#i don’t have much else on this au in terms of details tbh

[cuteniaarts]

Y’know, with how obsessed I was with mermaids as a child, you’d think I’d be all over MerMay every single year, and yet this is my first time drawing mermaids since I was like… 13, and I’m posting it 5 minutes before May ends oops

Procrastination, yay!

Anyway, Kuviren have invaded my head and have been refusing to leave for months so… here’s yet another AU I came up with. Suyin is the owner of the largest merchant ship fleet in the Earth Kingdom, and Kuvira is captain of one of the crews. After docking in a small seaside town, they have a few days before they must set off again and Kuvira decides to spend her free time in solitude, exploring the coast line. During one such trip, she discovers what, or rather, who the dark waters of the ocean are hiding…

*click for better quality bc tumblr is a hellsite*

[walterdecourceys]

system terminology & the tss fandom

okay the way i titled this makes it sound far more intimidating than it actually is. this is p much a post on things to avoid while depicting the sides in fanfic / fanart, so that u don't accidentally equate having sides with having did / osdd !

basic terms to avoid

disclaimer: systems have used many words to describe their experience, and imo it'd be pretty much impossible to write sanders sides fic without using a term that has also been used by a system. this is just covering common system terms that are used by the majority of the plural community and should therefore probably be avoided.

host: i've seen people use this word when describing c!thomas's relationship to his sides, which... isn't what it is. the host is the alter in a system that fronts, or takes control of the body, the most. c!thomas is not the host because the sides are not alters, and therefore neither he nor the sides can front.

don't use "core" to describe thomas either- that's another term commonly used by systems to describe the "orginal" alter, or the alter who is most similar to the body. again, i can understand how this might sound like c!thomas, but he is not an alter, and therefore cannot be the core. here is a good list of alternatives to "core" or "host."

referring to the sides as alternate personalities is another no-go. they are parts of thomas, and while they may function like their own people, they aren't and should not be treated as such. tbh, referring to a person's alters as alternate personalities can be kind of insulting, so ask systems what words they'd prefer you use for them. "alter" is always a safe go-to.

don't call the mind palace the "innerworld"- this is another word used by systems to describe the place where alters live / exist when not fronting. pretty much anything else you can think of calling the mind palace is fine- just not "innerworld."

these are the terms i've seen most commonly used in fanfic / headcanons / whatever- feel free to add on if you feel more should be added. if you've used one of these, it's not the end of the world- just go back and change the wording and you're fine. if you continue to use these words, even after being told it's offensive, that is when it becomes a problem.

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on a similar note, stop making aus where thomas feels crazy for having sides. “what if thomas didn’t willingly summon his sides? what if he sees them and thinks he’s going insane?” no. bad. stop that. i don’t think i should have to explain why that’s wrong.

plotpoints / concepts to avoid

please, please please stop making jokes about c!thomas being crazy / having did for having sides. it’s super ableist not just toward systems, but people with schizophrenia, delusions, and similar metal illnesses. and yes that includes jokes like “standing in your living room talking to yourself for half an hour- uwu that’s so weird and he should get help for that!” yes i know that the series uses these jokes sometimes. the series should probably stop that too.

on another similar note, stop making the sides more similar to having a system. don’t make aus where thomas is a system, don’t make aus where the sides have to "integrate" for thomas to feel whole (i don't want to explain the complexities of integration in this. google it lmao), don't make the sides "front" or have one side taking control of thomas. the series is already walking a fine line between "funny interpretation of the inside of a singlet's mind" and "possible mockery / misunderstanding of having a system", please don't push it over the edge.

one last thing- be careful when writing the king. the way the split has been set up in fanon is very similar to the way some systems split, and while imo this isn't inherently a bad thing, it can cross into Dangerous Territory ™️. just don't write something where remus and roman are distinct parts before the split and/or take over the king in shifts (like fronting) and you should be okay.

also, don't present the creativitwins refusing as the only option- again, this is very similar to integration with systems, which is a sensitive topic that should be handled with care. (this is why i don't want to give a detailed explanation. please just google it).

that's most of the major points i can think of! systems are free to add on, singlets can ask questions but for the love of god be respectful, if anyone tries to start syscourse or "sanders sides is inherently ableist" arguments it's on sight 🔫

[urupotter]

40, 46, 50 for Snape asks!

40. Apart from Lily, who do you think impacted Snape’s life the most?

Albus Dumbledore, with Tobias being a possible competitor (we don’t know enough to truly say though).

46. Which of the Marauders do you think Snape could have gotten along with?

Depends on at what point in Snape’s life you’re making the AU. For Snape to get along with them as a group I can only see happening in an AU where he gets sorted into Gryffindor, preferably without the encouragement on the train (the houses are not insights into personality, they were a way for JKR to divide good guys and bad guys, Gryffindor Snape is as likely as anything else). He likes and gets along with plenty of people who are paralleled to the marauders (Draco, Mulciber), so I wouldn’t find a Snape who was friends with them weird at all. Of course, they might not want to be friends with him, (the class tension doesn’t just disappear), but tbh without the added tension of the train encounter and him being a Slytherin, I can very well see it happening. Now, as an adult in canon then it’s very very different. Truthfully I can’t ever see him forgiving any of them unless a long time passed and he got an apology. In terms of personality he’s most compatible with Sirius out of the four, but the werewolf detail is an… obstruction. An apology is the bare minimum that would be necessary for that. Though I like to toy with scenarios of them bonding over who hates Wormtail the most lol, a competition for the ages (Sirius wins).

50. Had Snape lived, would he continue teaching at Hogwarts?

No. A lot of Snape lives scenarios have him desiring rest above all things, but I don’t see it. Snape at the end of his life is someone who has a “saving people thing”. If anything I see Snape trying to continue that anyway he can, through invention and catching Dark Wizards. I see a Snape who lived becoming an Auror. Like Harry, but much more self-destructive and without people to contain him. He’d burn himself out unless/until Harry or someone else intervened.

Though another possibility is that he disdains the ministry enough he goes vigilante, with Death Eaters speaking in terror about an overgrown bat capturing them. Snape becomes either an auror or the Batman if he lives.

[out-of-this-dimension]

Hypothetically Rewriting Assault’s Story + Some General Assault Opinions

There’s a game my husband and I like to play when we watch a movie, play a game, or read a book that has a story that we don’t really enjoy or we enjoy certain parts of but not others.  We look at things we’d keep and things we’d change and we build a story from there-- sort of like an AU but we don’t really go into the writing part, we just stick to theorizing and mapping a general story.

I decided to play that game with Star Fox.  Not because I think Star Fox has a bad story but because sometimes I think the stories could have been handled better.  Note: for the rewrite game, I only really look at story, even for video games, I don’t really look at gameplay mechanics, but I do understand those have a lot to do with story potential so I do take it in as a factor... I just don’t bother to “rewrite” the mechanics, if that makes any sense at all.  Some of my list today will include boss encounters but I wouldn’t necessarily say those are mechanic-related... more like “event-related”.

I’ve mused a bit in the past about rewriting Adventures and Command and I do have plans to do a mock up of an Adventures remake eventually.  However, today I was thinking about how I would go about handling an Assault re-write in particular.  Much like Command and Adventures, I don’t have any beef with the core story but I do think there’s a few things that could’ve been better about Assault’s storyline-- like they had good ideas rolling but they didn’t quite refine them.

Under the cut because SUPER long.

My basic feelings on Assault are pretty positive.  I think the game is generally just fun and I like that it feels like the natural progression from SF64.  I liked getting to see planets we haven’t seen since the N64 era in better graphics and I liked seeing Star Wolf return.  I also just thought the aparoids were neat enemies. 

Generally speaking, though, when it comes to Assault, I think it suffers from the thing it tries to push the most-- the story.  I think a lot of people get caught up in thinking the story is better than it is because it’s the first game since SF64 that really follows the same Star Fox vibe without retelling the Lylat Wars.  Don’t get me wrong, the overall plot is great but the execution and pacing are... wonky.  Certain characterizations also take a hit in some regards but no one really talks about that when Command exists. That’s something we’ll talk about later on with this post.

That being said, Assault really does have a lot good going for it.  An absolute banger of a soundtrack, some great dialogue, a neat story synopsis, the introduction of cool characters like Panther and Beltino (who existed but was always off-screen), and just good levels.  

So, here’s what I would add, I suppose, if I were to somehow have the ability to rewrite Assault.  Originally I had this in paragraph form, but I’ve made it into more of a list under topic segments with main points bolded for your viewing pleasure.  Some of these points might be considered nitpicky and while I do understand that yes, this is a game about space animals, I do hold the developers in high enough regard to make a game with a continuity that makes sense.

The Story Changes

- Reduce Pigma’s storyline in Assault.  This is the biggest one for me because a bulk of the plotline feels like a giant chase to just get at Pigma and it feels like it derails from the actual plot with the aparoids.  We only go to Sargasso because of Pigma.  We only go to Fichina and then back to Meteo again, because of Pigma.  That’s 3 levels in a 10 level game devoted to just tracking down Pigma and chasing him.  While it makes the build up to fighting Pigma kind of nice, I personally feel like the plot could be reduced to 2 levels.  If Assault overall was a longer game, I could see them making it 3 levels.  Overall, though, in its current state, I feel like the side plot overstays its welcome and the aparoids promptly get shoved to the side in favor of “Oh no, we gotta get to Pigma!” And I get the main motive here is to show how the aparoids affect people and because of the build up, it does a good job at showing how utterly terrifying the aparoids are.  But it’s still too long given the length of Assault’s story. The only alternative to this is make Assault longer, which... honestly, it should be.  

- Revise the scene with Tricky.  I’m obviously not well-versed in dinosaur biology but I’m pretty sure dinos didn’t grow that fast from what studying I HAVE done.  And why is he suddenly king now?  Did his parents die?  He seems not affected by this at all?  Like it’s a funny scene with him, Fox, and Krystal, but it’s odd if you really look at it.  Give us, as players, more context because I’m still not even sure what happened to make Tricky suddenly the leader and... big.  As a note, you’re gonna hear me gripe a lot about the Sauria level in this post.

