#elf cop fandom

[little-linda]

I infodumped to my aroace best friend yesterday about Les Miserables while listening to the music in my car. And about the end, I made my usual quip about "And then Jean Valjean ages 80 years in two weeks and dies of death."

And without me even telling him about my ships, he scoffed and said "Come on. He obviously died of heartbreak because Javert jumped off a bridge"

[keenenthusiastinfluencer]

Live look at the presidential committee discussing breaking developments

[ansburg]

there is something so. majority white userbase. abt tumblr da fans insofar as they are committed to decoupling the historical, racially-charged roots and the hypermilitarization of policing by deeming every authority in da a "cop." in reality, cops in the imperial core have more than enough resources to assist communities, but that's not what their jobs are, and that's not what the funding goes to. unless the kirkwall guard is getting new fleets of $70k SUVs every year with specialized KIRKWALL PD decals to replace the cars that they arbitrarily crash into fleeing vehicles or forget to put into park during traffic stops, it's perfectly plausible that some fictional fantasy ass city that has seen huge demographic and economic upsets over the span of a decade has trouble maintaining the peace

yall ever read da meta and know that op thought they were cooking. but the post is like this

[thenixkat]

Also it's wild seeing people talk about whether Dungeon Meshi is queerbaiting on the basis of a single noncanon ship (Falin/Marcille) while not touching on:

the butch (by elf standards) lady elf cop who canoniclly only dates half-foot women under the age of 30

the elf cop dude who fixed his body dysphoria by becoming a werewolf

Nemari who includes male and female tallmen in her leg fetish stuff

Izutsumi who is canoniclly not attracted to anyone and doesn't have a type

Granted, I do know how fandoms in general don't care about mspec or aspec characters. You could debate on if the werewolf elf cop is trans or not (and we know how folks feel about any form of nonbinary trans people in general). But what's stopping folks with the lesbian elf cop who only dates half-foot women under 30 (who got arrested for human trafficking among other things)?

[aria-ashryver]

Tag game: what games do you play? List them and tag 5 people who's answer you are curious about!

thank you for the tag lovely @renninflight ! 💖✨ oooh I love gaming, here's what I've played

Mobile Games

Choices: Stories You Play (currently reading -- COP, WtD, ID2, VoS, Hot Shot)

Tabletop Games (D&D, specifically)

Open Hand Monk (Half-Elf)

Tempest Cleric (Water Genasi)

College of Whispers Bard (Tiefling)

[Homebrew Class] Bounty Hunter Nomad (Changeling)

PC / Xbox Games

Baldur's Gate 3

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Dragon Age: Origins

Dragon Age 2

Dragon Age Inquistion

Subnautica

The Sims 3

The Sims 4

Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout 4

Divinity: Original Sin 2

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Raft

Portal

Portal 2

Valheim

Rimworld

Wildermyth

Mass Effect 1

Mass Effect 2

Stardew Valley

Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime

Dave the Diver

Control

Life is Strange

Minecraft

Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy X

Final Fantasy X-2

It Takes Two!

House Flipper

Outer Worlds

Outer Wilds

We Happy Few

Towns

Sea of Thieves

Lost Odyssey

Fable

...I'm probably forgetting some? Buuut you get the idea 😆

Tagging: @peonierose @lilyoffandoms @dutifullynuttywitch @cadybear420 @nukritus and @griffinsboyfriend if you feel like joining!

(And if anyone else wants to join, consider yourself tagged! Tag me if you post! I'm super curious how many folks like gaming in the Choices fandom hehe)

[aggressiveworldbuilding]

i hate elves.

i say this, having played an elf before so i know why powergamers like them. there is nothing wrong with enjoying the aesthetic of 'twink with a sword' or 'elven accuracy go brrrr'.

but having read the 'elf book' (i think it was the same book as them releasing all the new variants of tieflings? i cant remember now) i was underwhelmed.

Elf lore is that they are basically No Name brand Tolkien elves with none of the interesting, ethereal bits and all of the xenophobia. Which - wanna preface this - there is nothing bad about exploring themes of discrimination in ttrpgs. It just. has to be handled with something other than misinterpreting or straight up copying Lord of the Rings?

I cannot for the life of me find the book it was in, but i remember reading that elves want to travel back to their homeland or feel a call to the beyond or something like that. Which is just. LotR elves but less interesting.

