#flutiebear

[alta-et-astra]

I don't know why I didn't link it at the time, this is based on @flutiebear 's Fair Child.

“How Do You Like Those Legs Now?”

Sabrina has been my favorite Audrey Hepburn movie since the beginning of time. And then flutiebear did a thing of utter cuteness and combined Dragon Age with it in some lovely fic! Here’s my little tribute. It was supposed to be a warm up painting, but whoops.

Maybe I’ll do a thing with Carver one day too, but no promises.

[anytaintedcreature]

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hello dearest, here’s some disorganized words for you, from that unfinished Dundrasil piece of Upon Waking, which will one day see the light:

The ruins of Dundrasil struck him harder than he’d expected, somehow.

Rowan had walked a long way with the knowledge that he’d been born somewhere other than Cobblestone, that someone other than the mother he knew had once called him son. In another life, he’d have been raised a Prince. He’d roamed these lush green woods instead of towering mountains.

But it was not the life he’d ended up with, so he put that burden - and an old, tattered and yellowed letter - away.

If it weighed heavier than any parchment ought to, well. He kept that to himself.

And while it might be true that he’d lost sleep some nights counting the stars and wondering who he favored - the late King of Dundrasil or the Queen - Irwin and Eleanor were not names he knew, they weren’t Mum and Chalky. It was curiosity that leant to his dreams, he’d told himself. Not a misplaced sense of loss for what he’d never known to miss. His family had given him everything he needed.

So what was it then, that made his steps falter as they trudged away from the worst of the ruins? Why did his hands tremble, his palms sweat?

Rowan thought again of Rab, bowing low to press his forehead to the stone of a grave he’d dug and marked on his own, and had to rub the heel of his hand against his chest to soothe the sharp ache there. 

No, Rowan thought, as he followed an old man to indulge him a little while longer, I don’t know these people.

But he could still hurt for them, all the same.

[foxghost]

@flutiebear replied to your post

“I have translated a fanvid so good i don’t know what to put in the...”

Your descent into Guardian madness is making me sooo intrigued. How can I watch it legally? (I'm like a 65 yo grandma when it comes to torrents and stuff)

I've fallen so fast I have ships for shows I haven't watched yet from fanvids *headdesk* asghsdkjfhsdkfjsdh

The Guardian starter kit You can watch the entire thing on youtube legally. Here's a playlist, every ep is subtitled. Do download them in case they get taken down again (for whatever the PRC decide they don't approve of.)

The whole thing is based off of a novel, which I suggest reading along with the show. Here is @dtriad's masterlist of translated Guardian chapters / meta / etc.

But before you do any of that, read this and be warned, haha

[nerd-bastard]

yay, i'm so glad you like it wooooo one of us one of us one of us. I think my favorite part of the Dragon Quest games is just how disarming and charming the world is; you think it's all fun and games, cute slimes and silly puns and bright colors and then suddENLY HEARTBREAK HOW EVEN DARE YOU. FWIW I'd caution you not to read my fanfic too carefully, because there are definitely spoilers for Act 2 (and even Act 3 in spots) slipped in there, especially for Erik.

YOU’RE NOT EVEN KIDDING ABOUT THE HEARTBREAK TT-TT when i wrote my post eariler today i had just moved into act 2-- I had been a fish, and gotten Hendrik into my party. afrer I posted I spent the afternoon playing and oh my god flutie I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR ANY OF THE FEELS. like, the fall and being a fish and last bastion were rough (I ALMOST CRIED WHEN TALC CRIED) but this afternoon. holy shit this afternoon. sylvando continues to be amazing and perfect (he is legit my single most favorite character), BUT THEN WE FOUND ERIK SCAVENGING IN THE HOLD AND NOW MY HEART IS IN PIECES AND THE PIECES ARE CRYING, FLUTIE. HE’S SO SCARED AND SWEET and holy shit does it put a heartwrenching twist in my headcanons for his and Talc’s relationship ahhhhhhh i can’t wait to talk about it!! TT^TT 

right this moment i’ve just finished saving Talc’s dad’s spirit and AGAIN WITH THE HEARTBREAK. its such a sweet story and i am such a sucker for the power of love trope. man i love this game. 

i don’t usually try to avoid spoilers too hard tbh, and i’ve gotten some oblique ones scrolling through the tags and blogs for sure (insert more nervous laughter here). they don’t really bother me too much bc i enjoy the ‘okay but HOW do we get to that point’ and sometimes its fun to solve that puzzle along the way even when i’m not totally blind :D that said i enjoy it so much i’ve been working harder to avoid spoilers lately lol

[faejilly]

End of Year writing meme, G and U!

G. Where do you think you grew the most this year?

I wrote a fight scene. I described a very creepy Fallen Angel AND THEN I KILLED IT.

