einging, Dates grundsätzlich aus dem Weg ging und bisher jeden Versuch, ihn zu verkuppeln, im Keim erstickt hatte.

War ihm recht, er hatte das deutliche Gefühl, dass sowas zwischen ihnen auch nicht funktionieren würde, dafür war der Altersunterschied vielleicht doch zu groß.

Allzu intensiv wollte er jetzt allerdings auch nicht darüber nachdenken, in welchem Rahmen genau das zwischen ihnen laufen sollte, wenn da noch weiter was laufen sollte.

Also sprach er das Erstbeste aus, das ihm in den Sinn kam. „Keine Ahnung. Aber ich wäre für Sex am Morgen zu haben, wenn du es bist.“

Eine Sekunde lang starrte Cotta ihn nur an, überrascht. Dann lachte er.

„Ich denke, ich könnte mich überreden lassen.“