#def want to explore the prosthetics side a bit more too
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thresholdbb Ā· 7 months ago
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hello!!! whats your favorite star trek props/costumes? alternatively, favorite outfit janeway wore?
This is an amazing question!
If you're talking in general, there are far too many to list. I find the costuming fascinating, and I often lose the plot cause I'm staring at the details on the clothes and make up. I get caught up on both the subtle outfits and the very intricate details.
Now, for costumes I have tentative plans to make, Time and Again (which will happen this month) and Sacred Ground are some of my favorite Janeway looks. Though, I always get a kick out of it when they outfit her in beige.
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Janeway adjacent, I really like the actor costumes in Muse, and I think it would be fun to have some alien prosthetics and a mask/masks on a stick.
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Outside of Janeway, I am absolutely obsessed with Jadzia's Klingon opera costume from Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places, and I really want to make it this summer. I've waxed about the Blood Fever rappelling suits before, but I think they are also very fun.
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As for props, I tend to like the objects that are commercially with futuristic design. I have a collection of screen accurate mugs, and I'm always on the lookout for more (ahem Janeway's JMJ 350). I think the fish silverware from Voyager's Year of Hell is hilarious.
And for props to make: I made a bat'leth (and a mugato horn?), and might venture into some more of that. I might make a mirror tiled bat'leth just for the hell of it.
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poppitron360 Ā· 4 months ago
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OKAY I LOVE THIS SO MUCH I LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE ADD THINGS TO MY IDEAS AND NOW THIS IS MORE OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO INFODUMP
2) I was planning on having it take place after Jasonā€™s death, even though I havenā€™t actually read up to that bit yet. I think Leoā€™s survivorā€™s guilt from being the one brought back and not him would DEFINITELY play into the angst and the PTSD. I was thinking similar along the lines of what you said about them both struggling- I wan thinking of having some Leo/Hazel bonding moments over both the choice to give up their lives and dealing with being given a second chance. Leo and Hazelā€™s friendship is not talked about enough, and I think her being able to help him as someone whoā€™s been there is so powerful. Also, Frank is there to comfort him as well. ALSO YES PHYSICAL SCARRING IS GONNA BE A BIG THING!! I am OBSESSED with the hc of Leo being Hard of Hearing after the explosion. Specifically deaf in one ear and chronic tinnitus in the other. Iā€™ve been writing it into all my post-hoo fics (In my married Valgrace ones, Leo uses a hearing aid and also Jason and him both know ASL and morse code to communicate sometimes). I think for this fic prosthetics might be a little detracting from the main theme, because itā€™s all about Leo trying to hide how heā€™s struggling, but scars DEFINITELY and also hearing loss. Iā€™m writing amputee/lost limb Leo into some other fics though.
5) YES YES YES I was gonna write this fic as a precursor to my ā€œJason comes out to CJā€ fic. I like the whole ā€œexpectations of him as a Praetor to uphold Roman Valuesā€ as sort of a homophobia metaphor, and Jason being able to be a bit more relaxed at chb and with Leo where he can just get away from all the expectations to be the perfect Roman sort of being an extension to his canon arc. I might have to wait until I read TSATS to finish it though, because I want to learn more about Piperā€™s gf.
7-8-9) PUTTING THEM ALL AS THE SAME FIC WOULD BE GENIUS- it might be a bit clunky because of time skips and tone shifts but if I could make it workā€¦ Yh honestly the ā€œJason taking Leoā€™s last nameā€ hc is JUST SO CUTE I WAS THINKING ABOUT IT ALL DAY AFTER I WROTE IT I COULD NOT FOCUS ON ANYTHING ELSE JUST AAAAHHHH. I am not normal about them.
12) THIS IS SO GOOD and def inspired me to keep writing it. YES Leo latches onto Lukeā€™s idea of blaming Hephaestus bc he doesnā€™t want to admit that he secretly blames himself, but deep down he doesnā€™t believe Luke. Itā€™s so interesting to explore Lukeā€™s manipulation from Lukeā€™s side. Because he is genuinely angry at the Gods for abandoning Leo- he really does have sympathy for this kid and wants to bring the Gods to justice for all the damage they caused Leo, Annabeth, his Mom, all the people he loves. But heā€™s also not got a very healthy outlet for his anger, but kinda uses Leoā€™s trauma to justify that. He doesnā€™t have plans to overthrow the Gods yet, but he feels like he needs to convince people to see his way of thinking so that he doesnā€™t feel wrong for being angry.
