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[mumblingsage]

16, 20!

16. Write the next 5 sentences and share.

I'll edit the next 5 sentences, picking up from where the last ask left off (if a 6th sentence smuggles its way in, so it goes):

From atop the walls, a garrison man had seen the baron’s party approaching the Eadin; they’d have seemed tiny figures between the trees, ants crawling among rushes. Here on the stairway to the great hall’s doors, Cat could be said to have a commanding view, but she envied that watchman, wished she could see the future bearing down on her as something so small.

She wished Konstantin’s—troubles, call them that—could have reached a happy resolution that she had no part in. Not because she wished to avoid the shame of being connected to him, though few would blame her. Cat would have felt the same way if he came home dripping with honors. If she were a prize instead of a refuge.

20. Share 3 images that would fit to a mood board for this chapter/fic.

My main image-work regarding this story has been trying to find models for Konstantin's dagger (not much luck!), but that aside, and assuming the Sickos: YES meme and any random screencap of a bloody-mouthed Joey Batey from the "King" music video are already granted--here, have the jewelry I either bought because of this story (purple star ruby; purple rubies and star sapphires both show up) or wrote into the WIP (turquoise stone; I made it an earring rather than a ring), the chalk art that inspired the Barony of Eadinford's coat of arms, and some embroidered flowers like Cat might sew:

[starsailorstories]

Thonks for the tag @peachpulpeuse!!

Favourite colour: off-pinks...hard to choose between the different off-pinks that exist. big fan of dusty rose, henna, coral, all of those. very millennial of me i know but i think we should celebrate the accomplishments of a color that can be soothing and warm at the same time

Currently reading: SPQR by Mary Beard finally, and rereading some old faves (Madness Rack & Honey by Mary Ruefle and The Conquest of Bread bc every now and then you just gotta). Just finished The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk bc it won the nobel and i was curious and i gotta say that while i feel like the author did such a colossal amount of research she forgot she wasn’t actually writing a biography in places, it slapped as a matter of fact 

Last song: “Keep on Pushin’” by the Impressions i am a grandmother

Last series: idk if it’s last started or last finished but started watching the dark crystal netflix series w/ friends last week and i’m very charmed although disappointed by the amount of non-practical effects (the right amount of cgi for a jim henson thing is none.)

Last movie: ...idk if i’ve sat through a full feature-length movie since i went to go see Everything Everywhere All At Once when it came to the dollar theater which is absurd

Sweet/spicy/savoury: hmmm most of my favorite foods are what people would think of as spicy foods but i also hate things that are “just” spicy like you get more heat than flavor. also where is salty, the one flavor that is good with everything from bell peppers to chocolate? i don’t understand

Currently working on: +sighs heavily+ my hell second draft of my novel for the third year in a row. that makes it sound like a more depressing process than it has been, i’ve been enjoying it, but it’s also very scary and i have to sneak up on it or i run away into procrastination

tagging: @prodigaldaughteralice @defender-of-wilderness @fatalcookies @delunesnumberonefan and anyone else who wants to do it!

[delunesnumberonefan]

had a realization today that Jubilee Sunshine Waters is 5 years old (as of three days ago)

i know a lot of people here are new, so i’ll summarize: i made jubilee for a game my now-best friend @/fatalcookies ran called “Entropy” and...no joke that game and this character changed my life for the better in more ways than i can count. my url that i have to this day, “DeLune’s Number One Fan,” comes from that game, and from Jubilee’s hot older lady girlfriend DeLune (who i will be drawing some coming up here soon. if i don’t, yell at me)

I made Jubilee right before i went to college, and spent the first two years of my college career screaming about her and DeLune and how much I loved the both of them pretty damn near nonstop. Jubilee and DeLune got me through rough times in college, and were my primary comfort characters for years and years. even tonight i reread some old writing with DeLune in it and got the “choked up in my throat/butterflies in my chest” feeling that i got when i first fell in love with DeLune. they still get me every now and again, even though i’ve made so many other characters and fallen in love with so many other older women. DeLune’s still got a big piece of my heart, and so does Jubilee.

Jubilee, in the campaign, was a tiefling light cleric of pelor. literal walking ray of sunshine, had a high-pitched sweet-as-pie voice, and her famous line was introducing herself: “Hi, my name is Jubilee Waters!” She was the rock of the party, she was the healer, the moral support, the team mom, the resident sweetheart, the muscle, and the unexpected powerhouse. Everyone really grew to love her, because she wore her heart on her sleeve and had so much compassion for those around her.