My main issue is that elves in WotC worlds offer nothing new to the genre. They are generic, easily digestible, bland ass creatures. I'm not as familiar with Pf2e lore but at least they actually bring up the problem of different lifespans in their description. Also! Elves change in appearance in pf depending on where they live. so we don't NEED 700 different kinds of elves.

Doing a cursory glance at a wiki (which is sad that only Fandom has info on WotC. one would think they would care more about their lore.) I get this.

This is everything they have on the general culture for elves. If i click into the lore sections for Sun Elves, it provides me with a little bit more - which is nice.

only issue is that Sun Elves aren't a thing anymore.

The most expansive lore for elves is. Drow. Eughhhhhh spider sex cult.

anyone who knows me irl has gotten the Drow Rant before; but recently I changed my mind. I don't hate Drow for what they do - but rather how it is presented.

Drow are an 'Evil Race' - although not Naturally Evil like Orcs (which was wild to read and i have a bone to pick abt that)

Yet their lore emphasizes that 'all' drow have a massive superiority complex, a lack of conventional morality, are vengeful, taught to be power hungry, and mistrust everyone around them - even the ones that don't want to be 'evil'. And you know what?

Thats rad! I like that!

There is a non-perfect society that doesn't always get along with itself. Granted the reason they provide as to why Drow haven't just killed each other is kindof a cop-out but with very minimal tweaking you might actually have something. The only thing i don't really like abt drow is that there is no 'good' or redeeming traits about them. Culture is 2 sides of the same coin; for every horrible policy, there was something relatively good. Maybe their judicial system is tight. Maybe they have great infrastructure. Idk but I want to know more.

i should make a post abt them.

Anyways TLDR: Elves deserve better. I find them bland because they are just empty husks stolen from Lord of the Rings, and half their lore no longer applies to modern dnd. Drow are the only semi-fleshed out elves and that scares me bc they are a spider sex cult. ;/

[beebobeebo]

Title: Tim Help

Fandom: Justified

Characters: Raylan Givens, wee Willa Givens , & Tim Gutterson

Relationship: Tim Gutterson x Raylan Givens (Givenson)

Summary:

Some things require Tim help.

Willa might not be able to write a paragraph, but she also can't stick to a plan.

This was originally titled "Fuck Me", but that might cause a lot of confusion sans context

Something tiny is poking at Tim's eye. Clearly, this is a fucking goblin.

He opens his eyes in time to grab the tiny hand by his face. What the … Willa. He's supposed to be up and on the couch before she wakes up. Shit. He's never going to hear the end of this.

"Hey, Wisp. I, uh, I spilled something on the couch so your daddy was sharin'—"

A tiny hand goes over his mouth. "Lies are bad."

"Do you need me to get your daddy up? He sleeps like a rock, but—"

"I need Tim help, " she says in a whisper.

"'Tim help'? Go, uh, well, turn around for a minute." Tim waits for her to spin on her heels and reaches down in the floor for his sweats. Once he's decent he gets out of bed. "You sure you don't want your daddy?"

Willa grabs his hand and pulls him with more force than he'd guess possible from a first-grader. They make it to her room and she points out her window facing the neighbors.

"The men were looking at Daddy's house!"

Tim blinks down at her. It's ass o'clock in the morning, and the kid is setting off every alarm in his admittedly alarm-filled head. He drops to a knee, gently guides her behind him, and looks out the window just over the sill.

He watches for a long moment. The space between the houses has never been so still.

"What'd your elf eyes see, Wil?" He motions for her to come around beside him.

"Men. They moved the trash can and I woked up," she whispers as she peeks over the window sill.

"Lies are bad," Tim says as he looks over to where a flashlight is glowing beneath Willa's pillow. "You were up looking at your book."

Her face falls into the patented Givens "You can't prove that"-face as she bleats, "But, but I heard them!"

Tim scoops her up. "You're gonna watch your daddy while I check outside, okay?

She nods and uncharacteristically clings to him. Not helping his anxiety.

It's nothing. She's just a kid. They get spooked all the time.

He tucks her in next to Raylan who immediately pulls her to his side and kisses the top of her head without so much as blinking awake. Tim smiles down at them before he catches Willa's look.

