#c-is-for-circinate

[suzukiblu]

ooof this week's WIP Wednesday offerings are great but you've got me real invested in Interdimensional Kidnapping right now, so that please and thank you!

“He did that too,” Ellie puts in helpfully, peering more closely at Jason. 

Shit, right, kids are tattletales, Tim remembers resignedly. He forgot after Kon and Bart both developed the capacity to think twice. 

“Why are you even here, Hood?” he asks, hoping to just . . . sweep that one under the rug a little bit, maybe. 

“Maybe because the diner on Vine called me about spotting you in the place but you hadn’t reported getting back from wherever the hell you’ve been?” Jason replies, eyeing him. 

“. . . hell, I didn’t report in,” Tim groans, covering his face with his hands. How did he not report in? Hell.

[strsnctry]

A Myriad of Misdecisions

Darksknight

Summary:

c-is-for-circinate’s AU: “My parents thought I was working for an insurance company in New York when really I was joining the CIA so I just sort of never mentioned when I met you on an assassination-gone-wrong and now we’ve been married for five years and they still don’t know you exist, this has gotten wildly out of hand and you won’t stop laughing about it”

[stuckstucktrolls]

🌅💅🍳🎭 for Circin and (I forgot his name but he was new and evil ;-;)

Do you have a certain routine for starting your night?

P: Of course I have a routine. My genes might be exceptional, but the thousands of sweeps I might end up living is a long time to go without a good skin and hair care. I'd get into more detail, but it's my own secret and pretty intensive. Then I take breakfast at 6 pm whether the sun is down or not, then do some light yoga to get the aquatic based vascular system moving. After that I get to work for the night.

C: ^o I'm pretty flexible but I always have my uniform set out from the night before, whether I'm working in the lab or the field. ^o I'm also usually the one who makes breakfast but sometimes Cherry comes over with something. ^o I love when my moirail and mate are both around to chat before if have to leave. ^o And with Fergus around more I get to have that more often. ^o And soon I might have a spade to come visit too.

(He seems to have lost his train of thoughts.)

^o What were we talking about?

Do you have time or resources for self care or small luxuries?

P: Not much point in being a violet if you don't have the money and prestige, is there?

C: ^o I do but I prefer simple pleasures. ^o Getting my hair redone, spending time with quads or friends, studying the minds of particularly interesting aliens. ^o You know. ^o The usual.

What sort of cuisine do you normally eat? Are you openly okay with items labelled only as grubsauce or grubloaf?

P: As if I'd even touch that pre-processed grub mush. Do you know the kinds of chemicals they put in that stuff? I do, because on top of being the CEO of my own drug company, I'm also a chemist. That stuff might be fine for lowbloods to gorge on, but not me. I have a personal chef, a nutritionist and only go to the most highly rated dining establishments when I do go out.

C: ^o I'm actually not that picky as long as everyone else is happy. ^o That said, lately it's been a lot of Spanish and Italian with Cherry, generalized Alternian with Fergus, drinks with one or both of them, and the occasional protein bar.

How do you access entertainment? What is available to you to do for fun?

P: There's a highbloods club I go to now and then to play pool at. Nice place, everybody knows everybody, and our ancestors knew each other too. And what seadweller doesn't like going for a swim? Got an infinity pool for me and my moirail. Poor thing, he can barely come out of the water for more than a few hours. Just one of us who can't really adapt to land life well, but he can't stay in the sea anymore either. But it's nice we can spend time together that way. I guess there's always the news on busy nights. I still have to keep up with that anyway.

C: ^o I like to go for walks and hang out with my quads. ^o As long as they're happy I'm happy.

[mzminola]

@c-is-for-circinate dubstep fantasy aesthetic meets Tam Lin?

Rise and Ride Ranch's Glow in the Dark Trails

Based in Michigan - their specialty is these nighttime rides with custom glow-in-the-dark tack

[spooky-owl-necromancer]

@c-is-for-circinate said pokemon AU and my brain went YES PLEASE.

The Smeargle definitely came with the magical paints

[suzukiblu]

Oh man all of these lil OC kidfics are great but I just backread the Baby Clone And All Associated Trauma and I am in love. More of that please?

He doesn’t even know how to keep that from happening. He doesn’t even know if he’ll be around to keep that from happening. 

