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Nadakhan: WHY HAVE YOU NOT BROKEN YET!

Jay, :3 : I spent months perfecting a speedrun strat that shaved six frames off my Terra Domina Any% run, git gud loser

THIS!!! THIS IS THE MINDSET!!!!!!

Jay is the kind of petty to shatter the glass cabinet he’s stuck in on Chen’s island and also knock over Chen’s throne and rip down a tapestry or two on his way out. Nadakhan’s gonna make him mop the floors of the deck? Fine. Whoops, looks like he spilled the bucket of water and caused half the pirates to slip and fall into some important junk. Also he won’t. Shut. Up. The entire time.

Don’t get me wrong I am a Great Enjoyer of angst and pain and the psychological torment that Jay’s gonna go through on that damn ship but it’s also really really funny to imagine him just causing problems on purpose. Is he going to be irreversibly traumatized and broken? Yeah. Is he going to call Nadakhan a douche canoe and knock over a lamp in his office like a cat in the meantime? Yeah.

Also it’s just in character, Jay’s a multi-faceted character and while his stress and lack of volume control is played up for laughs you can see the various sides to him if you really pay attention, but so many people hone in on the anxiety aspect of it for the angst. Which is very fun to play with, but it ends up infantilizing him a lot and erasing a lot of important aspects of his personality which is annoying to me

This turned into a ramble anyways by the end of this whole thing Nadakhan’s going to know way more than he ever needed to about the plots of Fritz Donnigan movies and various video games. He’s two seconds away from ripping Jay’s tail off

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The other day I was thinking about the fact that I've been told my longer fics are written in a fairly unique way. While I view this observation as neither negative nor positive (it is what it is), I thought it might be interesting to dig into that particular topic more.

I feel like writing style works similarly to artistic style: you tend to come into your own eventually after enough practice and work at your craft. I couldn't actually cite a specific writer as inspiration for my writing style (or "voice" I suppose), but I also tend to not want to mimic prose styles—not even the ones I like the most. Because of this, even my earliest "writing voice" would probably feel somewhat familiar to anyone used to my work.

It feels weird to say I've always had a stable writing voice, but that's more or less the truth for me. I've bettered it over the years (versus finding it the way some do), but I think I've always felt secure in what I had. It probably helped that the old days of FFN gave me hundreds of reviews on 'fics and a lot of encouragement.

A long time ago, I saw a piece of fanart I really liked, and sought to redraw it in real life. This was the early 2000s, maybe 2002 or 2003. It was an MLP fanart of...I want to say Glory and Baby Glory (from the 80s), and I redid it on a huge piece of paper I'd taken from my school's art room. I busted ass to replicate the piece. It was a great replica, actually, and I posted it online, eager to share my hard work. I'm sure you can imagine what happened! The community recognized the source immediately and was annoyed with me. They scolded me for copying an artist, explained why that wasn't a good idea, and I never did it again. (I felt stupid but I realized that day that nobody cared how well I could replicate someone else's hard work; people wanted to see my spin on the idea.)

After that, I always had my own very recognizable style of art and I didn't seek to recreate the work of others, even if I liked it a lot. I just started drawing what I wanted how I wanted to do it—in my own style.

While I found many things to like about the prose of friends and published authors, I never tried to mimic someone else's prose wholesale. I've never even been tempted by it; writing like someone else feels so incredibly unnatural; I'd sooner give up writing entirely than tell my stories the way someone else would.

That said, this post isn't really about writing "voice" so much as the specific way I tend to tell stories, though I do think actual writing style factors in here, and I'll get to that in a second.

My favorite genre of fiction for a good number of years was historical "inspirational" fiction. You may laugh if you wish, but I grew up in a very strict Christian household, and...frankly there wasn't much literature to choose from. My mom loved doing "daily devotions" and at some point, on the recommendation of someone else, she started reading us "Love Comes Softly" by Janette Oke. All four of us kids really loved it. We memed the hell out of it and to this day we have at least one in-joke based on it. It was part of a long book series, and eventually I read them all. This book tackled a surprising amount of issues, including domestic violence, and had a great trope that I still adore: a marriage of convenience.

I was obsessed with Janette Oke's books after that. Roses for Mama, The Bluebird and the Sparrow, A Bride for Donnigan, the four-book seasons series, and They Called Her Mrs. Doc. There were plenty more, but those were some of the most iconic to me.

