#i am incapable of choosing one favourite

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

Fav tdi fic?

(These are all on ao3, but I can't remember all the names)

1. A one-shot where bridgette and Geoff have some early morning cuddles

2. A fanfic where Justin confesses his love for Owen on The Aftermath Show

3. A sort of hurt/comfort with Justin and trent

4. A fanfic where Geoff and bridgette's relationship falls apart over the years due to them having different goals in life

5. Wig Ok Bruh by @doglover502 !!!!!

6. A scuncan fanfic where they have to share a cabin

7. A fanfic where Scott turns into a mutant shark and has a bit of a redemption arc

[twisted-tarot]

My favourite deck I keep in regular use is the Ostara Tarot. I love the art style and the unique perspective it has on the classic tarot themes, and it’s one of the few decks I own made as a collaboration between multiple artists that doesn’t feel jarring or mismatched, artistically. When I’m doing public readings it’s always one of the decks I bring to the table.

My favourite deck in my whole collection is probably the Idiosyncradeck. I don’t use it for public readings or take it out of the house at all any more because it’s out of print now and I wouldn’t be able to replace it if anything happened to it. But I adore the art and working with it feels like sitting down for tea with a beloved and absolutely ruthless old friend.

What's your favorite tarot deck, everyone?

I've collected a few of the "big" ones over the years and never felt quite a connection to any of them as I do the Wildwood Tarot.

Just want to see what your thoughts are and which decks you've found connections with!

[hannibals-favourite-meal]

Hi~~

I kinda here for the 6k

I am a huge fan of you btw.. I loved Ur eached and every batfamily plus Clark Kent stories

So can I get a sweet arranged marriage turn into love with Bruce or clerk ( can't pick between them)

I leave most decision upto you as I trust you just make it fluffy

And congratulations on your 6k. You deserve it

Thanks and bye

.⋆｡What is a Marriage｡⋆.

Bruce Wayne x plus size reader

It is your wedding day, a joyous occasion for all, except you and your new husband

Warnings: regency!au, arranged marriage, misogyny, mention of drug rings, fluff WC: 909

6k Bingo Celebration

Library- @hannibals-favourite-meal-library

For as long as you could remember, you were taught that you would marry a lord and a rich one at that. While your brothers would marry to carry on your family’s name, you would be responsible for another family, another home and any children that your husband saw fit to give you. You would belong to a man that your father believed would be the most capable of giving the entire family a chance to climb the social ladder. 

Part of you was excited for your debut upon the marriage mart. You dreamed of the gorgeous balls and beautiful gowns you would wear to catch the eye of a gentleman who would spoil you rotten with love and affection. Your mother’s sisters constantly told you stories of magical evenings with their future husbands as they began to court. 

Yet only a few before your debut, those dreams were stomped out by your father’s announcement that you would be wed to a man you had never met in a week’s time. Shamefully, your escape attempts though childish, were unsuccessful and only served to have your last remaining privilege of choosing your own wedding dream taken away.

And so, here you were, sitting at someone else’s table, eating food picked out by a stranger as you sat next to your new husband whom you’ve already forgotten the name of. This was definitely not how you pictured your Wedding Breakfast, alone save for your husband and his butler, your father hadn’t even the decency to let your mother attend.

You sighed and picked up the newspaper your husband had abandoned a few minutes ago. Your husband’s blue eyes flicked over to you but you ignored him. The smudged ink of the headline drew your attention; ‘Masked Vigilante Exposes Drug Ring’. It made you scoff.

“Is there something the matter?” His deep voice cut through the silence of the dining room, aggravatingly sending a shiver down your spine. You refused to look at him.

“This vigilante, it seems he’s doing a better job at protecting Gotham than the police. A damn shame they’re incapable of doing their jobs properly.” You flicked to the next page, pretending to read as you gauged his reaction. Would your husband punish you for swearing and belittling other men as your father would have done? You were met only with the soft clink of silverware and the footsteps of his butler.

“More coffee Master Bruce?” 

“Yes, thank you Alfred.” Bruce (what a modern name) cleared his throat and you finally made eye contact with him. “Are you a fan of this vigilante?” His voice tilted up like your brothers’ did when they teased you. 

You twisted the heavy ring on your finger, your stomach tight as you waited for the inevitable cruel punchline of his joke. “He’s doing something to protect people. I think it’s noble.” His lips quirked up and you couldn’t help but remember the brief peck you had shared an hour ago, your first kiss.

“Do you?” A flash of anger burned in your stomach as heat crawled up your cheeks. 

“Don’t patronise me.” Suddenly, his expression dropped. You watched him stutter over his words as he scrambled to explain what he meant. Alfred chuckled under his breath while he took your full plate of eggs and instead replaced it with some fresh fruit pastries. 

“I didn’t- I wasn’t,” his broad shoulders dropped, “I’m sorry.” He almost looked like a sad puppy like this, his head lowered, eyes wide with a genuine remorse, his fluffy brown hair hanging down along his strong cheekbones. You almost felt bad about your outburst, almost. 