"Okay. I'm goin'. Goddamn."

He grabs his gun from the side table, quickly clears the house, and goes out to walk the perimeter. Here's hoping the neighbors don't call the cops on the half-naked babysitter with a gun slipping around corners.

There's nothing.

The Claremonts don't properly sort their recycling, but otherwise outside the house and within ten feet of the property line is safe.

He walks back in and slips back into the bed. Willa grabs his hand. That's enough to get her to sleep, but he stays up all night listening, waiting.

By some unspoken agreement, they don't give Raylan the details. Willa simply got scared, as children do, and climbed into bed with them. She even says it had to be scary last night for Tim to need to sleep in the big bed too. The kid can be alright when she wants to be.

Raylan, of course, looks at them both like they know better, but his face shows he's too tired to argue about either of them being in the bed. They follow Raylan through his whole morning routine, alternating based on activity. Tim makes sure to claim the shower because he's only human…ish.

Raylan promises this trip's just an overnight in Georgia for meetings about the Rougeau situation. He'll be back for dinner tomorrow. No, they cannot have dinosaur mac n' cheese. He hugs Willa until she shoves him away and pulls Tim into the foyer to kiss him stupid. It doesn't take much by Tim's measure.

"Look after my girl," Raylan says as he rests his forehead against Tim's.

"Look after my man," Tim counters. "Go or you won't."

"Bye, baby," Raylan says one hand on the door.

"Get the fuck out of here. We love you." Tim gently pushes Raylan toward the door.

Raylan smiles his real smile, a bit lop-sided with fewer teeth, and disappears out the front door.

Tim contemplates exactly who the fuck he's become before he walks into the living room. He looks to Willa peering over the back of the couch.

"Now we can figure this shit out."

She bobs her tiny head at him.

----------------------------------------------------------->

Two hours later, they got nothing. It turns out that six-year-olds are pretty shitty witnesses.

She does like playing detective, though. Her logical leaps are even pretty good for someone who can't write a paragraph.

Two men with "mean eyes" was her clearest recollection. He believes her, but when her little voice quivers trying to describe how tall they were he takes it as gospel.

He lets her rest and mindlessly stare up at the TV for a while. Then there's the telltale shuffling of a Willa in motion.

"Tim?"

"Wisp?" He asks as he looks up from the house plans spread on the coffee table. Hey, might as well look if your boyfriend keeps them shoved in the top of the linen closet, and you've got paranoia-fueled energy to spare. He's already picked out where they fucked the HVAC up.

"I'm scared." She climbs up onto the couch and twists her fingers in the knee of his sweats.

"Nothing is gonna happen, sweetheart." He squeezes her to his side. God, he didn't think he was a pet person, but here he is.

----------------------------------------------------------->

Tim starts awake. He'd let himself get comfortable. He was losing his touch.

Willa's in her little unicorn sleeping bag curled up around his feet in front of the couch. Some part of him didn't want her in that room. The twist of his gut aligned perfectly with her desire to stay up late watching baboons be generally terrifying. He thinks he might turn the TV back on now that—

There was a clink. A window. Side window. He bends down and puts a finger over Willa's mouth, which she promptly bites. He looks down at her trying to look annoyed and not proud.

Jesus Christ.

She starts to talk but he shakes his head.

"Under the couch. Don't come out until I get you. Just me."

"Just Tim," she whispers and scurries into her creepy-ass hiding place of choice for the last few months. Better than the bathtub week.

He's glad he'd stayed up and dressed. Ready, just in case. Killing someone in his jim-jams is not on his bucket list.

Who the fuck says "jim-jams"?

He sticks close to the wall. He hears the rustle of bedding from Willa's room. A shadow dances on the light purple walls.

Fuck.

Seriously fuck.

He flattens against the wall, waiting. When the man tries to sneak out into the hallway, Tim has an arm around the bastard's throat and a gun in his ribs.

"You and how many?" Tim growls. He angles the barrel of the gun with a certainty he knows the dumbfuck can feel.

"One."

"One." Tim pulls the trigger and lets the body drop. When dipshit number two steps out of the bathroom, he gets Tim's fist to his stomach and a barrel to the temple as he's sent to his knees. Tim catches a shift in the light to his right, lifts the gun, and hits surprise jackass number three in the chest.

