#genuinely cant remember what it was like learning to write or read

[jalopeura]

ppl talking abt literacy (specifically in the usa) on twitter and

first off seeing "21% adults are illiterate" was weird so i looked it up on wikipedia and the way they measure (adult) literacy in the usa includes a bit of basic math which feels like itd drop the 'literacy' rate of almost any country by a little, no?

but then regarding literacy in children, holy shit this article is like. terrifying

(obviously the difference in finnish and english as languages especially in terms of learning to read it through sounding it out is Massive so i cant really offer any personal experience or anecdotes, other than.....

what about writing? the article talks so much about how kids learn to read but says nothing about how they are taught to write. how do you learn to spell words if you cant read them? shouldnt the two be taught at the same time being as intrinsically linked to one another as they are??? im genuinely confused. does the writing come in much later???)

[wisteriaw0rld]

hiiii!!! can i request an aizetsu x gn!reader who has autism? and with fluff please! (if u cant really do much of an autistic reader, it's okay!!)

I really love the way you write, i've been taking an obsession on reading your oneshots (sorry if that sounds weird i just admire u a lot >-< )

-ˋˏ ༻aizetsu༺ ��ˊ- kny x reader

✰synopsis: headcanons of Aizetsu with an autistic s/o! (if I wrote anything wrong or disrespectful, please inform me♡)

✰additional tags: headcanons, autistic reader, gn! reader!, not proof read, (if I wrote any specific pronouns, please tell me :)

✰pairing: aizetsu x gn! reader ✰a/n: I don’t exactly know how to write for autism and I was worried I’d do something wrong so I did headcanons instead! I hope that’s alright, Anon♡  (IT GENUINELY WARMED MY HEART WHEN YOU SAID YOU ADMIRED ME💙💙💙) thank you for requesting!

“A touch from your real love, it’s like heaven taking the place of something evil.” -Lana Del Rey

❥aizetsu, as a demon clone, doesn’t exactly know much about autism. So it might take some explaining when you first tell him.

♥even though he doesn’t know about it at first, he quickly learns the moment you take your time to explain to him what it is.

❥if anyone were to bring it up to you in any sort of rude manner or way, he’ll waste no time to defend you. It saddens him to see when you take what others say about you to heart.

♥depending on any sensory issue you may have, Aizetsu will always be there for you and try to help. Even if he might not always be the best with it.

❥example if sensitive to loud noises⇩

♥“y/n… the fireworks are about to start. do you want ear plugs..?” (searches but fails).

❥aizetsu also loves any special interests or fixations you have, it doesn’t matter if it’s childish or different from others, he loves hearing about you interests, especially when you rant about them.

˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ ❀ ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ ❀ ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ ❀ ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ ❀ ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ ❀ ˚ʚshort drabbleɞ˚ ⇩

Aizetsu watched with a small smile as you had an excited look on your face, clapping your hands in excitement.

He remembered when you explained stimming to him. But he didn’t expect you to look so adorable as you did so.

A small smile made its way onto his face as he watched your stimming continue.

IF ANYTHINGS OFFENSIVE PLEASE TELL ME :(

[arson-09]

Feyre not knowing how to read… doesn’t make sense?

she said she wasnt taught to read, and other social related things because she was too young when they lost their fortune. However she says she was 8 when their mother died, and they lost their fortune soon after.

Now theres no certainty over what historical era fits the mortal lands best, which makes it harder to base at what age you learned to read but clearly women were taught (her sisters learned) but at what age? I learned to read at around 4, half the age of feyre. And historically boys were taught around the same age too (I used english Tudor era because i felt it fit the description best but if theres another lemme know) so feyre not knowing how to read because of her age doesn’t make sense

Now this could have been easily solved by her having a learning disability like dyslexia, didn’t have to be by name but make it clear she struggles because of reasons outside her control. Otherwise her not being able to read or write doesn’t make sense. Which is a common issue found in sjms books sadly, giving characters a trait or issue that makes no sense. sigh

edit: yes she was neglected, that kind of explains it but it makes me question why? i genuinely cant remember if its explained or not WHY her parents didnt gaf (which also makes her strange loyalty to her father confusing?) Maybe its just because but thats such a unfulfilling answer. Yes its common in real life for that, I can’t suspend my belief for this one. Just because doesn’t cut it for fantasy fiction books, non-fic and contemporary sure but in fantasy it feels cheap

and i wanna make it clear cause i already got a weird ass anon message, im not criticizing feyre as a character? im talking about the writing choices and how i feel about them as a reader and writer.

[brisquad-unit-4402]

IM LOSING IT OVER YOUR RECENT IKE FIC. LIKE OH MY GOD. its so sweet and heartwrenching i felt just as nervous and anxious as reader the entire time, and when ike reciprocated my heart MELTED AHHH his freckles!!! how kind and beautiful he is, and his confusion turning into acceptance and his SQUEALSSS AAAA. i cant take it this is my fav ike and probably luxiem fic of all time. all of your hard work paid off so well, it was so well structured and emotional and everyone felt so real!! like they arent characters, theyre actual people!!