Probably not, though. Probably if he ever sees Tobias again, the kid’ll hide his face from him just like this. 

Tim feels sick just thinking about it.

[sun-critrole]

@c-is-for-circinate posted a lovely little happy-place ficlet (which you can read here) so I thought I’d do the same.

Imagine the waves of the Lucidian Ocean crashing softly like kisses upon the moon-soaked sands of Nicodranas. The beach is sighing in time with the city, and if you look closely the lights flare in time with the tide. There is laughter, maybe, distant enough that it could also be seagulls. There is a rock, still almost warm from a day under vibrant sun. There is a white hand set casually against it, an offering so tempting Beau cannot refuse.

She was never good at impulse control, anyway.

“Hmm?” Yasha hums, her attention to the horizon broken as she turns back, meeting Beau’s eyes unflinchingly. She’s grown into herself, these last months. She seems unshakeable now.

Beau shrugs. She’s still shakeable. She’s hoping Yasha can look past that.

Fortunately, Yasha only smiles, a gift. She turns back to watch the growing storm in the west, her hair blowing in the night air so it brushes Beau’s cheek. They sit, hands clasped together, and watch the moon finish rising, hoping against hope that this - the ocean, the moon, the promise of a warm bed and good friends, the promise of something more - will survive whatever tests they find themselves facing.

[biichama]

Via @c-is-for-circinate :

Fundamentally I believe that writing about the rich and varied human existence is so important, and authors who do this end up seeming prescient in ways that naive analysis often rejects.

Two examples. First; a lot of people ship Frodo/Sam or Legolas/Gimli (or more obscure gay ships like Maedhros/Fingon), and some people say stuff like “well, Tolkien was catholic, he clearly didn’t intend for these characters to be gay.” But Tolkien himself says that he doesn’t write Christian allegory, in fact he despises all allegory. What he does is write about the rich and varied human existence, and when he did so he drew on the experiences of the likely closeted gay and bisexual men he had met over his life! And he synthesized this as just a way people behave, not as ‘representation’ but reality. And we can recognize that while in the early twentieth century, the 15% of people that identify as bisexual in the current generation (gen Z) would likely have married people of the opposite gender, that doesn’t mean they didn’t have same-gender relationships that had romantic elements even if they were never consummated.

A second example; in Tamora Pierce’s the Song of the Lioness Quartet, Alanna, the main character, dresses as a boy and trains to be a knight. As she grows up, she has to re-learn to connect with her femininity in secret with the few people who know who she is (thus making her a paradoxically-apt role model for both trans men and trans women, depending on which parts of the narrative one projects oneself onto). But Alanna never feels truly comfortable as a woman, either, and constantly has to assert both her masculinity and femininity to different people once she becomes a knight and reveals the secret. Tamora Pierce has since stated that if Alanna were born in the modern day, she would likely identify as genderfluid. But these books were written in the 1980s, and while there were people in that time period who were exploring the language of nonbinary and genderfluid identities, it wasn’t really a widespread notion, and while I can’t be sure Tamora Pierce didn’t encounter that language I sort of doubt Alanna was intended from the beginning to fit that identity. Instead, Pierce wrote a character based on the people she knew in life, who perhaps uncomfortably chafed at their assigned gender, and wrote a character who really believably would be genderfluid today, despite (plausibly) not knowing what ‘genderfluid’ was!

And I think that’s beautiful. There’s not really a point to this but just to highlight a perspective in literary analysis that you can lose if you focus too much on the biographical details of the author.

[penroseparticle]

c-is-for-circinate replied to your post : Is… is Fjord my favorite character?

1. Fjord is absolutely awesome and very much deserving of being a fave. 2. Caduceus is great, but lots of the stuff that really gets him won’t come for AGES. You’ve got time. 3. You have a type, my friend, and maybe I couldn’t pick it out of a lineup most of the time, but ninety-five percent of the CR posts you’ve made that I’ve seen, ever, have at least obliquely involved Travis Willingham. Sorry to be the one to break it to you.

1. Ok I assumed it was my love of Travis bleeding but I really dig the whole “Our fearless leader/party face” the secret disaster as a vibe so def enjoying this.