If you didn't know, the very specific subgenre of Historical Inspirational Romance Fiction (can I call it HIRF?) tends to read similarly across the genre. Some novels play up the romance a little more, some the relationships between the characters, some the faith aspect, but generally speaking these books tend to have predictable elements. The male lead usually has a bestie he's emotionally vulnerable and open to. The female lead's friends, siblings, and/or other family members are important to her and play a role in the story. These stories tend to feature or utilize animals. There is almost always a focus on relationships overall, in every story. In Roses for Mama a family of four is orphaned and the oldest two siblings raise the youngest two and run the farm. The primary relationships are between the four siblings and their friend group(s). The challenges of "parenting" siblings are here. Kids tend to act like kids in these books too. There are huge varieties in the ages of characters and some young women have best friends who are decades older than they are. Some of these writers are very serious too about being accurate regarding the places they're writing about (coal towns full of immigrants who are mistreated by the coal companies for example).

The first book I loved was I'll Always Love You by Hans Wilhelm. The Velveteen Rabbit also holds a place in my heart.

Relationships are ALWAYS at the core of everything I write these days. I love exploring how people affect the world around them. I like to write about the complexities of sibling relationships and friendships over the years. I love history and how "the times" impacted the way relationships worked. HIRF was foundational to me as a reader and a lot of those elements are things I have chosen to carry with me. Everything I write is about a character journey more than it's about anything else.

Yes, I want to write about the blorbos in situations, but these situations are a means to an end. I want the situation to happen but I want to explore every facet of how it affects the blorbos.

Dumping a baby on Raine in Break Open the Sky was a way to explore a character trying to do the right thing but feeling completely overwhelmed by it. It was about breaking cycles and doing better for the next generation. It was about choices, about how difficult they can be to make even when they're selfish. And it was about learning to trust and love while finally having a place and the safety to begin healing from trauma. The baby was the means to that end—a plot vehicle, yes, but hopefully she didn't feel that way because she had her own needs and impacted the story right to the very end.

I think my particular writing style, my "voice" if you will, lends itself well to this particular type of slow-burn character-study-esque storytelling. I try to hit a middle ground with descriptions and write a lot of engaging dialogue. I try to write people being people without being too sparse or detailed. Both sparse and detailed writing have their places and genres they do really well in, but in the very weird subgenre of writing I've nestled into I do think my voice tells the story to satisfaction.

As to what subgenre I'm writing in... I honestly don't know what to call it. It's like HIRF in spirit, but I tend to substitute more "adult" themes for the romance and have less or no focus on religious faith (though it depends on the characters). I don't actually think there's a name for it, though of course if someone has a name for it, I'd be happy to learn what it is. In the meantime I'll just consider what I write to be HIRF-adjacent.

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The Crew by Michael Mohr

The Crew by Michael Mohr When Jack Donnigan—a naïve, protected 16-year-old sophomore at St. Andy’s Prep in Southern California in 2000—jumps into The Crew, a renegade punk rock clique on campus led by the nefarious and intelligent Cannonball, he is thrilled. But he soon challenges Cannon’s leadership by starting a secret relationship with Cannon’s chosen girl, Sarah, and by jumping on stage at…

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A-T-3 145 The Smiths - Hand In Glove

Yes, we may be hidden by rags But we've something they'll never have

The Smiths debut single was released May 1983 (specifically the 13th, so if you want 40-years to the day you need to wait another week.) It's probably the only single of their's that didn't top the UK indie singles chart, getting to number three. I know Blue Monday by New Order kept Hand In Glove off the top spot by being at number one, but I don't know who was number two May/June 1983

I was too young to appreciate The Smith when they emerged, I got into them when I hit my teens and then they split up! (although 1987 was a great year for releases by The Smiths.) I've read their arrival was a relief for fans who wanted music that had nothing to do with punk, and sure This Charming Man entering the UK singles chart and their appearances on Top Of The Pops felt like something different was here. I was only young but I noticed the change in fashion of people 5-10 years older than me. This was a time unlike today when youth groups were recognisable by how they dressed. From the get go Morrissey had his accessories, the quiff, then the anti-star NHS specs, hearing-aid, denim jeans with the gladioli in his back pocket, t-shirt, charity shop shirt or cardigan