ahh, now i wish i knew ike's perspective during those stream moments and his reaction to pen and paper ship content HAHA. i imagine he swiftly bookmarks it on his private account but he keeps blushing and his hands shake whenever he sees any fanart WAAAH. maybe one time he sees pen and paper kissing and he cant properly look at the notifications from reader's chat without FLUSHING RED i love them so bad

i love whenever i'm reading a fanfic and it's so sweetly emotional that you feel your own emotions kicking in. so whenever i hear my work has that effect on someone else it's one of the nicest feelings in the world and WHAT DO YOU MEAN FAVORITE IKE AND/OR LUXIEM FIC EVER. that's super high praise thank youuuuu sobsobsob

i mean this is the kindest most /posi way possible but "they aren't charcters, they're actual people" is the scariest compliment i've ever heard. like on one hand i'm genuinely happy! i worked really hard on keeping multifaceted personalities in mind even for the minor characters! but also Oh No. I'm Writing Vtubers. We Need To Play This So Carefully And So Conscious Of The Creator/Audience Boundary Or My Ass Is GONE

real talk one of my most favorite ike things is when he squeals at something cute or because he's embarrassed ahhhh. and his speaking voice gets so high pitched and soft when he's flustered too like?? it's probably my favorite charm point of his

the ogs remember the poll i ran like a month ago about if ike should have freckles or not. shoutout to the landslide victory, if i remember correctly 97% of voters wanted ike with freckles! so glad that worked out, it works so well with the star theme and the difference between an online friendship meeting irl, and how reader loves them because it's a reminder that they have so much to learn about ike and are ready/willing, and also, freckles are just plain adorable. ike is just plain adorable. put them together and if i were richer and thirstier i'd be commissioning an artist

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

real talk tho i feel like ike goes from 1 to 100 whenever he catches himself simping over reader before the off-collab. either he's really good at acting composed, being normal, just interacting with his best friend like best friends do... or he's a stuttering, blushy mess that wavers like jell-o.

ike's the type of guy to sleepily check twitter before going to bed and whenever he sees pen and paper on his fyp it's like he snaps awake. maybe even squeaks or goes "a!" if it's especially.... you know. sometimes he can't even comprehend that people want him and reader to. well. his mouth goes dry.

and then he feels so dirty and embarrassed just because it's there, but... he's still looking at it. is it bad he's still looking at it? it definitely is but it's captivating, in a way. somehow. the artists are so talented, and somehow they nail your body language to a t, and the way your hair swoops above your eyes, and draw you with the cutest little expressions, and—

ah, who is he kidding.

in moments of weakness it triggers something in him to bury his face a little deeper in his blankets, pretend the screen's light would cool the heat pooling over his cheeks, and search the hashtag himself.

not even three pieces of fanart later, he has to throw his phone face-down on the mattress, cover his blush with a pillow, and now he's definitely squealing. it's healing and it makes him ill. it's... pretty. you're pretty. and he's pretty dumb for letting a silly crush distort itself like this.

the worst part is that some of these line up a little too well with daydreams he wanted to lock away until the end of time. he likes when he takes the lead. the stunned, puppyish expression so rare it only shows up on your face during the biggest plot twists during a stream, but coated in a darkened blush as he pecks them on the cheek, elegant and composed. calm.

ohhhh, this can't be good for his heart. especially when ike himself is so red-faced just thinking of it. calm, his foot.

still with the pillow over his flush, ike feels around for his phone and sets it on his nightstand. he chides himself. that's enough internet for the day, eveland! now quit acting like a shoujo high schooler in love and go to bed already, it's not going to happen!

he sets his face into a determined frown as he lifts the pillow and sets it aside. with any luck, he'd go the rest of the night without thinking of reader and his feelings for them.

the frown eases as he nestles into his blankets and tucks himself in. soft sheets and warm comfort greet him as he shuts his eyes, and he enters the fluffy haze of sleep as he slips into dreamland...

...is what he'd like to say, but not even ten seconds later his eyes snap open and jerks upright in bed. wait, i'm acting like i'm in love?!

he sits with the thought seeping through his brain like a corrosive acid, filing through every little moment he daydreamed about you, and when those don't paint him a picture he likes, he tries to recall the moments he shared with you instead. those are even fonder, and even worse.

he slaps his hands over his face and sighs, and when it sounds lovesick he sighs even more.

✧. ┊ masterpost ✧. ┊ kofi

[torialefay]

Hi Toria, I've sent inboxes to a few blogs, but no one seems to understand and I am just at a loss of what to do or who to talk to. You don't need to post this, I just think you are really kind and would understand, so I guess I just needed to tell someone who could understand where I'm coming from.

Stray Kids new album came out, as I'm sure you know and while I will always support the boys, the 'I Like It' song left me very emotional. I guess it brought up feelings inside of me that I didn't even know that were there based on past 'situationships' I had where that was the mindset. I didn't and still don't fully know why I reacted the way that I did, all I know is that it made me really fucking sad, Toria. I started crying and I didn't even know why, all I knew was that the words hurt, even though everyone else around me was talking about how amazing it was and how they were dancing to it.

The blame isn't on Stray Kids for this obviously, but I feel terrible still. This is the only song that I have ever disliked from them and I feel guilty about it. It also made me feel a bit differently about them and I feel guilty about that too. But I know I cant even say it on my blog because I will get murdered on this app, or called a fake fan, or be called a baby for how it made me feel. I can't help that I feel this way or the experiences I've had.

I don't really know why I'm writing all of this. I am just rambling too much, I have a tendency to do that. Thank you for reading this. Maybe I just needed someone to do it.., someone who I didnt think would judge me. I hope you have a great day, Toria 💕

hi honey, i contemplated posting this just because of what you said at the beginning, but i wanted to make sure that you know i read it and am supporting you from my lil corner of tumblr.

it can be hard to hear songs that get an emotional reaction out of you, and it is only human to do so. i hope you never feel bad about that. just know that it doesn't have to even be through songs. it can be through random things people say, movies, etc.

i'll never forget, one day a group of friends and i were watching a movie together and suddenly one of my friends started to cry uncontrollably. in the plot, there was mention of SA and because none of us had experienced anything like that, we didn't have a sort of emotional reaction. but we learned that day that my friend had been SA'ed and then had those memories flood back in that moment.

although each of us left the movie unaffected (for the most part), i know that movie will always have a negative association in my friend's mind & be remembered as something hurtful. that is absolute NO fault of her own. and for a long time after that, it made me feel very thankful that i'd never had to experience something like that & that i'd be able to go through my life unaffected.