2. I am excited because Caduceus is probably the character I would roll out of all of these characters so I want to like him real bad

3. LOOK, I KNOW, OK, I’M A SIMPLE MAN, I DON’T OWE YOU AN EXPLANATION but also like, Nott was my fave for the early game (like, first 20ish episodes now that I am looking back), and Sam is very much not my type, so I think this is independant

BUT YES I HAVE A TYPE, SUE ME

[luckthebard]

c-is-for-circinate replied to your post: that's a super interesting observation about what...

Oh man–I missed the Deadlands finale (hopefully I’ll find time soon!), but I finally finished TAZ Amnesty this week, so I’ve actually been thinking about this ALL DAY re: different DM'ing styles. I think you’re 100% right about the grief reaction. I also think it might actually be WORSE when a death is fully unscripted–surprise roll-of-the-dice deaths feel shocking, confusing, incomplete, “wrong”, because they’re not tidy, not how it’s “supposed to go” in fiction.

This is a really good point! Something I read a lot with these sudden, unscripted and unlucky deaths is “it’s not fair.” And...that’s kind of right. 

The fact that sudden TTRPG deaths don’t follow understood narrative conventions around character death makes them very jarring. And if you don’t go into watching streamed TTRPG content kind of braced for that, I imagine it would be incredibly shocking.

[treeofcups]

c-is-for-circinate replied to your post “Sam’s saying that he never watched or read any Harry Potter and the...”

Please note that they were also playing as characters from the Breakfast Club, which Sam has ALSO never seen. It was glorious.

I’ve also never seen the Breakfast Club, so that’s something Sam and I have in common. That’s going to be a very interesting watch for me.

[book--wyrm]

@c-is-for-circinate

#Does nobody else find new fic from the 'recent bookmarks' tab in the fandom tag? the what tab?????

Okay I have a follow up question from a poll I started today, which is tied into the concept of fic discoverability.

I would be fascinated to know how you normally find fics to read, and your reasoning about it, if any. Has your behaviour changed over time? What fandom are you in?

[dontgofarfromme]

Hey! Been noticing lately that sometimes you tag your Magnus Archives posts, and sometimes you don't. Any chance you might be willing/able to tag them more? I know sometimes it's hard to remember or tumblr's generally tumblr and terrible, but TMA was not a good time for my brain and I appreciate being able to blacklist the tag so I can stick around for your other posts!

Oh I'm sorry! I try to be really consistant with my tagging but sometimes I forget, I'll be more careful!

[audible-smiles]

c-is-for-circinate replied to your post:

“what do you want me to say here?” is such a Fjord...

that ENTIRE FUCKING CONVERSATION, though. Fjord just literally has no idea how to open up, to anyone, about anything, ever, goddddddddd

that desperate, self-loathing fueled desire to completely reinvent oneself is just far too relatable :( :( :(

[mzminola]

Meme time! The challenge states: "When you get this you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable)! hee hee (it's actually negotiable, you don't have to do this)" Totally optional, of course, but go forth if you like!

Okay we’re taking the negotiation because sending this along sounds mentally exhausting today. /cracks knuckles/ okay here we go:

1. Freckles.

2. I had the self-control to grow my hair long enough that it’s kinda rock star.

3. I’m pretty good at making people laugh, to the point I sometimes surprise myself because I didn’t realize how well a joke was gonna land.

4. I’m not comfortable sharing any yet, but I did decide a few years ago that I’d branch my writing out into explicit sex scenes, and I’ve very much succeeded.

5. I’m more persistent than I usually give myself credit for. It takes me a long time to finish creative projects and achieve long-term life goals, and I get very frustrated and mad at myself along the way. I watch other people who started later than I did hit the goals I want to, and fill with self-loathing, and the burning shame that people who know any of my goals and dreams are judging me for being all talk. But I’ve been strengthening my writing skills with NaNo every year, and I hit a decent completion point on Serpensortia and The Moon Doth Shake even if they both feel like they could have a lot more, and my original fiction is still active, and I dragged myself from couch-surfing to an apartment to a decent rental house, and I paid off my fucking student loans-

So I can probably get my original fiction to at least one whole story arc too.

[anakinskywalkerisfave]

#oh god Scott is just SO DONE WITH VAULTS #NO MORE VAULTS #HE CANNOT BELIEVE THIS FAMILY (tags via c-is-for-circinate)