#does not want a ship with a guy

[aparticularbandit]

So what was the process of creating Timeline Canon like? Was it entirely generated by asks and threads and random ideas and totally made up as you went along, or were there parts that were planned well in advance? Did you always know where the story would end up, or was it a process of discovery?

So - answering these together because they kind of play with each other - and I! have time right now!

Timeline Canon was more built on my having threads with a lot of different partners and my brain just lumping them together into oh, this plays into this, these go together - which is something I did with other RP characters, too, not just with Jess, just...I didn't try to show them in an overarching story like this. Most of the later verses and threads were made up as I went along sort of - with the exception of knowing that Jess and Scully could not end well because. Jess ended up with Regina after her period of Default (I don't remember when I added that year of Default in - it might not have been pre-writing with River, but like. Once started story-ing things out, knew that was going to end. tragically).

There WERE parts planned in advance with the earlier stuff, though! Willow and I did a lot of plotting of how Jess and Roger's relationship looked like prior to the movie and talked a lot about it, so stuff like their letters and the events they referenced, we knew the major stuff in advance, but smaller stuff not so much! (And sometimes we did the other threads surrounding those and then they got to comment on them in letters later! Which was fun.)

...and then Haruko and Eleanor - I wrote both of those, two, so that was me wanting to play around with things just for the fun of it. I brought them in because I wanted them, etc.

But I think - and I touched on this a bit with the last ask of yours I answered - these being rp threads is the important thing. Who I wrote with heavily relied on who I met and wanted to write with (and whether or not they wanted to write with me) - so I didn't really actively look for characters or sought them out for parts in a story - I wrote with them because I liked their character, I liked the way they interpreted the character, and I could see ways for Jess to interact with them (or vice-versa - Alana is a case for this, I think, because I had no idea who she was prior to meeting Kat and was not at all interested in seeing Hannibal (this changed later), but she was a good writer and I'd seen her writing with Ducky - who wrote Andromeda - and then she wanted to write with Jess and we figured stuff out from there).

But, like, when I started writing Jess, I aggressively did not want to write ships. Romantic etc. At all. I was glad she had a canon husband because then I did not have to deal with that, because it wasn't something I was interested in writing. (And also a lot - a LOT - of the sphere I ended up in with Jess wrote smut, which I aggressively did not want to write.) Jae's Regina I think was the first ship not-Roger I started writing, and that had more to do with seeing how the characters interacted with each other than my wanting to ship with her? They just. played well together. (But also Jae and I had good writing chemistry that way. I think almost every character we have written against each other has ended up in a ship with at least one of our other characters (with two exceptions that I can think of). But that's the thing about writing with people in RP - whether characters get shipped or not really relies on your writing chemistry with the other writer and what your character says about their character; River and I for MONTHS wrote Jess and Scully just like I am intrigued but also I have no idea what my character feels about yours I don't even know if they like each other but they don't hate each other what even is this.

But also. The part of the RP sphere I was in were mostly female characters? There were other male characters - like @neko-shadow! whose interactions with Jess I love! - but Jess? wasn't interested? in Shadow? that way? But they flirted? All the time?

And also. A lot of people in the RP sphere who were into shipping and writing a bunch of smut also cycled porn gifs? Because this was before the ban? And I? was not at all interested in seeing a bunch of dicks on my dash?

...and also personal preference may have fallen into this because I, personally, am not as interested in guys romantically as I am in girls (I'm super super ace. SO ACE), and that may have fed into what happened with Jess? (Most of my RP characters have had more female ships - most of them haven't had male ships at all - but like. The part of the RP sphere I was in was also. mostly female characters who were interested in other female characters. That was just. How it happened.)

[iwasbored777]

Whenever I feel bad I remember that Peter B was depressed af but he found joy in shipping Gwen and Miles and that he was the first person in the whole multiverse that shipped them

[yuripira4e]

Ships are made 200x better when the actors/ voice actors/ writers/ artists ship them. Like it becomes so imbedded in the characters even if they try not to let it I love is

[ween-kitchens]

can't remember if I ever posted this to tumblr so have a silly little snippet from an au me and stiff came up with!

the premise is that every hermit is some kind of hybrid, but is worried about sharing this fact because they all think they're the only hybrid on hermitcraft. empires on the other hand immediately clocks them all as hybrids and assumes the fact they’re hiding it is some kind of lore

jimmy can’t help grinning as scar tries to get him to ‘accept himself’ for the fifth time this afternoon. man, these hermitcraft people are fantastic at sticking to the bit—jimmy knows he would have cracked up way before now if it was him.

“you gotta accept it as part of you!” scar is practically begging him as jimmy leads him to the tavern. “you’ll never get anywhere if you’re left hating something like that about you, tim!”

jimmy turns to look at him. he keeps throwing his hat in the air and catching it again—that’s allay behaviour if he’s ever seen it.

“scar,” jimmy says, dropping the ‘oh no i’m so tormented’ act for a moment. “you do know i’m not actually a toy, don’t you?”

scar blinks at him. “you- no, you are. aren’t you?”

“no!” jimmy laughs at the look on scar’s face. “i’m a cow, scar, have you seen me?”

“wait- but what’s all that about then!” scar exclaims, gesturing in the direction of stratos. “with the ‘little toy man’ and- and the revealing potion!”

“oh that’s just for fun!” jimmy grins. “none of it’s true: the ‘revealing potion’ just makes you short, and joel knows i’m not a toy.”

