#but yknow when u writing and then more ideas come and more ideas come and just *screaming*

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Hi, sorry if this is an insensitive question but I was wondering if you have books by black authors that don't center racism? It's not that I want to live a blissful life not knowing about racism, I'm dark skinned nb woc, racism is part of life. I just noticed that unless it's a romance book, every 'by black authors' book list I find will have all the books with racism being a major theme. As if being a black author means publishing will only sign if you write about racism. I want to read something different, happy and humorous, fantastical, scry, whatever. I don't want every book I read from black authors to be about race the same way I don't want every book by queer authors I read to have homophobia. I got some recommendations before and all of them were like "hilarious book where author talks about racism they faced in a funny way", I feel exhauated. I know different books have to exist but I can't find them when I google.

sorry I'm so charmed by the idea that asking a white bitch for book recs about Black people doing something other than experiencing racism might be insensitive

anyway you're right like!!! a lot of authors of color only get to crack into publishing if they're willing to write about their suffering and be lauded for that and like, cool, bless up for writing that but would be cool to pay attention to stuff that's not all pain and suffering!!

I'm going to caveat to say that some of these will contain, you know, References to racism, especially if they take place in the real world, since Black authors and Black characters are gonna acknowledge that, but I'm not gonna rec like. The Hate U Give where that's The Point, yknow? also a lot of these are still rather dark and grim as novels because of who I am as a person and what I like but I hope will still be helpful. check the content warnings for everything I recommend ever.

ANYWAYYY

gotta shill for Akwaeke Emezi right out of the gate as usual: their most recent novel, Little Rot, is a pitch black thriller that starts with a Nigerian couple breaking up in Lagos and proceeding to have the most evil and deranged weekend anyone has ever had. truly almost content warning in the book for this one, BUTTTTT racism is like. the least of anyone's worries. girl, there are hitmen.

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite is another Nigerian novel that's more of a dark comedy about a dutiful older sister who's been cleaning up her impulsive and beautiful younger sister's dead boyfriends for YEARS. shit comes to a head when little sis sets her eyes on a man her older sister likes (who's also her boss!!! gag!!!).

Helen Oyeyemi's novel The Icarus Girl is a quietly creepy horror about a young mixed English girl who visits her mother's Nigerian family and comes back with a commanding, powerful imaginary friend that no one can see, who starts causing terrible things to occur once the family is back home. I was blown away by how well Oyeyemi wrote little Jessamine's POV; really nailed the smart, lonely, anxious child perspective.

Darknesses by Lachelle Seville is a WILD paranormal indie pub that i read earlier this year that's soooo messy and so entertaining. I think I described it as feeling like reading through someone's blog about their OC's? it was a hoot. the basic premise is that a young Black woman named Oasis, physically and mentally scarred from escaping a cult, is working at a bookstore in New York City when she meets another gorgeous Black girl who claims to be in love with her... and also to be an incarnation of Count Dracula.

if we want some high fantasy I really, really love NK Jemisin's Dreamblood Duology, which is set in a fantasy version of ancient Egypt and revolves around a class of priests who utilize the magic of dreams. political intrigue ensues!

love of my life Janelle Monáe curated a collection of short stories called The Memory Librarian, where each story is written by a different author and is inspired by the world of Monáe's album Dirty Computer. Danny Lore's story Nevermind, based on the music video for Pynk, is my #1 favorite thing.

also if we want some nonfiction I truly adore all of Samantha Irby's essay collections so much; there aren't a lot of writers who consistently make me LAUGH laugh but she gets me. her most recent, Quietly Hostile, has some top notch shenanigans re: having to go to the hospital for a very stupid allergic reaction at the height of COVID social distancing.

you may also find inspo here (I know I did!!)

and here (I'm especially intrigued by Meet Me at the Crossroads)

[peapod20001]

Ooooohh godd.

[yukiiisx]

Hii I hope you’re doing great💗 can I request a home-spa date with Gojo? Like a whole one-shot of reader coming home exhausted as hell and Gojo surprising her with a bath and like a massage? Thank u!!💗💗

A/N: HEY ANON SORRY FOR POSTING LATE, i'll be more active now. thanks for this request i liked writing this n hope u like it too.

warnings: princess treatment, fluff

wc: 771 words

You let out a sigh and rub your temples as you enter the lift. Work was brutal this week, your boss gave you deadlines one after the other, leaving you with no rest and sleepless nights, thank god it was finally friday and hopefully a peaceful weekend.

The lift opened with a ding and your heels clacked as you walked over to your shared penthouse with Satoru and lightly knock on the door.

The door swung open almost immediately, revealing Satoru in a loose white t-shirt and gray joggers, a soft grin tugging his lips,"Took you long enough, princess." He said and stepped aside for you to enter,"Rough day?"

"You have no idea." You said sighing, taking off your heels at the side, replacing them with slippers.

"Perfect." Satoru said grinning,"I've got a surprise for you, baby."

You arch your brow at his smile,"Surprise?"

"Follow me." He said as he walked deeper into your shared penthouse. The lights were dimmed to a golden glow and you could smell lavender and vanilla in the air. You both entered the bathroom.

The bathtub was filled with soapy water with bubbles rising at the top with rose petals, a bottle of wine kept on top of the table with 2 glasses, chocolate covered strawberries on the plate and doritos on the side.

"Ta-da!" He said playfully extending his arms to point at the setup,"Welcome to Satoru's spa."

“Doritos?” you asked, holding back a smile as you looked at him.

"Hey- no judgement. Even luxury spas need snacks, yknow?" He said folding his arms,"I just thought- you work so hard. I wanted tonight to be about you."

"This is perfect, Satoru." You said leaning closer to him, pressing a chaste kiss to his cheek. He beamed like a kid who has been handed candy to him.

"Now, there's your robe. I'll be doing everything tonight, foot massage, shoulder massage, rubs." He said, counting the words on his fingers. When you returned he was sat on the stool, dramatically rolling up his sleeves.

When you slid your robe off and entered the bath, the warmth hit you almost instantly, the scent of vanilla tickled your nose and you poked your feet out.

Satoru handed you a glass of wine,"Only for my favourite customer." You took a sip from the glass and hummed,"This is the best spa I've ever been too."

"Yes ma'am. We only give VIP treatment to our customers." Satoru said in a faux professional tone, as his hands began massaging your shoulders skillfully, every rub almost erasing the tension from your shoulders.

You closed your eyes softly as his hands worked on your shoulders, rubbing your neck too, eliciting a soft sigh from you,"Oh fuck wow, Satoru." He rubbed it a few more times before you spoke up again.

"I think I'm ready for that foot massage."

He held a fluffy towel in his hand,"Ma'am this is a five star establishment, you don't have to ask." He moved to massage your feet,"Oh, I almost forgot."

He clicked on a remote kept near him, as you instantly recognise it, it was a playlist of your favourite soft songs. He began rubbing your calves, pressing hardly on it and slowly moved down to your soles his hands expertly working on it.

He soon wrapped his fingers around your toes which erupted a giggle from you,"This feels a bit weird, Satoru."

"That's just how you think, Ma'am." He said again and you giggled a bit loudly this time,"Aren't you a bit tired?"

"Are you doubting me, ma'am? I'm sure you know how excellent my hands are?" He said, looking over at you with a teasing grin and you laughed,"Doubt you? Neverrr"

You took one strawberry and ate it,"Soo how long did it take for you to do this?"

Satoru looked proudly at you,“Not long. Just had to raid the bathroom cabinet, YouTube a couple of massage tutorials, and borrow some of your fancy oils.”

You snorted,"YouTube? I'm impressed."

"I really wanted you to relax today, you do work and take care of me, thought it was my turn today." He said softly, rubbing your feet on the fluffy towel.

"You know this means much more than you think it does. Thank you."

"It's my duty to serve you, ma'am." Satoru said, speaking like a professional again as you laughed again gulping the rest of your wine and lay your head back. You softly closed your eyes again, listening to the background music.