“What is it that you want from this marriage? Children? A wife to obey your every whim? Who turns a blind eye to your indiscretions?” You hissed but he didn’t flinch, only taking a deep breath before he stood and rounded the table. Instead of pulling out the empty chair next to you, he knelt beside you, his hands taking yours.

“I want a companion, that is all. I know you had no choice in this marriage, and for that I apologise, it is not how I wanted this to go. But I can give you independence and freedom just by giving you my name and my wallet. I only ask that you humour me with trips to the city together, the opera, anywhere, as long as society sees us together.” He twisted your ring back so the bright purple amethyst sat right against your knuckle once more.

“I can do whatever I want?” 

He reached up and gently cupped your cheek. “I am your servant. Ask me for anything, and it is yours.” Butterflies fluttered in your stomach as you nuzzled into his foreign yet comforting touch.

“And what if I ask for your heart?” 

“Then it is yours.” He said with a smirk and you couldn’t help but believe him. And as he leaned over to press a gentle kiss to the back of your hand and then to your cheek, you wondered if this was what your mother’s sisters meant when they said that you would just know if he was the one.

Perhaps you could be more than a commodity to be sold. Maybe Bruce could be more than the man who bought you. You glanced at the headline again as another feeling stirred in your gut. Perhaps, there was more to life than what you had been told.

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[fluffy-bluffy]

Messages for you people

Hello everybody ✨ a very tiny PAC in the form of poems. I hope this has some messages for each and every one of you. I have chosen these poems for your pile intuitively. None of them are written by me and credits to the rightful owner.

Just a warning that this is a general reading and it is only for entertainment purposes. So take what resonates and leave the rest for others.

Let's get started 💪🏻

Pile 1 ---- Pile 2 ---- Pile 3 ---- Pile 4

Pile 5 ---- Pile 6 ---- Pile 7 ---- Pile 8

Pile 1

Who are you,

Really?

You are not a name

Or a height, or a weight

Or a gender

You are not an age

And you are not where you are from

You are your favourite books

And the songs stuck in your head

You are your thoughts

And what you eat for breakfast

On Saturday mornings

You are a thousand things

But everyone chooses

To see the million things you are not

You are not

Where you are from

You are

Where you are going

Pile 2

When you start to feel

Like things should have

been better this year,

remember the mountains and valleys

that got you here.

They are not accidents

and those moments weren't in vain.

You are not the same

you have grown and you are growing

you are breathing, you are living.

You are wrapped in

endless

boundless

grace.

And things will get better

there is more to you than yesterday

Pile 3

When you are washing the dishes,

washing the dishes must be the most

important thing in your life.

Just as when you are drinking tea,

Drinking tea must be the most important thing in your life.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently,

as it is the axis on which the whole world revolves - slowly , evenly, without rushing towards the future.

Live the actual moment.

Only this actual moment is life.

Pile 4

No need to prove anything

to anyone more than

anybody realisation you have been

incredibly strong. You have taken

care of things alone. you have

fought with all your might.

you have had too little rest.

It's okay to stop and let

your guard down for a while.

It's okay to just stand still

or stay afloat. it's okay to

not feel alright. it's just human

To hurt. it's okay to surrender,

as we will never forget that we

will begin again.

Pile 5

You being here , presenting yourself

to the world, despite your thousand

messes and scars, is an accomplishment.

I know there are many things that

drain you silently. I know you

have a lot of struggles that have

been there for so long. you deal with

so many frustrations , fight with so

many inner demons.

I want you to know that I am proud

of you and believe that you are

strong. don't say you're weak.

don't think you're incapable.

what you are showing now is great

courage. You will get through this

and when you do, you will go many

places, celebrate great stories, move many people

believe in yourself

Pile 6

If you feel you are a mess,

please look at the stars

and realise that they are too.

Look at the formless clouds

and tangling branches of the tree

they are too

listen to the songs of birds

and crickets,

you will find no melody in it.

but they continue.

Because sometimes it's the greatest thing we can do -

be a mess and continue

Pile 7

Forgive yourself for the

mistakes. You're in the

process of making you

better. those who do the

same will understand you.

those who don't, let them

go for they will slow you

down

move forward and uplift

your heart

Pile 8

When things are hard and you

feel like you cannot go on

any further from here, remind

yourself of this : sometimes

it's the difficult that brings

out the best in you and shows

your truest strength. but you

have to believe in yourself

more than your circumstance

in order to grow and make

progress you cannot let the

difficult turns in your journey

stop you from moving forward,

from fighting for the life you

truly deserve

Thank you for reading this PAC. Will be bringing the next one really soon. Byeeee.

[ultrone]

I’m up late so here are some HC’s I have of the girlies

Nat:

- You get her one of those “back off, I love my gf” shirts as a joke, expecting her to never put it on and she wears it RELIGIOUSLY. She is so proud to wear that shit

- (If you’re lucky enough to have a positive male figure, a grandfather or father in your life) one time overhears Nat talking about her home life and now that male figure is determined to make her feel safe and happy. He’ll insist that you both join him for fishing and while you’re apprehensive, Nat is 100% down.