that's a very long-winded way to say: i am so sorry that you've had negative emotions come out of this. and you're right, that has nothing to do with stray kids. i'm sure it is hard to watch people around you love this song while it has brought back bad memories for you. being honest, it also gave me very mixed feelings because of similar reasons. but at the end of the day, i hope you can remember that it is a song and not reality. that may not help at all, and in fact, it probably won't at this moment, BUT hopefully in the future it will be something that can bring you more comfort.

i would genuinely hope that stay wouldn't be upset with you for voicing your opinion & i'm sorry if that's the feedback you've received so far from talking about it. please do not let anyone invalidate your own emotions. it is completely OKAY to dislike a song. and it is completely OKAY for that song to change your views on things. although i do think it is fiction and we should try not to associate people with these fictional scenarios, unfortunately, that's not always how our hearts work.

i'm so sorry for anything you've gone through for these emotions to be brought up. i know it's not an easy thing to go through. you have my support 100%, and PLEASE, if you need anything at all, hop over to my inbox & we can chat some more, okay? ❤️❤️❤️

[memberment]

Gooodmorrrning

I have been shit at updating due to my hellstorm of past few days. HOWEVER.

I am awake literally three hours before I'm supposed to be so we may get some early morning updates because I can't fall asleep and work actually just ruined my sleep schedule so I need to cope by writing fanfic LMAO

guys its 537 pm I forgot to update this morning but Im on chapter three of SOMETHING

also Im still awake

Like I actually wanna sleep rn so I can keep writing and I cant fall asleep like what do I do???? LMFAO

8:34pm: Hi guys good fucking morning I fell asleep for like 2 hours and then spent the last one being a menace and learning Rush E (I don't know how to play the piano)

My iPad is charging so I can post my genesis square SO I CAN POST GENESIS TN

BC I NEED TO GET BACK INTO THE GENESIS GROOVE BC THERES SO MUCH GROUND TO COVER.

Um. A Girl and Her Dog is at 5.6k. I've decided it's gonna be short. Probably like eight chapters. And I'm going to quote the following text I just sent regarding it, because I genuinely think it might be the funniest thing I've said regarding any of my fics.

'LIKE rn I think I’m settled on kicking out horror comedy and it just being like some morbidly cute fluff adjacent thing that starts with cannibalism' which was immediately followed up by, 'And why am I wrong for that????'

Just know I'm laughing really hard because who the fuck do I think I am??? But yeah I may or may wind up banging out that entire fic tonight bc of how short it's gonna be so uhhhhh. If I can lock in (I'm struggling) updates on that tonight?

Then, I truly don't know. I think I have settled on my ten fics. Contributions have been considered. There's a google doc.

I might fuck around and work on Princess of Fire bc I gen want to start really working on that. That and Resurrection are the only behemoths I don't have anything for yet and I need to get on those.

WHO KNOWS THOUGH. WE'LL FIND OUT!!!!

(8:51) I am currently going through the trials and tribulations of writing 1k worth of someone STARING AT SOMEONE.

Let's see if I can do this successfully.

(3:27am) I somehow lost several hours but I updated Genesis so it's fine. LMAOOO. A Girl is at 6.8k. 10k more to go???? Ish?????? I think I may got it. idk dudes. Kinda wanna read something bc a new chapter is up & I am going feral over it🫶🏻

but also I know that's gonna turn into me reading like six things and getting nothing done LMFAOOO

(5:19) I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE TIME KEEPS GOING LIKE WHAT IS GOING ON????????

I'm at 8.6 though. I keep just like??? Walking away?????? From my screen???? I'm literally not even doing anything I'm just existing. And am now just remembering I forgot to post Desolation.

Whoops. Looks like I'm doing that????

It's 7am. And I posted Desolation. And The End. And then realized people actually have subs on for me and I am definitely spamming the shit out of people. IF YOU APPLY TO THIS STATEMENT, MY SINCEREST APOLOGIES LMFAOOO I FORGOT THAT WAS A THING.

I am going back to A Girl and pretending that I can concentrate.

[dustyevskyy]

FYODOR HEADCANNONS!!

This is an OOC post btw!! I might add more to this later.

I think I should put a TW here for mentions of self h4rm and eating dis0rders, and hinted child abuse!! I know curiosity can get the best of us but still, TW in hopes that people with triggers dont read or atleast prepare themselves!!

Normal hcs!!

• He probably LOVES cats (dont make this weird guys.), but doesent know how to comprehend loving cats, like he doesent know how to comprehend loving most things.

• He likes winter. He likes everything about it, the snow, the holidays, and because thats when he has an excuse to bring freezing animals into his home, he likes animals, like I said he just cant comprehend liking them.

• He LOVES Disney movies, you cant even change my mind. Just imagine him watching Tangled, I feel like he'd pretend to hate it but be so attentive. He also likes documentaries, but he only watches them when he wants to feel more at peace.

• He writes in russian cursive. If you cant read it he'll baby talk you through the sentence mockingly and act like you just cussed him out.

• Hes a picky eater but he eats weird foods, i have no clue how to explain it. Like he'll say no to sushi because he hates the idea of eating raw fish but then eat mulberries dipped in cottage cheese or something.

• In his thousands of years alive he never once tried to actually learn to cook, so he does not know how. At all.

• He is cat coded. I dont care what you say, talk to the wall.

• He downplays how much money he has. Hes been working for thousands of years and barely spends it, he probably has hundreds of millions saved up but thinks that hes broke and works himself to death because of it. He didnt have cash in his wallet once and got paranoid about it happening again when he didnt realize that not having cash doesent mean that youre dead broke.

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Ship hcs!!

• He likes cuddling. i feel like hes touched starved, so he likes to cuddle or just hold his lover, even just for a little bit.

• His love languages are probably gift giving and physical touch, he'll gift the most expensive thing he could find and then apologize about how it isnt much and then come back with a shitload of stuff the next day. The 1st hc pretty much explains the physical touch one.