You don't know when you drifted to sleep, but you wake up in the morning in your bedroom with Satoru curled up by your side.

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Taglist: @gojhoes @satorusaysiloveyou

[thatdeadaquarius]

Topic: Genshin impact.

au: Sagau.

idea: So what if you had the powers of every character you played as in every game you played and then get isekaid into genshin impact with imposter au. I imagine it goes smth like

Zhongli: “I will have order!”

reader, Who played Roblox as someone who lagged the game (explanation: I’m pretty sure ping is also how time works in games. If you can control the flow of ping you can control the flow of time in games.): “ZA WARUDO!”

Heyyy!! Thanks for waiting for the reply/response from my slow ass :0

So they did clarify what they meant/expand so imma just copy paste that here!

“k now I remember. So basically imma write it here since it’s easier: Basically you don’t have to (but you can) transform into the character that has those set of powers but if you do those powers are enhanced.”

Sun: Reader (”you”/they/them)

Orbit: Headcanons-ish, Light Imposter AU (as in, NOT Yandere/Dark), mild crossover elements bc Shapeshifter Shenanigans™️

Stars: bro idek

Comets & Meteors: Content Warnings: mild cussing, genshin typical mild violence, & Trigger Warnings: none known.

Please comment if I missed any. /gen

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so fair warning,, ive never seen jojo bizarre, but i appreciate i come off well-read/watched? LMAO

so im just gonna kinda,, guess? like just cycle thru diff. random media, and im hoping both me and you reading this will have a fun time (as this is a little challenge, but i like it so ill give it a shot, dont kno if its a good one but- 😅)

so to set the scene, of how u got to this point, ykno of running like ur life (maybe?) depends on u running around different teyvat countries,

u thought it was weird everyone knew a little too much about you?? (ofc theyve heard u during gaming, they know u the same way we all know Markiplier, get it?)

then a bunch of NPCs/Vision users/Archons?? were REALLY invested in talking to you, which freaked u out even more

and by the time you saw Zhongli, yknow, just the oldest god in game, making a fast-walk towards you, ykno the retired god who didnt move an inch when an old water god attacked Liyue for a test, is now hurrying to you???

ur logically get so fucking scared sm shits abt to go down, u just start running

it isnt until ur reaching for a ledge and some webbing shoots out of ur arm (from a glitchy little spot on ur arm, where it could be coming out of ur skin, but sometimes its a blue and red bracelet)

it latched onto the nearest building, and thats how u find out u can grapple ur way, literally Spiderman style, out of the harbor

and bro, idk if it would be fun, or confusing and stressful, or maybe both?? to just find out u can use any video game power from any game youve played before as you go running from countries bc for some freaky reason they know too much abt you/are pursuing you-

dUDE- they had small statues of you in like every little section of their cities

u head to Mondstadt and as Venti comes screaming and flying at you (in excitement, but ur freaked), u go to hold a hand up and suddenly ur holding a heavy stone tablet that unleashes some holographic yellow chains that freeze him in place-?? why is this familiar-

oh my god u have the sheikah slate from Breath of the Wild,

and as ur booking it out of there, u manage to get ahold of a sword, and u know exactly how to use it to knock back favonius knights trying to stop you (they are concerned for their god who is just unleashing random powers on ppl, pls let Grandmaster Jean just talk to you Your Majesty-!!)

by the time you teleport ur way to Inazuma, (bc u still have this worlds access to ur player/traveler’s powers), ur trying to find a nice place to stay for a little bit

at least in that sweet spot of the Raiden not noticing/finding you, while things cool down on the main continent, before moving on,

and u get some tools to help fashion just a little shelter, bc u dont have any money/mora rn, and ur able to literally build a house???

a mailbox pops up and thanks you for renting with Tom Nook???? As in Animal Crossing-

and rlly if the BOTW/slate thing didnt clue u into video game powers, then this definitely would tbh lmao

right as u see Yae Miko circling ur house, with an armful of books? ..is she planning to thru them at you??, u get the hell out of dodge before her favorite god can follow along

(she knows ur prefrences in books and got authors/trends to start so youd have plenty to read, and she was making sure it was ur house before politely dropping them off! how was she to know thatd spook their favorite God, Ei?!)

u get to Sumeru and think ur safe, hiding in an abandoned forest watcher outpost (1 person treehouse rlly) when Nahida shows up in ur dreams,

and u just,

walk out of the dream, into reality, and possess a nearby ruin guard so u can sleep in peace, bc she cant access a robot,

that one baffled u as you re-possessed ur own body before realizing-

Five Nights at Freddy’s. 💀

U cant do that forever, so u try Fontaine, hoping Neuvillette/Furina wont rlly give af abt you, plus theyre the latest region, so maybe they have the least exposure to whatever the other archons didnt like abt you??

u get there and are immediately summoned to court, and right as the mekas show up to escort you, jfc they have a mecha army

(meanwhile, theyre thinking, yknow. high profile guest/our god of gods. ofc we need state of the art mekas to escort them, its only polite-)

meanwhile ur cape has now become wings, and a mask covers ur face as you glide and fly ur way over the city in an attempt to get to where u assume Snezhnaya is

it doesnt occur to you the game until ur running out of stamnia and catch ur reflection in the waters of fontaine, Sky: Children of the Light

u hope the Tsaritsa’s dislike for other gods/Celestia doesnt extend to ur otherworldly presence so ur just hoping for the best atp tbh

tbh youd forget what all powers you have, and the absolute chaos ur causing urself as u try to desperately rememeber what games youve played thru ur entire life is NOT helping to reduce confusion when u randomly wake up with elf ears (legend of zelda/botw) or get dragged into another ruin machine when u fall asleep/faint/do smth u guess mimics death lmao- (fnaf) 💀

…

(meanwhile the Tsaritsa does get wind ur coming this way, and just, makes the people have a parade/festival to celebrate you coming,

she did also have to get Pierro/Captaino to physically restrain some of them from going ahead to meet/escort you to the palace, she’d heard how the others scared u off, and was, ironically, hoping the warm welcome would clear things up)

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well that was, something. 😃🫠

sorry lil car, that was such a fun idea idk if i did it justice!! i thought itd be too op to include every media youve consumed ever, so i kept it to video games, (which, could u cheat the system if youve played smash bros??)

i hope it was at least a decent read, and sorry im half asleep so i was not v funny this time around, but, again, hope u got smth out of it 😭

</3

on another note, im having my wisdom teeth surgery this friday, send whatever u got my way, prayers, blessings, good vibes, ill take anything im nervous 🙃

have a good week guys!

Safe Travels Lil Car,

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[thechekhov]

Hello! I'm a big fan of your work. I wanted to ask for advice / thoughts about an art problem I've been struggling with that you seem to have at least some sort of solution for?

So basically I'm an animator and digital artist (hobbyist), and I'm constantly coming up with new ideas for things to make. Only problem is that most of these ideas would take up to or longer than 2 months to make because, yknow, animation isn't quick, especially if you want to take your time to make it good. But with so many ideas that all take so long to complete, I often find myself tied and frozen as I can't decide what's most worthwhile to start first. I passionately want to complete all these projects, but my inspiration for each one waxes and wanes in a way I can't control, and I've just been stuck for several months. You juggle a lot of projects- not all of them art, but it still seems applicable here. This is excluding other life responsibilities like work and stuff, I don't have problems with getting that stuff done. This is purely within my creative hobby.

If u can't say anything thats fine I'm just curious- You have a massive output with great quality. Thank you!

This is a very kind message, and one that humbles me a lot, because although I'd love to bestow upon you some sort of advice that might help, or give words of wisdom..............I feel like that would be fake of me because

I also suffer from this very same thing

That is to say, this part of your message:

my inspiration for each one waxes and wanes in a way I can't control

It rings true for me too! I think it might ring true for many others as well.

There are stories in my head all the time. There are stories, and concepts, and IDEAS and they are all so shiny and new in the beginning, and then they slowly peter out and, since I frequently don't have time to do anything about them, they fade into the background.