Jubilee’s fatal flaw was that she was terrified of people leaving her because she viewed her depression and her sadness as “too much for other people to handle.” she put on a happy face all the time because she was convinced that if she didn’t, people would get tired of her when she got sad and they would eventually leave.

well. that flaw came from me, as all good dnd character flaws do. and i can happily say that now, five years later, that flaw is no longer something i worry myself into spirals over. i am comfortable enough in my own skin and with the friends and people i surround myself with to know my worth, and to know that if/when i break down, the people i love will be there for me because that’s what friends and family does for each other.

so...thanks, Jubilee. thank you for helping me through a really tough transition period of my life, and thank you for bringing me together with my now very dear friends.

here’s to five more years, you big sweetheart <3

[jotunvali02]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ninth Doctor/The Master (Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka) Characters: Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka), The Master (Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka), Alison Cheney Additional Tags: I went to write domesticity and it turned into h/c, anyway all of this is to say:, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Domestic Fluff, It gets soft at the end I promise. Summary:

In which the Master sews a ripped seam.

[thefigmented]

12, 17, and 21?

12. The Beach - The Neighbourhood

17. goodbye - Billie Eilish

21. Better Than Me - The Brobecks

(Send a number 1-100 and I’ll give you my unwrapped song!)

[victoriantrashjohn]

Any good thoschei fic recs for us?

Oh I wish! I still haven't really branched out into reading doctor who fics by people I don't know because I haven't had the time but as usual I reccomend @not-jodie-yet and @fatalcookies they both have great thoschei fics on ao3

[chinquix]

fatalcookies

  the-omega-jojo  me: man i...

If you stop in Portland come say hi to me? :D

of course!! (you’ve discovered my secret ulterior motive to this roadtrip, which is surprise all my american mutuals in person and speak at you in british)

[fuleao]

9, 10, and 20!!

9. (Another) Funniest thing someone’s ever said.

BRING ON THE HUNGER GAMES, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, I’M READY (spoken by a one-foot-tall mushroom by a player using a voice modifier to sound like they’re on helium.)

10. Most annoying thing that’s happened in a game.

ants should not have a high enough intelligence score to automatically resist animal friendship why didn’t I just try animal handling first instead of burning a slot

20. Big groups or small groups?

I definitely prefer small groups. It’s easier for everyone to participate and to interact with all of them. 

[janeturenne]

I just came across an album called "Do you want the truth or something beautiful?" and if it is possible to write a more Braxiatel sentence than that one I have never yet read it.

[mumblingsage]

fatalcookies said: Must use language in a new and unconventional way! Puns, slam-poetry influence, dialogue-only entries, and so on.

Yes, I think there’s definitely something there! I worried it might stray too close to “Erato Redux” (not that I don’t want to do another Erato, I just think it’d probably be clearer to call that Erato II rather than a completely new title) because the use-of-language subject lends itself to flash fic and prose poetry. But it doesn’t have to be super short.

I did some word & concept association and also thought of:

*Literature and lechery—public domain fanfic, stories about the erotic influence of reading (and of writing—from Story of O to sexts)

*Language: what are the sexiest words to you? Dirty talk? Poetry?

*Wordplay: What’s the sexiest literary device? Zeugma? Even a good pun gets us laughing, and laughter can be sexy. Or dare I say, puns that make you moan as well as groan?

*Wordlessness—going beyond words, literally unspeakable pleasure, the desires that are hard to voice, nonverbal communication

All of which can be written about by using language in new and unconventional ways. Hmm, something might be shaping up here.

[starsailorstories]

fatalcookies

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Does anyone actually wanna know about the...

Uuuuh please

*deep breath*

*steeples fingers*

@fatalcookies

ok so LIKE

In a deviation from canon, Shade’s only on earth because armageddon is coming someday, and she’s the Almighty’s most trusted strategist. I know this is also veering way off all conventional understanding of the hierarchy of angels, but I think our girl’s a seraph. I mean come on--little miss “think nothing but devotion”? The character who was so over the top in her praise of her boss that a complete third party called the relationship “an altar” to be “sacrificed on”? Seraphim is translated as “the burning ones” and Shade is burning inside and out in any version of her you want to construct. She’s way beyond goodness, she’s about PURITY. She is a slave to the theoretical ultimate perfection of the divine plan. Holy holy holy, bitch!