It was great.

U. Any stories that took a abrupt u-turn from where you thought they were going?

Not really?

I did make myself take several bit and bobs that I’d been clinging too really tightly as potential stories and let them go, which is the opposite of what I’d been planning but really made me better because I made myself focus on things I could develop and do something with.

[pearwaldorf]

what is the drabble hill? i must know, in case you need reinforcements

A DRABBLE IS 100 WORDS EXACTLY. 

(Some person tried to use linguistic drift to justify the way people apply it to things that are not 100 words and no. No. Words mean things. If a ravioli is also a sandwich what’s the fucking point of having the word sandwich?)

[thedivinemissema]

End of Year writing meme, F!

What stories are you planning for the future?

Oh goodness, so this plays into one of my resolutions. I haven’t been as active in doing either photography or writing since my mom passed almost two years ago. It’s like everything I had went into just learning how to be okay again for such a long time, but I made small steps. I picked up my camera at Christmas and took family photos. 

(A large part of me not wanting to take photos also came from having my copyright violated by a nonprofit that I was volunteering for, and how shitty the woman in charge of it was through the whole thing.)

But for 2019 I’m trying to get as many rejections as possible, because I want to see how many stories I can write if I stretch myself.

So with that in mind, I am writing series books, original fiction fantasy stories. The first series has a illegal magus solving a murder mystery, the second is a steampunk mystery series set at a college. (I know a lot of mystery writers). I’m also working on some stand alone romance novels. There’s always my short stories too, I’ve got two out for consideration right now.

On the fic side, I’d just like to finish the stuff I’ve started in the endless hole of my WIP folder. I’ve got great readers and they’ve stuck with me so I’d like to get more finished works to them. Most of the new fic I’m planning is in the Kirkwall Tech AU series so I can flesh out Melissa Hawke and Sebastian’s arc.

Lastly, I’d like to get my author website up and running because that’s been on my backburner for about a year now and if I’m writing more, I’ll need it.

[academiczombie]

flutiebear replied to your post:I can’t believe this still needs to be said: if I...

my god this used to happen to me ALL THE TIME. It was part of the reason i took so long a break from Tumblr. UGH.

I don’t blame you!! It pushes you to the point where sharing anything personal is a risk: who’s going to feel entitled enough to reblog this, what if it’s something you planned to delete later but now it’s on someone else’s blog, what if they want to yell at you for having an opinion that’s adverse to their own, etc.?

I feel like a jerk for reacting so harshly, but I don’t think it’s too much to expect people to leave a personal post alone when it’s clearly not meant for them? It’s not as though the post itself is funny or insightful, so lmao I don’t get the point.

[iapetusneume]

@flutiebear

So, that's one of the things we've been working on, but also what's been giving us anxiety. I've started to hear stories about trans people renewing their passports (at usual times, not even when they were changing them from before to get their dead name/gender off of it) and the government losing their documents. Or saying they have to resubmit their doctor's letter even though they had their birth certificate ammended already.

Navona has had her name changed but still needs to ammend her birth certificate. She still need to take all that info and get her DD214 revised. She's had her surgery.

Armony is pre-op, and we probably won't be able to afford her surgery for another few years. Her legal name is her dead name, and getting her name changed is more complicated because she was born outside of the country. I honestly worry a lot more for her. She outs herself every time she has to show her ID. And she's kinda stuck at her current job because her job is cool and treats trans people like human beings, but is retail and doesn't pay much and is hard on her back.

I've thought more than once about moving to Canada... but again, we just don't have the money.

Sorry to unload like this. You do bring up good points and I appreciate it. I'm just feeling really useless right now.

[stardust-lightning]

Six Sentence Sin-Day

From the next installment of Walk Beside Me, literally the only part that I wrote today that doesn’t give everything away.

Enjoy ;)

Keep reading

[bossuary]

@flutiebear replied to your post: “during yesterday’s game, my character punched one of the members of...”:

the healer has the bloodiest hands

[scarlettablack]

There is a definite shift in quality and the type of story being told in SPN Seasons 6 and especially 7, and I used to always have trouble understanding why bc Sera Gamble had been an integral part of the story development, and had written some of my favorite SPN eps of all time (It’s a Terrible Life and Jus in Bello for starters), so why is her tenure as showrunner so... weird?

I think there’s a bit of a two-fold problem. Sera is first and foremost a strong B-plot, thematic writer. Her episodes usually dig into the emotional part of the series, and as a result her episodes tend to be Dean-centric. So, when she took over as showrunner, Dean got promoted to protagonist.