I have enough trouble with this in terms of COMICS (also a lengthy medium, though less so than animation, which, OOF, you have my condolences, you are stronger than I) that I have started to just come to terms with the fact that some things are not meant to be.

Which is, I think, one of the small bits of advice I can give.

1. Some things may just be ideas, and that's okay.

I think one of the best ways that I've learned to deal with Idea-Death is making it count towards something in the future. That is to say, using them as compost.

In order for this to work, you have to actively put your ideas into the compost pin instead of the trash. That means maybe investing in either a notebook, or a sketchbook, OR just a discord server for yourself where you organize ideas and dump them all into a channel to scroll back through later.

It may seem useless at first, but honestly, it can be satisfying to PUT them somewhere instead of letting them fade away.

Plus, you may one day scroll through them and rediscover an idea at just the right time. OR you may be inspired to take parts of an old idea and repurpose it for a new idea that you DO have motivation for.

However, there's also this part, right?

I've just been stuck for several months

I.......feel this. Sometimes I, too, feel stuck for several months. There are times when even if I WANT to work on something, I just don't have the time. It takes too long to finish!

.........which is why I recommend the following:

2. Don't finish. Just start.

Now, this is the toughie. I can't exactly say that it would work for everyone. But I have learned that I am WAY more likely to return to a project and work on it again sometime in the future if I actually DO something for it the first time I get inspired.

I have SO MANY things that I have not published in my folders. I have sketches of gifs that are 10 frames long. I have concept art sketches boldly labeled with project names that will likely never get off the ground. I have Googledoc files with summary and plot outlines for stories I'll probably never write. I have discord channels with random ass concepts and a few sketches for characters.

And what I have found is that if I just WORK on these ideas when I feel like it, they are more likely to survive, even if they don't thrive right away.

I'm also a huge proponent of Procrastination Rotation.

That is to say, I have so many projects I COULD be working on, that if I ever feel frustrated or stuck on one thing, I just shift myself slightly to the left and do another thing instead. I almost never force myself to work through a block (save for a few money-motivated deadlines) just to complete a thing.

Stuck on a comic? I'll go write a few lines of fic. Unsatisfied with where the fic is going?

I'll go sketch out an illustration. Incapable of finishing an illustration?

I'll go google some references for another comic project and slap them all into an image file for later, so that I have SOMETHING in place for when I want to do studies.

And so on and so forth.

I have comic ideas, and comic sketches, and 30+ pages of original comics sketched. I don't know if they'll make it. It would take a lot of work.

But it also takes very little work - just a few extra pages sketched while I'm bored for an hour. Or a bit of lineart while I listen to a podcast. Or just a doodle somewhere which I snap a pic of and add to my discord channel for that project.

Will it work for everyone? Probably not. But I think that our creative culture is sometimes too attached to a linear production style. The truth is that art, or illustrations, or animation, or comics - none of it has to be on an assembly line. It can be tinkered with and put aside. And then, maybe, picked apart for scraps.........or maybe made into something new!

I don't know if that helps you at all, but I hope it at least helps someone.

And good luck with your animating!

[saythatuwill]

android!vessel ♡ hcs/thoughts . . .

now playing: always, everytime // the wrecks

hello my friends! thanks for bearing with me for the past few days, WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK!!!! isn't it like a little crazy that i began posting about android!vessel literally ONE WEEK before the line "i was your robot companion"? thank u to everyone who msged me like SHERRY!!!!! SHERRYYYYY!!!!!! LOOOOOK /silly

oh and THANK U to @astronoids for helping me come up with one of these!! ^w^ and for their general support of this au, i just felt like they needed the love for it.

if there is anything you're curious about when it comes to android!vess, my asks are always open! these are sorta misc hcs so i'm down to elaborate or share even more.

tags: @concretejunglefm, @fadingangelwisp, @chey-h, @xmads-omensx (if you're on this list SPECIFICALLY for noah content, i'm sorry! i need to sort everything out again!!!)

♡ vessel is a HUGE daydreamer, maybe to the extent of maladaptive daydreaming? 

♡ i like to think that because sleep was constantly messing with androids, changing their parts, adding new features they shouldn't have etc, vessel ended up getting a projection system. android!noah has this too, but while his works correctly, vessel's doesn't.

♡ it was added to be able to project images and videos directly before vessel's eyes and of course, in his "mind". it was used as psychological torture when it came to the cult, but now that vessel is free, it's not used the same way. (unless it glitches, sometimes it flashes unwanted things at him.)

♡ he is a very natural storyteller because of this, he can vividly see ideas and images in his mind, and sometimes he'll pace around the house or in the backyard for hours.

♡ sometimes he can trigger it himself, other times it sorta just happens, like if he hears music or other sounds, or maybe he sees something that just sorta awakens him.

♡ he struggles with snapping out of it on his own at times, but whenever he does he usually tries to write it down, or he starts drawing or painting whatever it is he saw.

♡ speaking of that, vessel is quite the artist and writer! he enjoys visual art, poetry, and writing stories (fiction, usually fantasy-based).

♡ when he first moved into your house he sorta stood around like a statue or followed you around like a lost puppy. you're a busy person! gotta keep him occupied somehow. you don't really need a 6'4 masked android staring you down while you work on your cases. 

♡ one day you came back from work with a bag full of miscellaneous stuff. both from shopping and from some of your friends at work. full of books, sketchpads, paint, notebooks, yarn, couple of sports-related things. threw it into his arms like "you my friend need some fuckin' hobbies."

♡ he didn't do much with it for a while. he has his own bedroom in your house with basic furniture so it was all just kinda on the floor or on his desk.

♡ his bedroom is very much not decorated btw, at least not in the start. you told him he can decorate it, or if he has a vision you'd be down to help him make some of it happen. he looked at you like you were speaking a different language.

♡ he started with trying the sports stuff, generic basketball yknow. he was in the parking lot for like an hour sorta just. bouncing it. throwing it a couple times. holding it awkwardly. was not his thing.

♡ tried the yarn, because y'know, maybe knitting could be his calling. 15 minutes later you check in on him he is somehow tangled in the yarn. 

♡ "how the hell did you manage to do this?"

♡ "... i cannot say for certain."

♡ you had to untangle him, every time he tried to do it himself (because he INSISTED he could get himself out of the predicament) he made it worse

♡ books next, maybe he's into reading! this kickstarted writing for him. he seemed to be very invested in the books you'd gotten, you hardly saw him for DAYS.

♡ by like day 3 you were getting sorta worried about him (you totally did not miss him. no. never.) so you decided to check in. you set up a corkboard for him on his wall in case he wanted to put stuff on it, it is COVERED in papers with ideas and sketches and he is going AT IT. 

♡ whenever he actually finishes something he's working on, he presents it to you like how a kid shares a drawing w their parent. (you think he is so fucking talented)

♡ also, he talks very formally. and he's not very good at understanding expressions. like. shit like "elephant in the room"

♡ "there are no elephants present in this room, (name). an elephant would not be able to fit in this space."

♡ he's gentle giant coded. but if it came down to it... he would absolutely fucking kill for you. he will protect you no questions asked and not just because he is a bodyguard model. you mean a lot to him! scary dog privilege!

♡ vessel, ii, iii, and iv all ended up in different homes after being saved from sleep but they do still hang out! vessel went out of his way to repair all of those friendships from the damage they took during the cult. (vessel blames himself for everything. it is not his fault.)

♡ they like to hang out in your backyard usually, usually they sit in this little circle in the grass and chat. they could talk for hours. or iii, being the bad influence, convinces the rest of them to do some bullshit that leads to you having to sit them down and scold them like children.

♡ he doesn't laugh a whole lot, but when he does it is absolutely infectious. loud, warm, the kind of laugh that could make everyone else in the room laugh with him.

♡ gets nervous when others touch him, especially without permission. PLEASE ASK HIM FIRST or he gets very worked up. he has definitely hit someone on impulse because they touched him unexpectedly.