- The Star Wolf + Peppy sacrifice is a low effort way to raise tension/stakes and then cop out.  Oldest trick in the book, imo, is to act like you’re going to kill off important characters only for them to be alive miraculously.  And let’s face it, as an audience we all know they aren’t going to kill those characters because it’s Nintendo and those characters are too beloved.  I would’ve forgiven them for only doing this with Peppy or Star Wolf, but when you tack them both together and throw in the fact they make it seem like you’re going to have to kill General Pepper too... yeah, it’s just a bit much of the same trope over and over again.  I wanted to put a note in here about how I’m fine with the Great Fox being “sacrificed” but overall, it needed to return to the series because of it’s icon status, but I think that’s more of a gripe at Command instead of Assault.

- Keep Pigma alive.  This will conflict with a point I have later on about the game consistently having characters cheat death for easy drama points but with Pigma, I would’ve kept him fully alive... but maybe with some physical damage from the aparoids.  I understand he’s semi-alive in Command and tbh I don’t know where I stand on that.  Why keep Pigma alive, you might ask?  I feel like his character has a lot more potential than being “just the greedy guy”.  Like he’s got good potential future villain material for future games and... if I’m honest?  I just don’t see Nintendo wanting to keep Pigma dead so why even bother killing him off?  They couldn’t even commit to him being dead in Command anyways so it seems very moot.

- Bring Bill and Katt back.  Assault is acts a bit like a big reunion of all of our SF64 favorites but our two favorite side characters are suspiciously missing.  Wouldn’t Bill be out on the front lines fighting against Andrew in the beginning?  Or maybe back in Katina?  And wouldn’t Katt inevitably show up in the midst of the invasion, maybe to pointedly check in on Falco?

- Bring Andrew back for the final fight. I think Andrew being defeated early into the game is fine overall but I think bringing him back in for a reunion final fight against the aparoids would serve to really solidify that it’s really everyone vs the invading aparoid force.  It would show that not only is Star Wolf willing to put aside their differences but so is basically everyone in the Lylat System in the name of survival.  Imagine the Venomians and Cornerians working together against an aparoid fleet, giving Star Fox and Star Wolf time to attack the queen?  I just think it’d be neat and it’d open up the potential for some fun banter mid-mission.  I do understand that quite a few people consider Andrew canonically dead after Assault but personally, I feel that his defeat left his fate questionable (I’m a staunch believer that unless there’s a body, they’re probably alive, especially for Nintendo games because, again, they never like to kill people off) so him returning in Command never really bothered me.  

- In general, reconsider some of the character portrayals.  Unfortunately, when a series has a different studio for each game, character portrayals will inevitably have inconsistencies.  While I give Namco a lot of credit for putting in oodles and oodles of detail into the game (particularly the levels), I think they failed in their portrayal of Fox, at the least, and Wolf is a considerable offender as well.  While it’s obvious that Fox in Adventures was effectively modeled off of Sabre even in terms of personality, Rareware was at least able to justify Fox’s newfound jaded attitude with the passing of many years and a distinct lack of steady income, resulting in the team being in disarray.  Assault’s Fox is a stark contrast to his cynical interpretation with seemingly no explanation other than maybe “Oh, I have more money and a gf, maybe I should behave myself”.  As if the sudden change in personality wasn’t random, Fox also just seems very blah, like a blank slate stereotypical shooter game protagonist dude with little to no emotion.  Wolf is less obvious but gets slated into a mentor-like role midway through the game and ends up in a respectful rivalry with Fox... which there’s nothing inherently wrong with that except for it happening abruptly (and, I mean, Peppy is right there).  But I take less issue with this and more of an issue with the fact that there’s an entire level establishing that Wolf now runs a crime den with effectively what seems to be an army and no one bats an eye at this.  He doesn’t even call on them to help with the aparoids.  Did they all die when the aparoids attacked Meteo?  Are they safe somewhere else?  Where do they go?  How was Sargasso able to operate without the CDF being on their doorstep with warrants for arrests?

- Don’t kill all the dinosaurs.  A bit of a dramatic statement but the ending screen that showed all the damage to Sauria really bothered me.  While I understand that the dinosaurs had less of a chance against the aparoids than a more technology-focused society like Corneria, I was a bit disappointed that the decision was made to just state that a lot of tribes had been wiped out.  I know this could easily be retconned in a future game and I feel like it should be.  “But why, Amalia?  Why are you disappointed by that?”  1) It’s a little too grimdark for my tastes.  2) The fact it all happened off-screen felt very hand-wavy.  And 3) It brings into question the entire point of Adventures.  Why did we bother to save this planet if it was going to be reduced to rubble and ash 1 year later?  Where were the Krazoa in all of this?  Why did they not make an appearance at all to try to stop the invasion with their alleged powers?  It just raises too many weird questions and I feel like Namco didn’t think it through too much.  Which I mean, sure.  Family, kiddo game.  I’m not asking for bigbrain plot and lore but I’m squinting at this bit because it does feel very contrary to the lore from the previous game.

- Make the aparoids more relevant.  As nice as it is to have a random bad guy from another galaxy, I feel like there was more that could be done with the aparoids in terms of their origins.  Tiny things, mind you, not huge revelations.  Off the top of my head, they could have been tied into Krystal’s backstory to help alleviate some of the complaints that she was too random to be added to the series’ main cast.  Alternatively, they could have been a product of Andross or even a weapon prototype from Corneria that fled the lab (I actually thought the game was leaning in that direction for a bit then just Nothing Happened).  I get that the vagueness of their origins leaves room for people to speculate and speculation is nice but... when you leave too many things unknown, it starts to feel less like giving fans room to interpret and more like just doing random things for the sake of it.  I think a lore tidbit here or there would work wonders for the aparoids instead of leaving them as just borg/zerg clones.

Level-Based Changes

- Add either Aparoid RedEye or Aparoid General Scales as a boss to Sauria.  Given that this level mysteriously lacks a boss, which is just weird compared to the other levels, I think that they had the opportunity to add something cool to go along with the cinematic feel they were going for with Assault.  Assault’s cutscenes do play in a movie-like fashion and it’s clear they’re trying to make the game as epic as possible.  It’s a shame they had so much fodder for a great boss here but they failed to go through with it.  Alternatively: Add a Krazoa-Aparoid fusion.  Why?  Because Star Fox is about cool epic sci-fi and that would be cool epic sci-fi incarnate.

- Add a boss to the Aparoid Homeworld Level, aka the penultimate level.  Another one I felt was personally weird that there was no “final defense system” to challenge the team.  Would be cool to do an aerial battle over the aparoid planet with some giant flying aparoid.

- Be kinder to Sauria.  The level had some good homages but overall was incredibly small and incredibly short.  It felt like a bone tossed to Adventures fans but was not entirely true to the setting built by Rareware.  I’m... not even sure where the Sauria level is supposed to take place?  I presume it’s Walled City but it doesn’t really have the same color scheme or aesthetic?  Also where is my revised Adventures music?  Why do all the other levels get it but Sauria doesn’t? 

- Put some of those funky items from the multiplayer into the main campaign.  I don’t know why some of these things, items especially, were omitted unless it was purely due to time constraints.  I remember having missile launchers and jetpacks in the multiplayer and was a bit sad that they were not in the main campaign.  Retuning the levels and adding those in would be a nice breath of fresh air for the more tedious on-foot missions.

- More levels.  Self-explanatory.  Still sad we didn’t get the Zoness or Titania levels in the single-player mode.  

I think all of the above changes would improve the game, though I recognize all of this is being said 16 years later after lots of time to contemplate Assault’s weaker points.  I’m not entirely certain how long Star Fox Assault took to develop but given that there’s obviously quite a bit scrapped from the game (an entire arcade mode was scrapped as well), I’m going to assume that the studio felt pressured to shove the game out the door and into the hands of customers.  It’s a shame, really, because I think a little bit longer in the oven would have done a lot of good.  Still, the product we got was good in its own right and a game that many people look back on fondly.  I haven’t gotten to replay it in years but I hope to quite soon.

You might wonder why I bothered typing this all out and I guess my point was this-- Assault was great but it wasn’t perfect, and while a lot of other games fall under a crushing amount of scrutiny, Assault seems to dodge it.  And don’t get me wrong-- I adore Assault.  But given that not many takes exist out there about rewriting it, I decided to give it a shot.  For variety’s sake.  

I do want to a mock up of a revised Assault story, which I think I will get to work on after completing this while all my ideas are still fresh in mind.  So stay tuned for that sometime in the near future.  I will also be doing my Adventures mock up at some point but probably not for a little bit as I do wanna focus some of my free time on actual fic-writing.

Anyways, if you stuck around this long, thank you for reading!  Have any changes you’d like to see to Assault if you could time machine your way back to the early 2000s?  Feel free to post in the comments, I’d love to read your ideas!

[potatoesandsunshine]

1, 3, 10, 48!

thanks for the ask!!!! these questions are super fun

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

This is such an interesting question!!! I go back and forth when I try and figure out what my best fic is (current winner is it’s a thousand words in the blink of an eye but that could change within the hour) but when I try and figure out what the best introduction is... revolutions in new orbit is my most popular fic but I think the characterization in it is a little thin and I honestly don’t... like it? anymore. The best introduction to what I tend to do is so long as you don’t mind a little dying, I think. I like writing about relationships that feel like there’s still room in canon to explore them, and I think the little details scattered through the story are pretty common for my writing. If I can imply something in a description that makes the world of the story feel richer I will do it every single time.

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

This is probably way too broad, but I’ve been noticing lately that I rely on similes so much. I feel like I use a simile almost every sentence. Everything is like something else lately and it’s pretty annoying lol? I don’t have any tropes I can really point to, I think there are probably clear patterns that I just don’t see myself doing, but I know that I like to write about characters dealing with emotional consequences/fallout. So many stories truly take bonkers turns and you don’t watch the characters deal with the reality of the situation, so I like to spend time doing that in fanwork. When something happens that would take a long time to get over in real life, I like to write about characters coming to terms with it in fiction. 

10. How do you decide what to write?

Vibes only. Whatever I can convince myself to work on at the time is what gets written tbh. I never throw ideas away, so I have a ton of documents with just a premise or the first five lines of stories written in them that are just waiting to be finished. It’s easier to point to things I decide not to write about; I’m really intimidated by large and/or longstanding fandoms, so it’s not easy for me to work on ideas for fic set in them.

48. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

I currently have fifteen different tabs open but the most recent one I finished was a reread of Seeking Iris and Marigold by Curlsandcollege which is an incredible fic. I would recommend it to anyone. It’s simultaneously a very comfy, well fleshed-out AU and a story that gets me worried for the characters even though I’ve read it already. I’m a person who likes reading fic even for fandoms I’m not familiar with so my scale might be a little off but I truly don’t think you need to be familiar with fe3h to read this fic. If you enjoy stories about magic, towns where Everything Is Not As It Seems, and characters with strong convictions... this fic is for you. Also, it was just Halloween, and the spooky vibes of this fic are just perfection.

[airborneice]

@pikablob first 3 answered here!

8. underrated drawing you did?

Idk if I’d call any of my art underrated tbh, usually if it doesn’t do as well as I’d hoped there’s a good reason, plus usually when I misjudge how much people will like something I’m wrong in the other sense :) in terms of time I spent on something vs notes, I guess this?

but only because I think it’s technically a bit better than the other pony stuff I’ve done - I sorted a few issues with Tildy and Frida’s designs that had been bothering me, found a better way of drawing the magic effects, plus I’m just better at drawing ponies than I was, etc. I don’t mind that it didn’t do so well, though, the main purpose of that drawing was just so I could make those changes and be like “there!! I fixed it!!” and I did 😌

10. favourite art medium?

gonna be kind of obvious here but digital, purely for how easy it is to fix mistakes/flip canvas/mess around with colours infinitely. almost everything I draw starts out in pencil though, that’s comfiest for me

16. favourite piece of art from someone else (if you have one)?

having a faves tag would really come in handy right about now :’) uhh okay sorry but I can’t pick one, off the top of my head this drawing by @tided-mice of my AU bc it’s SO COOL and has some amazing details I hadn’t even thought of

also I could put just about any sketchbook drawing by @cactincactout for this but I’ll say this bc, I’m sorry, it’s adorable and I’m just not immune to how frickin cute they made the hilda ponies look. man I love it when ppl take my concepts and make them prettier than I ever dreamed of

also this wasn’t drawn this year but this drawing by @kaisakeeperofthebooks lives in my heart rent free so that as well 😌

[buglife]

There’s a Hollow Knight fanfic I want to write when I actually have goddam n energy and my MEDS SO I CAN STAY AWAKE FOR MORE THAN A FEW HOURS AT A TIME i swear to god. Putting details here so I don’t forget after I sleep again for 15 hours and feel like death warmed over. Totally self indulgent because I deserve to have something like this ahaha. 

Anyway post Embrace the Void, mostly everyone lives/nobody dies au. Sadly Dreamers can’t be saved but most other characters like Cloth and Myla ect ect are. Ghost ends up both as the new ruler of Hallownest and the Shade lord. Hornet is the new Queen of Deepnest. Since both are not shitty people they can have proper professional relationships with the other independent peoples of Hallownest (like the Mantis/Bees) unlike their shitty dad trying to take everything. Slice of life with some hurt/comfort (these bugs need therapy) and mostly general happyish things. In a nutshell, Ghost and Fam do a better job of running Hallownest than any other higher being has done before and ushering in a new golden age. I want a lot of family (Dad and Uncle masters and siblings) some romance (give me a goddamn royal wedding of Ghost and Quirrel plz) Hornet scaring the shit out of people who need it, and just. Let things go nice for people. Let them have a happy ending. I crave it. 

Also yeah Pale King and Radiance is fucking dead. White Lady unroots herself to try and make up for her part of what she did by trying to help out the siblings and help them rule and figure out the horror which is laws and tax codes. 

Character notes:

Hollow > Was saved and given a choice on what they’d like to do. After taking a lot of time to heal and learn, they decided to just do what they want and nobody puts any real responsibilities on them. They deserve it tbh. On some days they like to help train new knights/guards and on some days like like to take cooking/painting lessons and grow neat flowers in the gardens. Considered retired and is given a lot of respect for what they went through. Loves to hang around with their siblings and likes to troll nobles. Has a LOT of authority. 

Hornet > New ruler of Deepnest. Takes no shit. Has probably eaten a noble or two, nobody knows. Brings Deepnest up to speed with Hallownest and trades technology and the like with Ghost, but keeps Deepnest unique to her and her people. Is known as a warrior queen. Sits with Ghost sometimes and bitches about how usless Nobles are and why can’t we just eat them all. Randomly attacks Ghost to ‘keep them on their toes’ and then gives them advice. Never goes through a door to visit, but a window or some other place. Loves her fam tho and they love her. 

Ghost > New ruler of Hallownest. Starts out itty bitty like usual but will eventually start growing. Not as big as Hollow tho, but can alter size and shape being a god and all. Is fed up with everyone’s shit and has no trouble telling people they are full of shit (via sign language) Had a crush on Quirrel for the longest time through the game events and they start going without giving a shit about what anyone else thinks. They love their pillbug. Usually is fine being a troll alongside Hollow but once in a while some other being will try to come along and fuck with the bugs and Ghost has to kick them into the higher stratosphere. Loves their best pals and relies on them to help them run everything now they are ‘King?’ I need a better gender neutral term unless King in general is okay???

Quirrel> Went from wandering around the kingdom as an explorer to falling in love with that weird little vessel and suddenly being courted by the literal ruler of the entire kingdom and Is a bit overwhelmed. So much attention! Becomes THE scholar and eventually ends up as ‘the scholar king’. Goes from being taller than Ghost and the big spoon to shorter and the little spoon after some time passes. Is very polite with nobles but recognizes a manipulation tactic from a mile away and will turn it on their own heads. Single handedly saved most of the kingdom's knowledge and teaches classes when not doing royal stuff. 

Tiso> Becomes Captain of the Guard after getting some training and is actually really good at what he does. Still is a little shit, but now is a little shit with skills to back himself up. Often guards Quirrel when Ghost can’t and they have a wonderful platonic relationship where they make the noble’s lives a living hell if they deserve it. They are seriously like two highschool boys with a backpack full of fart bombs and firecrackers. Helps Ghost rule by giving advice on how the general public is feeling about things. In a relationship with Cloth and Myla.

Myla> Precious bean who brightens everyone’s day. She is the gentle soft soul that keeps Ghost and the other more aggressive friend members grounded cause nobody will forgive themselves if they scare her or make her cry. Since she is one of the few survivors from the mining area and has a lot of mining knowledge, she was put in charge of that. She’s good at it as long as she can relay orders by paper and has plenty of time to deal with her anxiety. Freaks out the nobles by boldly walking up and hugging the royal family whenever she wants. Is a little sickly due to lingering effects of the infection, but is doing much better. In a relationship with Cloth and Tiso. 

Cloth> Big hekkin strong cicada. Wanders the kingdom as a traveling ‘guard’ in a way, checking in on folks and taking care of problems if she’s able to. Is not often in the Capital but will show up from time to time to spar with guards/knights in training and embarrass Tiso in front of everyone. Likes to spar with Royal Siblings for the fun of it and encourages them all to take a break for picnics and the like. Is strong enough to be able to run messages in between the Mantis and Bee colonies because I headcanon her strong enough to earn both people’s respect. In a relationship with Tiso and Myla. 

Nailmaster Mato > Ghost’s Dad. No seriously. Is their actual adopted Dad now since PK was so shitty. Adopts the rest of the royal siblings too. Loves them all to bits. Visits often to teach nail arts and to give advice and hugs. Learned the art of the dad joke. Always seems to be there when Ghost needs a dad figure to lean on.

Nailmaster Oro > Is now on payroll to train new guards and knights in the nail arts. Is pretty happy about that but still pretends to be a sour bean. Made up with his brothers but is still sour as all hell. It’s just him. Ghost’s ‘Bad Influence’ uncle.

Nailmaster Sheo/NailSmith > Power couple. Teaches art mostly in the new Capital University. Sheo starts an art gallery. Nailsmith teaches smithing for a new generation of nail makers. Both are happy to create and teach and smooch each other a lot. Ghost’s ‘Hey wouldn’t it be funny if-’ uncles. 

Grimmchild > Ghost’s kid pretty much. Once old enough left the kingdom to go do Troupe things with their Dad. Writes letters and tries to visit often. Never got out of the habit of spitting fireballs at things that piss them off. 

Grimm > Ghost’s pal. Shows up in Dreams to say hi and to help other characters with their nightmares. Eats nightmares so win win for everyone. Could have been a therapist if he wasn’t bound to the road and the troupe. Loves to spill the tea when possible. 

Nobles > Some various nobles survived the infection and crawled back out of the woodwork to try and get the same amount of power they had before. It doesn’t work out for them. The nice nobles that actually do their damn jobs are left alone but as SOON as they start getting uppity they start finding fire crackers in their pants. 

Ogrim > New captain of the knights cause he is precious and I love him. Buddies with Ghost.

Siblings > After the death of the radiance, the shades of Ghost’s siblings have gone to rest and no longer do they have to suffer. I’m playing with the idea of some of them choosing to stay around to get new masks and being able to be reborn again to enter society and be loved. 

White Lady > Starts repairing her relationship with her children and finally getting to be a mother, even if it’s late. Helps with ruling by giving advice. Is no longer an authority figure but Ghost does put her in charge of the Kingdom’s Horticulture and that in general makes her happy to just grow things and help farms get back up and running.

Will I write it? Maybe. Maybe a comic? I don’t know But I have had this in my head forever but I wants it.  Maybe I’ll refine this later. If anyone wants to take this idea feel free too because I very much subscribe to the ‘two cakes’ rule.

Thank you for listening to my ramblings it’s late and I’m tired :3

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Yay! I’m thankful I send that ask question, made you excited🥺, I’m very awkward to interact online, but I have so many questions I wanna ask, but at the same time I don’t wanna be annoying😵‍💫

But anyway… one more question 🚶‍♀️(many rambles here, sorry) is the lost of vision/scar why readers parents think she’s not worthy as a woman? I’m asking because she didn’t have the chance like her sisters (their traditions, painting, that kind of stuff, not have the chance of getting married -not even thinking about it-), or���.there’s another deeper reason 👀

Oh you don’t have to worry about that at all! Getting asks always brings me so much joy 😊Writers put so much time and effort into their stories so to see that people are enjoying them enough to come up with questions about them is incredibly rewarding! 💕 Also tbh it really helps my own writing process to think through these kinds of questions

Also, and I can’t stress this enough, I myself am absolutely out-of-control when it comes to sending feedback/questions/theories to other writers 😅 I will send like five giant asks in a single day full of wack theories to a single author so you definitely do not have to worry about annoying me!!