-She never has water or lunch because she forgets/chooses to not take care of herself so you drop it off to her at practice everyday

- She sleeps with a stuffed animal but will not let ANYONE know

Shauna:

- Early riser, even when sleeping w you but she will just happily lay next to you, holding your hand, admiring you while you sleep just taking you in for a few extra moments.

- she has a scrapbook of everything you guys have done (movie tickets, Polaroids, etc), and she also keeps all the flowers you’ve ever gotten her in there after they’ve dried and withered

- She loves stargazing, she knows astronomy and can and will point out the constellations to you

- Reading to or with each other is common and probably a love language, especially reading the other to sleep

Lottie:

- Surprisingly very good at all the fine arts; she can draw well, she definitely can play the piano bc her rich parents paid for her to have lessons, etc

- Blanket stealer; she insists on having the AC CRANKED at night, then steals the blankets while you both are sleeping and you wake up with hypothermia while she’s snuggled up in all your blankets

- She wasn’t allowed to have a pet so you buy her a single goldfish once and she loves it so much, she let you name it (you named it something stupid but she still calls it what you want) it dies in like 2 days because as intelligent as she is she is incapable of taking care of another living thing and she is inconsolable for days. You got her a succulent to make her feel better

Jackie:

- Clingy (derogatory) sure it’s cute of her at first until she’s waking up at 5 am for her morning practices and wakes you up too so you both can “brush your teeth together”

- She will always ask for your old marked up books to read and she makes small notes in the margins in a different color before giving them back (She has reading glasses too, and she looks gorgeous in them)

- She asks you to help her stretch, or roll out her muscles before practice but she doesn’t need help she just wants to get you flustered and have your hands all over her

I LOVE THEM 🤭

nat would wear that shirt 24/7 istg 😭 especially as her pjs, and omg i love the idea of your male parental figure inviting nat to everything as well 🥹 even if it’s just something simple like going out for brunch, it’d make her feel way better and more welcomed. and her forgetting to bring lunch everyday is SO REAL 😭 then she’ll prolly buy a bag of chips and a soda as her first meal of the day and then complain about having a stomach ache 🙄 GIRL… also for sure, i bet her plushy is a little white bunny with long ears that was given to her as a toddler.

shauna has always given me the vibe that she wakes up at 9am idk but yeah she’d def just lay there looking at you 😭😭 and the scrapbook thing is SO TRUE, i bet she also adds entries of everything you do together 🫣 since she loves stargazing you got her one of those custom star maps of your anniversary day and she LOVED IT 🥹 and she for sure loves reading to you and hearing you read her favourite books to her

i def see lottie being good at drawing and playing the piano 😌 i also bet she’s especially good at painting landscapes and stuff like that. whenever u complain about her taking the blankets, she’ll just tell you to snuggle up to her to get warmer instead of actually sharing her blanket with you 🙄🙄 but if you’re the one stealing the blankets she’ll pout and whine for hours until you share them with her… the AUDACITY 😒 my girl came back from school on a random day and realized the goldfish wasn’t there anymore, she got concerned and asked the domestic helper what had happened, and she told her that the fish died like two weeks ago ☠️☠️ when i tell u lottie was SHOCKED… she was so embarrassed that she told you that it got a weird disease and died from natural causes LMFAOO

jackie waking you up so you can brush your teeth together is so real 😭😭 my girl doesn’t get the concept of having “alone time.” i just know it takes jackie an hour to read 3 pages, i bet she spends half of that time drawing silly little doodles all over the margins ☠️ and for sure, she also asks u to rub sunscreen on her body even though she could do it herself, she just wants to feel your touch 🫣

[lulu-spooks]

I’ve been trying to get into Hozier lately, and seeing as you seem to be the resident expert on him, what songs would you recommend starting with?

(I know his more popular ones obviously, like Take me to church, Too sweet, and Nobody’s soldier, but I want to know about some of his secret bangers)

EEEEEEEE!!!! You’re in for a treat!

And thank you for the acknowledgment of resident expert, I have 10 years experience in hozier listening and I don’t play about it.

So the thing about hozier is that I truly believe he has a no skip discography on all of his solo works. And pretty much all of his collabs are also bangers (with the possible exception of tell it to my heart. Don’t start there)

Ok so from his first album I want to highlight a few tracks, Jackie and Wilson, from Eden, work song, like real people do, and to be alone. They are all sonically very similar (as are most of the tracks on the first album) but they all sound totally different. The instrumentation stays the same for most of the tracks but I am literally incapable of mixing them up. They all have unique sounds while still remaining cohesive in the context of the album. Expect great guitar and vocals, very little to no synths, funky beats (including some fairly cool time signatures). Excellent lyrics, definitely worth reading along. Especially cherry wine which at first glance sounds like the most beautiful love song but if you read along you’ll see how violent it is.