♡ comes across as a listener, but secretly a yapper. especially if it's about the things he's passionate about.

♡ (will be seen in a later fic) you had to teach him to dance, and ever since, he seems to really like it. you know that cryptid dancing vessel does on stage? yeah, android!vessel does it too. ngl he's pretty fun at parties

♡ come get your freak of an android he's doing things (you set him loose on purpose. he needs enrichment)

♡ oh and before any of you ask. yes, he does pursue music later on! but not initially. this is not directly vessel related but ii was actually the one to pitch the band idea. and for what it's worth, you actually help teach vessel guitar.

[grrrrrarro]

hey I hope this doesn’t sound like a weird request but could u like slashers (preferably Michael Myers, Jason, maybe Billy loomis or Stu?, and the Sinclair brothers) kidnapping “adopting” reader? Like them kind yknow unaliving (Child) readers family then like having to like care for reader???? Idk if it makes sense but it came to me in a dream about me being a kid and Michael myers becoming my dad 😭

ALSO ITS COMPLETELY PLATONIC OBVS ‼️‼️‼️

IM SORRY FOR 2WEEK BREAK I HAD TO!!

This request is such a cute idea!!! I made so much content about perent!slasher and kid!y/n cuz its way more entertaining for me to write!! Authors note at the end!

They/them, sfw, Request open

Slashers trying to be decent dad figures

Jason Voorhees

First of all, why on earth would your perent take you all the way here??? Your a smal baby and this is dangerous! Not only cuz jason is here, but wolfs? Boars? Huge forest AND lake???

So basically he didnt expect a child here

When he was in one of cabins he heard crying from bathroom, after few seconds of planing a murder he realised that is a child crying

His heart skipped a beat and he kinda begun to panic. HUH??? A CHILD? EEE eee oh god the whole backyard is covered in blood... oh no did I scare them?? Oh no

Dude gets more spooked than a child

After they got along he kinda makes them live in his cabin, he spends good portion of time just hanging around

Y/n gets used to their new mute friend and learns their own ways to understand him

Dude is that type of dad who will let y/n paint his nails and he will dress up in cute outfits just to make his kid happy

100% checks under their bed for monsters (and closet too!)

Wants to teach them all about nature! Which plants are good, how to find animals to eat, how to avoid humans

He dodges the topic of slaughtering y/n perents... where are they?? Ermmm idk didnt see them

Micheal Myers

Dude is pretty passive when it comes to kids

He exists, they exists, but as far as kids don't bother him, he won't bother them

But oh lourd..... your his little girl/boi/kid and he is going to do everything to keep it that way

He sees it differently than others, he helped you, took you away from those horrible people (no matter if y/n past perents were bad or good people) why would you want to leave? Or miss them?

But no matter how he feels, he is still Micheal, he won't be very cuddly or clingy. Then y/n needs comforting he will sit next to them, let them talk, tbh he is okay with them giving him some physical attention but he won't hug them back

Steals dolls, figurines, crayons for y/n

He never gets rid of his stalker nature, he is always there, watching, making sure there's noone in their way. Noone bothering or looking at y/n. He sometimes watches them sleep, just looking, he is the only monster in their closet

Huge fan of stickers btw

After good few months he takes off his mask when with y/n! He knows they accept him and love him! I mean his face is as emotionless as its owner but it still matters(at least now you know where he is staring at)

Billy and Stu

Dudes probably were like "eeeerr billy? That *instert y/n perents name* eee you didn't tell me they had a kid?" "the WHAT"

*stu giving y/n chocolates while billy panics in room next to it wondering wtf to do with y/n*

"We can't just keep it! Who is going to take care of it?"

They kept you btw, Billy will say that they did that only so you don't go and call police but they got really attached

Stu is the fun dad while Billy is the serious dad

"Hi baby we bought you happy meal" "child did you do your homework"

Billy rages over monopoli and stu cheats in uno

Sinclair brothers

"Lester who tf is in your truck?" "Eeee I found it?"

Vince lets y/n sleep in his bed when they have nightmares. He also really wants y/n to do arts like him😊

Lester just vibes, you like cars kid? Let's go on car trip! You like wildlife? I know where deers at!

Bo teaches y/n how to shoot while they are way too young to even hold a gun

Y/n will be extremely spoiled btw

None of them know how to cook full meal

Lester will call y/n buddy, pal, kiddo

Bo will call them child, goblin, spawn on satan, little princes(or a prince)

Vincent will see them as little creature and a baby

Vincent let's y/n play and decorate his hair, they also make wax figurines together and play with dog. He is more like older shy brother than a father figure but if you want you can work with this

Bo lets y/n sleep on him and draw on his arms, he also hopes y/n never grows up cuz they are tiny and cute. He also sometimes gives them his hat

Lester loves showing of his skull collection and driving around forest, just talking. He also enjoys lisening to y/n monologues while he is working

All of them get little heart attack when they hear y/n swear. All bets on Bo accidentally saying bad word next to y/n and them just repeating it

Bo and lester love to just put you on their shoulder! And vince just pickes y/n up like sack of potatos (but gently)

Tickle fights with Vince

Arm wrestling with Lester who pretends that y/n is too strong and lets them win

All x reader tags are here only to reach bigger audience! Im sorry if there's any misstypes or anything weird! I kinda wrote it in rush cuz I feel bad for making yall wait for requests so long! I should make this hc list longer but I am very tired. Goodnight

[sleepingdayaway]

idk if requests are still open, but if so, would you be willing to do some more player!reader and oot/mm young Link with a big/little sibling or parent/child kind of relationship? Not necessarily in a LU or HW context but can be if u wanna. If requests are in fact closed feel free to disregard this lol. Love your writing! <3

JHDFHBEFVINEW I LOVE MAJORA'S MASK LINK SMMM HE'S MY SON

I can definitely do a stand alone version!! Sometimes it's nice to just gush about Majora's Mask! Also thank you for reading my silly stories, I'm so glad you and others are enjoying <33 I'm sorry if it's short and yknow just realized I can never make him be happy, sorry it's how I show affection.

The blood in his ears is roaring as the young boy tries to get his breathing under control as he stares up at the Clock Tower. In a few hours he'll have to go up and face the Skull Kid again, but this time he won't have to play the Song of Time again just to prepare. The boy feels his throat swell up just by thinking about it. His vision on the edge of blurring as he tries to will the tears away.

He's nervous yet he shouldn't be, this fight is nothing compared to his battle with Ganon. At least, he didn't fail this town for 7 years. Except Ganon was a battle that was determined for him long before he was born, this one was something that was just thrown upon him. In his heart he can't allow these people to die by the falling moon.

His view of the clock tower is ruined by the tears he tried desperately not to let fall. He's stuck as a 10 year old even if mentally he was no longer the fairy boy that began this journey. Barking from the wild dog in the square isn't helping with his mood, nor is the loud voices of the construction workers as they prepared for the festival. Some stubborn to pretend that their home wouldn't be destroyed by the grinning moon.

Until the sound of footsteps coming closer to him causes him to tense up, and attempt to wipe the tears away. A shadow is cast over his face as it goes down as the person gently guides his face lower to face them. His tears freely fall down his cheeks as his smaller hands clutch the ones holding him. Link's eyes open to look at the person who's kneeling in front of him.

A soft smile is on their face once Link's eyes has opened up. [Name] stares down at him fondly; there is no hint of disgust nor any emotion of exasperation on their face. In all honesty, they were getting a bit worried about him since this entire journey he was putting on a brave front.

That's right.

[Name] has been exploring with him from the moment he entered Termina as a Deku Scrub. He remembers meeting them for the first time inside the Clock Tower with the Happy Mask Salesman, an eccentric man, who would help Link, return to how he was, in return for his mask. [Name] was there with them and volunteered to assist Link in collecting it; their excuse was that it would be better if he had a helping hand. although tatl would disagree at first.

