#i don't. picture things. it's fine.

[kipperlillycopperkettle]

16, 25, 40 for the writers ask!!!!

16. how many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? share one of them?

i am not exactly sure what nurturing a fic idea means (a fic you're not writing? but have had an idea for???), so i'm just going to mention my main wips and hope for the best. anyway. i have three main wips at the moment, one of which is the bad kids hunger games au and the associated spinoffs, one of which is a naddpod bad endings for hardwon and moonshine concept i started back when i first listened to c1 but have recently found new inspo for, and a third that is a secret tool that will help us later (it's a surprise for someone who follows this blog and i don't want them to know what it is yet). but mostly i've been bouncing between those three rn!

25. what fic do you wish you got more of a response on?

ooooh! i really thought my wayne munson fic would do better since i wrote it during the middle of the st s4 hype, but i really wish my natalia cicero connie lee carter bajar fic had gotten more attention. i was soooooo proud of that fic and then brennan said a lot of stuff in canon that aligned with what i had said in the fic, and despite my mixed feelings about aso as a WHOLE, i really do cherish that fic.

40. if someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

sticking just to work i have currently published, i think the moment where natalia is looking at her clone in the glass tube before she shatters it from i cut my tongue on the rust of a silver spoon would be really cool to see. the scene with plumbeline looking up at/burning the wedding portraits in you and i were made for a season has lived in my head rent free since i wrote it. the scene where snow white has dug herself out of her glass coffin and comes back to the cottage and sees herself in the mirror and realizes her body hasn't aged or matured at all in give me back my girlhood would be a really cool piece i think? i also have a lot of bits in unpublished fics i think would be really cool to see as fanart but all of those are kind of spoilers atm so maybe after those fics have been published i'll revisit this question

send me a fic writer ask!

[evilkitten3]

naruto crack au where kakashi manages to successfully drill the "never abandon your comrades" thing into team seven's heads

so when sasuke deserts naruto and sakura immediately desert with him. like he gets to the village gates and they're just waiting for him bags packed like "what took u so long we doing this or what"

he tries to get them to go back bc of course he does. "no you losers this is about me i'm going to kill my brother. also i'll have to kill my best friend for the super sharingan and you two are like the only people i talk to". but they do not listen. teamwork sasuke we will defeat your brother (OUR brother #communism) with the power of teamwork. just like kakashi-sensei said

suddenly orochimaru has to deal with three horrible little goblins with an even more codependent relationship than his old team

[kaikamahine]

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[obsob]

do you make enough money from selling prints in etsy to sustain your life? how are you able to afford this beautiful house and time to crochet and go on walks and all of that? i’m not asking for nosiness but because i’m trying to figure out what i would need to do in order to make my life financially sustainable… is art an option… etc

short answer i mooch off my bf <333333333333333

[gayofthefae]

If anyone makes the argument in season 5 that Byler won't happen (bc they don't want it to) because Will has gotten over Mike so he doesn't reciprocate his feelings anymore, I will laugh my fucking ass off.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I got these shoes from someone recently but thought they were way too plain looking, so I set out on a quest to customize them with some sharpies and charms and miscellaneous ribbon I had in my craft drawers. Mostly sky themed (clouds, rainbows, rain, stars, etc.) because that's my favorite aesthetic, but I had to include some cat imagery as well, of course lol.

[xiii-e]

XIII▸ Hello. I have just returned from maintenance on my mech, the M1 Leatherback, and thought in keeping with the goal of this account being the development of my social capacity I would try one of the suggested activities given to me: sharing things about myself.

XIII▸ attached file: [lthrbck_mnt]

XIII▸ That's all. Look at Them :}

[blackhazefanblog]

Have a rare Rood x Iel fanart, by yours truly!

Based on the friendzone meme!

[essektheylyss]

I know you said you need to stop screaming first but I am EAGERLY awaiting your thoughts on Essek in the teaser

OKAY OKAY HERE GOES.

The thing is, there's no real reason to include him.

Yes, he's very popular, but he has never historically been included as a default, validly! He occupies a very interesting space mechanically and narratively, but he is still not a PC. Yes, he's part of the Mighty Nein as a group, per canon, but not until the end, which in theory would be well beyond the first season, and so is Cad, who is not present in this teaser—presumably to preserve the mystery around [INSERT MAJOR SPOILER WARNING HERE].

I would imagine that Cad is not present because having Taliesin's voice twice is too much of a tipoff for anyone watching LoVM but not the campaigns, whereas simply having Matt voice someone is not.