And again a very good question!! Sorry this is definitely going to be super long and rambly so I’m going to put it below a cut:

I think (at least in terms of what I have plotted out at this point, honestly pretty much every part of writing this has been a leetle bit of a flying-by-the-seat-of-my pants bootleg writing operation), it’s mostly that there is just some very profound old-school misogyny going on because this is a historical!au. Daughters in this era (particularly daughters of anyone in power) are very much viewed in terms of what they could gain for their families through marriage. The process was basically: you send a painting of your daughter to the nearby monarchs, and that plus whatever your kingdom/clan can offer from a political/economic perspective is how the other party decides if they want to go through with the marriage. So for reader or any of her sisters, in terms of what they are bringing to any potential marriage, 95%+ is probably just like, will monarch A think she’s hot based on 100% superficial reasons. So I think her parents assumed that, by those standards, she wouldn’t have enough value to secure any major alliances through marriage herself 😔

She could probably have married someone in her hometown if she weren’t from the family in power, but that would profoundly not-useful to her parents. If she were to marry within the clan, the expectation would be that she would stay home and raise a family, so by the standards of that time, raising her would have gone to waste since that wouldn't be helpful politically

So I think they very much actively tell her that marriage isn’t a possibility for her because (1) they decided on a niche for her, which she has proven herself to be good at and useful in, and her getting married within the clan would nullify that and (2) I think because of their own subconscious biases they do actually kind of believe that no one will want her, and they think that shutting that aspect of her life down and encouraging to focus on something else is actually helping her 😬

This is very much TMI but I think it’s useful to explain a little more about that aspect her character/my writing process for this part of the storyline is that it was inspired by the fact that I actually am missing some of my vision in my left eye, and one of the fairly common side effects of the surgery for it is that it can mess up, without going into too much detail, your facial aesthetics. And before I got the surgery to keep me from going fully blind in that eye, I had family members either (1) suggest that I should maybe just wait to see if I lost more vision because if the surgery did mess with my face, it would make dating very hard or (2) have me describe in detail repeatedly how it felt to be going blind so that they could justify to themselves why it was necessary to take that risk of me not finding love/having people look at me weird. And this is modern times!! So I’m just extrapolating to how this kind of thing would play out in even more superficial, misogynistic times

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1-3, 10-15, 25-28 BECAUSE I WANT TO H E A R. ILY BESTIE <3

This is gonna be quite long, but thank you so very much @varlaamsdarkventures 🥺

Do you daydream a lot before you write, or go for it as soon as the ideas strike?: Oh god I daydream sometimes for days before I actually write stuff. 2. Where do you get your fic ideas?: tbh most of the times I get LONG term ideas from dreams I’ve had or a specific situation in said dream that I branch out on. But in terms of oneshots, mostly from music. 3. Do you share your fic ideas, or do you keep them to yourself?: It depends. I mean, YOU know most of what I have goin on up in my brain at any given moment in terms of AU’s and fics. But in general? The Edge of Night is the first thing I have shared online in a very long time. I have an extremely difficult time telling anybody about my ideas because of some past shit that happened to me, so it’s very hard but I’m trying to do better. 10. Do you work on multiple wips or stick to one fic at a time?: I work on multiple wips or I will simply implode. I have to jump ideas or things do not go well in my brain. 11. Do you write scenes in order, or do you jump around?: I have to jump around. I tried so hard for so long to be in order, I just CAN'T do it!! Anybody that can is truly a god. 12. Do you outline your fics?  If yes, how detailed are your outlines?  How far do you stray from them?: If by outline you mean go over every single thing in my brain and figure it out over a course of days then yes :) but honestly, I really don’t outline. I have a couple of docs that are specific “plot point/potential oneshot” ideas for certain long term projects but that is as far as I go. 13. Do you listen to music while you write?  If yes, what have you been listening to recently?: Yes!! I have a couple of playlists that are specific for writing!! I just finished a oneshot VERY loosely based on a lyric from LMLY by Jackson Wang, but in terms of what I’ve been listening to while I write lately… a weird mix of metalcore and movie music. 14. What is your favorite location and position to write in?: Well I generally like to sit lskdfj but as for location I have to be in a really comfortable spot on the couch/bed with tons of pillows behind me. If not, I get absolutely nothing done. 15. What’s your favorite time to write?: In the morning and later in the afternoon into the night. I always feel like my writing is so much better at night, which kills my sleeping schedule, but, like, the comfort oneshots are worth it sldkf 25. What’s your favorite part of the writing process (worldbuilding, brainstorming/outlining, writing, editing, etc)?: Brainstorming/daydreaming and writing it for sure!! 26. What’s your least favorite part of the writing process?: Also writing, and editing. I think something is perfect, then BOOM, whole new idea to put in >:( its very annoying. 27. What area of writing do you feel strongest in?: I feel I’m pretty good at being descriptive?? I think?? I really don’t know honestly. 28. What area of writing do you want to improve in?: Dialogue for SURE! I THINK I’m getting better but again I don’t know. 41. Who’s your favorite character you’ve written?: Right now I’m really enjoying writing my OC Celeste in some stuff :)) 47. Is there a trope that you’ve written before but are now sick of?: Listen, Lena, LISTEN…… don’t judge me for I was young and dumb once….but I used to write love triangles quite a bit. Now, I personally just do not like them. If someone else does, cool, great, but it’s not my style anymore. I actually think the last time I had a love triangle was in a MIW au fanfic that, funnily enough, was called The Edge of Night sldkf 48. Who is your favorite character to write for?  Has this changed since you’ve started writing for that fandom?: Okay so, I’m pretty new to the wrestling scene as of right now, so I really don’t have any set favorites YET. Except technically Brother Nero. HOWEVER, I do have hockey fanfics and as embarrassed as I am to say this, I do really enjoy writing about the Red Wings. Specifically, the 90’s Red Wings. I love them so much, peak found family in my eyes.

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

‘author’ self interview

thank you for the tag @itsmoonpeaches!! sorry im a few days late getting to it 😩

Name: thinkingisadangerouspastime / faerialchemist / amy

Fandoms: all of them, lmao? well, according to ffn:

Author has written 61 stories for Teen Titans, Fairy Tail, Fullmetal Alchemist, [redacted], Ouran High School Host Club, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, Avengers, Dragon Prince, Good Omens, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Fruits Basket, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Avatar: Last Airbender, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Winx Club.

right now, i am active(ish) in atla and the mcu as well as monk and medium, although those last two don’t really have fandoms (at least not large ones, lol)

Where do you post: faerialchemist on AO3 is where my better works are, lmao, but i also post on FFN, Wattpad, and Quotev under different handles. and when i remember, i try to promo my works on Tumblr, too!

Most popular multi-chapter fic: in terms of true multichapter fics (i.e. not a oneshot collection), No Ordinary Exchange wins for hits, kudos, everything. i think that can be attributed to the fact that a) it’s long, b) it’s complete, c) it’s rayllum (most popular tdp ship), and d) it’s a college!au (a popular trope in fandom overall). although tbh, i only have like one or two other true multichaps posted, one of which is incomplete and the other of which is half-focused on an extreme rarepair, so there’s not much competition 😂

Favorite story you’ve written so far: i am going to cheat and say my favorite fics i’ve written so far are the three in my why’d you have to go and make things so complicated? series. here’s the series “summary”:

A series of (mostly) Flash Thompson-centric fics set in a canon-divergent AU beginning after Spider-Man: Homecoming. Niche headcanons*, one-sided rivals to friends (to lovers), and Flash Thompson appreciation abound! 

*Headcanons I have pioneered so far: Flash Thompson has dyslexia, Flash Thompson likes art history, Flash Thompson likes origami. Stay tuned for more. ;)

basically, it’s 50k worth of fics (so far) that serve as a testament to how much i love mcu flash thompson 🥺💛 he deserves the world!!

Fic you were nervous to post: i was pretty nervous to post one of my more recent fics, actually! the fic is called Is This Love?, and i was nervous for a few different reasons:

- it’s half sambucky, which was fine bc sambucky is popular lmao, but it’s also half sarahmay, which is a sapphic rarepair i came up with between sarah wilson and may parker. the mcu fandom has a heavy preference for mlm pairings, so i was nervous by virtue of the fic being partially wlw-centric, but it all ended up being fine! i have converted so many people to sarahmay 😤

- the fic also features my demiromantic!sam headcanon. i myself am aspec but (maybe) not demiromantic, so i wanted my portrayal to be respectful, and as such i was nervous despite everything i’d looked into prior to writing and posting the fic, lol

- it’s a multichap. multichaps make me nervous solely because they are multiple chapters. adds stressTM 😂

How do you choose your titles: song lyrics, randomly coming up with them, a specific line/word used in the fic, and brainstorming with friends are probably the main ways!

Do you outline: sure do 😤 it varies from fic to fic, so some outlines are a detailed list of events in the appropriate order, while others are a more general idea of “here’s stuff i want to include,” lol. generally speaking, though, i always try to go in with some sort of plan!

Complete: all of my recent fics are complete! (although that’s bc i primarily write oneshots 😂) on ao3, i think i only have one fic that’s truly incomplete. (oneshot collections are a weird in-between, because they essentially are always complete unless i feel like adding to them.) on ffn, though, i have four incomplete fics, three of which are from middle school. i don’t think they will ever be finished 😩

Do you accept prompts: technically, yes! but my policy is that i am under no obligation to write any of them. i write fanfic for fun and as a stress reliever, so if im not inspired by a prompt, i am not going to stress myself out trying to write for it, lol

Upcoming story you’re most excited to write about: i actually just finished writing this story today (by hand, it’s not typed yet lmao), but im gonna let it count for this question anyways! it is probably the most self-indulgent fic i’ve ever written: a monk and medium crossover. that’s right, two fandoms absolutely no one in the world cares about but me. i wrote this fic solely bc it was something i wanted to read 😂 it is - if i counted correctly - 78 1/2 pages long, which is probably in the range of 30-35k words? once i type it up (in like,, december lmao) i’ll have more specifics, although the “patching” that occurs when i type handwritten drafts could push the word count closer to 40k. but who knows? time will tell!

anyways, im just so excited about this fic bc it has so many things i like lmaooo (examples: allison whump, joe x allison content, sharona being her wonderful self, and what i hope is an interesting murder mystery!)