The Smiths captured the indie fan/student look, but if you follow this blog you've seen were many many other acts making intelligent music unattached to punk rock such as Felt, The Pale Fountains, Strawberry Switchblade... I'd argue with hindsight The Smiths didn't fall far from punk. Morrissey was famously at the Sex Pistols first Manchester gig and he later fronted a punk band called The Nosebleeds. There are a lot of rockabilly similarities, Morrissey's quiff and the ghostly vocal on Hand In Glove are reminiscent of Joe Meek. Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke belt out the drums and bass like, say, Lonnie Donnigan's band, they're a powerful galloping rhythm section. The difference to other jangle bands at the time was The Smiths were just better, better songs, better performers, and cocksure with it. Johnny Marr is a brilliant guitarist, in his shades he has a bit of The Velvet Underground about him. Morrissey and Marr famously loved the girl groups and solo artists of the sixties, and 1960s pop in general, The Ramones adored Phil Spector and who is more punk than The Ramones. You wouldn't call The Smith a retro band like you would Oasis or other bands in the mid-1990s, only 10-years-later. The Smiths channel nostalgia to create something new for the 1980s (I'll have to think about how this might be different from a band like The Strokes or nostalgic tv series such as Mr Robot or Stranger Things). It now plainly clear Morrissey's obsession with nostalgia for the working-class of the 1960s became problematic

Morrissey, like Madonna, made a successful effort to become an icon in his own right, although unlike Madonna that star has tainted. As well as photo's of Morrissey posing as Billy Fury (Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me) or a young Elvis (Shoplifters Of The World Unite) or some similar pop idol in the NME, Melody Maker, and Sounds, he put his own spin on Andy Warhol's Icon series (the sleeve for debut album features Joe Dallesandro from Andy Warhol's Flesh, Candy Darling appears on the sleeve of Sheila Take A Bow). This was the duotone "cover star" curated by Morrissey (often assisted by iconic graphic designer Caryn Gough) adorining every The Smiths release while they were on Rough Trade records. The Smiths "cover stars" are cultural signifiers, images are taken from kitchen sink dramas of the 1960s, as do some of Morrissey's lyrics.  "I'll probably never see you again" is a line from Salford playwright Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey and The Lion In Love, the first of many references to the playwrights work. Delaney appears as a "cover star" on two of The Smiths releases. Morrissey said in 1986 "I've never made any secret of the fact that at least 50 percent of my reason for writing can be blamed on Shelagh Delaney." What we see in Morrissey writing is the separation of working-class northern Englishness from the rest of England, he shows this fracture in England. When Morrissey nostalgically references British poets and literature he evidences the flow of immigration from Dublin to Manchester (or Liverpool, or Birmingham) indicating northern England has more in common with Ireland than the Home Counties

"There's more to life that books y'know, but not much more." These references were ambrosia to working-class autodidacts (especially those in the north) with Morrissey as our cultural gatekeeper. You can argue the signs were there but when Morrissey took his white nationalist turn it was heartbreaking, like a betrayal - I've mentioned cognitive dissonance before, changing your idea of someone is painful. Nick Cave is attending the coronation today, his wife Susie Cave is worn by Kate Middleton, and he came to the defence of Morrissey

Hand In Glove was released as a one off offer for The Smiths by Rough Trade, it was recorded at the legendary Strawberry Studios in Stockport (built by 10cc) and produced by themselves. The session was one day but Morrissey unhappy with his vocal went back in to rerecord his part

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im so sorry man my phone broke and i had to get a new one and i lost all my notes i had to turn into confessions 😭 anyway,,, may i ask what YOUR hcs are?? bc im interested i wanna know

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for all the ninja or just cole? ya know what, have all of em bestie!!

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Kai:

- 5'11 so about average height

- Amber Eyes

- Cuban features, very pretty brown skin

- He has a very athletic build. He's tall, and slender, although he's pretty jacked. think of what a marathon runner looks like. Yeah he's got that body type.

-Legs for days.

-BRACES!!! I'm sorry I just LOVE guys with braces and I think Kai would look adorable with braces. Here's my explanation, he has an overbite that didn't get fixed till he was an adult due to obvious reasons, and it caused complications, so he's gotta have braces. He's SUPER insecure about them but his boyfriends (yes I ship polyninja) find them adorable.

-Pansexual. If he finds you hot he finds you hot, no doubt about it.

-Cis male, he/him

-Kai has a naturally higher body temp than normal people, making him quite popular for cuddles in the winter time. Although unfortunately, that means he's absolutely miserable in the summer time. He has to take a lot of precautions in the summer to make sure that he doesn't collapse from heat exhaustion or heat stroke.