Wasteland baby is the second album. Standout tracks for me are Nina cried power, dinner and diatribes, would that I, shrike, be, and the title track wasteland baby. This one is definitely the sexiest album. Expect much more exploration into bluesy tunes and sound effects, the beats are getting even funkier, the lyrics are catastrophic and feature a lot of references to Greek mythology. This is the kind of album that you sit at the end of the world and listen to while everything falls apart. Wasteland baby the song epitomises this. It’s the conflict between standing up and fighting the broken systems that oppress people vs the need to give up and wash your hands of everything. Admitting we tried our best and it wasn’t enough. At least I have you. The deluxe tracks for this one are some of his best work on this project so check out why would you be loved, nfwmb and moments silence too.

Unreal unearth. This one is my favourite and my being has been altered by this album in ways I can’t even describe. Every song is a grade A hit. It’s actually my favourite album of all time I think. Honestly everything on this one is worth listening to but at some point once you’ve listened to all of the tracks individually, I cannot reccomend enough that you sit down and listen to the whole thing in order. No pauses. The whole thing with this album is that it’s a journey into the underworld inspired by Dante’s inferno. Each song occupies a different circle of hell and discusses topics surrounding the cardinal sins that are punished in each circle. It’s worth searching uk which sings belong in which circle. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s a concept album but it uses the story as a great jumping point for exploring moral, political and religious topics that are not discussed in the original cantos. This album is a masterpiece and I could literally write about it for hours but my thumbs are already falling off so I’ll keep it quick. Standout tracks are Francesca, first time, eat your young, abstract psychopomp, who we are, unknown nth, all things end, first light, de selby part 1 and butchered tongue. If you want the more explicitly political tracks choose eat your young and butchered tongue and READ ALONG. I could write fucking essays just on eat your young. This album was also written in the context of covid 19 and the lockdown and songs like all things end really make a heartbreaking but uplifting anthem for this period in time. The general sound of the album is very different to the two preceding albums. Expect much more manipulation of vocals and distortion of instruments. Expect more instruments. Expect full orchestra and stripped back guitar. Expect drums that sound like thunder and lightning. And for gods sake read along with this one. Cuz it’s fucking fantastic lyric writing and a lot of it can be missed in his pronunciation. When Andrew learns to annunciate it is OVER for us all.

Extended songs from unreal unearth are numerous and you’ve said you’ve heard nobodies soldier (also very political) and too sweet. I’d also recommend wildflower and barley for a soft lockdown summer feeling tinged with hopelessness, empire now as an anthem for Irish liberation and how much it was fucking worth it despite the troubles that followed and that you are for the most year inducing love song also within the context if lockdown. Just see “that I’d be anyway that you are” which will I’m sure soon be written on my body in tattoo ink. Through the flood acts as the introduction to the full album experience, hymn to Virgil is the last one.

Anyway have fun I tried not to write a fucking essay but I did. For unreal unearth in particular I have read no less than 5 books to examine source materials for his lyricism. I also learned a fuck ton about production to understand how he gets the sounds he does in his music. All to say this guys music is my whole life. And it can be hard to tone it down. If it all sounds confusing I’m sorry I’ve been writing this for like 40 minutes and I just did a full day in the recording studio and my brain is fried and my fingers are dead and I need to sleep, where I will probably listen to ‘to someone from a warm climate’ to sleep. Bye :P

[evaskjew]

I'm trying something for fandom artists/writers

Well, as I don't have anyone to tag (I'm really the least sociable person in the world and I'm too scared to talk to people in the fandom 😂), it's up to those who see this post to participate or not (if it turns out that it's not going to take at all, but never mind!)

Well, as my thing is drawing, I'll go with that (but you can adapt it to writing for those who write, or anything else for that matter!)

Last drawing:

Favourite drawing:

Well, I'm cheating, I'm putting two in because I can't choose 😖 On the one hand it's my best pastel drawing (to say it's also my second realistic portrait in colour) and on the other the painting I did with my grandmother and it's also the first time I've done anything other than a portrait in realistic drawing with a background and so on.

Hated drawing:

Right, then. Here again it's hard to put just one. I'm VERY hard on myself and I hate almost all my drawings 🥲 But really, if I have to choose, there are three that I really can't see any more because I find them so horrible.

Future project(s):

Following the poll, I'm going to start working on a new portrait of Garreth.

Next up, why not draw Ominis again (I've taken several in-game screenshots of him that I'd like to do to work on the backgrounds) and I'd also like to draw characters I haven't drawn yet, like Natsai or Amit.

And maybe one day, when I'm bored because I can't find any more images to use as models, I might draw some MCs from in-game screenshots.