"Why?" Tim presses the still-hot barrel to the second man's temple. The man doesn't say anything and Tim rewards that with a knee to the back and a face to the wall.

"Why?"

"Givens pissed off boss," the man grunts out. "Takin' the girl."

"You think I'd just let you take my fuckin' kid?" Tim digs his knee in until both he and the man are in pain. "Who? If you want to be a witness and not evidence, you'll answer."

The man shakes his head as well as he can against the wall. Tim cracks his gun against the fucker's jaw.

"Who? I'm not in the mood to be clever here, cocksucker. Just answer the goddamn question."

The man makes a desperate grab for the gun and Tim shoots him with an annoyed huff. The blowback is sticky. Fucking brains.

"Tim?"

"Willa?"

Fuck.

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As the police do their job, Winona and Raylan scream at each other. Yeah, that's gonna help Willa.

Willa's hands are still fisted in Tim's bloody shirt. She won't leave him regardless of who asks. Winona even tries to buy her off with the promise of a myriad of glittery, annoying-sounding shit Tim's never heard of, but she's firm that she's staying with him.

They'll just have to wait everyone else out.

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When they're tucked up in the hotel room, Raylan is staring at a snoring Willa wrapped around her copy of The Hobbit.

"Hey,"Tim pulls Raylan over to the room's other bed. "C'mere. She ain't goin' anywhere."

"I should have been there," Raylan says. His cheek is twitching and the vein in his neck is throbbing.

"Woulda just slowed me down," Tim whispers against his neck. "Nothin' is gonna hurt our girl."

"Nothin'?" Raylan asks his eyes never leaving Willa.

"Alright, probably somethin' dumb like rollerblades, but I'll shoot them too if she asks," Tim answers with a shrug.

"Tim."

"Raylan."

"You said 'our' girl," Raylan says finally looking over at Tim.

"Oh, fuck me."

[ao3-shenanigans]

FANFIC GAME!

Results :D

Fic: In Silent Orbit

Author: A_Cosmic_Elf

Recommended by: @a-cosmic-elf

Fandom: Starfield

Word count: 7268

Chapters: 1/1

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51382504

Guesses under the cut:

Terrormorphs are some kind of psychic space alien monster race; with spider like limbs, they make you turn on your comrades. Doesn’t sound like they have more intelligence/sentience then a pack of rabid dogs (compared to vengeful humans)

credstik is space-currency

Constellation is some space protection government agency, like SHIELD or U.N.I.T from the MCU or Dr.Who

Trix, a protagonist has a ship called the Frontier; Trix is a Pc

Sargent Yumi is an actual character, a leader, good cop- tough but true to his word. He wears gloves.

Overall thoughts/impressions:

aww 🥹

If you’re the kind of person to put extra sugar in drinks already full of it, this fic is for you- funny and romantic, two humans in space figure out what happened the night celebrating after the alien attack. Skilled fighter sunshine x Sarcastic and by the book these two dorks have such a fun start to their dynamic

Reminder- if you haven’t already, go check out @a-cosmic-elf and give them some love!

[goddevouringserpent]

some rambling thoughts about A Certain Videogame that is releasing soon (largely game-neutral and fandom-negative)

because. listen. there are a lot of things that I could criticise Dragon Age for. Inquisition was my biggest disappointment in gaming, even bigger than BG3 because with BG3 I was on the "I expected nothing and was still let down" mindset, whereas with DAI I was genuinely looking forward to it & felt like they did not deliver on any of the promises they made. there are a lot of things they have handled poorly. the ongoing plot about the elven gods is extremely unsatisfying & feels like a total cop-out and a loss of what made the world interesting in the first place.

but some people are approaching their criticism the wrong way IMO. because—alright I don't want to get into drama with anyone or bring drama to anyone so I won't be screenshotting OP's URL here, but this statement is just. outrageously ridiculous.

uh. no? it really is not that easy??? where are these texts coming from, pray tell? that shit doesn't sprout from the ground fully-formed. who's writing them? who's voicing them (unless we're meant to assume that you want all reactivity to be contained within codex entries)? even for interactive fiction games, where literally all you have is writing with no voice work or mocap work or whathaveyou involved, keeping track of these variables is extremely tough and time-consuming work. (source: I am writing one. unpublished as of yet, but I am writing it.) this is such a weirdly reductionist way of approaching the topic, especially in light of what we know has been going on at BW—they fired a large portion of the writers, including Mary fucking Kirby (which should be more concerning to us as players than a lack of reactivity, btw), there's clearly Issues going on there that encompass the whole company, there's a lack of funding or at least severe issues with how they're handling their funding, there's a lack of care for the people who have worked there for decades, etc etc.