-SUPER into fashion and fashion design. I headcanon that he had to sew a lot of their own clothes when it was just him and Nya because it was cheaper, and he actually ended up loving it. So, he saved up some leftover cash and bought a couple of fashion magazines sometime in his early tweens/teens, and FELL IN LOVE!! He got invested into he world of fashion, and now he's basically a fashion guru. He's always got an outfit for every occasion, and doesn't mind giving his friends fashion help or advice. He even made Jay an entire Fritz Donnigan cosplay for Comic Con (or whatever Ninjago's equivalent is) -Also my boy can drum! Yeah shocker I know, but for some reason I have always loved the idea of Kai being a really good drummer. I think it's because he reminds me a lot of my friend in real life who's a drummer. But yeah, he's a really good drummer.

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Cole:

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- 6'2, my mans is TALL

- beautiful dark brown eyes <3

-Indian features, beautiful dark brown skin

-This man is a bear if I've ever seen one. He's big, he's strong, and he's got that amazing dad bod that we all love.

-Gay man

-Cis man, he/him

-He's autistic! He's really sensitive to noise, and sudden loud noises can give him panic attacks. His special interests are art and music theory.

-He has REALLY high empathy levels, and he's really sensitive. He just hates to show it because he was raised with the idea of "Boys don't cry" He's been taught to hide his emotions, so that's what he does. But in reality, he's a really sensitive dude. As time went on, and as he worked more and more with Sensei Wu, he learned that emotions weren't a bad thing. They're what make people human, and over time he became very emotionally mature, and in tune with his own feelings.

- He's got tattoos. Idk what I love about tattoos on guys, but I think they're just incredibly attractive and cool. He doesn't get them to look tough though. He gets them because he thinks that it's a cool form of art, and he wants to take part in it. Some tattoos mean a lot to him, and some he just got because he wanted to put a cool piece of art on his body. His favorite tattoo was the first one he ever got. It's a tattoo of a lily in honor of his mother.

-PIERCINGS!!!!! He's got gauges as well as an eyebrow piercing. He also has snake bites.

-My boy is a really good artist, he just refuses to admit it. He has so many sketchbooks filled to the brim with doodles and sketches. He will literally die if anybody looks through them though.

-AMAZING guitar and bass player. He's never been one for performing, but he loves to play on his own. Whenever he's stressed out he'll pluck out a bass line or a guitar riff, and then all is well.

-Huge poet. He loves to write songs and poetry in his free time, and he has an entire notebook full of little songs and poems. He's been doing it since he was very little, and he often writes in times of distress as a coping mechanism. The only other person he's shared them with is Kai, just because they've been together the longest. All of his poems are very personal to him, and he pours his heart out into each and every single one.

-Yeah, despite being pressured to perform his entire life, he does have a genuine love and respect for the arts. He just hates being forced. He'd rather do things on his own terms rather than being forced to do them, and once he got away from his dad, his love for the arts began to return. Although, no matter how much time passes, he will always hate performing. Although, he doesn't mind making an exception for his boyfriends.

-HUGE dog lover. He feels like dogs just fit his vibe. He likes cats too ofc, he loves all animals, but he loves dogs the most. His favorite type are big dogs you can just wrap your arm around. His favorite breed is the Newfoundland.

- His aesthetic is very grunge. He wears a lot of old band tees and ripped jeans. He also doesn't mind wearing a spiked bracelet every once in a while too.

-His favorite form of expression is music. He loves to listen to it, and he has a playlist for about every feeling, experience, or idea out there.

- He developed his love for soft rock through his mother. When he was little, they'd listen to the soft rock station together whenever they had the time.

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Jay

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-5'6, he's short lmao

- Jay is very thin, but he's very lean. He was basically made for speed and agility. He's not very strong, but his wits and quick feet easily make up for it. He defeats his foes by outsmarting them, and throwing them off balance.

- Irish features. This dude is as pale as paper in my eyes. If he steps out into the sun he needs to put on like 4 layers of sunscreen or else he practically disintegrates. Although he's built up a real nice tan due to all his time spent outside working on the bounty and other various projects of his.

- VERY green eyes. Very vibrant.

- Bisexual, but no specific preference. He doesn't really care for labels, so he just chose Bisexual for simplicity's sake

-Trans FTM, he/him.

-His parents were very supportive, and he was able to transition young. Nobody knows his deadname, and he's never gonna reveal it.

- AMAZING singer. He's got the voice of an angel. He just hates singing in front of people lol.