Stories you’re most excited to read: literally anything and everything my friends are working on! off the top of my head: @shifuaang’s tysuki fic, @praetorqueenreyna’s dark!zukaang fic, @itsmoonpeaches’s fruits basket fic, and @ambivalentmarvel’s spider kids fic 🙌

i think a lot of my atla mutuals have been tagged to do this already, so tagging some marvel friends! (this is starkravinghazelnoots, btw 💛)

tagging: @ambivalentmarvel, @friendlyneighborhoodsecretary, @lunannex, @kalliopecosmos, @omg-just-peachy, and anyone else who wants to do this! just say i tagged you 💕

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ALL FUCKIN 35 OF THEM SKLNWESDJFPXO

I SHOULDVE EXPECTED THIS FROM YOU

1. From one to five stars, how would you rate your writing? (No downplaying yourself!)

A three! I think I’m mid range cause I ain’t terrible but there is still shit I gotta improve and grow in my writing

2. Why do you write fanfiction?

to manifest what canon won’t give me and to write more! (though yes it is mainly about the smooching and the— I’ll stop there LOL)

3. What do you think makes your writing stand out from other works?

Hm! My weird research details? I’m that “fun fact, did you know...” in my fics sometimes LOL! I plan on giving a penthouse for erina in a fic and I went through penthouse listings in Japan for floor layouts and locations💀 my research gives me inspo and depth to stuff I think I lack in comparison to others sometimes.

4. Are there any writers that inspire you?

In terms of fellow fic writers, one of them I can’t name here but she’s an inspiration with her exceptional gift for prose period and her lovely skill at comedy! I want to be as funny as her when I write, I love her ironic situational humor. Other fic writers are @takoyakitenchou, @royaldragonsevgisi15 who I always love sharing ideas with and motivate me to create more! For non-fic writers it would be V.E. Schwab, Leigh Bardugo, Oda, and Horikoshi! The last two may be mangaka, however they are writers as well to create their stories! The depth these creators have given their worlds and interesting characters theyve given life to are all what I aspire to be like!

5. What’s the fic you’re most proud of?

so far uh?? hm everything I’m currently writing are wips lol!! im proud of my wip that has been nicknamed ‘soma panics’ that is a multi-chapter fic that spans like probs 20 plus chapters maybe

6. What element of writing do you find comes easily?

dialogue! it’s so much fun! and character thoughts. I’ve said to people I may be better suited for script writing

7. What element of writing do you struggle with most?

I think it’s description, of like setting and showing action. also an expansion of my vocabulary LOL

8. Which character(s) do you find easiest to write?

erina! I think it’s because canon has shown us many of her different faces and range of emotion.

9. Which character(s) do you find most difficult to write?

SOMA!! chill ass mofo whos more carefree compared to the common shonen protagonist! for other shokugeki characters I’m not sure just yet because I haven’t flexed my fingers enough for the rest of them.

10. What’s your favorite genre to write for?

I guess I should say romance cause that’s what I mostly write LOL!

11. Who or what do you find yourself writing about most?

sorina and I try to get them to smooch eventually KEK and yeah it’s..usually romantic fluff lmao

12. Tell us about a WIP you’re excited about.

HONESTLY ALL OF THEM but “soma panics” is my brain child

13. First fandom you ever wrote for?

pretty sure it’s digimon....

14. What’s your favorite fandom to write for?

currently shokugeki no soma!!!!

15. What’s the weirdest fandom you’ve ever written for?

uhhhh I guess SNS? LMAO fandoms...all have their quirks to them.

16. Any guilty pleasure trope(s)?

characters cuddling!!!! or getting the urge to smooch!!!!

17. A trope you’ll never, ever write for.

unrequited love GOOD FUCKIN BYEEEEEE

18. Wildest fic you’ve ever written?

I have plot ideas thst can be wild potentially but so far nothing fits this criteria so far that I actually have written.

19. Do you prefer canon-compliant, AUs, or something in-between?

depends on the fandom, but if written well, all of it!

20. Gen fic or shippy stuff?

shippy 100% like I said I like smoochin

21. Favorite pairing to write for? (platonic or romantic!)

romantic is...*drumroll* SORINA! platonic, soutaku and erina and alice!

22. Do you listen to anything while you write?

Sometimes! There are times songs will be on loop and times I just shuffle a playlist. and if I’m writing in random bursts it’ll be with no music but it really does depend lmao I think music is when I’m forcing myself to write?

23. Do you prefer prompts and challenges, or completely independent ideas?

completely independent ideas, I’ve realized in the past prompts shoot me in the foot often unless I luckily figure something out. but I’m often driven by my own sporadic self interest with shitty ping ponging attention

24. One-shots or multi-chaptered works?

multi-chap I guess cause I can post without being finished LOLLL but tbh can I really answer? I haven’t finished anything.....

25. Have you ever daydreamed about side adventures/spin-offs from your fic? Tell us about them!

I can’t answer this question imo because I haven’t finished a fic yet so technically stuff could all fit in the one fic?

26. Is there anything you’ve wanted to write, but you’ve been too scared to try?

MYSTERY AND CRIME! I love the genre and I have plot ideas once a blue moon but I can’t dive in because I want to make details that work and reduce plot holes where suspension of disbelief isn’t as needed. I need to study it more (I need to study all the details for any of my fics imo to be confident sometimes LOL)

27. What’s the nicest comment you’ve ever received?

I don’t think I can say one comment was the nicest because I’ve gotten comments that have given me quite the smiles to my face many times! I know this is a cop out but it’s true!

IS WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY UNTIL REINA SENT ME THE FOLLOWING ON DISCORD LIKE TWENTY MINS AGO:

and also rad. i am never this vocal about my emotions like EVER but this needs to be said your fics are obviously far from perfect, as are mine and everyone else's. but the thing about your works is that they're so well-sanded that it's impossible to find any rough edges or faults in them in terms of cohesion to a plot. your cast is never OOC and the amount of effort you devote to developing your takes on the characters as accurately as possible is unimaginably awe-inspiring.

BITCH I WANNA CRY 😭

28. How well do you handle criticism when it comes to your writing?

I’d like to believe I take it often well to try and improve because that’s always my goal. if someone is rude lol that’s not constructive snd is unhelpful. If I disagree with criticism I’ll explain why !

29. Have you ever gone outside of your comfort zone for a fic? How did it turn out?

Not yet, but I have some plot ideas I think will let me test this.

30. Tooth-rotting fluff or merciless angst?

F L U F F.

31. Do you have any OCs? Tell us about them!

elliott fuji, a japanese-american award winning photographer who is erina’s boyfriend in ‘soma panics’ which..causes soma’s panic LOL he’s 30 with slightly wavy black hair. I still haven’t pinpointed his personality just yet...he kind of humble brags for sure an artsy fucker and flirts maybe I’ll make him a lil shy though. he teaches sometimes, and becomes an adjunct photography professor in Tokyo so he can be with erina.

32. Summarize a random fic of yours in 10 words or less.

a cook is unfashionably late in realizing his feelings.

33. Is there anything you wish your audience knew about your writing or writing process?

I am a slow. so slow. motivation who is she? I also write out of order, unfortunately a bit too often.

34. Copy and paste an excerpt you’re particularly fond of.

this should be for the fic ‘soma panics’ it’s either megumi or satoshi talkin to him rn, I’m leaning towards satoshi

“You thought she would always wait for you, didn’t you Soma-kun? To always welcome you home.”

Soma drags his palms down his face and groans. He doesn’t like this at all. He doesn’t shy from confrontation but this is a whole different ballgame. Soma doesn’t play any ball.

“I guess..?” Is his reply, because he thinks he isn’t sure how to answer that.

“You guess?”

Just being questioned again is enough to crack Soma’s pathetic facade as if it was dropped chinaware and he lets out the longest sigh.

“No.”

Coming home means coming home to Nakiri Erina too.

Nakiri Erina is his forever.

this is @takoyakitenchou’s excerpt she’s most proud of that I’ve written, which is also from you guessed it, the long fic soma panics

SOMA: I am, I mean I will be, I swear I will always come home to you, not spend as much time abroad, once I’m done with work I’ll come right back. I’ll make sure to message you. Nakiri, I’m in love you with you. Maybe for a really long time. You know how I say I dedicate my food to you? My dad—my dad said that the key to become a good chef is to find someone to dedicate your cooking to. A special someone. For my dad it was my mom, you know? For me it’s...

(this is a good piece of dialogue tbh so I am also proud of this)

35. Ramble about any fic-related thing you want!

I’ve mentioned it throughout this but the WIP I’ve nicknamed ‘soma panics’ is something I’m super excited to write, but it’s going on slowly...and almost completely out of order. out of all of my writing it showed off that particular habit of mine, along with “what is this, a shoujo manga?!” though the latter is currently being written chronologically now that I’ve posted chapter one and is pretty solid in direction. it was originally supposed to be a one shot but I got impatient and wanted to post at least something for the sorina / soueri fandom.

however, because ‘soma panics’ (I won’t call it that LOL) is my baby I want to keep true to my rule of refusing to post it until I have a draft of the entire fic finished and I’m satisfied with the main points pretty much. due to my writing out of order, I’m worried I’ll change my mind about scenes or want to reflect things in earlier chapters for later ones etc etc

I joined the SnS fandom extremely late, as season five was airing. I was a fan of the manga five years ago and dropped it because I forgot to check for updates when I caught up 😔 I really want to bang out the different fics and aus for sorina that I have before the fandom fizzles out entirely but tbh I’m writing for myself, I’m manifesting what I want to see and I’ll just share it with all my friends to read if no one else will. cause I’m slow broski I dunno what writing fast even is like LMAO I do really want to write faster though, so I can contribute more and let the words free from the discord dms....

[nightglider124]

2020 Creator’s Self-Love Extravaganza/Creator Tag Meme/8 Favorite Works

Tagged by @tarisilmarwen  - Thanks for the tag, gurl! <3

Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 8 favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

Well, shit. I have uploaded practically nothing in 2020 LOL. Like... I’m cheating with my answers but hey, we’re gonna count my favourite robstar week oneshots as individuals cos otherwise, I don’t even make half of the 8 lmao.