The way I was writing this fic was multiple POVs- Thalia, Luke, Annabeth and Leoā€™s, so I could explore both Lukeā€™s desperation to justify his anger, and Leoā€™s willingness to accept a person to blame, plus Thaliaā€™s fear from having to keep these two 9-10 year olds safe (in my fic Annabeth ran away a bit later/for a bit longer, so sheā€™s 10 by this point and Leo has already been on the run for a year), while Luke is spouting his bullshit and she just wants to keep her new family from falling apart like her old one did. And Lukeā€™s promise of family being the thing Annabeth clings onto for dear life, relating to Leo who was also cast out by his blood relatives, secretly knowing that Luke has issues and is manipulating her but trying to convince Leo that ā€œheā€™s here to look after us. Heā€™s just trying to protect usā€ to brush off the bad feelings she gets from him and justify his actions because heā€™s her whole world. And maybe having to convince Leo of that too, saying it out loud, or seeing Luke doing the manipulation to somebody else, might make her actually have to confront the fact that Lukeā€™s way of thinking is wrong.
Leo joining the wrong side and realising later is so interesting, seeing as he HAS been manipulated his whole life- by Hera and Gaea- leaving him with pretty bad trust issues. Luke being the only person who treated him decently since escaping the foster homes would mean he gets attached pretty quickly, and his own self-hatred being something that drives him to not really care if heā€™s a good person or not (similar to my Leo Villain Arc AU I published a couple weeks ago).
And in terms of turning him back I just had a thought when you talked about him meeting Percy-
BECKENDORFā€™S SACRIFICE?
Like imagine youā€™re part of the Titan army, trying to overthrow your dad for abandoning you to starve on the streets, and your brother just gave his life to stop you because he genuinely believed these omnipotent assholes are worth fighting for. Maybe that makes Leo more angry, seeing as how Hephaestus let it happen. But maybe it makes him realise that heā€™s on the wrong side.
OOH! OOH! I JUST HAD ANOTHER THOUGHT- What if Beckendorf actually confronted Leo about it in the moments of before his death on the Princess Andromeda, asks him to come home, and that Hephaestus didnā€™t abandon them because he gave them a family and a cabin at chb- it was always there, waiting for Leo. He didnā€™t intervene when he was being cast out because he knew that eventually Leo WOULD find his family- his brothers and sisters- and that heā€™d be alright in the end. ā€œItā€™s not flawless dad logic, but he had the best intentions,ā€ Beckendorf says, ā€œCome home, lilā€™ bro. We miss you.ā€ And then he fucking explodes.
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH @ginnyluna FOR THIS RESPONSE
And I mean that. Iā€™ve been writing all these fics and hyperfixating on them and I just wanted to talk to someone about them (which is kinda why I did this poll)
These comments were all amazing (and all the other ones Iā€™ve been getting- you guys have such awesome ideas)
Most of these would be finished at some point the poll was just to help me see which ones I might want to prioritise (but it honestly depends on which ones Iā€™m inspired to write).
Yeah. Donā€™t hesitate to share your thoughts- it genuinely made me happy-stim so fucking hard when I saw how long this reply was because I was like ā€˜CONTENT!!! YAYY!! SOMEONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT MY ART WITH ME!!!ā€
SERIOUSLY THANK YOU
Raise your hand if you have a million bajillion works-in-progress!!!
Because I sure as hell do.
Anyway, I want to see which ones I should prioritise, so Iā€™m doing a poll. Out of the 97 fic concepts i have in the vault, all with varying levels of completion, I have narrowed it down to 12 (the max number of poll options on Tumblr).
Please Vote!
Category 1- ANGST:
1. Ok not too many spoilers for this one but itā€™s SUPER angsty. All I can say is Leo faces a very creative punishment from Nemesis for cheating the prophecy and coming back to life, and itā€™s called ā€œThe only sad person in paradiseā€ (undertones of Valgrace).
2. Leo deals with coping with the trauma of dying. LOT of angsty headcanons, including one where the design for the chb bead for the summer hoo is set in was the moment of Leoā€™s death. And he just has to keep that around his neck the whole time, and itā€™s chocking him. The opening line is ā€œEvery so often, Leo needed to remind himself that his heart was still beating.ā€
3. A curse befalls camp half-blood thatā€™s slowly reversing the effects of their powers. Hecate cabinā€™s spells are being undone, plants are un-growing, arms healed by Apollo cabin are re-breaking. Magic is being unwound, and then Leoā€™s body starts to ache, and he realisesā€¦ does that include a certain Physicianā€™s Cure?
Category 2- VALGRACE
4. Platonic Valgrace (Romance implied)- ā€œNever go to bed angryā€- Leo and Jason have an argument on the Argo II. Jason thinks Leo wonā€™t understand him because heā€™s never had to live up to the expectations of leadership that come with being a child soldier. Leo thinks Jason wonā€™t understand him because heā€™s never had to fend for himself, he believes everything Jason has is because of who his father is. They storm off (Jason in the literal sense), argue with themselves for a bit- I did a really cool thing where I switch POVs every line or so, as their arguments parallel each other, like in a TV show where two characters are rehearsing a conversation with the other, but using the HOO multiple-POV thing- and then they go to sleep. They both have weird vision/flashbacks/prophetic dreams, where they experience a day in the otherā€™s childhood. They then realise they completely misunderstood one another, and theyā€™re not as different as they thought.