• Yea, he has a temper and he looks a bit intimidating, but he can be extremely gentle and cuddly as well, only if its toward someone that he loves though.

• I feel like hes the type to complain about not getting enough attention and then just pushing it away as soon as he gets it.

• Clingy, but tries to hide it because he thinks being clingy is annoying, but he is clingy and cant stop being clingy.

• Hes the type to project the love he wishes he could have had onto his partner, or tries to because he isnt exactly sure how, but he tries!

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Angsty hcs!! (ok so remember that TW? This is where it comes into play so prepare yourself!!)

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TRIGGER WARNING!

• I feel like his parents tried to sacrifice him to Satan once or twice in his life because of his ability so he has a bunch of odd scars from it and thats why he wears layers, like pentagrams and random symbols just there on his skin.

• He probably got the habit of carving little things into his skin as a stress reliever because of the trauma so he just has more scars of crosses and random things

• He probably has major attachment issues from being alone most of the time, sitting in a dark room all the time with his silly little computer probably drives him insane without him even realizing it. So when he finally finds someone that he feels genuine concern or care for, he struggles because he has no clue how to love them since he was never taught or shown but also just knows he doesent want to lose them because its comforting to have them around.

• Hes probably a perfectionist when he wants to be or is totally focused on something, and so that drives him insane too.

• His parents also probably like, hardly even fed him, and when they did theyd probably bully him when hed just be trying to eat in peace, and so this is probably another habit from the trauma and now he has the mindset that eating more than one plate of food a day is gluttony (Basically an0rexia, but he doesent even realize thats what it is because he uses his religion as an excuse for it)

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Extra hcs/sidenotes!!

• He likes to chew on ice.

And no, his parents were not satanists they just thought he was a sin and god would forsake them for having such a disdainful child so they offered him to satan, because they were a little bit insane!! He only stuck with the christian beliefs because he thinks maybe satan didnt take him because god wanted him here, hes a bit delulu too but thats fine!! (he probably is a prophet because why is he ancient what the flip)

Anyway here are MY takes on headcannons for Fyodor, I know they're a bit extreme but im too eepy to redo this. But I do apologize if this triggered anyone, I tried to warn the best I knew how to, thanx for reading!!!

[tigerlyla-of-metinna]

Do you please advise how to learn not to pay attention to bad comments and statements? I ask sincere.

Hello anon. Well, I can only give advise based on my experience. Over time I have learned the following facts and adjusted to them (WARNING: Post is lengthy):

Your interests will have detractors. Don't let that blunt your passion. Keep doing this thing because you love it! Then you will find others who will share/ support your interest.

Of course there are special cases where people equate your interest in fictional characters/faction as a real life behavioral problem. That is their problem. Don't make it yours.

Use the negative comments as motivation to post more content. I will post more of this content they hate seeing until they learn to block and unfollow. But it will make your followers happy!

Remember to not take the comments as a personal attack. The moment you do, not only will you hurt yourself, you sully your interest. The negative comments targets the interest, not the person. Half of my friends and mutuals think Emhyr and nilfgaard are the scum of the earth, but our friendship remains strong because it is never personal. Heck, we even give each other pics of that character we hate ( and in good quality too)!

Don't react, but if you do, react with kindness. We have this tendency to defend the honor/virtue of our interest. When at the receiving end of a negative comment our first instinct is to reply with anger and negativity while propping up our favorites. That will not just backfire, it will create even more fire for us to put out. Before writing a reply to any hurtful comments, hold off from posting it. Sit back and take a breather. Read your response. If it reads like incoherent ravings, re-write it with a cooler head.

If someone tells me "you are wrong to think Ciri will become a good Empress, or she and Emhyr cant be family cuz such and such" I'd reply: the possibility for reconciliation exists, if not canon, then in fanfiction, same with Ciri as empress. I have facts why she'd make a good ruler. (An anon asked me this question before and I answered objectively).

Focus on the audience you attract. I mainly make posts for myself, I write fics for my indulgence. I share them freely to the public. The fandom is one big gallery exhibit and you are one of the exhibitors. Some will glance at it, some will make fun of it, others will foam at the mouth. But there are people who will stop and take a genuine liking to your post. In time you will attract more. Leave the others to look elsewhere.

And few other important things to consider. Ignore stuff that is hurtful. No pain-shopping: don't go seeking out negative responses. If you get anon hate, turn off anon ask. Don't even reply to a hate comment. chuck it to the bin. If you get a follow up saying "you're scared because you cant take criticism", still chuck it in the bin.

And keep doing what you love.

*now... excuse me while I have a half-naked emperor to edit 😁

[sangre-andeo]

making a slightly angsty post at 5 am bc i cant sleep, IGNORE ME its probably not that great.

SPOILER ALERT!!: this contains a MAJOR spoiler from the Trials of Apollo series, don't remember exactly which bc its been ages since I read em. if they r ooc PLS don't kill me, i just wanted to write smth lol, idk how any of this works

Grieving Jason Grace, from Percy's point of view:

"The night you died, I felt it. Woke up in a cold sweat, with no idea why I felt so sick or why my heart was racing so fast. I was too on edge to go back to bed. I stayed up all night, watched the sun rise outside. The feeling didn’t go away. It followed me like a shadow until I finally got the news. Even now, it doesn’t feel real. I don’t want to believe you’re gone. I’m wrecked, I can’t even imagine how Piper and Leo are feeling right now. I don’t even know what I’m doing, I’m alone here just speaking into the wind. I guess I’m just hoping somewhere in Elysium you can hear me, because I know I won’t ever get the chance to say any of this to your face. So, here’s everything I never got the chance to say. Jason Grace, I admired the shit out of you. From the moment I found myself in Camp Jupiter, I knew someone like you was one of a kind. Everyone spoke of you so highly, it was almost intimidating. I knew I could never be what you were to them. And when I met you, I knew I’d been right about one thing. You are irreplaceable. To learn who you actually were under the reputation you had, I saw myself in you. We were just kids, kids with more power than we were prepared to wield. Kids who learned as they went, improvising the whole way and hoping to make it. You were the best of us, Grace. Brave, and kind, and fair. Passionate and honest. One of the most genuine men I will ever know. A smart, fierce fighter. And an incredible leader. There will never be another you, and I don’t know how to cope with that. I’m going to miss your friendship, your ideas, every small thing that made up the person you were. Meeting someone like you only happens once in a lifetime if anyone is as lucky as I’ve been. I just wish I’d gotten the chance to tell you how much your friendship meant to me. I guess I took advantage of the idea that you’d always be around. Call me naive, but I was under the impression that defeating a primordial evil meant we could rest for a while. Didn’t think I’d lose one of the strongest people I know so soon. Shows what I know, huh? I don���t think I’m making much sense, and I’m pretty sure if you were here- well I don’t think you’d laugh, but it would be harder to take myself seriously if you were here staring at me. I just wanted to say goodbye. I miss you, man. I hope that, in our next lives, we find each other again. Until then, I’ll wait to fight beside you on the battlefield, Superman. Rest easy."

[sonicnewschannel]

Yooo we're doing questionares for the @sonic-oc-showdown ?? Cool!!

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Name: Echo

Species: Cat

Type: Shapeshifting

Alignment: Neutral Good (current) Chaotic Neutral (pre-amnesia)

Home: Sweet Treat Bakery, SmallTown (actual town name)

• How did you come up with the OC's name?

I had like 3 different OCs named Echo at a time, as a kind of placeholder. It just ended up sticking! Before that though, his name was Aura.

• How old are they? (Or approximate age range)

About 16!

• Do they have any love interest(s)?

She's in a relationship with a different OC of mine named Nea (short for Neapolitan), and has a close Queer Platonic Relationship with another OC named B0lt!

• What is their favorite food?

He loves strawberry things! (Though if you ask her, she'll just say whatever you like)

• What do they do for a living?

He works part-time at his girlfriend's sweet shop! Though her main profession is a secret, even to her!

• Do they have any hobbies?

She likes singing and reading and learning about history!

• What do they do best?

Echo is SUPER good at reading people and accurately copying their mannerisms and personality. He can also copy people's looks, but that's a bit more tricky due to how memory works when it comes to visual stuff like colours.

• What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

Loves: reading, singing, finding out new history

Hates: having to search out her OWN history due to amnesia. He finds his own life much more boring and frankly annoying than other people's.

• What is one of your OC's best memories?

She doesn't have many to go off of, but it's a tie between him and B0lt catching fireflies and her ace-ing some hard test. He's not too sure why that one fills him with so much pride.

• What is one of your OC's worst memories?

She has a memory of her being in some type of tube with wires connected to her, and a group of people messing around with them until her form shifted. That one makes his head hurt

• Is their current design the first one?

Besides a few changes, pretty much! Unless we're counting the old designs of the oc I took this old design from, then no. GOD no. This is like the 7th one if we count that.

• What originally inspired the OC?

If I remember correctly, he was created because I REALLY liked this random anime character from an anime I never even watched? I still haven't found the character in question, though. Oh! Also because he had ice magic originally (why the fur is blue and white)

• What genre do they belong in?

Either a Mystery Comedy, or a Horror Mystery, to be honest. Depends on the vibes she's giving that day.

• What is your OC's gender identity and sexuality?

Genderfluid (Uses he/she). Mainly because haha cats are liquid but also because well. He's literally a fluid due to how his shapeshifting works. Get it? She's also demi!

• How many siblings does your OC have?

He was the oldest of 7. She doesn't remember much about any of them.

• What is the OC's relationship w/ their parents like?

He doesn't remember it being good. Her only memory of them is an arguement she cant remember the words of. Only that he ran out while they yelled.

• What do you like most about the OC?

God I love writing a character without worrying about them being out of character. She acts like whoever she's interacting with/copying and that's SO fun. Also writing someone else seeing that SOMETHING'S off with him but they cant tell what is something that can be so enjoyable

• How often do you draw/write about the OC?

I have so many doodles and mini comics but most of them are me throwing ideas into thin air. Maybe I'll share some of them during the showdown!

• Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

I don't think I CAN kill him to be honest. Not to sound OP but I genuinely think she could live without most organs (although not. Un-painfully) due to her shapeshifting power. (This COULD change though, I'm still ironing out the kinks of how his stuff works.

• Does your OC have any phobias?

He's horrified of stasis. The idea of being locked/frozen makes him panic super bad.

• Who is your OC's arch-nemesis/rival?

She doesn't have one actually? There's this character I have called Hero who looks for him for mysterious reasons but that's about it.

• How long have you had the OC?

Since I was about 12! I only started actively using her in 2021 though.

[sunattacksthemoon]

I’m going to write what I think while I reread crimson rivers

So first of I’m not starting at the beginning if I’m being completely honest I haven’t cr in quite literally months because I….. I forgot to include a warning for like major spoilers. One sec.

Spoilers!!!!!!

Don’t fucking read this if you haven’t read crimson rivers!! Please for the love of the gods listen to me bc I will not be held responsible for spoiling. Like if you tell me I spoiled something for you I will feel immeasurable guilt.