1.) Subscribe

Ahh, my current main multi-chapter AU fic that I actually started in August 2019 but I reckon it has seen most updating this year, tbh. It’s honestly one of my favourite AU concepts that my brain has ever birthed. A YouTube AU with Gar as the channel owner just feels like such a Gar thing and I’m so excited to keep going with it in 2021. 

2.) Nova 

I actually love this oneshot that was completed and submitted as part of my involvement in the dickkory zine that was created early 2020. I only posted the excerpt on tumblr which you can find by clicking ‘Nova’ as I thought I’d keep the whole thing just as an exclusive thing for the zine. But, I really loved writing that and felt my final piece was pretty great considering there’s a word limit and a specific theme to follow and it was such good fun, all in all so loved that one. 

3.) Simulation

I actually forgot about this oneshot until I was scrolling through my tumblr tags like ‘wtf did i even write this past year??’ and I remembered the atrocity that was JLD: Apokolips War and how the burning need to write a fix it fic for all my dickkory pals was literally overwhelming. I was actually pretty happy with the final product, despite it’s length. And also, it gave me the dcamu dickkory ending that I wanted lmao.

4.) Robstar Week - Day 1: Star-Aligned/Destiny

I think I was actually pretty negative about this when I initially posted it for Robstar week but since then, I have come to appreciate that writing anything during this last shit show of a year is a miracle so y’know, we’ll take it as a win lmao. I actually really did enjoy writing a oneshot that’s mostly between Dick and Wally and talking about Starfire cos it makes me smile. 

5.) Robstar Week - Day 3: Tamaran

Another addition for Robstar week that I actually really enjoyed reading as I love writing little moments such as these between the two dorks. Anything that is remotely adorable and intimate in a fluffy way is like heaven to me; whether I’m reading it or if I happen to be writing it XD.

6.) Robstar Week - Day 4: Fantasy AU

My absolute faveeeee for Robstar week, to the point, I am now in the midst of planning a whole AU multi-chapter fic around it. I fell in love with the idea of Dick basically being akin to a Witcher and being paid to ‘deal with’ Kory, a magic user which is prohibited in the lil made up world. I honestly vibed with the idea so much and even now, I love it. There’s so many more details and plot I wanna add into it so it will eventually be a whole fic but... it’s been shelved for a little while til I get Bound and Subscribe updated to where I want them. 

7.) Robstar Week - Day 6: Wedding Bells

I may start to sound like a broken record but this happens to be another submission from robstar week that I really smiled at whilst writing. It was great to take a fairly common prompt and just do an actual wedding so it was fun to slightly spin that around for how I wrote it instead. 

8.) Robstar Week - Day 7: Constellations

I already mentioned how I love writing Robin and Starfire in these little cute and intimate moments that are filled with sugary fluff. This is kind of another one. I really do believe they would have these little games or things between them such as a game revolving around constellations and guessing. Idk I just really enjoyed this one as well.

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I honestly did not think there were gonna be 8 to list lmao. I wasn’t overly active in 2020 due to... *gestures around me* the state of the world for the majority of the year. I’m hoping 2021 will be a more productive year for me in terms of updating current projects as well as bringing some new things to the fic table. 

I taaag: @fireflyxrebel-writes @loubuggins @stefanotis @ships-bynoa and @spaceprincessem + anyone else who wants to jump in on this!! <3

[aclosetfan]

Aight here’s a 16teen-esque mall au for the ppg that I’ll never write, but enjoy thinking about and have heavily outlined (its long, so most is under the cut):

Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup aren’t related in this one, but you’d figure they were. Bubs/Buttercups are fraternal Twins (Mom/Dad=Keane/Prof)

Blossom’s mom is Ms. Bellum, who is dating Ms. Ima Goodwoman. Sedusa is actually a good woman in this lol, she just doesn’t vibe with blossom very well.

It also doesn’t help that Ima’s son, Butch, is now an even more permanent fixture in Blossom’s life. She had always thought school was enough. 

Later on in the story, Bellum and Ima get married and Butch&Bloss have to come to terms with being step siblings (they break up their parents and end up having to parent trap them back together)

This new relationship between Butch&Bloss works out perfectly for Brick because Brick’s bestfriends with Butch and also has a low-key crush on Bloss. They have English class together and while he very much has a goth persona that he can’t compromise (obviously) by a preppy girl like Bloss, he still enjoys fucking with her. Too bad she has that boyfriend :(

Wait what happened to the mall part?? Here we go: 

So, to preference, Bloss is a very smart young women. A real intellectual. Tons of smart extracurriculars. She’s definitely going places, but an Ivy League school costs money. So, she gets a job at the local mall in the bookstore. Bookstores in malls aren’t doing to hot financially and hers gets bought out. It’s going to be replaced by a more mainstream Barnes and Noble, but applications for employees don’t open up until after construction. She’s out a job and for some reason (maybe it’s her horribly inconsistent schedule) no one’s hiring her!! She’s worried about a gap in her resume, but her Mom ends up having the hookup. Turns out her mom’s boss (the mayor, who’s not the Mayor in this one) actually owns the lone hot dog (& pickle) stand in the mall, and it needs a new person to man it. 

(((This is a call back to when blossom, in the show, had to get a job at that hot dog stand 😂 she has to wear the same uniform with the stupid hat. )))

Her best costumer is actually Mayor, which perplexes Blossom because that can’t be a financially sound business move. His weird wisdom guides her.  

ANYWAY, she takes the job and finds out the stand (and the embarrassing uniform) is unfortunately located in front of. . .

. . .HOT TOPIC. 

Who works there??? Lol obviously Mr. Doom and Gloom himself--Brick!

So, Brick’s pretty much the manager there, right? Wrong, but he is a decent employee. He doesn’t actually need a job, but he’s a counterculture rebel, right?? And rebels go against their parents wishes, right?? And his dads (Mojo and Him) don’t want him working in a filthy mall because they’re rich and there’s better things to do. But he’s pretty anti-them so (🖕) he gets the job (Mojo also does not at all understand goth culture)

And then, because the gods favor him, not only does he end up getting to bug Bloss in English, but ALSO on his work breaks. He ends up eating more hotdogs then he ever thought he would in his life, but also, eventually, ends up becoming her study partner. Another fun and great thing for him is that as the story progresses he gets to watch her relationship with that-Jared-guy crumble right before his very eyes, which just adds fuel to his fantasy fire. 

So tbh this story actually really works out for Brick. He gets to spend time with the girl he secretly likes and has a decent shot at getting her to date him!! Blossom, on the other hand, suffers, but who’s there to help her through this suffering?

Well, obviously, Bubbles (and BC)! Bubbles works at Claire’s. She does well on the floor, but does not at all like piercing ears. She’s not good at it. She messes piercings up too frequently and blood freaks her out. Her coworker Mary often has to step up and do it for her. Still, she likes all the sparkly stuff in the store, so it’s generally a good fit. As of right now, Bubbles really just vibes in this story. Her biggest source of conflict is with Boomer, who works at the Spencer’s across from Claire’s.

Boomer is what Brick calls a shitty scene kid. He isn’t, Brick’s just mean, but Boomer rolls with it. Tbh he just likes dying his hair a shit ton of colors. He isn’t an ideal employee and is often found taking one too many breaks, but he’s charming and doesn’t make too many bad jokes about the dildos on display in the back, so they keep him around. He should honestly be on Claire’s payroll instead, because when Mary’s not available he’s the one who does the piercings (and the right way too, he might add, not with that fucked-up piercing gun) for Bubbles. And while that might make him seem like an overall helpful guy, do not be fooled. Bubbles always pays a price.

Boomer also has a shitty mom (femme fatale; she didn’t want a son), so his at-home life isn’t great, but he puts on a brave face. Brick and Butch essentially share custody of the boy. He has a room at each of their homes, which throws Blossom for a loop because not only does she have to share space with Butch later in the story, but also with Boomer (who she ends up tutoring). 

Speaking of Butch, he was fired from Spencer’s after Boomer got him a job there because he was “immature.” He was also fired from Hot Topic for basically the same reason. Then he landed a job at the Sporting Goods store, but again ended up getting fired (but this time it legitimately wasn’t his fault. His manager was just out to get him, as explained later) Now, he works for the malls arcade arena (they have go-karts and bumper cars; it’s one of those good arcades, ya feel?), so he runs a lot of kid’s bday parties. And to everyone’s surprise, he’s actually really good at it. Apparently, Butch really vibes with kids jacked up on sugar. Parents like him too because he flirts with the moms and pulls the dads into “friendly” but competitive go-kart racing betting pools. 

The person doing the actual hard labor at the arcade is Robin. She gets stuck in the chuck-e-cheese-like costume way too often. She’ a good voice of reason for everyone else, especially Butch. She’s his favorite co-worker.

Going back to the sporting goods store. Buttercup works there. She’s the best sales rep they got. It helps that she’s crazy athletic and is on track to get a pretty decent scholarship with some D1 schools. (What’s she play? Idk? Whatever your heart wants) She can’t say though that she’s the most popular amongst her coworkers. She got in a fight with Mitch, which also meant she got in a fight with the twins that follow Mitch around. She definitely didn't get along with Butch when he worked there. And she thinks her manager’s kind of creepy and he’s only gotten creepier since his partner Snake broke up with him

She doesn’t know why Snake broke up with Ace, but she’s pretty sure it has to do with Butch getting fired

Now, this one’s going to throw y’all for a loop, but the reason she gets in a fight with Mitch is because Mitch was picking on her boyfriend Elmer (THATS RIGHT IM SHAKING IT UP—but don’t worry 😏 I love the greens too much).

Elmer works at the comic/geek shop with Mike. She obviously likes her boyfriend and is big buds with Mike. Elmer’s pretty insecure tho and thinks BC’s going to break up with him all the time. This really bums her out. She doesn’t get why he thinks that (b/c she’s out of his league, but she’s oblivious) because she really likes him. Unfortunately, it gets to the point that she eventually decides she has to break up with him because she can’t convince him to trust her (still their relationship is cutesy side plot for a long bit). It’s her first big heartbreak. A heartbreak that is. . .

. . .ideal for Butch because he’s realized he has more then friendly feeling for her. See they weren’t friends AT ALL beforehand, but his new sibling relationship with Blossom has catapulted BC squarely into his life. Slowly they end up going from workplace enemies to eh to friendly to friends to (😉).