And apart from drawing, I'd like to finish writing my OS by the end of the year 😂

Favourite artist:

There are far too many talented people in fandom ❤️

But without hesitation I'd say @tamayula-hl! Long before I dared to post my drawings online, I admired her work so much and even today I jump on every notification as soon as she posts! I know I'll never reach her level but her work is a source of inspiration and motivation (even more so now that I've switched to watercolour and I'm still trying to figure out how to work with colours, the way she works with colour is so incredible 🥰)

And I can't thank her enough for her post showing all the possible angles for Ominis' and Sebastian's hairs, it was so helpful 🙏🏻

And I admire @choccy-milky too! These are the two fandom artists I've been following since I started on Tumblr a little over a year ago 😄

One or few points on which I would like to improve:

First of all, I've managed to stop transferring the outlines of my drawings. Yes, it's a bit cheating to transfer, I know. But if I don't do it, the proportions are going to be catastrophic and that's going to piss me off (long live my perfectionism) and I'm going to stop and stubborn as I am coupled with my lack of self-confidence, I'm never going to want to draw again. So for the time being, we're going to keep tracing 😅 We'll see what happens in time.

But most of all, I'd like to stop depending on images I find on Pinterest or Tumblr and just reproduce them as drawings. I'm incapable of doing anything other than faithfully reproducing an image 😢 It annoys me, because I'd also like to post lots of drawings of my MC Evangeline interacting with other characters 😞 And the worst thing is the difference in my drawing level when I do something that doesn't depend on a reference image! (the proof: my drawings of Evangeline and this drawing of Ominis)

I took it upon myself while writing this post and forced myself to do a drawing of Evangeline in 20 minutes without a model (I just traced a neutral pose from a drawing dummy to have my base and improvised from my watercolour of Evangeline for her outfit).

You be the judge:

The end of her leg and her shoe is a disaster 😭

Well, that's that. I don't know how it's going to turn out and whether any artists/writers are going to take part, but it was a fun post to make!

[starlightshadowsworld]

What is your favourite fight in Black Clover

... I am physically incapable of choosing one sooo you're gonna get my top 5.

Though these aren't in any particular order.

I am only on chapter 305 of the manga so these might change.

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1. Asta, Finral and Vanessa vs Vetto.

I love that fight.

I will never shut up about it.

It is great both as a physical fight, the teamwork is amazing.

And also for what that fight means in story and too Finral and Vanessa's characters.

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2. Mereoleona vs Rhya.

I love how much they hyped up Rhya.

How epic his copy magic is, he's so amazing and he's so high up with the eye of the midnight sun.

...and Mereoleona just bodies him.

He throws everything he has at her and it does nothing.

It's more of a onesided massacre than it is fight.

It's fucking glorious.

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3. Magna VS Dante.

That punch is one of the most satisfying things I've ever seen.

I will never tire of characters showing what their made off, that they shouldn't be underestimated.

The amount of work it took him, the lead up the payoff.

So good.

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4. Vanica vs Charlotte.

Okay technically this fight is still going but I love it.

I didn't think Charlotte could be more cool.

And I am so glad I was proven wrong.

Like holyshit she just went oh my curse? Oh that's supposed to weaken me?

How about no?

How about I use my curse to fuck with people who are cursed.

The Captain of the blue roses turning her roses blue.

Yesss!!!

Just all hail Queen of the Briars I fucking love this and I can't wait to see it continue.

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5. Asta, Yuno and pretty much everyone vs Zagred.

Like it begins with Asta and Yuno and well those two teaming up will never not be awesome.

Yuno in his spirit drive form.

Asta in his demon form.

And seeing everyone else join in.

Mereoleona, Yami, Licht, Lumiere etc.

It's just so awesome seeing everyone.

Elves and humans, all of them come together against the dude responsible for all of this.

The payoff and the amount of foreshadowing all of this is amazing to see.

Yami gets serious.

And in the anime the first opening is playing.

Just 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[gardengalwrites]

20 Fic Questions

Thanks for tagging me, @angelosearch! This was a lot of fun and I tag everyone else who wants to play. :)

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 20.

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 230,251.

3. What fandoms do you write for? Just FFVIII.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The Dinner.

Interzone.

Body Poetry.

Gorgeous Cohesion.

It's a tie between And Death Shall Be No More and Sunset Cadet (She's A Class Act).

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I always respond to comments, not only out of gratitude, but also because I love getting to engage with people in the fandom!

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I'm emotionally incapable of writing angsty endings, so I don't have any fics in this category. 🥰

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? ...All of them. 😂

8. Do you get hate on fics? Thankfully, no. I've met some truly amazing people through this community.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? So far, I've written a three-part mini-series that contains smut. My primary tags for these ficlets are Forbidden Love and Mutual Pining. I would describe the style as emotional and poetic.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? I've never written a crossover. I'm not sure that I could, mainly because I don't feel that I know another universe (besides FFVIII) well enough to pull it off.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I've discovered.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? No translations.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? No, but I always thought that would be cool.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship? Since I was a little girl, Seifer x Quistis (Seiftis) has been my OTP!

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? None, as I personally restrict the number of WIPs to prevent this exact scenario.