Link was unsure of [Name] when they left the tower. He didn't know if they joined, purely for the thought of wanting to help him, or because they had alternative motivations. But it was shown that they did wanted to help him without anything in return. Assisting in playing hide-n-seek with the Bomber gang, and exploring the Astral Observatory.

When the first three days were ending and they stood side by side, staring up at the Skull Kid watching as he called the Moon closer, did an idea form in his head. Using the ability of the deku; he struck at the imp and was able to obtain his ocarina. Link quickly holds onto his instrument and is about to play until he stops to stare at [Name].

[Name] was smiling at him and for a moment he's reminded of ----

His breath hitches as he realized who they were, and why their voiced sounded so familiar. He slowly pulls away from the ocarina, but they speak up, "Don't falter now, Link. I'll be with you from the beginning. Save Termina."

Upon his return and being able to return as a human did he actively seek them out and dragged [Name] around in search of the four giants across the land. From exploring the swamp, and helping the monkey prove his innocence, to saving the Deku Princess from the temple, and fighting the boss. Did [Name] stuck through with him, and was quite adept at the bow and arrows they arrived with.

Link never questioned how [Name] remembered the first cycle, nor did he ask if they remembered his first journey; too afraid that they'll react negatively. So once more they explore the land together and they're together for every cycle until they were ready to face Majora. Enjoying the presence of a someone he once thought was lost forever.

But each cycle wears him down. The never ending thinking and planning about what is needed to do next. When Link acquired the bomber's notebook and realized that the people of Termina has regrets that hasn't been recovered. He placed the burden of the people's wishes on his shoulders with the intent of making sure that when he leaves. The people are happy.

Yet here he stands crying out for comfort as his own mask of strength crumbles. [Name] soothingly running their hand through his hair as they hummed the Song of Healing for him. Link clutches onto their clothes as he openly weeps. He mourns Hyrule for the 7 years he was gone, he mourns Saria, the Deku Tree and the children of the korkiri forest, his home. The childhood that stripped away from him the moment he chose to save Hyrule.

Finally, he mourns the feeling of [Name] leaving him when his journey ended. Leaving him alone and become desperate to leave just to search for them. Link lost the only person he could truly call family and has now reunited again, but for how long?

So, Link plays the Song of Time.

He takes them back to the Dawn of the First Day.

He just wants to spend more time with them.

For once, the world can wait three more days.

When he opens his eyes; he's back at the entrance of Clock Tower as Tatl is shouting at him about why he decided to go back in time. Link ignores the temperamental fairy and carries himself over to [Name]. Who waits for him, without fail, in the area where the Great Fairy resides. The same accepting and knowing smile on their face as they embrace the young boy with open arms.

[christinalvjyy]

For an idea, you should write about how the reader has been having a very stressful week and Wilbur notices how tensed up his girlfriend/boyfriend (u can choose the gender) is. So Wilbur makes a very romantic setting on the bed and also maybe brings out some sex toys. He treats the reader to a soft sex night with the help of the toys as well!

Take care of yourself and take your time writing it!

You are sosososo sweet, thank you! This is such a sweet request <3

Boyfriend!wilbur x stressedgf!reader

"Stressed? Let me help."

You were going home from work, and then your tire got flat. Great! You thought to yourself, this was a cherry on top. Your week has gone horrible due to work and just plain out bad luck.

Your boss kept you overnight two days, your car broke down, you come home and your boyfriends not there, and on top of that, you got fired today!

You entered your house, and you were met with wilbur on the couch and had no dinner. You slammed the door and went to your shared room to change. When you got back, your anger started seeping out slowly.

"Wilbur! Why didn't you make fucking dinner?! You knew I'd come home late!" You argued as he was just looking at you confused.

"Woah,woah, baby. Is everything alright? I'll go make dinner now if you want me to.. I was just busy with work. " he sat up and held your hand, squeezing it as his thumb rubbed your back hand.

"Busy with work? You work at home! You couldve at least made dinner! Plus, my week has been so bad! My boss made me overwork two days in a row, he fired me today, I don't see you when I come home and I got fired today, too!" You clenched your teeth. You were very stressed on what you're going to do now with your job and your car.

Wilbur brought you into a hug, rubbing your back in soothing circles as he kissed your forehead.

"Hey,it's alright...its fine, I get it... I didn't like your job anyways. Why don't you stop working? We have the money, my job makes good cash." He said as you throw him a side eye.

"No, no,no. I also need to work. I need to be productive." You looked at him and stepped back.

"Okay,baby.. how about I help you bit... yknow, release some stress,yeah?" He smiled sweetly, but before you could follow him, he stopped you in your tracks.

"Ah, ah, ah. Wait one second!" And then he hurried to your bedroom.

About 6 minutes later, he called you in, and when you entered, the room was full of rises, candles and toys. You smiled a bit to yourself, and walked closer to wilbur.

"Wow..." You said. You were shocked. You hugged wilbur and kissed his cheek.

"Let me take good care of you tonight, I promise I'll be gentle." And with that, you stripped and laid down on the bed.

Wilbur climbed on top of you, and slowly grabbed a rope. He tied it on your hands and grabbed a vibrator. He set it on the lowest level. He smiled at you and caressed your cheek. He slowly kissed you,tender and carefully, teeth before tongue. As you were kissing, one of his hands went down to your core,rubbing small, soothing circles. You whimpered in the kiss, and wilbur smiled.

He kept on ribbing your core, and then brought the vibrator to your wet core. He slowly but steadily put it it, and broke the kiss. You started gasping and whining, and wilbur was just watching it with a smile.

"There we go... good girl. Does it hurt? Are you feeling good?" You nodded and held his other hand

"Yes, yes.. mmh.. I feel good.. it feels so good.... thank you." And with your validation, wilbur pressed more buttons on the vibrator, making it go to the highest setting. Your eyes widened, and you started moaning loudly and whining. Wilbur smiled and started leaving hickeys on all over your body. His hands roamed all over you, and your eyes rolled back.

You were in so much pleasure but you couldn't do anything. Your hands were tied up. You started squirming around, whining and moaning, and wilbur continued giving marks on your body. He started playing with your breasts, massaging one and kissing the other one. That made you gasp and let out a loud moan.

"I-i- Close!" You whined. Wilbur then added one finger to your clit as the vibrator was still in. You gasped and squirmed around more.

"Come on, baby... cum for me.. you can do it." He reassured you with a smile. His finger started moving at a slow and steady pace. You let out one final loud moan as you came. Wilbur removed his finger,licking it clean. He smiled and slowly removed the vibrator from your shuddering body. He swiftly untied your wrists and looked at you proudly.

"That's my girl... you did so well, babe." He kissed your cheek. You couldn't respond from all the pleasure you felt, so you just smiled and panted.

Wilbur cleaned everything up and helped you dress up, and then he brought you some soup.

"Eat up,darling," and with that, he stared feeding you with his loving smile.

[traincat]

OKAY SO UM HI!! I recently got into spideytorch and I binged read all ur fics AND MAN. I absolutely love the way u write them, like the details of peter’s strength and how much johnny likes it AND I ESP love the way u write johnny !! everyone always downplays his abilities and I love how u dive into his mind and his insecurities I rlly love his character and u do him sm justice. It’s fun to see how you think of each fic and the references you use to construct the plot, I rlly enjoy the fic notes at the end!

anyway sorry for just dropping a rant like tht 😭

I just think ur rlly cool (also I sent this as a msg before I saw the ask option n this seemed more appropriate so feel free to ignore tht lol)

was also wondering wht ur opinion is on mcu spideytorch?, if yknow thy decide to actually mke them interact

Hi! :) No worries, you're fine either way, but thank you for taking the time to tell me you've enjoyed my fic! I appreciate it! I'm glad you enjoyed the notes and things, I know for me when I was getting into the ship the comics landscape is just so huge, it's very hard to know where to find anything without some kind of reference point, so I like to provide them when I can.