The problem is that Dean is the one who carries the emotional arcs through the series for the most part. So, Seasons 6 & 7 are essentially an excercise in trying to make a B plot into a C plot (or whatever the overarching myth arc is supposed to be). As a result, the episodes feel a lot more disjointed, because they’re being used as metaphors, and as a result it’s almost as if the myth arc is being told to service the episodic arcs, which are being told to service the emotional arc.

It makes for extremely good meta essays and character development (like the themes about “what is family, can you grow past the mistakes of your (chosen) kin, how do you justify hurting your family” and “how do you grieve a loved one especially one who betrayed you, who should you look to for support and guidance, etc” from S6 and S7 respectively), but is in general very hard to watch. Like hbomberguy says abt Pathologic, SPN S6 and S7 are more fun to talk about than to actually experience.

The second is that Season 7 doesnt really follow through on its themes. In order for the entire season (at least up to 7x17) to make any lick of sense, you have to approach it from a destiel perspective. There was a meta writer back in the day who really did outline how all of S7 really dives into Dean’s grief abt Cas, and many of the episodes have a funhouse mirror reflection of Dean and/or Cas and their relationship throughout. The main problem is that most of these parallels are explicitly romantic in nature (and none that I can think of take on the “fraternal” nature they often claim for Dean and Cas’ relationship), so the S7 story arc essentially wants to have its cake and eat it too. The reason S7 really falls apart at the seams is simply because the story is in the subtext that the writers swear up and down isnt there

(And another thing), with a few exceptions, none of the MOTW or VOTW (victims of the week) are very fun. Like, I dont care about them very much, and they don’t really make an impact on the Winchesters in any meaningful way, so they’re just... there to be there, really

[anytaintedcreature]

Top five kisses. SMOOOOCH

Like five kisses ever? In the history of the whole universe? 

OKAY I’m gonna go TV kisses that I love because there have been a great many kisses across all media forms that I’ve flailed over so here are five of them plus GIFS

this is gonna be long probably and have spoilers for certain TV shows so, you know, here’s a cut

1) My current fave is Eliott and Lucas’s first kiss from s3 of Skam France. The music, the rain, everything about it is beautiful and I die every time I watch it. 

I mean DAMN 

2) Jess & Nick from New Girl. Their first kiss is a holy hell of a first kiss. “I meant something like that,” just murder me instead okay.

3) Luke & Lorelai from Gilmore Girls because c’mon guys we waited forever for these two, did we not? And they go from screaming at each other to arguing to smooching in .2 seconds and there’s just something about it that makes me wanna eat a gallon of ice cream and sob 

4) Emma & Killian from Once Upon A Time because I’m still trash for Colin O’Donoghue - 

I mean goddamn my pirate husband can and does get it 

5) Jim & Pam from the Office because PB & J FIVE-EVER

honorable mention to bellarke because when these two assholes finally kiss I’m going to ascend to a higher plane of existence. Hopefully sometime before I die 

[lets-steal-an-archive]

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[nerd-bastard]

flutiebear replied to your photo “this is probably a power i should not have been given but I’M TAKING...”

smooching, you say

fair warning, this may never actually materialize-- the DQXI modding community has literally just figured out extracting the models from the game and it’s still a janky process at the moment. there’s also a ton of BS that goes into rendering to get actual pretty pictures, with the lighting and environments and dear-god-but-i-hope-no shaders... so we’ll see what happens, but for now its a fun diversion :D

[faejilly]

twistedsinews replied to your post “I have things to dooooo but I've gone through an entire box of kleenex...”

*blanket and tea*

intezaarlily replied to your post “I have things to dooooo but I've gone through an entire box of kleenex...”

*waves in sickness solidarity*

I hope you feel better soon <3

Thank you! Yesterday was awful, but today I am finally feeling better. YAY.

(And there were lots of blankets and a bit of tea. <3)

seraphinitegames replied to your post “B, G, W”

Thank you! And congrats on your progress! <3

thank you! (and you’re welcome)

flutiebear replied to your post “End of Year writing meme, G and U!”

Sometimes the letting go is a U turn in and of itself. How awesome :) Here's to great things in 2019!!!

IT IS. It’s remarkably hard to do sometimes... and same to you! 

elfyourmother replied to your post “N for the end of year writing meme!”

I would die for Blackwall/Loghain content it’s so lonely on this pool noodle

IKR?!? I keep poking at it but not getting anywhere, but no one else is going to make it, which makes me sad. THEY’RE SO GOOD TOGETHER. 

twistedsinews replied to your post “twistedsinews replied to your post “N for the end of year writing...”

XD the last bit where they won't fuck but i'm here procrastinating writing a kiss so i may be feeling it personally

ah yes, I suppose that was a bit unexpectedly vulgar, but you know, it’s a thing. JUST DO YOUR THING SO I CAN FINISH THE STORY!!

and yet... silly characters, so uncooperative. you’d think they’d want to get together?