16. What are your writing strengths? Based on readers' feedback: excellent characterizations, imaginative storylines, and magical use of language.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I always have this nagging thought that I need to write more, though I don't want to base "success" on a word count. However, it's true that I could fill my chapters with plenty more descriptions.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? I encourage this when the context requires it! Just be sure to do your research properly. Until I was asked this question, I didn't realize that I do this all the time when I'm translating dialogue from Korean to English (as you may have noticed, I am inspired by many K-Dramas). 😉

19. First fandom you wrote for? FFVIII.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written? It is impossible to choose. They are all my favorite, each for a special reason. 🩷

[mazzystar24]

Just finished season five!!!!!!

Idk if anyone even wants to know my opinion but I’m incapable of keeping a thought to myself anymore so hi void it’s me again.

I barely stopped to breathe since 5x01 so I didn’t really post much of my reactions

But omg the chenford pay off was amazing they are so cute I wanna cry

Their chemistry is off the charts, their soft scenes and sort of subtle intimacy are so perfect and what I love is that they still have a dynamic that is like their old one.

I feel what some shows fuck up is that sometimes after a couple becomes canon, their past dynamic becomes unrecognisable to them when they’re canon but what this show does really well here is that chenford are intimate,affectionate, and act like a couple but still act like friends too like they still have the teasing and the pranks and the making sarcastic jokes too. It doesn’t feel like friends who suddenly turned in love it feels like what it’s supposed to be which is friends who have loved each other for a while now allowing themselves to love each other as something more.

Also I love that it went: Ashley breaks up with Tim unless he chooses to retire or take a desk job, then a few episodes later when chenford get together and he has to get out of her chain of command he’s like okay imma take a desk job whatever it takes🤷🏽‍♀️

Omg and the fact that Aaron was definitely onto them without speaking to either about their relationship like Angela called Tim out and that was a 10000/10 moment but there is something so funny about aaron in the back being scared of saying anything while he is definitely implying something with the “if I let you die Lucy will kill me so I’m dead either way” and the accusing Tim of doing that undercover thing with the kid because it’s better for Lucy’s career.

This is why the only thing I would’ve wanted more cos I’m greedy is seeing everyone’s reactions to chenford dating reveal- tbh I feel like ALL of them knew and were NOT subtle about it.

Overall my favourite characters are the same

Least favourite tho I would say either Celina or Aaron idk I am not vibing with Celina’s psychic spiritual thing and since that’s like 80% of what we see from her it’s not really enough for me to like her sorry 😔and I like Aaron but I’m not really attached to him like I thought maybe he’d grow on me like Jackson but he’s had time (it seems from the finale he’s out of time too😬)

Oh and I have no clue what that finale was I’m so confused. And I just realised that I’m gonna have to watch season 6 live and get demolished by the writers’ love of cliffhangers.

Oooo and a scene I loved from the finale was when nyla thought they took her daughter. I loved how that was executed from the acting to having nyla fall multiple times, because I feel like that was so realistic and emotional cos she is a detective, she’s so put together and experienced you’d think she wouldn’t stumble but this is HER DAUGHTER she is not gonna be able to to be calm or act like she knows she would in her job.

[afra-blueraz]

Hey!! admin Afra i have following you since the start of your blog @dia-souls do you think among the three heads admin Irsa is most hot headed one like I remember her writing in reply to every person whom hated on you and also how is she doing we really need more fics from her also is there a chance that we might get new blog for admin Ava I noticed you and Irsa have your own blog -(I think that admin Irsa deleted her blog) we really need Ava to have her own blog or if she have one can you give it's name among all three admin you are my favourite one you know!!

OMG. Goodness I really don't know how to react to this 😅. It's both funny and sweet at the same time. Anyway thank you so much for your sweet words. It warms my heart 💞.

About Irsa, ummm.... how can I describe her? She is the best friend a person can have. I think I was just very lucky to meet her.

She is really sweet and lovely. Whenever someone was bothering me, she supported me in the best possible way and I can say that if it wasn't for Irsa's support, I would have left this fandom a long time ago. (It's between us, but Irsa is like Subaru to me. She also has a cute and lovable and tsundere personality that she only shows in front of her best friends, but if someone bothers her friends, she gets very serious 🤭. I hope she won't see this hehe. But she will 🙈. )

And there is something very special about Irsa. And that is that Irsa is literally a genius. She can know people very well, which I can't do at all. She is really a genius psychologist and she helped me a lot in this matter.

And yes, Irsa used to have a personal blog and deleted it for personal reasons. But she is still one of the admins of Diasouls. But it needs time for her to be able to active like before and we hope you understand that. And believe me, like you, I am passionate about Irsa's fanfics. Irsa's ability to write short fanfics and manage the main idea of ​​the story in short stories is much more than mine. I am really incapable of writing fanfics and short scenarios with a main theme. And I also hope that Irsa will write her wonderful fanfics again, but it completely depends on her when she is ready to be active again.

And about Ava, I really don't know if she has any intention of making a personal blog or not. I will ask her. And rest assured, if any of our admins create a personal blog, we will inform you.