But...she has a secret.

It’s the same secret she has in canon.

She loves life.

She doesn’t know why and it kind of scares her. She has eternal bliss at her fingertips if she just keeps following all the rules, and she’s great at following all the rules. But at the same time, perfection is simultaneously incredibly hectic and kind of boring. After an eternity of serving at the height of passion, unchanging, unerring, a body gets a bit worn out, and starts to think it might be nice to just, curl up with some brief ephemeral story. Something a bit less than perfect, a bit less than eternal--just to see what it was like. And fortunately the divine, in her unerring wisdom, was just on time to tell one, which started, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

And so she goes to earth, and she’s just barely constrained in a quite handsome--entirely bespoke!--human body, whose eyes she only occasionally lights up with white flame, and promptly occupies herself with performing understated miracles of toy repair for random children, dressing like the pits of fashion, sipping espresso in cafes, skulking around the edges of literary society Orlando-style but in a theoretically specifically benevolent fashion, and justifying everything to herself one way or another.

And yes like...Shade is pretty sensible, she’s not going to get into the exact same nonsense on earth that Aziraphale did, but if you really think she’s not going to get into any nonsense at all then I feel really bad for you because clearly you’ve never met...wlw in general

She’s kind--never indulgent, but kind--and polite, and nobody really minds her above or below, because she’s very careful to maintain her Purity by never questioning anything or really putting anything in place besides that which she’s been told to. One of her main justifications for everything she’s been getting up to is to assume that if the Almighty didn’t want her to do it, she wouldn’t be able to, because she certainly doesn’t have free will...does she?

Shade is a pseudonym she took on to represent the humility of her human side, by the way, signifying its total inferiority to the radiance of God. I don’t know what God calls her when she’s a blinding, burning figure at the side of the great throne. Perhaps it’s Lux.

Now. Bolt. You may have been asking yourself, “How are you gonna cast the sweet, soft, motherly team healer as the demon in this? Even Crowley has it in him to be a bit of a curmudgeon sometimes and Bolt just doesn’t” and that is true.

But I have this to say:

Hell hath no fury like a tenderhearted gay disaster scorned.

Okay, it’s not all, like, completely personal. The majority of the soul reaping that Bolt accomplishes doesn’t require her to do anything besides exist. Because she’s a sweet, pretty, competent woman who listens, and she’s also the biggest lesbian in the world, and her numbers look fine back at home office because men are just like that. She doesn’t have to tempt anybody she’s literally just There

But sometimes, with the ladies, it’s more, and sometimes she is there for an extended period, and sometimes she feels something beyond pragmatic compassion and that something quickly turns to heartbreak. Because she will never not be a demon, and humans will never lack the ability to redeem themselves. With them she’s never more than a temptation, a distraction, a stumble on the straight and narrow--never chased, never cherished, never allowed to grow old beside. They abandon her, they hurt her, just like God did, and they never regret it, because it was the right thing to do. So, you know, every once in a while, when it’s really too much to take, when she really has to do something for once, to hell with them.

The thing is that in vol. 1 Bolt certainly feels enormous degrees of love, but she doesn’t really have a moral code beyond “make the people around me happy so that they’ll like me and pay attention to me.” If she felt underappreciated in heaven, would she run to Lucifer’s side knowing she would be praised and made to feel special there? Abso-HECKING-lutely.

Of course, it takes more than just her feelings to make her fall. As with canon Bolt, she falls FOR someone.

Who does she fall for, in this universe?

Ready for this?

Eve.

Oh, it wasn’t entirely selfish. She certainly THOUGHT about the unfairness, the way God set them up for the Fall. And yes hell sent her to make it happen, so she can certainly claim to have just been doing her job. BUT…

She honestly might not have done it the way she did it, if she hadn’t thought, just a tiny bit, just way down deep where she could almost ignore it, “Maybe, if they could choose, one of them might choose me.”

Down the road, one of her few real resume builders downstairs is inventing the spinal block epidural--which REDUCES human suffering, but how are they scoring this thing anyhow?--as a middle finger to heaven and an apology to her first crush

+Bolt grumbling+ “‘In pain you will bring forth children’ ASSHOLE it wasn’t her fault!”