(Not that I don't love the new ship realization of "what do you mean [jnsert something ridiculous] is canon and not just made up by the fans?" but like sometimes you really do just want to know if one guy asking another if he wants to come over and watch his sex tape is canon.)

MCU Spideytorch isn't really my thing, just from a personal standpoint, but I'm curious to see if it's going to be a big thing in fandom just because Peter is like, the obvious choice to ship Johnny with in that landscape. (Unless they put Wyatt Wingfoot in the movie, which I don't they will, unfortunately.) I think I'm also trying not to assume too much about Fantastic Four: First Steps before it's out. I am a big believer in the Curse of the Fantastic Four movies, but we'll see. I was a big supporter of a '60s-esque take on the MCU FF, because I think that kind of Jetson, retrofuturistic take on their origins could be really fun and unique, and it plays so well with the atmosphere Kirby brought to that first run. So I am I intrigued by the idea of like, time-and-or-universe transplanted 60s Johnny being thrust into the modern era, desperately playing culture catch up, in a Spideytorch context, but I think I would want to do my own thing with it and not lean too heavily on an MCU interpretation, if that makes sense. I have something I'm sort of toying with now that's not exactly that, but that is very heavily based on the original Lee/Kirby run in terms of both plot and characterization. (It's the cat fic, based on one tiny little mention of Sue and Johnny having a cat when they still lived out on Long Island.)

[whimsical-roasting]

You reblogged that Sam gifs post and it reminded me of that headcanon i have of being Sam’s friend but you’re feisty and take no one’s shit. Like he’s always takes the high road and you’re like when they go low i go lowER. I would fight that Akufo dude for him no questions asked.

hi wifey <3 you are absolutely right!! i fucking love that idea of Sam having a bestie who'd throw hands for him.. it's on sight all the time.

special thanks to @sokkigarden for bouncing ideas off me, love you bby. okay, i wanna write about being friends w the AFC Richmond boys more, so if yall have ANY thoughts on being friends with ANY of the lads then send me requests on it so we can DISCUSS

OKAY BUT BEING BESTIES WITH SAM OBISANYA

he's such a wholesome and loyal friend... a breath of fresh air yknow?? Dani is more of that 'unconditional sunshine' energy, but Sam is positive whilst still keeping it real w you

and sooo you're hella loyal to him too. well, you're loyal to everyone you care about. you'd take a bullet for them, no questions asked, but probs a lot of cussing involved (same, but i'll come back to this)

sharing an airpod each if yall go out on a walk or join the team on a bus ride - if you're dating jamie then he NEEDS you next to him on the ride back, probs uses your shoulder to sleep on and has an arm around your waist so you can't leave, but that's a diff post ahahaha

having a shared spotify playlist that you both keep adding music too...the vibes are all over the place. "Y/N, I was trying to jam out to J.Cole, and then Adele came on??" "Oh yea, I was sad bout something earlier"

blanket forts and microwaveable caramel popcorn for when he's missing home

playing as him in FIFA when you're with the lads and yellin "YEA THATS MY BESTIE" every time you score as him

pinching his earlobes like his dad would for good luck on the days of a big match/when he's really nervous

since opening OLA'S, you join him when he attends small business owner conventions, but that's mainly to try the free food

since i'm vegetarian, telling him that his menu looks great but you can only stick to sumn like the jollof rice.. so next month when he invites you over to his restaurant for a catchup dinner there's a whole new lil section for vegetarian dishes on the menu (or whatever dietary inclusivr thingy etc.)

warning Sam about Afuko because "a man simply doesn't feed you pasta and lobster and send you a stack without something in mind" and him being like ??? what and you groan, "did you watch the tiktoks I sent you??"

hearing about how the Afuko rejection went and Sam only focusses on "he called me medium talent??" and you're SEETHING

you're like "what the living F U C K" and he's like "oh hey Y/N, don't worry, I know I am not medium talent" and you're like "what? no, shut up, obviously not, but that's not the POINT here. how did that ASSHOLE have the audacity to speak to you like that?!!"

you're searching up flights to Nigeria and opening a google map from the airport to Afuko's business residence or something, and Sam is like, "seriously, forget that guy. bullet dodged." and you're angrily muttering about how Afuko's gonna have to dodge the bazooka you're gonna smuggle onto the plane

"We cannot be best friends if you end up in jail because you tried to smuggle a bazooka onto the plane." "I just wanna talk to him...with a bazooka." "No." "Pleas-" "No."

telling Sam you might be getting feelings for Jamie and being nervous he'd be mad because of their relationship in S1, but you promise he's changed, and Sam is like, I know

wearing the Obisanya jersey and the rest of the boys are like 'hey why don't you ever support our merch' so like every match you're switching out jerseys before texting a pic to the groupchat

running into that Francis guy who's Afuko's right-hand man and "accidentally" stepping on his foot real hard like OOPS

giving him updates on your love life and vice versa. "Y/N, please tell me this one is not a loser." "Um, Sam, shut up; you know my rizz only seems to work on losers??" "hey, Jamie told me that telling a woman my favourite movie is Ratatouille is a bad idea... is it?" "just bake her a lasagna or something and say that's how you learnt to cook." "I am not doing that." "dammit, I thought we'd get lasagna for dinner"

doing random tiktok trends or challenges - the baking one where one person is blind, one is deaf, and one is mute, but they all gotta work together to bake a cake!! sam (tape around his mouth) x you (blindfolded) x jamie (loud ass headphones on)

jamie: pass the FOOKIN sugah!! *back turned to yall as he stirs the mix*

you: WHAT. WHERE. *randomly smacking shit, picking up the salt and dropping it on the counter and onto a spoon*

sam: mmmhnph! *waving his hands in your face like NO but you can't see*

you: *turning to jamie with a spoonful, which he probs tastes absentmindedly whilst stirring* OI TASTE THIS

jamie: FOOKS SAKE

[maruyaaya]

very close to de-anoning to continue this convo but tumblr intimidates me greatly. but ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE GRIBEANS WOULD BE KILLER. god that would be so good like. bro. tumblr user mitakesgf pls share your thoughts with us pretty please. loove greek myths but underworld myths (orpheus and eurydice esp) are always my bread and butter and jam and toast and like someone in the notes got what i was thinking about with hadestown hades and persephone also. i love love what you’ve come up with too. they are EQUALS they rule TOGETHER!! ooouuhjjgjhg! to go along with how they kind of build the paths underneath the ground in simple life, i think they would build up the underworld, they’d remake their kingdom not from scratch but to be greater and grander (cuz yknow they gotta build the most insane shit that would translate into this). JIZZIE ODYSSEY AU?? incredible. please do tell more if you’re willing... i’ve only skimmed through the odyssey but i’ve been meaning to sit down and finish it for real this time. man i havent written anything substantial in literally years but i fear i am Inspired to give it another shot thank you :D

i hope i'm not intimidating to you anon bc i am literally a 20 y/o who writes fanfiction. that makes me inherently a loser LMFAO but if you dont wanna go off anon and still wanna be recognizable, you could always sign off with an emoji or smth! up to you, anon <3

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE GRIBEANS IS SOMETHING I'VE BEEN THINKING ABT A LOT RECENTLY. i was thinking of joel orpheus and grian eurydice (but tbh could totally swap them around too. gribeans are versatile like that) and just the idea of it makes me so sick (tbh kinda obsessed with jizzie orpheus and eurydice too??? that would genuinely make me insane i could probably see that more than gribeans). joel trying to save grian, but he looks back because he doesn't trust that grian is still there, because he hears grian begging for him to turn, because he thinks they're both safely out, the reason doesn't matter. he turns around bc he is, at his core, a loyal person and he loves grian too much not to turn around. he turns around because of his love. its sickening to me. i HATE gribeans!!! tumblr user lisa mitakesgf can u reply to this post can we be gay about gribeans rn i forgive you for all your transgressions against me <3