is the lack of reactivity a problem? yeah I guess? maybe? but not for the reasons OP is saying, and it most definitely cannot be solved in the way OP is proposing. reactivity isn't a switch you turn on or off. and a reactivity like OP mentions would just make the world feel wide but shallow; things are acknowledged, but nothing comes out of them. there's a throwaway line of text, and that's that. because the alternative involves branching paths, cameos, different solutions to quests or different dialogue trees, etc etc, all of which is, again, a LOT of work, it's not something an intern can pull off in a day.

and like. alright. not to play devil's advocate here because I am, by and at large, hugely disenchanted with this franchise, and although I will be playing DATV (not that they'll be seeing a cent from me lol) just out of curiosity and sunk cost fallacy, I do not have high hopes for it. BUT.

Origins released in 2009. DA2 released in 2011. Inquisition—the latest entry in the franchise—released in 2014. that's a whole fucking decade in-between the third and fourth installments. and something that I think a lot of people online fail to understand is that the vast majority of gamers do not engage in fandom-type activities. we are a minority. a loud, outspoken minority, but a minority in the end. a LOT of people just play the game for what it is, then shelf it and don't think about it until the next one comes out (if it ever does). in this context I think that "making great use of the medium" would fall more along the lines of making sure there is proper reactivity within the game itself—meaning: let's NOT have another "human NPC humansplains Dalish history to my Dalish elf protag" moment—and not making callbacks to games from 10+ years ago, because. guys. we have to accept it. a LOT of the people who are gonna be playing this game won't have played DAO/DA2, or even DAI. a LOT of the people who are gonna be playing this game won't remember shit about the previous games. because a decade has passed. (if we're counting from DAI. otherwise we're looking at 15 years.)

especially when people start complaining about stuff like "what do you MEAN the choice of who we left in the Fade isn't relevant"—we were told that person's not coming back. like I could understand being upset at, IDK, your Inquisitor's romance choice (which btw does seem like their way of catering to the fandom part of the playerbase, but I digress) being more relevant than who is currently ruling Orlais, but if you're upset about the Fade thing you only have yourself to blame. we've known for years that character's Not Coming Back. the devs were very straightforward about that. ultimately it's not their fault if you've headcanoned your way around that statement. which like, don't get me wrong, I am all for headcanons, but when you have a headcanon you need to accept the fact that canon probably will contradict it eventually. your city now but also don't expect the devs to buy building permissions in your city, y'know?

but yeah. as I was saying. 10-15 years. most of the choices are gonna mean absolute jack shit to new (and a lot of returning!!) players, so at a certain point it makes sense that they had to make, like, a strategic choice of what to include and what to set aside. and of course it's a bummer for those of us who have been playing since DAO! I wanted mentions of my HOF, of Kieran, etc etc, there's a lot that makes me go "aww man". but also I think that people need to start acknowledging the fact that ultimately there are limits to what can and can't be done within the frame of one game that is being released, again, 10 years after the previous entry.

I mean tbh at this point I feel they'd be better served by having their next game be the first installment of a completely new franchise / IP. I can understand why they didn't make that choice. but it feels they'd be better off that way. having to deliver cameos and reactivity to Every Single Goddamn Choice Made In 3 Games The Oldest Of Which Is 15 Years Old is kind of a Sisyphean task that bogs the actual game down IMO

[little-linda]

Hear me out: Javert, singing "On my Own". Tell Stewart Clarke. I need this

[lilyoffandoms]

2023 Choices Fic Recap

Saw @aallotarenunelma list of 2023 fics and thought it was such a cool idea so I had to steal it. Here are all the fics/drabbles I wrote for the Choices fandom this past year (excluding drabbles I sent as asks).

Here is to another beautiful year of trying to write writing and sharing! May your new year find you with all the time, all the motivation, and all the words to write all the stories your heart contains!!