HOWEVER.

There are a decent number of lines that you could choose for Essek that are about the Nein—personally, my favorite, that I've thought previously would make a really stellar trailer line, is from 124: "You certainly carve a unique destiny, don't you?" Everything down to the way Matt delivers it (which you can see here) would make it a really viable option.

But the line they went with isn't about the Nein—it's very much a line about Essek himself. "I want to unlock these mysteries. I want to dive as deep as I can into that ocean of the unknown and see what is possible." It's a line that is very specific to Essek and his actions and goals, even beyond his involvement with the Nein.

And it's placed in the middle of the pack, which frames him on the same level as the rest of the Nein! Someone who is not familiar with the campaign would hear that as simply another protagonist. But of course, he's not—unless there is some serious restructuring (more even than the restructuring present in LoVM, which, aside from introducing a few of the initial less plot-bearing aspects later, like the Slayer's Take, it's thus far structured in order), he won't come into the show for quite some time, and almost certainly not in the first season.

But we don't really have any idea how this show will be structured. There are different comments on the beginning from different sources; notably, Gizmodo mentions Calianna being present in some way initially, while no one else does. The logline most outlets are reporting revolves the Nein "prevent[ing] the kingdom from plunging into chaos when an arcane artifact capable of reshaping reality falls into the wrong hands," presumably the beacon (my beloved).

So it makes sense to mention Essek, for, you know, the obvious reasons, as comment on the beacon itself. (I'm going to guess they're simplifying it to one beacon, per the press release, for ease lol.) But this line, while about dunamancy as a whole and the powers of the beacon, is not about it directly. It's still about Essek's interest in it. It is an excellent line, and on its face, it has nothing to do with the Nein or the plot of the first fifty episodes of the campaign.

There's plenty of speculation to be done about how this might be structured, and I'm sure I'll do plenty of it because, let's be honest, I do not shut up about adaptation and translating stories between formats, it is one of my absolute favorite subjects, and this is the Nein, babey!!!

So my point here being: I think there is a lot of room with the nature of Wildemount politics to get a little wild with structure in the translation from D&D game to TV show that, while not impossible in LoVM, wouldn't really have added anything to the story, and honestly, might've taken away from it. Because the point is to watch Vox Machina become the big damn heroes! We do see tidbits of Brimscythe and the Briarwoods beyond the purview of the heroes, but mostly in ways that feel very '80s cartoon villain cameo' which fits the feel of the show perfectly.

But there are a lot of political players and forces in Wildemount that the Nein navigate whether they're aware of them or not, one of whom of course becomes a member of their party, and that's part of what makes their story so interesting. The Nein are the heroes that no one knows, who are always playing within and against the system and are hyper aware of that, and I think expanding how much of that we get to see now that the format allows for it (not necessarily a lot, not to the point of adding whole plotlines, but at least some of it) would only add to the tension and stakes, and Essek's presence in the trailer makes me wonder if they will.

[wish-anon]

I always thought I might be bad

Now I'm sure that it's true

'Cause I think you're so good

And I'm nothing like you

Look at you go

I just adore you

I wish that I knew

What makes you think I'm so special

If I could begin to do

Something that does right by you

I would do about anything

I would even learn how to love

[chrisbangs]

🐺🫧: I was gonna send u this... hahaha

[spaceratprodigy]

sorry for how slow and sparse I've been getting around to everyone. I'm doing my best but genuinely rn I desperately need to take care of myself instead of always putting others first.

[alastair-1205]

Ofc my car's battery decides to give out on me in the middle of my 2nd major hurricane in as many weeks. But hey, I thought it was the starter for a hot second so it could be a lot worse.

Anyways if you know anything about car batteries hit me up cuz I know jack shit and fuck all-

[destructive-delight]

have i ever complained about the b//sd anime key visuals on here? because i have some fucking complaints.

[starpros-sunshine]

What's with all the "Them and Us" stuff I mean. I thought the whole point of this acceptance stuff is realising that despite all the little differences everyone is still kind of similar in the way that they should be granted at least the basic but of respect everyone deserves? Call me naïve and childish but isn't the point of all this to Not have the clear distinction between people who are slightly different? Isn't the whole point to Not have a "Them" and an "Us"?

[the-sky-queen]

Ik that one super sonic art i made that u reblogged??

Can u please delete the reblog? Please?? /imp

(U didnt do anything, i just saw smth there private-)

Oh! Yeah, no problem! Just gimme one sec.