A significant turning point in their relationship happened to involve Ace. Butch was on his smoke break and saw Ace making Buttercup uncomfortable. That same night he sees Buttercup trying to leave and Ace/his gang are trying to pressure her into following them. Butch takes offense to this and ends up walking Buttercup to her car. She argues she doesn’t need him saving her, which he readily agrees to, but explains that any excuse to beat that creep Ace up is a good excuse. Afterward, anytime BC has to work close, Butch walks her to her car.

Eventually, he explains to her that he was the one who inadvertently convinced Snake to get out of their toxic-ass relationship with Ace. Ace found out and that’s why he was fired. So, now, he has real beef with the guy. Him and Ace don’t get along at all. To the point where Butch was banned from the sports store, but he sneaks in to see his friends and mess with BC. 

HAHA does the story ever end???? 

The story ends when Barnes n’ Noble opens. Blossom gets the job, ditches the old boring boyfriend, gets the goth boy, saves her mom’s relationship, and gains a sibling. 

The format of the story would be pretty episodic, with a conflict/resolution in each chapter. But what’s written above highlights the over arching plot lines

and holy shit! how could I forget the cherry on top??? Brick and Princess are cousins, and she does NOT let him forget this. 

((If you want more specific details ya gotta ask. there’s a lot more then just this.)) 

[dr-gloom]

Some thoughts/analysis on the new episode, because the video itself and people's reactions were bugging me

Disclaimers: I don't hate Patton or Roman, I'm not calling Patton abusive or manipulative, as those terms insinuate knowing what you're doing and I don't think Patton does know how he's coming across

- First I wanna just point out, as a few others have, that Thomas is once again wearing black and white while discussing a grey-area issue. I love the attention to detail

- The recap only really highlights that Thomas admitted to wanting something that contradicted Patton's statement of why he's a good person (or more specifically "perfect", which, as nice and friendly and lovely as that sounds, is a toxic mindset and I like that Thomas touched on that at the end), which is an interesting point to cover honestly, especially since later Thomas challenges Patton to call him a good person

- "Now kiddo, if you're gonna dish out Fs, why don't we make them friendly hugs?" I understand Patton was trying to lighten the mood and joke a little and all that, but he's not letting Thomas just... Be angry/upset. He's trying to control how he feels and steer away from negative emotions, which I thought he learned not to do??

- I love that Patton heard what he was saying and stopped. Good on him. But what he replaced it with is called guilt tripping and that's not much better. "I'm surprised you would say something like that about your friends. I always thought that when it came to your pals, that sort of language would be... Ineffable?" It may sound gentle and sweet, but he's still saying "you can't talk about your friends like that" (and I get it, we all know that's not how Thomas really feels, but again he needs to be allowed to express himself). You can tell from Thomas's face while Patton's talking that the guilt tripping worked, at least for a moment.

- Anyone else notice a little Logan shining through in Thomas's words/actions the first portion of the video?

- "If our goals aligned with his what would that say?" Uhmmm gee lemme think Roman... Maybe that you care about Thomas's mental health and desires???

- I think it's very telling that during the rap Thomas cuts Patton off right before he's about to say something that, judging from the graphics, was going to make him sound heroic and said "I made this choice", while looking very... Upset.

- Okay so when Thomas was all "why didn't I just talk to them???" I felt hella vindicated but the second time I watched I finally heard Roman say "I mean I kinda brought that up before but it got shut down faster than an Antarctic icepop shop". Like... Fuck, they seriously do not appreciate or listen to Roman at all

- Patton brushing them off with "Eh well hindsight is 20/20" pissed me off so much. No empathy whatsoever. Jesus Christ.

- Roman's reaction when Thomas said no to the whole future vision thing made me laugh and no one is talking about it

- But yeah Thomas talking about using foresight has a total Logan Vibe

- Patton's reaction when Thomas says "I made a decision with a blindfold on" is... Interesting...

- Seriously that cat analogy was so specific.....

- One should never base their decisions on "well they've helped me before so I owe them" like. No. Patton, Roman, stop. He should have decided to go because he wanted to, not because he owed it to them or you made him feel like shit

- "Those baby-making Catholics" lmfaooooo

- "You, thinking about giving their wedding a pass all because of a callback that, really, might not work out". That bugged me too, because it can just as easily be argued he gave up his big break for a wedding he barely participated during. If we're being completely logical here (and borrowing from a later concept of how our time is better used), his time would have been better-spent at the callback since he wasn't even mentally present at the wedding

- "Maybe they understand, and maybe they still want you to go to the wedding but feel too guilty to say so. Or, maybe you end up going to the wedding, and they feel guilty seeing you there because they feel like they took a big opportunity away from you". First off, they did (or would have, had the conversation taken place and they insisted he come). Secondly I personally feel like he owed it to them (and yes, I'm aware how that sounds but I can't think of better phrasing) to talk about it with 100% honesty on both sides, because now he's angry that he went to their wedding and they have no idea. Sure, the vid ends with them coming over to catch up, but if it hadn't? That's the kind of shit that festers very easily. I feel like he'd have been more satisfied if he had still decided to go after talking with them. I think Thomas realizes this too when he responds to Roman's question with a very sure, very adamant "No."

- "This was our chance to be there for them when it counted". I know this is me reading into things but it felt like he was saying anything else he may have done for them doesn't matter or isn't good enough

- "Why does their complexion matter" LMFAOOOOOO omg roman

- "... We can all agree that you're a good fellow-" "Can we? All agree on that?" Like fuck, Thomas still isn't sure what Patton thinks of him? That cuts deep. And... Patton still hasn't apologized. He conceeded that he's "been a bit much", which is far from the same thing

- pfffft what the fuck was Roman trying to do???

- "Well that's a relief... I think". Meaning Thomas still isn't fucking sure where Patton stands. I have to admit his dialogue did sound a bit circuitous

- he almost said GameStop lmfao

- why is he fixating so much on frogger

- "At least 16 graphics!" I died laughing

- "By the liquid lipstick of William Shakespeare" wut the fue? Lmao

- "just like you don't have to get him a hotdog" "I feel like you kinda do... Maybe". I know Janus says it later on but he was right when he said peppering in a few "I don't know"s and "maybe"s does not a conversationally-conscious person make. Like, he didn't even add the maybe until Roman reacted negatively to what he was saying

- I'm surprised Logan said it'd be wrong for Thomas to keep his money to himself tbh

- Roman mouthing "behoove". Like, c'mon dude, stop being such a dick to Logan when he's just trying to help

- Logan's so done he's not even trying to hide it. Like you can see the annoyance clear on his little pixelated face

- Also did anyone notice that Logan kept getting cut off so the next time he "spoke" he made them read it aloud so they'd actually fucking listen

- "Yeah! As long as that's not the main reason you're doing it!" Honestly though, most people do good things for their own benefit; tax benefits, That Good Feeling, compliments from others etc. It doesn't diminish the effect of the good act, so who cares?????

- "You shouldn't do a good thing just because it makes you feel good... I-I think." He's trying so hard but he's just not understanding how this works is he. Also it's interesting that he preaches holding to your values and not nitpicking situations yet he's literally doing it right now because last time he just... Needed to counter Janus and couldn't admit he'd had a fair point

- "Deceit said you'd be doing the right thing for a selfish reason if you did it for your own emotional gain". You can tell by his tone he's trying to make Thomas see Deceit as wrong and bad but like literally two seconds later he audibly confirms he feels the same way

"Definitely! Maybe... I think so... What do you think?" Tbh I'm proud of him for asking someone else's opinion, esp cause he's screwing this up so horrendously

- man if Roman being scared to share his opinion after Patton visibly disagrees isn't a huge red flag idk what is

- the world of the video game is called AU I'm screaming

- I'll always be salty that Roman once again shoved a "dark side" into the villain roll without asking

- I don't agree with Patton automatically assuming that just because the hero wants a reward, it means he doesn't care about the people he saves getting it. People can have multiple motives and wanting recognition isn't bad or evil or selfish

- I'm so fucking glad Thomas snapped and asked "am I not allowed to feel good if I do something good" because that's basically what Patton's saying and no one was addressing it. And Patton saying that can't be a valid motive is honestly fucked up

- during the trolley problem the options toggle the most between morality, anxiety, and denial. Idk, it's just interesting

- it's also interesting that Patton views moving the trolley as worse than letting it stay, meaning he thinks small active murder is worse than larger, passive murder. Not bad or good or anything, just interesting

- I hate hate hate that Patton silences Logan when he's the one who asked him to say something, especially since he follows that with "oh you can't really learn good morality from a book hahahaha". Like dude just acknowledge that you don't agree but there are other valid points of view, my god

- also you can tell from the color that Janus totally put that skip button in, meaning Logan really, really wanted to continue but Janus could see it wasn't going to get them where they needed to go

- "stu-ooper dooper unique mustache" lmfaooooo

- Thomas keeps coming back with something along the lines of "I need the answer to X so I can meet your expectations". He even says "I don't understand what I need to change so I can meet your standard". Last time I did a post like this, back when SvS came out, I said Patton has too much sway/control over Thomas, and he still does. Thomas doesn't try nearly as hard to "meet the standards" of his other sides, but in this instance he's desperate to know how he can appease Patton. I don't think that's necessarily a good thing, given that it's likely because he wants Patton to say without hesitation that he's a good person

- Roman thinks he's the problem I wanna cry

- "And I'm an awful driver" I laughed so hard

- "I only mean well when I say that that is the stupidest thing you have ever said" I can't stop laughing XD

- "You're just blowing smoke" seriously someone help me

- Roman's reaction when Thomas says he feels guilty just killed me. They all just acknowledged that Roman is his motivator and Thomas comes out and says his motives make him feel guilty? Ouch

- "Doing nothing is even worse!" Patton honey I'm begging you to please stop talking omg this is going so poorly

- "doing nothing is worse than doing a good thing for the wrong reasons" first off, who's to say what a wrong reason is, and secondly, that's an interesting take from the man who refused to move the trolley 👀

- oooof Thomas's relief when Logan cuts in though

- "Huuuuuhhhh I do need help" fuck, I wanna cry, poor Thomas

- "Logan, like you said this isn't your area of expertise" ITS NOT YOURS EITHER ROMAN OMG

- "Every point you've made in today's discussion has contradicted that sentiment" YES LOGAN JANUS SLAY. Also anyone else notice Patton looking to the others for validation because I Sure Did

- oh man though I thought Logan was finally getting the chance to lay into Patton and take him down a peg and it turned out to be Janus

- "Oh, is it not? Please, correct me if I'm wrong." yeah paTTON CORRECT HIM IF HES WRONG (notice how he doesn't even have an argument to that, all he can say is "you're wrong!")