HAHA honestly idk why i didn't think of hadestown hades and persephone first. i'm so nerd brained LMFAO but yes theyre so perfect for hadestown. THEM BUILDING UP FROM THE UNDERWORLD and making their kingdom together as equals. i'm so thinking bout gribeans singing how long? but it's grian as hades saying "you and your pity don't fit in my bed. you just burn like a fire in the pit of my bed and i turn like a bird on a spit in my bed" to joel oh i'm so sick

wait i'm thinking about hadestown again but back on the orpheus and eurydice train and i can't stop thinking abt joel singing wait for me oh my god i'm sick. him going into the underworld for grian because truly, they can't live a life without the other. when one of them dies, the other feels that bond snap. and this is the first time when grian was the one to leave joel because in every other universe, joel dies first and grian is left to grieve him (#widowscurse) but this time, grian dies first and joel can't handle it. he hasn't had the time to prematurely grieve like grian always has to. so he goes down into the underworld because he just can't see any other options

JIZZIE ODYSSEY AU i am so willing to talk about bc i love it sm. so like... technically it's more based on epic the musical than it is the odyssey because i was first thinking about it while listening to wyfilwma and thinking about lizzie singing that to joel so it would probably take more inspo from epic than the odyssey BUT SIMILAR ENOUGH ANYWAYS

my cast for it is ofc joel as odysseus and lizzie as penelope. for telemachus, i think it would be really fucking funny to make that jimmy, but i like the idea of it being an oc potentially based off of meri. like i said, grian is athena bc i can literally see grian and joel having the my goodbye argument. like grian telling joel "you were reckless. sentimental at best. that's not a teaching of mine. you've grown soft. your dead friends can attest" and then joel retaliating with "since you claim you're so much wiser, why's your life spent all alone? youre alone!" IS CRAZY TO ME!!!!

gem is circe and etho is calypso and these two are SO real to me i refuse to see any other interpretations. gem turning men into pigs <3 and etho being obsessed with joel like the whole "who's penelope?" "she's my wife" ".......anyways!" is so funny to me

hermes is scar bc you can't tell me he wouldn't EAT up wouldn't you like??? that's the most scar song to have ever scarred. i think martyn is eurylochus and i have two options for polites: if i'm putting jimmy as telemachus then i have mumbo as polites, but if jimmy isn't telemachus, then jimmy is polites.

i haven't quite thought out the other gods yet but i think i'd put ren as zeus (theatre kid tendencies) and if i hadn't pegged martyn as eurylochus, i'd definitely assign him to poseidon but potentially cleo as poseidon? i had a really funny thought about bdubs being poseidon and polyphemus being a horse LMFAO. i also just think scott should be hera bc he'd eat that up!!

the whole thing is also so funny to me bc joel wouldve gone insane sm faster than odysseus did LMFAO he would not have let anything stand in the way of him and lizzie. it'd be like poseidon: ruthless is mercy upon ourselves- joel: yep cheers mate totally agree and then he'd just sail away like joel would DROPKICK that baby NO HESITATION

anyways even tho this whole thing was about epic, i'd totally recommend reading the odyssey. i love greek myths sm theyre genuinely so fun <3

[nyaagolor]

Howdy again, if it's the meta world VS "real world" thing in Umineko that's got you stumbling, don't worry. The assumption Ryukishi and co. seem to be going with is that the meta world IS real, and everyone's just chilling in a happy magic afterlife post-series (hence how episodes 7, 8, and 9 can even happen). The "07th Expansion All Characters Settings Collection" guidebook even has little epilogue blurbs for the cast, I can link you the translation hosted on the wiki if you want. It's still bleak in the sense that, yknow, everyone was dead from the start and the whole journey was more of a "coming to terms with what happened" kind of deal, but I think it works given stuff like the Divine Comedy references going on (if you read Battler as Dante and Beatrice as uh, Beatrice, a lot of Umineko'll start to make sense). The way I see the split is kind of an "as above, so below" type deal - while Tohya is down in the land of the living trying to write and solve things, Battler and friends really are up there fighting for their lives in purgatory, and the two reflect each other. Of course if that's not the problem you have, I'd love to hear what you're thinking!

hiii thank u for the ask!! (sorry this will be a Long One). I'll admit the meta world / real world stuff tripped me up at first, because looking at episodes 4 and 8 it really seemed to be implying that the metanarrative was the coping mechanism of Ange+Tohya and their way of pretending like their loved ones got the happy endings they didn't get in life rather than something we can actually assume happened. However extra content implies this is not the case, Ryukishi doesn't feel like the author who would do that especially after the thesis of Higurashi, and tbh even if he did there was enough plausible deniability that I would just imagine the Golden Land as real because You Gotta Cope Somehow. I love the "as above so below" vibes too, that's a fun new aspect to incorporate

My biggest hangup with the ending was basically in the idea that Sayo's narrative is fundamentally doomed. I was under the impression that the boat scene was implying that Sayo couldn't be happy even if she did escape due to the burden of the truth / her trauma. The positive framing of the catbox remaining at the bottom of the ocean initially struck me as a "her death is the happiest ending you can hope for because of how fucked up this all is" which is already a nihilistic narrative but downright unbearable when given to an intersex trans woman. I just don't vibe with hopeless trans narratives at all, and felt like I had misinterpreted smth bc Ryukishi isn't really a nihilistic guy. I'll admit I got a little soured to the narrative as a whole when I looked around online and saw people talking about how Sayo getting a happy ending was "missing the point".

After talking to @heartgold I realized that I had reversed the causality a bit. I was under the impression while playing that Ryukishi's insistence that "things had to happen this way" was him not just saying "oh everyone is already dead, the end result is already the same bc we're looking back at past events" but also "it doesn't matter what individual actions people took, it was always going to end in tragedy". I realize now it's more of a "this was totally preventable in so many ways but it already happened and now we have to grieve and cope in whatever way we can manage" kinda thing rather than a "this is fate and Sayo was screwed regardless", so I'm cool with that aspect. (Also I won't lie I prefer to imagine the boat scene as almost entirely metaphorical and more of a representation of the fragmentation of Battler's consciousness due to trauma in a similar way as what happened to Sayo, but that's neither here nor there)

The other part of it, and the thing I'm still really hung up on, is the question of whether or not the Golden Land is actually a happy ending and, if it is real, whether we're supposed to view it as a sorta perverse tragedy. On one hand, the alters are all implied to be separate people and they get their happy endings (yay), but on the other hand that doesn't really fix nor address Sayo feeling like she needs romantic love to be fulfilled (also The Incest(?) I'm genuinely unsure if the whole "alters becoming separate entities" negates the incest or not). The idea that Sayo was so far gone that even the fantasy created from her best memories does not allow her to truly be happy is just so insanely depressing to me, so I find myself stuck with that friction of wanting Sayo to have her prince and her white horse and her fantasy happy ending while also not wanting to downplay the truth. Having this little moral dilemma feels like the point of Episode 8 and really gets us into Tohya's head, which is awesome, but also gives me a lot of mixed feelings. Knowing that Sayo's truth literally has Beatrice married to Battler makes it even tougher bc I can't just use plausible deniability and say they're platonic bc they are uh. very much not as far as Ryukishi is concerned. I'm still working out my feelings on it, mostly because I desperately want Sayo to have everything she's ever wanted but also having to contend with the little part of me that's whispering "it can't and shouldn't happen and you know it". Alas. Umineko.