-He LOVES pastel kawaii fashion. Lots of oversized pastel hoodies in his closet.

Yeah I don't have a lot of headcanons for Jay I'm sorry :/ I never really got that emotionally attached to him, so I don't really have a lot of headcanons for our boi (Don't get me wrong I still love him tho he's adorable!!)

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Zane:

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-6'3, the tallest of the ninja.

-Very tall and slender, although very athletic build just like Kai. Think of what a marathon runner or basketball player's build might look like. That's Zane.

-Don't really have a specific ethnic HC for Zane because when I imagine him in my mind, I only really see his robot form and not his human disguise. Like, I just see his titanium robot form but human lol.

- His eyes are fuckin beautiful. Bright electronic blue, and they glow.

-Panromantic Asexual, although not sex repulsed.

-Non binary, he/they

-Autistic! His special interest is birds. He's sensitive to bright flashing lights.

-His aesthetic is very light/dark academia. He loves to wear white button down shirts with beige sweater vests.

-Much like Cole, he's a poet. He loves to write poetry in his spare time, and he loves to read his poems to his boyfriends.

-He doesn't cook because he feels obligated to at all. He just genuinely loves cooking. Cole often times will step up to cook dinner himself, but Zane always says that he can handle it, and that he would rather cook instead.

-Huge bookworm. He adores reading and would much rather curl up with a good book than watch a movie.

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Tell me things about the OCs?

Random OC facts in “Most Likely To” format, A-E:

Character most likely to reappear in book 3 and for whom I have like 0 backstory (oops): Alex

Character most likely to claim they don’t care about birthdays but would be sad if you didn’t get them a present: Bastian

Character most likely to win at hide and seek: Chloe

Character most likely to remind readers why politicians are scum: Senator Donnigan

Character most likely to get axed during this draft: Detective Elwood

Your turn! Start with a character whose name begins with F and tell me things about your OCs in the “Most Likely To” format. (Or, if you’re not feeling it with the randomly chosen structure, you can just tell me cool things about your OCs however you’d like. 😊)

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Child's Play

The ancient lizard screeched loudly, its tail slashing through the air, coming dangerously close to hitting the little green ninja.

Lloyd dove behind a shelf of comic books as the Grundal tore open a cabinet, huffing for the scent of a ninja.

He meekly attempted a ball of green energy, but it only bounced off the creatures nose and it whipped around, slamming its tail into Lloyd, and he hit the opposite wall, sliding down with a pained grunt.

The other four ninja, children, glared at him, the only glowstick left clasped in Cole's tiny hand.

"A little help?" Lloyd groaned, his arms shaking as he attempted to stand.

"You're the green ninja, do something!" Kai snapped angrily, as the Grundal neared and Cole waved the stick at it, it retreated slightly.

"I'm trying!" Lloyd yelled back.

"Lloyd!"

Nya's voice hailed from the front of the shop, accompanied by Master Wu. She tossed a jar into his hands, filled with a dusty purple powder.

"Tomorrow's Tea," their sensei called.

"It will return you to your proper ages, and reduce the Grundal to dust and bones!"

Lloyd panicked, his heart pounding.

"But I won't be a kid anymore!"

His cry was interrupted as Kai yanked the jar from his hands, raised it over his head, and smashed it on the ground as hard as he could.

Lloyd dived out of the way, but he was pulled into the cloud, he could feel the changes to his body shape. 

When the dust settled, he rose uneasily to his feet.

He was much taller, his legs longer. His once annoying bowl cut had now swept over his eyes in smooth locks. 

He was older.

And he didn't want to be.

He turned around, where the others stood, arms crossed, sour expressions on their now mature faces.

"You're on our level now," Cole growled, and shoved past him.

The others filed out towards Nya, elbowing him as they went past.

Nya sent him a sympathetic look, before turning and following her brother and the rest out the door, leaving Lloyd alone in the demolished comic store.

He staggered forward, and something crushed beneath his foot.

Lifting his boot, he could see the Fritz Donnigan comic he wanted so badly, and he stooped over and picked it up, watching as his tears left track marks in the dust as they dripped onto the paper.

"Fair...isn't a word where I come from," he mumbled, and sank to his knees.

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He’s part of a group of cryptid Sylvari who don’t remember where they came from—he’s also their leader of sorts. Maybe they are from another pale tree? Maybe they were born from Asuran experiments?! Hopefully they’ll remember eventually...

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