Also putting her in the actual plot rather than just the universe of Good Omens simplifies things nicely, the nuns aren’t needed anymore at all. Boltie will be the first to tell you that without her Systems and her assistants, she’s perfectly capable of misplacing a baby on her own.

I just want to mention here that she dresses like the exact midpoint between Jackie O and Marilyn Monroe with a slightly more infernal color scheme and her sunglasses are those red plastic heart kind

Also, because I do the same shit in every AU, she has the exact relationship Crowley has with Queen with, GUESS!!, Dolly Parton

I definitely think one of the most interesting things about this (it’s one of the things I think is most interesting about canon Good Omens too although they never go a l l the way down this road) is that Shade quietly suspects that Bolt is better at being Good than her. Oh sure she loves all God’s creatures but Boltie can get them to love her back. It seems that, unless someone has hurt her personally, one of her main motivations for pushing back against heaven IS compassion

Bolt for her part feels immense guilt about the fact that the only reason she EVEN lets this crap happen anymore is out of bitterness. She hears heaven offers humans unconditional love, even now that they have free will. Where was that deal when she wanted free will, huh?

From that setup on out, you don’t REALLY have to change anything--about EITHER source text! But it’s kind of fun to customize certain stuff for them

I feel like in that scene where they’re drinking in the bookshop they’d get into an exchange that’s like

Bolt, sitting with her legs slung over the arm of a chair, her pantyhose all bunched around her ankles, her high heels in one hand and a glass of red in the other: And that’s the other thing, if we go back they’re not gonna let us be cute anymore

Shade, sitting at her desk with her tie loose and her collar open beside a half-empty bottle of very nice whiskey (I told you the aesthetics were reversed): My goodness Boltie that’s really what you’re on about at a time like this

Bolt: Well take a second to appreciate what you’ve got down here angel, we look fine as all get out! If they send us back I’m gonna probably be back to bein’ a snake for all eternity and you’re gonna have to be a, a flaming wheel or some shit. You know you’re not gonna be able to get made-to-measure for THAT

Shade: …Damn, you’re right

Is this a good time to mention that in my head, Shade sounds decidedly English and Bolt sounds like she’s from Cleveland

Except also I really want Shade to carry Boltie across consecrated ground like in that one post

[delunesnumberonefan]

@fatalcookies replied to your post “@nivalingreenhow replied to your post “@nivalingreenhow replied to...”

DeLune is not a woman who tends to equate love with commitment either so like. She's been in love before, just not settled down, really. The settling down would surprise her, but gently so, as she's just... at a good time in her life to start thinking about it.

word of god from jennie herself

[thenugking]

fatalcookies said: Holy crow hon D:

natalunasans said: wow?!?!?! glad you’re okay

doctress said: D: Good grief.

yeah i am uh very very grateful to @charamei for maybe saving my life bc i was skyping her and about to go to the loo, and she told me she going to bed in a minute anyway, so I hung on a minute and then just as I was about to go to the loo, the ceiling right above it fell in and yeah, if u are happy i’m still alive then u have charamei to thank, thank you charamei for ensuring i was not in there at the time aaaaaa

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

I think of your writing as: Clear, carefully-picked prose, never a word out of place. Incredible subtlety of emotion, beautiful imagery, and a sense of care having gone into every word that makes the writing seem very refined, delicately-constructed, and lovely in its portrayals, be it a moment of quiet emotion or a raw and gripping instant of time.

I mean. Also just, PearlRose, revolutionary makeouts, and the most lovely and carefully-arranged mutual respect between characters, it’s frankly wonderful. But also, all the other stuff.

[writing ask meme]

Honestly I personally drive myself up the wall with my horribly irritating need to painstakingly pick at and agonise over and endlessly fiddle with every single word in anything I write, but here you are complimenting that and… it’s just... so nice? Thank you

The other half of your ask is basically a big ol’ These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things, and I’m glad I can do them even a bit of justice.

[awesomesquirrelstuff]

2 Writing Realizations I've Made Today

1) My MC is an extremely giggly drunk. 2) Her love interest is possibly the sweetest adult character in the series and at one point has killed a man.

[chinquix]

ive finally found all my creative writing...

I believe you were writing S&A contemporaneously at the time so like…. can verify, u write gud

wow you’re right, i was! and thank you!!