5. Jason and Leo go to New York pride. Thatā€™s the whole fic.
6. Instead ofā€¦ whatever that ending to BOO was, the Gods reward Leo for his sacrifice by bringing Esperanza Valdez back to life. She thanks Jason for taking care of Leo while she was gone, and they have a heart-to-heart. They are officially boyfriends in this. Jason keeps being reminded of his own reunion with Thalia, and how Leo had stayed with him through that. He vows to do the same.
Category 3- MARRIED VALGRACE:
7. Leo and Jason get married (A classic ā€œWedding Episodeā€)
8. Just a fic describing married life with Leo and Jason- itā€™s called ā€œViolets and Marigoldsā€
9. A fic from the POV of Leo and Jasonā€™s kid, Isabella Valdez. Some angst, but I donā€™t have the full plot outlined yet. Sheā€™s adopted, and they donā€™t know her true godly heritage, and Leo suspects she might be mortal, and maybe Lupa made a mistake. Leo and Jason argue over whether she should join the Legion (Theyā€™re living in New Rome). Leo struggles with his fear of hurting the people he loves with his powers.
Category 4- MISCELLANEOUS:
10. Platonic Perleo- Percy and Leo get captured by government agents and have to escape Area 51 (Vaguely inspired by an episode of Helluva Boss)- VERY NERDY. This is a very fun one.
11. Leo talks to Hestia aboutā€¦ life, I guess. I started writing this while still on TLH and never found an ending, but itā€™s a good concept. Leo learns to accept his powers as something that can be good, when he only sees the bad. Hestia tells him ā€œIf fire was only about danger and destruction, then it would be the symbol of Ares, not Hephaestus.ā€
12. Thalia, Luke and Annabeth find little Leo while on the run. Leo and Annabeth bond over engineering. Luke tries to use Leoā€™s trauma as leverage to get Leo angry at the Gods. He tries to put the blame of Leoā€™s momā€™s death on Hephaestus, since heā€™s responsible for giving Leo his powers. He points out how the Gods are all-powerful, and yet they leave the four of them- their own children- to starve on the streets. Leo in canon harbours a lot of resentment for his situation growing up, and Luke could easily spin that to justify his own anger.
Tagging people who might be interested:
@four-leafed-queer-gal @lavenderfairiez @child-of-helios @green-tea217 @puzzled-pegasus @imasimpdealwithit @123letsgobestie @ginnyluna @euryvices @ollieisanerd @sleepyycapybara @twomanyfandomshelp @lokiwiiiiiii @yoshuko-ew @keefessketchbook @frankzhang-appreciation-posts @hollow8007 @fairytalesociology @via-rant @daonedaonlyskh
If you have any suggestions for things to add to these fics- leave them in the comments. A lot of these Iā€™ve struggled to flesh out/find endings for. Any help is much appreciated and you will be tagged in the fic if I use it.
Also, Lmk if you want to be tagged in any/all of these!
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thevoidcannotbefilled Ā· 5 years ago
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Can you talk some more about this FMA-in-TMA-'verse AU? If you don't want it on this blog, then I'd be fine with something on your other blog, so long as you send me the link to the post (because I wouldn't otherwise see it prolly).
Iā€™m fine with it here!
Okay thereā€™s two versions. 1) Non-Archivist version. The journey is the same but thereā€™s a statement at best. 2) The version where in his research to get his body back to normal, Ed ends up at an Institute possibly even The Magnus Institute or at least, the German branch of the Magnus Institute (bc Amestris is based vaguely on Germany), where Ed ends up as a researcher and then possibly as an Archivist.Ā 
Either way the backstory is the same:
Ed and Al are very young when their Father leaves them with their mother left behind. Hoenheim was a strange man, memorable, but still, every strange. He had this gaze, not unkind, but it seemed far too long and far too sharp, and as far as anyone could tell, at the very least, Pinako would say, he seemed as old as he was the day they met him. But some people just age differentlyā€¦right? Right.Ā 
Either way, Trisha raises Ed and Al alone, and the two are free to explore their houseā€¦and eventually their fatherā€™s study. In there, they find various odd things. Books especially, some of which say from the Library of Jorgen Leitnerā€¦?Ā 
Trisha finds them before they get a chance to read too far.Ā 
But their interest in the supernatural is peaked, and in the little research they saw, they found a fascination with the power it could hold, but to use and to be wary of. They donā€™t go far, but they look into little things, ghosts, Leitners, even vampires, and with it, they gain knowledge that children shouldnā€™t have at their ages.Ā 
And then Trisha dies.