And I'm really happy that you think I'm your favorite admin. But believe me, it is not like that. Irsa and Ava's abilities in writing short fanfics and scenarios are much more than mine. I'm only good at writing long novels, not short stories. In any case, the three of us are a group and we are always together and we don't like to choose the best among us because all three of us are good in our own style. Sometimes even a post may be the result of the efforts of all three of us and we try to make a great blog. And thank you very much for your feedback 💞💘.

[eohachu]

7, 20 end of the year asks?

Hiii thank you for asking 💙

7. Favourite actor of the year?

I should preface this by admitting that I am incapable of choosing Just One. like, ever. that said, this year I really really liked Tseng Jing-Hua's, Yu Shuxin's, and Omid's acting!!! so so good

20. What's something you learned this year?

I learned sO much this year but I think one of the most important things I've made progress on was learning how to hope 💙

End of the year asks? 🥺

[youtastelike-sunlight]

Hi MJ! Happy nice ask day from my side of the world!

Okay, since you said Rent was your fave musical, what is your favorite song from it?

And an unrelated second question, what are you most proud of in your life?

This is like asking me to choose a favourite child how dare.

I mean, real talk, I’m functionally incapable of having a favourite anything 😂 what I CAN tell you is what I’m vibing at any given time. And my instinctive right-now answer to this was One Song Glory, though I can’t speak to how much that is just because it’s right in my range and I lowkey wanna play a gender-fucky Rodger one day 😂

And damn we’re going in deep with this second question! So not to get too, like, depressing on main or whatever but I’m pretty fucking proud of surviving my dirtbag teenage years. There were several different facets of that time that meant that wasn’t a guaranteed outcome, but… here I am. Mostly functional. Living a life 15 year old MJ definitely wouldn’t have thought would happen. 💖💖💖

[infinitelycynical]

3, 14, 18, 19 & 29 for the fanfic writers ask? Thank you!

Hi! Thank you so much for the ask! :D

3. What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

I am torn between two of them, I'm not sure which one to pick. These would be The Complaints Box and Doomed By The Narrative. The Complaints Box is all comedy, and I actually really enjoyed experimenting with how to tell a story through the formatting. I'm very fond of writing through unconventional formats, or formats not seen in the DN fandom before. Doomed by the narrative, however, is some of my best writing to date. I'm really proud of how I've done the worldbuilding behind that and how it supports the narrative.

4. How many WIPs do you have right now?

Eight, as of now! Three of those are for Death Note.

18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic?

Very, very good question. I scoured through doomed by the narrative because, again, favourite writing, and came across this:

Blood rushed through his ears; the adrenaline of his own arrogance had left him in a dizzying sweep. A voice in his head that mutated into something reminiscent of Matsuda screamed in his head, admonishing his arrogance in a desperate fury. Look what you have done! It shrieked, You are not a martyr, you are not justice! You are human and you are a fool! Divine beings strive to create monsters even remotely as evil as the monster you have become! For all your so-called godliness, it will be a mortal who kills you!

I remember this line so vividly because I had written it a long while before I wrote the rest of the fic, and I was very excited to include it.

19. Give us a small teaser from one of your WIPs.

The question of all questions! I'd be happy to oblige, this is from one of my Death Note wips (who a couple of my friends might know about... hehe, I have big plans for this one!):

Something deeply troubled laid beneath those blank grey eyes, something Light was incapable of identifying. Yet, he had never been so curious about anything in his life as he was about Ryuzaki Ueda. So, it was this fascination that he pursued, encouraged by his then deformed rationale.

Had to choose an excerpt which wouldn't spoil too much and was short! Told myself "no, do not send this whole paragraph in, do not do that" haha.

29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic. (If you don’t have either, just share a random fic idea you have that you don’t plan on getting to.)

This is interesting! Had to scour around and see what I could find, but then I remembered this:

“Morning, where-” he cut himself off with a yawn and looked down, noticing the discarded shoes, “What are those? I have never seen you wear anything less formal than leather shoes in the entire time I’ve been dating you.” The man, Reiji, ignored his greeting and hung his damp coat on the hook by the door. “You said last night that taking a walk in the morning is, quote, ‘good for the mind’. Therefore, I went on a brisk walk.” Touta felt a grin forming across his face, “And how was it?” “Awful.”

It was originally intended to be a separate fic, then a chapter 2 to curiosity killed the cat (but satisfaction will bring it back). But I never got around to it, and never planned on publishing it, because it really was fine as a oneshot.

I had a lot of fun answering this, thanks for sending it through! Have a lovely day anon <3

[moinsbienquekaworu]

i am about to sleep but i wanted to ask what your favorite poem is? will you tell me about it? what you love and why it’s your favorite? do you like any of its translations? i love you. i hope you have a good day 🥰

(⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠) beloved thank you for the question!!! As per usual I am incapable of choosing just one of a thing, so I actually have two favourite poems, one in french and one in english (because poetry in french and in english can be pretty different since the codes and models and expectations aren't always the same!) They're the two poems I can recite and know by heart haha.