January

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

Blades Drabble (Tyril x Maiele)

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

February Kiss (Tyril x Maiele)

ID Drabble (Cas x Saini) for aallotarenunelma

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

LoA Drabble (Gabe x Lex)

Blades Drabble (Tyril x Maiele + family)

TPA Drabble (Rowan x Elliot)

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

Pick Your Poison (Arthur/Artura x Guinevere, Lancelot x Guinevere)

Regret (Arthur x Guinevere, Lancelot x Guinevere)

Blades Drabble (Mal x Daenarya, Tyril x Maiele)

Guinevere Drabble (Lancelot x Guinevere)

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

Blades Drabble (Mal x Daenarya + boys) for storyofmychoices

Guinevere Drabble (Lancelot x Guinevere)

February

OPH Drabble (Tobias x Casey, Bryce x Olivia, Ethan x Merida)

TRR Drabble (Hana x Eclipsa) for noesapphic

Nightbound Drabble (Nik x Alex) for ladylamrian

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

OPH Drabble (Bryce x Jensen) for mydemonsdrivealimo

Nightbound Drabble (Nik x Alex) for ladylamrian

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

March

Doctor, Doctor (Bryce x Kyrie)

RCD Drabble (Thomas x Alex) for storyofmychoices

OPH Drabble (Bryce x Olivia) for storyofmychoices

Blades Drabble (Maiele & Daenarya)

Blades Drabble (Mal x Daenarya) for storyofmychoices Blades Poem (Mal x Daenarya) for storyofmychoices

RCD Drabble (Thomas x Alex) for storyofmychoices

April

WtD Drabble (Troy x Saeed)

most of the month was spent on a personal project

“Does not the human decorum suggest you sit opposite side the table?” he laughed merrily.

“But I do so like my own skin too much to risk being at the disadvantage of having my back to the door,” she smiled a knowing smile at him.

“Then you must be the one to protect our skins both for I will do as decorum requires and not draw ourselves undue attention.” Teigran looked them both over and her lips quirked into a smile again. “Your point is understood,” he laughed. “Less noticeable than an elf and a dwarf sitting to sup in a human town.”

May

spent this month working on a personal project

"Tell me the secrets you require,” he leaned in to whisper.

His face was bright and flushed from the warm room, and she expected, a bit from the excitement of a mission and the promise of more.

June

spent this month on the same personal project

Sleep came fitfully that night. The memories of her coming to the surface. Always so kind. Always so demanding. Even in childhood.

She tried to bring those memories to the surface in hopes that she would speak to her again in dreams and give her more to go on. It was in vain, Teirgan knew this, but she needed more to go on.

July

Blades Drabble (Tyril x Maiele, Mal x Daenarya)

Blades Drabble (Tyril x Maiele, Mal x Daenarya)

August

11 Drabbles (multiple pairings & books) for the participants of the August Challenge)

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

ID Drabble (Kalen & Saini)

September

CoP AU Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel)

Blades Drabble (Maiele & Daenarya)

WtD Drabble (Troy x Saeed)

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Sofia) with trappedinfanfiction’s MC

OPH Drabble (Bryce x Olivia, Tobias x Casey, Ethan x Merida)

October

Blades Drabble (Tyril x Maiele)

Blades Drabble (Tyril x Maiele)

Nightbound Drabble (Nik x Alex) for ladylamrian

Blades Drabble (Maiele & gang)

Blades Drabble (Tyril x Maiele, Mal x Daenarya)

Blades Drabble (Tyril x Maiele, Mal x Daenarya, Daenarya x Maiele, Mal x Tyril)

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel, Luke x Ruby)

Blades Drabble (Maiele & OC) for storyofmychoices

WtD Drabble (Troy x Saeed)

Blades Drabble (Nia x Astra) for stars-are-within-me

CoP Drabble (Trystan x MC) for stars-are-within-me

November

Mal x Daenarya for storyofmychoices

Tobias x Casey for jerzwriter

Aerin x Raine for oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Thomas x Jackie for peonyblossom

Blades Drabble (Aerin x MC) for oh-so-youre-a-nerd and baldwinboy5ive

Blades Drabble (Aerin x Raine) for oh-so-you’re-a-nerd

December

CoP Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel) and Blades Drabble (Tyril x Maiele)

CoP & LoA Crossover Drabble (Trystan x Gabriel, Aislinn x Lex x Gabe)

[nicnacsnonsense]

I suspect this may be a popular take in the fandom for the movie Onward, but the cool warrior elf mom should definitely dump her cop boyfriend and get with the hot manticore lady instead.