Now, they know ghosts exist. They know powers beyond their imagining exists. Theyā€™re children, and they love their motherā€¦so they try to bring her back.Ā 
From here, idk the exact series of events. Maybe they still would go learn from Izumi (which since this is probably modern times, it wouldnā€™t be as okay to take children, but she probably would send them info. She probably would be Slaughter or Hunt aligned, Iā€™d think? Maybe Beholding, but Hunt seems the best of the three).Ā 
I think theyā€™d try to research End specific things and a little bit of Fleshā€¦and of course, it goes wrong. Their motherā€¦she doesnā€™t come back.
Tbh, I would find it most interesting if they accidentally created a creature..and it lived. A weird combination of Flesh and End, not really living but living enough to have a heart and be made from the ingredients of what makesĀ ā€œpeopleā€. There wouldnā€™t be a door or Truthā€¦ just the End and the Flesh mixing and Al and Ed paying the consequences of it.Ā 
I canā€™t think of a way where Alā€™s soul could be bound. I just canā€™t. The only way it could workā€¦ if we go FMA canon, where Al is in the body of the creature they madeā€¦ but instead of dying the moment it was created, Al is just stuck in it. Ed meanwhile loses a couple limbs, but more importantly, heā€™s marked by the End and the Fleshā€¦.maybe gaining ability from the End in its mark.Ā 
From here, Ed probably journeyā€™s his brother. Al canā€™t come along because of the new monster form, so Ed would be alone.Ā 
If Ed becomes an Archivist and researcherā€¦well, heā€™s already marked by the End and the Flesh, he would make for a good Archive, no?Ā 
Iā€™m gonna go a little bit on the first one, not too much. But just imagine Ed, Roy, Riza, and all the others being stuck in a room together in an Archive with ED as their boss. Or or or, Roy was being trained as an Archivist bc he was marked by the Slaughter and later Desolation, and Ed being put with him as a back-up Archivist/researcher.Ā 
King Bradley is probably the head of the Institute, with Father being a Web Avatar with a bunch of other avatars under his beck and control (all based off different powers. Envy: Stranger. Lust: Web or Hunt. Gluttony: Flesh. Greed: Vast Bradley: Beholding but with Slaughter tendencies. Sloth: Buried with a side of Flesh and Lonely. Pride: Dark). Father put Bradley there on purpose in order to keep an eye for any good contenders.Ā 
Hoenheim and Father were twins years ago. Father manipulated Hoenheim into being a part of a Web ritual, and ended up making him an avatar in the process. The ritual, of course, failed, and Father after years of observation realized that bringing one person wasnā€™t enough, he needed many.Ā 
Hoenheim left Trisha for similar reasons as in canon: he wanted to become human for him family. He just ended up being too late.Ā 
Quick fire things in no particular order:
- Moral conflict between Ed and the others. He is a character whoā€™s main thing isnā€™t killing in a killed or be killed world, so heā€™ll have to deal with that.
-Rizaā€™s dad was probably involved in some desolation shit, and as a result, Riza got a fire tattoo on her back to which Roy burned off for her.Ā 
-Listen I want Olivia in this but idk how, but sheā€™d be marked by the Slaughter just by how hardcore she is. Alex Louis Armstrong might be a member the Archives as well, or he might just be a random dude? Hmmm. Maybe he would join the Archives later.Ā 
-Hughes is def a part of the Archives. He realized something was fishy about this whole Institute business, but he got killed before he could tell anyone the details he found.Ā 
-Nina and Alexander is part of a Flesh thing, and itā€™s just as horrific as canon.Ā 
-Ed has HIGH empathy for all monsters, even the worst ones because of Alā€™s state. As a result, he nearly gets himself killed a lot trying to see the humanity in avatars that donā€™t want to be human anymore.Ā 
-Al is at home getting used to his form. Possibly if thereā€™s a scene where they have to hide or at the very least, get away from the Institute, they go to their place, and everyone in the Archives realizes what Edā€™s been fighting for this entire time. Al is in fact, coherent in his new body, if in constant pain, and can barely speak. I feel like he does a lot of research while Ed is gone, in a different way.Ā 
-Pinako and Winry are physical therapists. They help Al in whatever way they can.Ā 
-Oh! When Ed first loses his limbs, they donā€™t bleed. They just cut off perfectly, so he doesnā€™t bleed out. He gets prosthetics.Ā 
-Baby faced Ed says heā€™s 18. Keep in mind, he probably tries to join the institute when heā€™s 12. He is somehow let in to the bafflement of everyone and his own smugness. At 14, heā€™s moved down to the Archives.Ā 
-Idk if his crew would lead to the end of the world, but it could easily lead to the end of the world with the Web at its center.Ā 
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