Anyways so I haven’t read past the part where regulus meets the fucking death eaters in the beginning parts of the second games. Like they are about to go in but haven’t yet?? I hope that makes sense but I haven’t read it in awhile because frankly I’m a little bitch. I’m waiting til they are all happy and the wars over. I’m going to be starting the new chapters today because they are finally happy. But I reread my fav parts, essentially every wolfstar part in the early chapters because I’m an absolute whore for them. They just fill my brain with happiness. So I decided to reread the chapters and then eventually just started rereading the first games instead of just skipping till it’s Remus or Sirius’s pov. And I was bombarded with the absolute heartbreak of it all. Like I cant remember when Zar said this but he mentioned in a post that mulciber and Avery were actually boyfriends and don’t get me wrong I Do Not like them but that shit hurts. I think people genuinely forget that none of them should have been in the arena in the first place. Like with original books they have their version of the death eaters ( I can’t remember what the called them) like Cato, but I remember watching the movies with my family and everyone absolutely hating on him. But like he was a kid raised to be a little assassin. I’m a self-proclaimed Cato apologist till I die. But I don’t like people just hating them, especially Peter. Like I love how Zar wrote his character because he is so fucking interesting. Like I could write about him for hours.

Moving on. I don’t know when to do transitions so I hope that was seamless.

This part destroyed me in the best possible way. I don’t have children so I can’t even begin to imagine what this felt like, but learning that all their fighting was to get back home to their partner and have a family is heartbreaking. And when reg and James are doing the tour and they learn about it is just ughhh. I cannot put it into words.

Now this scene hurts for an entirely different reason. I am a sucker for happy endings. I really am, that’s genuinely all I want. Like to the point I don’t usually read angst, hence why I have taken a break from reading until they are somewhat happy again. The fact that James is so hopeful one second and then he is utterly heartbroken the next makes me weep. I felt this, like with my whole being. Which is so fucking cool that Zar has that ability with their writing to cause such pain. So round of applause for them👏👏

That’s pretty much it, I will be making another post about Sirius’s talk with Remus about desire because it’s a must. I might make more for jegulus’s relationship idk.

Okay uh bye 🤘

[retarded-faggot]

back (please read the whole thing im begging you)

uh, hi

yeah, i still exist lmao

so, i decided to actually open tumblr after about 2 years i believe

and, oh damn. none of the links in the theme i have on my blog are functional, and what the fuck was up with all the lavender i used back then? god, such a child, right?

yeah, well, if someone still tried to navigate there, im so sorry, i just hopped outta the fandom for a couple years. and social media. and life.

not to say i have it together even now, but ive decided to be a little more liberal with myself and indulge myself with this shit.

yeah, so, not sure how many people are reading this, but all the stuff i had in the previously pinned "welcome" message? fuck it.

here's a new intro :

hey, im shades <#3

1.

i was previously :

(oh wow. did the bulletins exist before because idfr and i cant find them)

la-fille-noire-13: okay, cringe asf, but hear me out. I was like, a dumb tween, okay? i was so fucking obsessed with miraculous that i decided to learn french on duolingo and shit. which is why my username was in french. honestly what's worse is that i had just started learning it, and tbf google translate sucks so i have no idea what i typed in, but i wanted it to be "the girl in black" and it came out to be "the black girl" which I didn't realise until a year into it. tbf louis-oui-baguette would have been better. please forgive me for that atrocity.

chaotic-fiwwe: set by a slightly more mature, slightly more recent me. it isnt really good, but it is what it is folks. this feature on the miraculous fanworks server allowed us to "owofy" words if i recall correctly. so i was "fiwwe" for a long time on that server. i decided to finally come out of my cringe asf early teenage phase after like, 2 years and change my username. but im nostalgic asf so the "fiwwe" stayed.

shades: well. here we are. this will likely get similar thoughts in the very near future (im already contemplating hating this because why not) but this was completely randomized and safe.

2.

oh yes, im still a minor, so stop flashing me, please. i mean, i know im hot, but im just not interested thanks. go post this shit on onlyfans or stuff.

but yes nsfw jokes i shall make because well. why not. (for those of you who read this and think, god, she's a minor, why the fuck should she know this? uhm, i believe we've all been through the lockdown, right? and we all know that what came out of the lockdown is not exactly an innocent generation, right?)

3.

also yes,i may be young but im not gen alpha tyvm, so i shall hate on gen alpha brainrot because i can (no genuine hate meant loves)

right, and, my vocabulary isnt as proficient as it was before so fuck grammar (but my perfectionist ass will try to make it almost 100% grammatically correct in terms of words. not punctuation, words. i write in my voice. )

4.

ive been in the mlb fandom since 2019, i think. i love it and i hate it because

the plot is good but the amount of cringe in seasons 1-2 is not

i got back in touch with the series and fandom like a week ago, but unfortunately i couldn't find anyone to really match my freak (wrt mlb) anymore

which is why im back here <3

5.

ive read kotlc, percy jackson, 39 clues, a few books of agatha christie, and..

uh

idfr lmao i dont even remember what i read in these books either. i have the memory of a goldfish

and yes a huge huge huge sabrina carpenter, taylor swift, eminem, billie eilish fan <3

6.

im honestly kinda fucked up but not messed up if ugwim. my jokes aren't always the best, my posts wont always be people pleasing anymore, and majorly, there will be no more "mlb update posts" anymore.

i will curse 90% of the time so if its an issue please leave <3

i will post when i want to, what i want to, how i want to. but ill tag them properly so nw

7.

im not at all academically dumb so i may post stuff roasting you dumbasses (but i dont mean it, we've all struggled <3)

feel free to tell me if i havent tagged shit properly but you cant tell me what not to post unless its like, completely inappropriate and violates tumblr terms.

lmao im delusional asf to think anyone would actually be bothered to read this much but this is me indulging myself so

see yall suckers <3

[allylikethecat]

THE EPILOGUE OH MY GOD. frantically googling how to leave more than one kudos. frantically googling how to work at ao3 so i can make an option to leave more than one kudos. aaahh no it's just sososo sweet i cant take it ☹️💞 once again, apologies in advance for my Terrible lack of grammar, im just going insane and the only way to get my thoughts out is by going AXBQJBXJQBZJSHJZNANSJHS for 200 words. ok. my favourite paragraphs time.