The english one is Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost. I really like the last stanza (like everyone else) but also just the way when you say it out loud it does feel like a quiet moment watching the snow fall all on your own. I found it recently accompanying a fic (two different fics actually but the second time I knew it) and it entranced me!

The french one is Chanson d'Automne by Paul Verlaine. It's a classic in France, some of its lines were used as a signal for saboteurs during WWII and there's an urban legend it was used to signal the landing in Normandy. I personally had to learn it by heart in primary school (I think in 4th grade?) and it just stuck with me. I like it for the way it feels to me and the images it evokes, but also just because it was the first poem I learnt by heart and being able to recite a poem is an easily overlooked comfort of life (insert those posts and quotes about art being vital and what we need to be able to turn to in dark or light times)

Other poems I like include Remords Posthume and L'Albatros by Baudelaire, Le Dormeur du Val by Rimbaud, Le Déserteur and Je Voudrais Pas Crever by Boris Vian, Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden, and Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath. The french ones I studied in school, and I found the english ones on my own (I feel like I found both in Johnlock fics?? but I might be wrong about Funeral Blues, it's been years) I included english translations where I could for the french ones, and they're not necessarily incredible but they should let you get the vibe. If one of them speaks to you I can try to explain what makes it tick! My personal anecdotes with those because that's half the fun: we had to analyse Remords Posthume for literature class with my best friend K, and what's really cool about it is the last line, "et le ver rongera ta peau comme un remords", because it plays on the homonymy between ver, the worm, and vers, the line of poetry, meaning she will be devoured physically by worms since she'll be dead but also that his verses, his poem, will make her feel remorse; I like the albatross analogy because I was a weird kid who felt comfortable with books but not with my peers; Le Dormeur du Val is extremely extremely sad and beautiful and I think Rimbaud was a very interesting guy; technically Le Déserteur is a song and not a poem but I first saw the text without knowing that so for me it's a poem forever now, and I love talking about the original versus final ending thing; the YouTube channel Le Mock did an excellent reading of Je Voudrais Pas Crever and it's a jewel, I love it so so much; Funeral Blues was the first english poem I ever liked (or maybe read honestly) and I wrote it on the cover of my 10th grade english notebook (because the teacher was great and said that if we forgot to do our homework he wouldn't punish us if we could recite a poem for him, so I wrote it down and tried to learn if by heart in case I forgot my homework); and Mad Girl's Love Song features in a fic I read a few weeks ago and I just think it's neat. I probably forgot some but those are the ones I remember right now (edit: ADA LIMÓN!! I FORGOT ADA LIMÓN!!! Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds (the I can't help it, I love the way men love poem) hit me in the chest the first time I read it and it's so so good)

My favourites (and most of the poems I like actually) are pretty popular because I'm not really into poetry that much on my own. I get attached to poems once I see how they work inside and analyse them, but I don't sit down and decide to analyse some poem from Les Fleurs du Mal at random because it feels like homework, and I don't go looking for poetry because I'm very hit or miss (I get bored at long winded descriptions in those 4-part 7-pages poems and a lot of things trip up my instinctual Pretentiousness Radar™, and while it's not necessarily accurate it does turn me off poems). So I just stay with the basics, but that's fine, because the comfort of carrying poems with you is there whatever the poem is y'know?

Also question, do americans learn poetry in school? I assume you must analyse some in literature class, but I don't know if you learn poems when you're young. I know we also do lots of La Fontaine's Fables, though I personally never did, but learning poems to recite in primary school is a thing almost everyone has done here I think.

[scramble-crossing]

ok ships for the ship bingo. you don't have to do all of these. sho x hanekoma, sho x coco, sho x beat (in neo obvs), sho x joshua (spicy), sho x nagi, sho x neku (also in neo obvs), sho x konishi, sho x megumi. + whichever other sho ships exist idfk. all characters 18+ in this question

Anon. I am so sorry to tell you that I am physically incapable of shipping Sho with anybody. Ever.

It's just a personal thing! Sho's one of my favourite characters ever and I project my aroaceness onto him HARD so shippy stuff with him is kind of a squick for me. This isn't to say that I think ships with him are BAD or anything they're just not my cup of tea!

That said! Sho and Neku are actually one of my absolute favourite dynamics in the series so I'm gonna do a platonic version of the bingo for them!

The fact that Neku's willing to give Sho a chance after everything he's done, choosing to believe that for all of his failures he is genuinely trying to be better is just so *chefs kiss* It shows how much both of them have grown since the first game. Not only has Neku become someone who can forgive Sho, but Sho's become someone who is worthy of forgiveness. I know neo gave up on the concept of them becoming partners in a new game, but I still love the idea of them being forced into Shinjuku and having to learn to work with and rely on each other as the city comes crashing down around them. I think them having some shared history where Neku actually saw Sho make a decision to change would be way more interesting than what we get in neo, which seems to be that Neku can just. Scan souls? Or something? Boring! Give me Neku and Sho enemies to friends arc or give me death