PS: thank you for telling me about the character booklet, that's SO cute!!! I love the little details about everyone and the cat-ear Bern is everything I've ever wanted

[yuukei-yikes]

Sometimes I think about that “Would they accept Kyubey’s contract?” account and that time ayano was on it and it's like WHOA madoka magica kagepro au

ayano makes a contract and becomes a magical girl, and at first it’s something she gets really into because of her whole thing with heroes and her desire to help people, but then the horrors hit and she just has to pretend to be normal . which honestly isn’t far off from what happens anyway, but I'm not sure if having the kagepro horrors and madoka magica horrors coincide in this instance would be too much, but also idk, maybe her messed up situation would influence her into making a contract.

anyway magical girl ayano

ayano is so perfect to be a magical girl it's not even a joke. it's like she's in the wrong anime genre. she was meant to be a madoka magica type or even get isekaid but instead of becoming god she became a snake with an obsolete job. and her good end counterpart has to walk back from killing herself like heeey guyssss

i think what's so funny about kagepro is that they're literally on their own to figure things out. the one person who could explain things to them is azami and she's in another world, and the times she does speak to all of them when they die one by one, she talks in cryptic messages. kido's the only person who had an actual prolonged conversation with her but then concealed their own memories of it, so they're all super clueless.

i usually don't care for the Super Genius Character trope but it works insanely well for shintaro because of retaining eyes. he's always been academically "gifted" or whatever u call it but retaining eyes has made him as bored as he seems in canon. he's already lived this so many times he's done these exams so many times. sure he doesn't remember he did but he also does remember. yknow. it's smart it's fun.

i think an interesting part of the shinaya dynamic is the fact shintaro's very condescending and ayano's got very low self esteem, and for ayano to end up giving up her "heroism" or "relevancy" to shintaro because she realizes he's the one who can do it is so sad for her as character. i think this is all from jin being sorta terrible at writing female characters and being mostly focused on the male characters, so i doubt it's intentional and its rather jin writing ayano as the damsel in distress and shintaro as the hero and savior. ayano herself never having her own pov in the novels, second manga route being evil and stupid... but like much of everything in kagepro, the idea is very much there and it is very much Good.

another piece of media i LOVE is amphibia and i think it does a similar thing because it's got a protagonist (anne) who DOESN'T wanna be a protagonist and is like, really not on board with the wacky adventures at first. when the series start, she's bratty and selfish. meanwhile, an important but still secondary character, marcy, loves this world and the spotlight and being a hero. it's just not her story, and she ends up getting the short end of the stick in every possible way, forced to be used as a puppet while everyone else, who didn't even wanna be there, save her. it's awesome.

in my kagephibia doodles (heeehehee) i've drawn ayano as anne bc. idk her with the leaves in her hair and one shoe is cute, so it was mostly for aesthetic purposes. but she'd be marcy, 100%. marcy as haruka is funny too cause of the evil guy using ur body to do the evil deeds + lol get inside the tank u freak! but truly marcy and ayano are the same type of characters, who want more than anything to help, to be a hero, to be relevant, to be needed... but because they can't do the first important thing, which is to Believe In Yourself, they fail, and someone else has to come to their rescue. so tragic when characters like these have an ending where they're like "wow, i didn't get any personal growth out of this experience. if anything i just hate myself more now" and like, THAT'S THE ENDING FOR CHARACTERS LIKE AYANO AND MARCY. i'm so obsessed with it.

coming back to the point (sorry i love amphibia), in kagepro, everyone gets some sort of character development. but ayano, with no agency over the story even though she desperately wants to... really doesn't. get the chance to grow like everyone else. when she's back in str, she's the same depressed girl she was when she died. looking at friends like haruka or takane, who died the same day and DIDN'T wanna die or be part of this story, are hopeful and glad to be back. what does she end up with, other than all this regret??

ugh. sorry. this is all over the place but i love u tragic side characters who think they should be the protagonist.

[knightofgreatrenown]

You there! What are you doing, skulking about in the shadows?

Yes, your eyes do not deceive you. It is I, Zote the Mighty, a knight of great renown! I've chosen to vacate my humble abode and face the treacherousness of the world once more. For quite some time, I have been locked away in the drab and dull atmosphere of this town, and I will yield to it no longer.

The air here stifles me. I will fall to no such feeble hindrance! Especially not when self-imposed.

...Hm? You wish to ask questions of me? After all this time, NOW I am approached with awe and intrigue? Hmph. Well, I suppose I may indulge you. But do not waste my time, cur! I've many expeditions to be off on, and many foes to cut down! You will owe me a great debt of gratitude for my patience and the honor of my presence!

Spit it out, then! What have you to ask me?

[[OOC:

Hello! Blog owner here! My main is @ratcandy, and you can call me Clam! To get some necessities out of the way:

This blog was partially inspired by @/knight-of-hallownest's own Ask Zote blog!

I will not be answering NSFW questions! Zote the Mighty is Not Interested.

Not every answer will have art accompanying it. I will only draw something if I Feel Like It. So don't come in expecting silly funny art, u may just get silly funny dialogue!

The version of Zote I am presenting here is directly related to my interpretation of him in Camouflage of Great Renown, a fanfic in which Zote is a nosk in disguise. How he may answer some things may seem strange without that context! But be aware! This man is in some serious denial. He will not readily answer questions about nosk life. At least not for a while. Gotta break him down first.

Timeline-wise according to that fic, this blog would take place not long after the ending. In an optimistic reality where he snaps out of it for a bit. Not saying that any of this is 100% canon to CoGR's world, as I have my own ideas for that - but hey! Still fun!

I'm mostly doing this for fun because I greatly enjoy writing Zote dialogue. Works as writing practice too! And well yknow. There's a miniature zote in my brain who possesses me sometimes and this is my way of letting him talk. Don't worry about it.

Depending on how many asks I end up getting, the frequency of my responses may be all over the place! I'm currently a Struggling College Student, so. Worth keeping in mind!

anyway. That's enough rambling from me! If you've got any questions for Me that Zote cannot answer, go to my main n let me know there!

Thanks for stoppin by <3]]

[pumpkinsy0]

Gonna need some more hcs for them ghost hunting at the tracks where ponys parents died cause WHATHEFUCK and also pony bringing home the jewelry and wtf he does with it and if he tells anyone??? IM SO CURIOUS THAT WAS EVIL IDEA BUT GREAT IDEA

i was giggling and swinging my feet when i was writing that one, especially the jewelry bit, im ngl

BUT when i said that, tbh i was thinking that they didnt end up doing it bc pony felt fucked for thinking of doing that, curly just felt uncomfortable (he aint say that out loud tho), and something else popped up and they just,,didnt do it😭pony kept it in the back of his mind tho, they werent emotionally ready for it!!!

that being said heres how it WOULDA went down

-curlys ACTUALLY generally quiet for once. idk like how old u want them to b??? but no matter how long its been curlys never rlly said anything about the curtis parents bc pony doesnt talk to him about it, like at all!! even if he did curly would never know what to say. hes not quiet to b respectful 100%, i promise u if curly comes up w a joke in his mind, hes gonna say it to ease the tension, hes still a lil fucked😭

-when ponys doing that whole “asking ghost questions” bit, usually he ask questions about how they died, what it feels like, etc etc, but w his parents, he rlly cant even bring himself to ask any questions about it, so he asks more safe ones, “can you see me”, “r u ok”, yknow those questions

-curlys the one who found the jewelry!! while pony was asking questions curly was looking around to give pony his privacy he noticed something shiny on the floor and made a joke that “some sucker left behind this earring”, he lifted it up and curly said that was his moms, curly felt like such shit after he mumbled srry and awkwardly gave it to pony😭

-they werent there for long, neither of them wanted to b, it lasted for like only 15 minutes, but they were just emotionally drained. and just like their other investigations, they DID record it, but after this whole bs they constantly swap between wanting to delete it or just keeping it and never seeing it again

-AS FOR THE EARRING, pony kept it to himself for a while, never knew how to bring it up so he just, never did. few months tho, while cleaning the room, soda finds it, but he thinks it was one regular ole part of the small jewelry collection their mom had, not one that she lost in the accident. he chooses not to bring it up to pony cause like i said before, pony doesnt talk about his parents much to anyone rlly. no mention of how he feels about their deaths to a singular soul, so soda just thinks this is ponys own private way if grieving and keeping their mom alive so he lets him have this

-if u were wondering, at the train tracks pony doesn’t get any “ghost signal” from em, but after that day he does feel like hes being watched more and gets cold breezes a LOT these days