[thenixkat]

[There's spoilers here]

wild that the Dungeon Meshi fandom keeps saying that there's no antagonists in Dungeon Meshi. Like?

The Demon-god trying to eat everyone that metaphoriclly rapes its victims as it eats away at them leaving them usually in a catatonic state that they dont survive, who lies and manipulates several characters to enact the end of the world as everyone knows it isn't an antagonist? (Granted a lot of yall seem to consider the scenes of the Demon violating its dungeon lords as immensely erotic when the dungeon lords very explicitly do not consent to what the Demon is doing and that's why it fucking holds down and maims Mithrun and eats Thistle desire to resist first so...)

The elf teen trying to and who succeeded in murdering most of the protags (they got better but the intent was for permadeath) isn't an antagonist?

The elf cops that try to murder one of the protags and who everyones terrified will take them away to elf jail with no trial for life aren't antagonistic? Who only stop being a threat b/c the protag gets enough political power to tell them to fuck off, even?

The dude who's down with murdering people for not meeting his moral standards who got fixated on the protag for not giving him the time of day and getting himself conned and spends a large chunk of his page time considering murdering the protag as an option isn't portrayed in an antagonistic light?

Fucking wild

[cassberry]

11 18 and 20 for the ask game :]

11 - favourite hermit to listen to?

cub for sure. he has such a nice voice and i love putting his videos on in the background.

second favourite would have to be pearl. she has just such a lovely cadence and being aussie her voice just sounds so familiar to me that it's nice :D

18 - what’s your favourite thing about the fandom?

the sense of community!!! I have never been in a fandom before that has felt both close-knit but still big enough that there are heaps of sub-fandoms within.

I have a theory that because the rest of tumblr hates/"strongly dislikes" mcyt that it caused us to band together more strongly than other fandoms but that's a whole other can of worms lmao

20 - favourite hermit skin?

It's a toss-up between scars elf skin, bdubs moss skin, and cleo's medusa skin. yes this is a cop-out on just picking one but if i had to it would probably be cleo's. its just so damn good!

also does etho's skin count? it's iconic at this point lol

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Five Things You Might Find in My Fics

@shredsandpatches tagged me in this a month ago and while I do also love navel-gazing about my fic and talking about it, I've been busy with other things and then forgot. But I've done it now!

Angst, angst and more angst. I've been told on good authority that "extremely upsetting" is my hallmark and sure enough, the #1 additional tag on my AO3 profile is "angst" and the #2 tag is "heavy angst" so it checks out. Even the fics that aren't meant to be upsetting have a bit of angst in them. I'm not very good at keeping the angst out but then I don't think I ever really try, it's just not very interesting to me. I think for me, I'm interested in character histories and how they carry that around. It's probably telling that I got obsessed with the Epictetus quote, "you are a little soul carrying around a corpse" some years back.

Sympathy and nuance. Hopefully this doesn't sound too up myself... I don't like the sort-of goodies and baddies, devils and angels that so much historical fiction and a great hunk of fandoms in general do. I like the idea that everyone has their own complex personality, that while the story might be from one character's POV, if we moved into a different character's POV, everything would be different particularly if that character is in some way in opposition to the first character. I usually end up loving everyone and just get a bit "now you might think Henry IV is a bit of a cock and he is a bit of a cock but he is my cock!" levels of defensive.

Family issues. Probably part of my interest in character histories, I'm just very interested in the issues within family. Give me a character with daddy issues, with mummy issues, with brother issues, with sister issues and I'm there for it. Honestly, I could barely understand anything in the Henriad the very first time I watched it but I understood Prince Hal's daddy issues. The family issues I write don't really reflect my own family issues but I do find them interesting to explore.

Characters grounded in context, the ordinary. I'm not quite sure how I'd describe this. I tend to be happiest playing within the bonds of the universe, at least as far as it can be recovered, than to reject it to write a sort of power fantasy? I'm not particularly interested in like, the idea of writing female characters as some "yas kween slay" type of character. I'd rather ground their character in (my attempt to recreate) their "real" context than an idealised, perfect-for-modern-consumption world.