He had started meeting with a therapist weekly and he wasn’t sure if it was helping, but even Charli had commented that he seemed more at peace with himself these days.

just this sentence aaaahhhhhhhhh, he is learning and being Better and aaaaahhhh i love i love i love

“I think you’re right,” George agreed. Matty nodded as much to himself as to George, and bit his lip, his nose, sunburnt as always, scrunched up in deep thought.

screaming crying throwing up omg pls, the fact george takes note of the way matty's nose is always burned oh i'm about to DIE ☹️💞

“Would you maybe,” Matty started before trailing off as if he was still contemplating his words, “want to grab dinner or something? Later? If we get rained out? There is a new Italian place that Waughty was telling me about, it’s small and a hole in the wall, but supposed to be good.”

i didn't know it was possible for a person to turn into an exclamation mark but here i am. !!!!!!!!!!!! <- me. matty's asking him oh i'm SOFT aaaaaaaahh i cannot!!!!!!!! genuine tears in my eyes i love this so much 🥲🥲

Matty smiled, the first genuine smile that George had seen directed at him in a long time. “Good,” said Matty before nodding to himself as much as to George. “It’s a date then.”

😭 I 😭 HAVE 😭 DIED 😭 this has killed me and i want the cause of death tattooed on my entite body aaaaaahhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!! it IS a date!!!!!!!!! cutest cutest cutest cutest cutest i'm losing my mind i LOVE THIS 😭😭😭

genuinely insane that it's over omg, but i enjoyed every single word and would buy this as an actual book, i need it bound with gold thread in latin like omgomgomg i just love it so much. and also know that atkh will never ever ever ever ever leave me. i will be the crazy cat aunt and tell all their grand nieces and nephews about The Story I Read One Time and they wont know what i'm on about but it's fine because all the kings horses brainrot lasts until death (im srs every time i see a horse or anything even remotely related im like :)))))))))))this is just like when all the kings horses chapter x:))))))))))))))))))) it's becoming an issue) OKAY. have the best day on the planet in the universe ever and enjoy ur life 💞🙇‍♀️

HI THERE I AM SO SORRY THAT I AM JUST NOW RESPONDING TO THIS LOVELY AMAZING FANTASTIC ASK. I have been a busy burnt out mess and I am so, so sorry. I also got like weirdly sad after posting the final chapter of ATKH? I was like I don't know how to write words anymore because they are all meaningless now that ATKH is finished...

BUT ANYWAY Oh my gosh I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed the epilogue! It was an ending that I was really happy with, because they might not necessarily be back together, but they were working on themselves and there was a hopefulness there! Fictional!George needs a LOT of therapy and thankfully he is finally taking that step!

LOL Just because fictional!George is in therapy doesn't mean he's any less obsessed with Fictional!Matty / that he's not still always aware of him... and the fact that he never fucking remembers sunscreen...

I also wanted them to be more of equals now? Like if they were to try again, it's on equal footing instead of Fictional!George holding all of the power and thus Fictional!Matty is the one that is asking HIM out this time!!

But just AH thank you so much for always being so absolutely lovely and supportive of my writing and sending me the loveliest of asks and I am once again so very sorry for responding to this one so very late. I am so, so grateful to be part of this little community. I hope you continue to enjoy my future works, whatever and whenever they may be. I also hope that you are having the absolute BEST week!

❤️Ally

[hobidreams]

just saw someone drop a compliment for OLAL and I had to come by and say that genuinely, that piece is the only ff that I CONSISTENTLY (over years at this point) return to when I am in need of f2l that can’t be fulfilled anywhere else!!!

omg... thank you....... 🙏🏻🙏🏻 i'm still shocked that it's so popular here (and on wattpad of all places lmao) 🥺💗 it was one of the first pieces of longer fic i wrote for the fandom so it means a lot to me in terms of my writing growth and characterization experimentation too hehe. actually a fun fact is that a few years after the fic was written, i learned a fact about tae and i had to go back and secretly change it LMAO i cant even remember what the fact is. i think maybe that he likes to listen to music blaring very loud and i originally had him with headphones on?? LMAO anyway. thakn you SO much for reading and continuing to read and this sweet lil msg omg :') i hope ur having the best day!

[shannadreamgoddess]

heya! its the anon who gushed about story of arceus a while back (which was apparently over a year ago??? gosh it doesnt feel like its been that long.. still here, still keeping up! ^-^) and im back for round two !!!! this time with Actual Coherent Thoughts !!!!!!

i would like to say that i am also thoroughly enjoying fire & stone!! both you and mimi have done an excellent job writing it. my favorite chapters are probably the ones focused on adelaide's 'conversation battles' (for lack of a better term lol)- reading them gives me the imagery of the whole interaction being like a quick time event, with all the information, status updates, and planning being banners that flash up on screen- something like how the persona 5 battles play out, is my closest comparison. its so fun to read along because of that! that, and the fact that i do genuinely love how adelaide thinking out her next moves is written as well. a constant rotating thought of what moves to make, those move's consequences, their benefits.. the consequences and benefits of those consequences and benefits... shes always trying to think one step ahead of the curve, the paving of the future, even if in that haze of planning she forgets about the people she cares about in the present. ohghhhhhhhh

on that same sort of topic, also loved chapter 80 of soa and the 'deception fight' the crew had + the napkin conversation. the acting to play into vinae's low expectations of them all, the genuinely smart idea of how to communicate without scrutiny, reassuring each other that they're all in this together, and they'll get through it together... outstanding. clapping and cheering. cant wait to see where it goes from there. the bonus chapter is also a nice touch, just from the irony of learning team ganusi's backgrounds- pokemon of lower economic class, who were probably indoctrinated into becoming the people they are today through blind adoration and still being impressionable children at the time. and oh god i just noticed the parallel. they're indoctrinating vizon now. the cycle fucking continuessss auuuggghhhhh also. team ganusi absolutely killed that emboar right. twisting of the truth and whatnot. 'no officer we didnt kill that guy he simply was so stupid he killed himself. you can trust us we're guild :)'

anyways. splendid job on the fics. cant wait to see how they conclude. just imagine that im on my bed kicking my legs and giggling like a highschool girl whenever i read them. im having soooo much fun ^v^

(also... as a small side note..... do you perhaps have an artfight account/are planning on participating this year? lets just say someone would be fully willing to send some attacks of SoA or F&S characters your way... wink wink nudge nudge)

UWAAAHHH IT'S SO NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. ;; I'm really happy you're still enjoying the story <3 I hope it's brought some nice comfort and fun.