“gosh, you empires people are odd.” scar says. “why do something that’s not true?”

“well, first of all, it’s funny.” jimmy says. “and second of all, it makes for a cool story! you being human isn’t real, but it-“

“not human?” scar interrupts, looking nervous all of a sudden. “i don’t- I have no clue what you mean! ‘not human’,” scar laughs to himself, unconvincingly offhand. “ah, you never fail to amuse me, jimmy.”

jimmy blinks at him. “is that- do you guys-“ 

and something clicks. the shiftiness of tango, the wide-eyed gazes at their hybrid features that all the hermitcraftians had enacted, almost like-

almost like they didn’t know they were all hybrids.

jimmy suppresses a laugh. wow, okay. now that’s a story.

“scar, I know you’re an allay.” jimmy says. “or a vex? somewhere in between?”

“somewhere in between.” scar clarifies. “how- how did you know?”

“I hate to tell you, but you’re not very subtle about it.” jimmy grins. oh gosh, he’s going to have to tell everyone when he has the time. no wonder all the hermits looked so surprised to see them.

“not subt- how am I not subtle?” scar asks. “I do everything humans do!”

“you’re counting your fellow hermits as humans?” jimmy asks.

“well of course.” scar says. ah, that’s where he’s gone wrong, jimmy thinks. “sure, we’re all a little weird over there, but i’m the only hybrid. and no one has noticed yet, so i think i’m doing quite well actually.”

“must be ‘cause i’m used to hybrids then.” jimmy settles on, because whilst he doesn’t want to reveal the secrets of.. pretty much everyone except the guy in the doom outfit, he also really wants to see how this plays out.

“oh yes.” scar agrees quickly. “must be that.”

“now, I do believe I was showing you the saloon!” jimmy says, putting on his silly accent for the last word, and scar seems to register that he’s back in character.

“yeah, the saloon!” scar exclaims, ever the enthusiast.

as scar starts to ramble about how he doesn’t think you can be classified as a cowboy unless you have your own saloon (which jimmy agrees with wholeheartedly), jimmy smiles to himself as he anticipates the reactions of his server-mates when he breaks the news. 

.. and also he might be smiling at the way scar’s face lights up as he speaks. but that’s a matter for another time.

[dyke-in-crisis]

FEMALEVOLENT 💛 comms open | ptrn

[gunstellations]

old man(dragon) yaoi

[rubysparx]

Um actually I have something more to say about Kabru and Mithrun’s similarities and relationship.

I think a lot abt how it’s shown a few times how elven culture relies heavily on non-natural ways of doing things, and it’s interesting especially how like our main cast repeats multiple times the three steps to living a long and healthy life. Meanwhile the canaries, the elves, don’t necessarily recognize that stuff as important as it is. I think specifically of the example of Mithrun explaining to Kabru that he has to have medication or a spell otherwise he can’t sleep, to which Kabru tucks him in and gives him a massage which knocks him out cold. His dependency on other methods to fight off insomnia were kinda just in his head, he hadn’t tried anything else. I mean prior to joining the canaries he was fully restrained 90% of the time so ofc a servant would just come in and place a spell for him to sleep every night. And he was like that for years. And then Cithis just replaced all his caretaker servants, then it became her job to make sure he took a pill or listened to her bells every night. I think there’s something there about how there’s a list of stuff Mithrun wasn’t allowed to be around and when he gets separated from the canaries he encounters all of that since Kabru doesn’t know to “protect” Mithrun or restrain him so severely. And it’s interesting because Mithrun doesn’t even seem to have issues with the things, like ofc top on the list was he wasn’t supposed to see goats or sheep. One of the first things he and Kabru eat is barometz. Its something to me that Kabru, who has also suffered so much, takes Mithrun into this dungeon and he has to face head on what’s been bothering him, he has to look his trauma in the eyes. And eat it. He cannot move on until he sees it, understands it, and finally starts talking about himself (“the last desire I had left wasn’t revenge, I wanted the demon to finish me off” “I was scraps left on the plate […] I guess vegetable scraps have their uses too”)

It just seems to me like a more vague and overarching way we see the elven cultural mindset hold him back from properly healing, I don’t think Kabru knew what he was doing at all but the fact of the matter is no one was filtering Mithrun’s view of the world anymore. And while Mithrun believed that didn’t matter to him, nothing mattered, it still made a difference. He was still on the path to moving on, and properly healing, even though he didn’t quite recognize that.

[anonymouscheeses]

They are everything to me.

[sideblogdotjpeg]

have to be so honest with myself that i cant stop thinking about the duck team polycule

[buzzingroyalty]

happy valentimes i went and dug up a bunch of my old mlp nextgens to redesign after many many years

[da-janela-lateral]

Learn what personal space is that's your rival!!!!

[summerhighlandfalls]

Kakashi gets rejected three times in a row

[lunarharp]

revamped looong mermaid orufrey au :')

[unluckedtj]

the smudge on an otherwise perfect painting, and tears of moss

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[skitskatdacat63]

Cannot stop thinking about how Fernando was the first one to hug Seb after Monza 2008:

[kostnyan]

So I'm not much of an octavinelle fan so I wasn't really interested in the new tweel cards BUT!!! I think Kalim should be a must have feature to have for them otherwise they die of dehydration. Imagine this is how Kalim overblots, trying to keep two twin eels alive after they're forced to stay on land in their mer forms. Truly evil.