My own thing. I guess this is sort of a cop-out answer and also related to the above but in general, I'm not really interested in following sort of trends? It's not to say that I don't, can't or won't like popular things in fandom but I'm more interested in like, hitting my Id's happy spot than like writing something that I know the fandom will like. I've tended to be interested in more obscure figures or gotten into things past their heyday, even if they are now judged "basic" by fandom (hello, yes, I turned up late with Starbucks for Loki in 2017). And stuff that's really popular in fandom can hit me as, like, overexposed and make me. a bit. y'know. tired and less interested in it? I guess it's a sort of thing of "well, everyone else is writing that so I don't have to and it's a bit boring when everything is like that". Like, the fanon about dwarven culture that came out of The Hobbit films - potentially, very interesting! But everyone was doing their own version of the same thing ("the stuff in Tolkien's books is an Elf lie and dwarven culture looks like 2010s fandom's idea of a progressive society"), so I found it more interesting to do something more in keeping

Not tagging anyone since it's taken so long for me to do this but if anyone wants to, please consider yourself tagged by me!

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Everything you need to know!

Hello! Welcome! This is the database for everything you need to know about this page.

I will probably share stuff about my interests! You may see cooking, crafting, art, games/gameplay, and other things like this.

I might also share stuff about my fandoms! I'm interested in a few different things, but the primary ones as far as "content" goes include Ace Attorney (prob 90% Narumitsu-related content lol), Dungeons & Daddies, Spy X Family, Legend of Zelda, and Over the Garden Wall, to name a few. (Some things MAY occasionally be NSFW; I will label accordingly, and obvs minors DNI)

I also want to let you know! I will literally answer any question you have about one of my fics (or other things, really) in excruciating detail; feel free to reach out!

Finally, here's a collection of my public works and a brief description if you're interested in reading!

Completed Works (Alphabetical)

And I Will Stay With You Through Spring - (EXPLICIT/NSFW). Fandom: AA; Word Count: 16,242. A fantasy AU involving Phoenix's "adventures" with a mysterious half-elf named Miles and an uppity bookkeeper named Edgeworth.

Cleaning House - Fandom: AA; Word Count: 2,988. Trucy's look into how her father's behaviors have changed over time, particularly in regard to how they keep the house clean. Family fluff with Maya and Pearls!

Egg on the Wall - Fandom: AA; Word Count: 2,962. A "character study" of Miles and Franziska's relationship and their growth in the absence of MVK. (Full analysis can be found here!)

The Essential Guide to Avian Development - Fandom: AA; Word Count: 63,163. The first fic I ever posted on AO3! A view of Miles's childhood through the context of an Avian AU.

An Essential Kitchen Supply - (EXPLICIT/NSFW). Fandom: AA; Word Count: 5,944. Married Wrightworth enjoying an evening alone together (and getting a bit messy along the way).

Haircuts - Fandom: AA; Word Count: 2,928. Phoenix gives Miles a haircut, and they bond a bit over that.

if I was a worm - Fandom: AA; Word Count: 2080. Maya and Franziska ask a few questions (does something have to have a purpose to be loved?).

Scaly McFishboy - Fandom: D&Dads; Word Count: 5,584. A Mermaid Henry Oak AU that explores a bit into how Barry's influence impacted Autumn's decisions and Henry's childhood.

Taking the Lead - (EXPLICIT/NSFW) Fandom: AA; Word Count: 4,338. Miles has a complex set of needs, and Phoenix can read him like a book.

Transitive Reasoning - Fandom: AA; Word Count: 70. A teeny tiny glance into how Miles's opinion about defense attorneys changed after Gregory's spirit lied.

WIPs (Alphabetical)

Kindergarten Cop - Fandom: AA. Gumshoe has a lot of work to do when five children show up at his apartment (four of them being the biggest names in defense and prosecution in the courtroom).

The Things We Agree to Believe Are True - Fandom: AA. They love each other, of course. Everything is fine. An amnesia-fueled acid trip where Miles and Phoenix must collaborate to solve the mystery.

What I'd Give to Have Your Name - Fandom: AA. A 1920's rural farmer AU about caring for one another (and learning to accept that care when it comes).