SOSOSOSO - I showed this to both Mimi and Cam. They're both super happy, too <3. In FAS Mimi and I are having a blast including those conversational battles. But even more than that I'm having the time of my life watching Mimi write Adelaide. She's such a good character and she's absolutely fun to just mess around with, you know???

Like, setting up conversational challenges then compounding them with emotional challenges -- she's this fiercely oberservant thinker girl yet a single frown from Siranae is like Kryptonite to her (pic related).

I'm genuinely happy you're enjoying those conversation sections!! Some part of me always worried that maybe Fire and Stone was too boring or too dry to anyone but me but I've been pretty lucky to have attracted a reader base who is similarly into these kinds of vibes. ; w ;

And speaking of yeah!! SOA kind of had a similar thing in chapter 80, huh?? Having to outsmart instead of overpower - thank goodness for Loshjno. You know it's funny: Cam was the one to remember and point out that Avery could read but not write so it ended up making the scene even more challenging and fun to pull off than I'd initially thought it'd be! I loved it!

(Also oh my god I'm seeing it too now that you pointed it out -- Team Ganusi is just like Vizon. Who knows, maybe the teams that inspired Ganusi were ALSO like Vizon. Arceliaze is a FUCKING MACHINE, dude!!)

(And also bonus points for picking up on that last detail with the emboar -- I'm so proud of ya'll <33 It's funny because from the outside it looks like a perfectly bog-standard PMD story but all ya'll know better by now >:3 Well done~!)

But HUWAH WE'LL DO OUR BEST TO FINISH THEM!! We're in the struggle of trying to finish long fics - you know how it is. Especially with chapters that some say are as long as novellas all by themselves. We'll get the eventually, we hope!!

And finally…hmmm…I'm not actually sure about art fight. Only because I'm worried about being unable to fire back - I'm genuinely really bad at doing art except in sudden, unpredictable bursts. I could never be a career tumblr artist like some folks art ' w '; But Cam said I could probs just mark myself as an 'easy target'? I dunno, I'll probably think about it, fwah <3

Thank you so much for this, by the way. ;; Comments like these do always reminds us we're not just writing into a void and it makes the keystrokes feel that much easier…genuinely, it helped us today. >.< <3 Much love!!!

[oceanwithouthermoon]

prev i honestly think this deserves its own post but i dont feel like im qualified to make it sooo if anyone can write this better or has more examples ummmmm consider this plz😝also plz tell me if anything like this has been posted before cuz i cant seem to find anyone talking about this and it makes me saddd but im pretty sure its been talked about a few times

kusuo and kurumi are similar in a lott of ways but its not always clear because kusuo, being the unreliable narrator slash tsundere slash effing liar that he is, downplays his own emotions and experiences a lot!!

i wholeheartedly think that kusuo got his anger issues from kurumi.. he actually resorts to minor casual violence pretty often (mostly as a gag, probably also more normalized because of super healing but he does do it far more than other characters, though in those minor situations hes clearly very controlled and aware of his own strength because he could easily badly hurt someone but obviously he doesnt because he doesnt WANT to OK ANYWAY) which is not very kurumi, BUT in an actual moment of genuine anger, he has a full on episode and blacks out so severely that afterward he doesnt even remember what happened during it.. this is very similar to kurumis episodes of true anger, and kusuo even exclaims that the SAME PHENOMENON happens to her during/after them

(ch 248 and ch 40, i'd also like to mention that both of these instances of severe rage are due to them being defensive of the people they care about !!! kusuo is defending akechi from bullies while kurumi is defending her family from con men. theres also the very first instance of kurumi rage in chapter 1 where technically shes just at her breaking point in a fight with her husband, but said breaking point is kuniharu stealing kusuos food lolz.)

theyre also both um. very ditzy and gullible. which for kusuo may not be obvious at first glance and even less if you havent read the manga... but very early on we see that kurumi is very gullible and naive, falling for scams a lot out of her naivety and trust in humanity AND her desire to help her family...

(ch 40)

and then theres kusuo who consistently has his vision clouded by his desires (namely: coffee jelly) and easily falls for scams or even just loses his ability to be rational or haggle like he usually can lmao (like in ch 81 where he successfully haggles a really low price for a tv and then ends up buying a coffee jelly machine at full price with no effort to haggle because he just... wants it really badly... lol...)

(ch 133 him making fun of her despite ch 201 him being the exact same way (ﾟωﾟ) silly psychic)

(this is 201 but ch 183 is the iconic 100 yen man chapter where he desperately does chores for money for a new coffee jelly machine, uses all his money on it, then sees an advertisement for a slightly cooler one, and is implied to do the same thing again (cough cough exactly like kurumi in ch 40 buying a bunch of the same things cough cough)... then we see the panels above in 201.. lmao)

along with that, theres also just the fact that he clearly has a lot of respect for her and learned most of his morals from her! so even though kusuo is very pessimistic about the world and humanity, he still navigates it in the way his mother would want him to because either he wants to make her happy or he just has internalized her views while obviously being raised by her... i dont rlly know how to give examples for this one cuz i just kinda feel it throughout the whole ass manga

The. Idiots.

(affectionate)