- honestly the way he goes from 0 to 60 should've tipped us off that that was Janus

- I wanna know if Patton turned into a muscular frog irl

- idk Patton feels like a villain when he's all "Thomas you choose!"

- "What have you done with Logan?!" "Nothing at all and I resent the question" weeeeeelp there goes loceit

- even Janus admits Patton is misleading unintentionally can we all calm down now

- I find it interesting that Thomas willingly stays behind Janus

- "Sure if he's in that kind of situation then of course he should focus on himself. But does he deserve it? I don't know." *Record scratch* excuse me wHAT?????? And like, you can't ignore the obvious symbolism behind that attack missing Janus and hitting Thomas. Thomas is knocked out and Patton just ... Keeps talking? Jesus fucking christ

- and Roman so adamantly attacking Janus has a very pre-AA vibe to it

- "Not that any of you care, but I am unharmed, and I don't want to talk about it." Thomas looks like the only one genuinely concerned when he says this and that hurts

- Janus looks so happy that Logan's backing him I wanna cry my baby aaaaaaa

- SOMEONE FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGED THE CHOICE ROMAN MADE AAAAAAA THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU can we stop acting like Janus is evil now please

- "Well when is it enough?!" ".... Trees?" I'm STILL LAUGHING SOMEONE HELP ME

- I'm so fucking happy Thomas doesn't agree with Roman about trusting Janus

- Roman laughing and saying Janus's name is stupid and Janus's jab about him and Remus just... Gutted me y'all. Thems some hurt boys. And he looks to Thomas and Patton and they just... Can't side with him, cause they know that was hella fucking rude of Roman.

- I genuinely believe that Janus's nod meant Thomas was telling the truth. Based on his facial expression (which was slight but idk I notice more stuff than most people apparently???) He was trying to reassure Roman. And Roman just... Took it the completely wrong way, because he still thinks all Janus does is lie. When Roman says "wow, I can't believe this" you can actually see Janus's smile disappearing, because he realizes Roman took the nod the wrong way

- aaaaand then he immediately goes into attacking Janus. *Sigh*

- "Everything's gonna be okay, kiddo. We love you." "*Scoff* Right." I truly believe the next video is gonna be about Roman, because there's no way in hell they could ignore the obvious hurt and self-deprecation coming off of Roman

- "Janus? Is there a limit to how many times a person can say sorry before you have to admit that they're just bad for you?" Patton was talking about himself. Whether Janus was trying too hard to be witty and missed that or what, his reply hurt Patton, and you can see that Janus realizes his mistake with Patton's reaction. We have to remember that this isn't a side who's used to how the others communicate, though. He doesn't spend time with them outside of the few videos he's shown up in because of how they treat him. It's gonna take him time to get the little things like this and until then there's gonna be a lot of hurt feelings and (hopefully) apologies

- Janus immediately backtracks once he realizes what the real question was and says "... it depends... How many things have they had to apologize for? How frequently do they have to apologize for things? How terrible were the things that they did? One of the biggest factors in my very humble opinion is whether or not they seem to be making an honest effort to do better" this is Janus trying to tell Patton "you aren't bad for Thomas. I see how hard you're trying. It's okay"

- you can totally see Janus realizing why Patton fights him so hard while Patton is explaining how hard shit's gotten as Thomas grows up

- "Janus?" "I'll take care of him" y'all I need the tissues

- Janus trying to lighten the mood with the whole push-someone-down-the-stairs thing just... Made me die laughing. Y'all know he's hella good at April fool's pranks okay? Okay

- "You're not stuck with an evil snake boy, you're just stuck with a snake boy" HES SUCH A DORK I LOVE HIM

- I reacted the exact same way to Thomas saying Janus was right omg

Again, I'm not saying I hate any of the characters, this is just a stream-of-consciousness analysis-and-commentary-type post on the new episode

[wolswiehome]

So got sort of an au in my head for a moment but there’s still a lot of blurry passages cuz I didn’t dig too far into it. So for those who wants to read, it’s under the cut

That was the base of my idea:

So what if instead of telling Elsa to conceal don’t feel, they send her to the enchanted forest hoping the Northuldrans or the spirits would help her? And she meets with Anna years later after her coronation because she somehow woke the magical spirits?

So instead of telling Elsa to conceal her powers after the incident with Anna, her parents sent her to the Enchanted Forest (alone, yes I know not very clever but as I said blurry passages) hoping the Northuldrans would help her control her powers but when she met them it wasn’t on very good terms and she was still afraid of her power so she just never tried to befriend them (blurry parts)

Years later Anna has her coronation on the same birthday Elsa should have in the movie (yes their parents are dead tho i don’t know for the moment if it’s for the same reason in Frozen 2 or i’ll go with something else), but Elsa wakes the magical spirits and its consequences reach Arendelle

Anna goes to the trolls and ask some details to Grand Pabbie, he answers mostly like in the movie though he does mention there’s someone she absolutely needs to meet if she wants to save Arendelle, someone she knows but Anna has no clue of who it could possibly be

So she goes into the forest and ran into Elsa

They get to know each other so then they can save Arendelle and free the Enchanted forest from the mist, the rest is pretty much like in the movie tbh 

[emperorofthedark]

Replies for the new prologue under the cut!

mdpthatsme replied to your photo “Read at: dreamwidth.org or ofthedark.org”

AMAZING!

Thank you so much! “S2BO” is the level of sims storytelling that I aspire to, so it means a lot to me that you liked it!

mdelaunay replied to your photo “Read at: dreamwidth.org or ofthedark.org”

OMG, this is good, this is so good, amazing story, amazing characters. GREAT JOB, please update soon!!!

Thank you so much! Ch1 is on the way. I was working on it alongside the prologue for a while (there’s also a few other companion pieces in the works), but it was too much and I had to focus on the prologue. So there’s a pretty good chunk done already, which is nice. And I like ch1 a lot more than the prologue. I’m excited to finish it and share it with everyone.

the-chosen-half-of-one replied to your photo “Read at: dreamwidth.org or ofthedark.org”

When Don says “Ladies” to the statues is my favourite, man those first few scenes he’s so skeevy! Love the little nod to strange county! And Mr. Blue!! Mr. Blue!! And the incorporation of the Tricous. This is all so unsettling, so creepy and eerie, and tragic, but so well done, but oh that ending ��������

He was a major sleaze, but he’s been taken down a notch or two. He’s still sleazy, but no longer quite so effortlessly.

I hated the ending. Haaaaated it. I fought myself until the bitter end because I absolutely did not want to go down that road. But nothing else was going to have the long term impact on other characters and story lines that her death would. Still hated doing it. So much.

I love you for loving Mr. Blue, btw. He’s such a little shit. A lot of fun to work with, though.

Also, thank you for this comment and all of the other lovely ones you’ve made before. I tend to be garbage at responding properly, but I’m so thankful to have you as a mutual and for your kindness and support here and all the times before.

sandybruty replied to your photo “Read at: dreamwidth.org or ofthedark.org”

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Thank you for reading and commenting! I don’t think the crying emojis will show up correctly, but same. I miss her already.

pleasant-lives replied to your photo “Read at: dreamwidth.org or ofthedark.org”

This was such a great read. I honestly went from thinking “nice, this is a long prologue!” To “it’s not enough! I need more!” It was so great, the pleasant twins are two of my favorite characters and I always love reading about them.  It was a great mixture of eerie and sad (little Beau!), can’t wait to read more :)

lol, it is so long. I had to force myself to stop writing it because it was just getting out of control. I didn’t even get to include the Strangetown stuff I wanted to, but Strangetown is more important to future story lines than past ones, anyway.

I love the Pleasant twins, too. I’ve become suddenly and obsessively attached to the Cordials, too, probably because they’re au Pleasant twins. It’s a problem I won’t be fixing.

Beau ): and unnamed baby, and all my other pixel babies who didn’t make it through the prologue. ): I will miss them, but I hope the story will be better for their sacrifices.

Thank you so much for reading and commenting!

cindysimblr replied to your photo “Last teaser.”

so excited!

I hope you enjoyed it, thank you for reading!

marauders-groupie replied to your photo “Read at: dreamwidth.org or ofthedark.org”

Oh My God! The suspense, the intrigue, the eerieness! This is seriously a masterpiece. And I love how I could ~feel the supernatural just creeping in, dancing along the line of pleasant Pleasantview. I also loved how many characters you'd included, it sounds like the start of a really delicious tale. You're phenomenally talented - thank you for sharing your stories! What a masterpiece!

I want to be buried with these comments, tbh. Thank you so much! I was so worried when I posted it that the community was just going to be like “...was this even necessary...?” and I’m just so thankful that people gave it a chance and liked it.

There’s a lot more characters on the way, too. A lot of Pleasantview sims didn’t make the cut, and Strangetown is heavily involved in future chapters, starting with ch1. I just ran out of time, space and patience because the prologue was already stupid long. 

angelapleasant replied to your photo “Read at: dreamwidth.org or ofthedark.org”

BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

So glad you’re still here! I was worried the whole time that you had left and would never see it and you were one of the main reasons I started over in the first place (in a good way).

devotedghosts replied to your photo “Read at: dreamwidth.org or ofthedark.org”

@emperorofthedark I am screaming. It’s so damn good.

Thank you!!! I was hoping you would like it. Mostly I’m just borderline hysterical that you’re writing again! I never lost hope! I cannot wait for more Bones & Blood! May the Pleasants never know peace.

sleazy4goopy replied to your photo “Read at: dreamwidth.org or ofthedark.org”

Omg! I love your portrayal of the usual suspects and I was NOT prepared for that ending!

Thank you so much! I’m so glad that you liked my version of the premades, sometimes I worry that I’ve taken them too far away from their original renditions, but I just really like fucked up characters fucking up. It’s such a relief to find that other people like them, too.

aneurysim replied to your photo “Read at: dreamwidth.org or ofthedark.org”

omg!! so good. the writing, aesthetic, little details in the scenes, it's all so well thought out �� i look forward to finishing it!

Thank you so, so much for reading and commenting! I hope you enjoyed the rest of it. I personally hate the ending, but it is what it had to be.