#i guess??? lmaooo it is basically a fanfiction

[an-annyeoing-writer]

I want a tablet with keyboard for writing 😭

[duplicitywrites]

Every now and then I search up tom riddle playlists on Spotify. They’re usually not all that accurate- mostly because I cannot imagine Tom listening to music, I think he’s too miserable to enjoy it. Maybe classical, and only because he views it as upper class and he’s a desperate social climber. But the playlists aren’t meant to be accurate. They’re a method of flinging tom around like he’s Barbie-‘I’ll cut his hair, would you please put him in a dress?’. The 16 year old girl adding 505 by arctic monkeys into a tom riddle playlist and 7 year old me repeatedly hitting my camel plushie against the wall while I pretend to be its abusive parent are doing the same thing. It’s not fanfiction. It’s another kind of rot. Oh blorbo my blorbo, let down your fucking hair.

lmaooo i try not to judge music tastes because mine is pretty basic. but i agree there are people who assign some songs to characters/ships that trigger the equivalent of "he would NOT say that" in me 😂

or just they're so generic that you can apply it to everyone i guess. yeah the beauty of the human experience is that some things are universal but also if i see/hear the same song one more time my head might explode

I think he's too miserable to enjoy it

most valid argument i've seen! i think any opinions tom has on music is so he can be pretentious about it, although i do love the idea of him 1. preferring to sit in utter silence or 2. secretly listening "trashy" pop because he's melodramatic

i don't have any tom specific playlists but i have some saved as tomarry songs, here's one:

https://open.spotify.com/track/0HC0DQfCneEYFMRYCG9m4s

[cantstoptheimagines]

just finished watching journey to bethlehem so i could see milo manheim and uhhh... here are my “train of thoughts” notes, meaning there is literally no organization here

@multifandomsimagine must hate me rn because i basically gave her a play by play of the entire movie bc it's just so campy. it's literally just a bible dcom to be quite honest. (also i am officially campaigning for milo manheim to play flynn rider and it’s all based on his role as joseph alone) 💀

They think I wouldn’t notice the inclusion of a Pair of Kings actor, but I did

Not even two minutes in, I can already tell this movie is going to be fucking hilarious

The narration sucks, it’s so bland

Why is the “Journey to Bethlehem” song suddenly a pop ballad?

The costuming is okay, but the language is so modern. This feels like a play written by TikTok

The first song is a bop

The facial expressions so far are very bland

I feel like it’s trying to provide some feminism anecdotes, which I find very interesting. Not what I expected at all to be honest

Feels like a play you’d do in high school for extra drama club credits

Joseph is literally just Wally Clark if he were in a Bible study club

I genuinely can’t tell if this is meant to be satirical or not

I’m living for Puss in Boots as an evil king, iconic

Good to Be King is the ultimate showtime villain song. I will die on this hill

Love the choreography in this villain song. Love men who can dance in sync while stomping their armored boots

THE SNAPPER LIGHTS, I’M CRYING

Love Mary’s betrothal outfit

This dialogue is so fucking funny and for what reason?!

Office camera glance

I really like the shot of them behind the water wheel thing, it’s gorgeous

His hand is so much bigger than hers, oh my god

Gabriel. Iconic. Hilarious.

Far more Mary centered than I expected. It’s definitely her movie

Camera work during Mother to a Savior is beautiful

Love the map graphics

That cut from Mary/Elizabeth to Joseph. The editing in this movie is so smooth

Good Joseph, Bad Joseph. Why is he dressed like evil Legolas? Their outfits are giving Anakin and Padme

The Ultimate Deception is definitely one of the best songs. Joseph fighting against himself in his own subconscious, singing a duet with himself! Are you kidding me?!

Officially considering Joseph fanfiction

The Magi are everything musical theatre needs right now

The donkey as a running joke lol

We Become We is a love song for the ages, try to prove me wrong, I dare you

Dancing with the fireflies?!!!!!! When will it be my turn

The way she turned her head away, this is so funny oh my god

A prince with daddy issues?! Guess I found my husband for this movie. He has a great song, definitely one of the best but it’s probably the least promoted. I’ve never even heard it before even though it’s so good

Why wouldn’t you just lie about where you’re from lol, am I missing something with that part?

Joseph jumping into action after Mary says she wasn’t the only one chosen for this. We love a Milo Manheim character

“we’re meeting the lord, surrounded by sheep shit” lmaooo

Mary and Joseph are just the smart girl, dumb boyfriend trope and I love them for it

Joseph carrying her through the streets. He should’ve been a girl dad

Bro just got knocked out by a donkey lmao

Silent Night scene with a donkey pacing outside the barn where Mary is giving birth is honestly great

A shining light over the world with an angel choir concert glowing and sparkling in the sky, hot damn, who would’ve imagined

“I’m holding all the answers in my arms” is such a good lyric

“Mine is the kingdom, mine is the power, mine is the glory forevermore” changing into “thine” was a pretty clever idea

Joseph kissing Mary’s head!!! STOP WHY AM I SHIPPING BIBLICAL FIGURES

“One who has come to save the lost.” “Am I lost?”

“You are not your father” CALL OUT THOSE DADDY ISSUES, MARY

Damn, ok, Antipater

*finally kisses Joseph* “You’re welcome” WHEN WILL IT BE MY TURN

Stay for the end credits just to hear Brand New Life, it’s a great song too. The credits also feature Go Tell It On The Mountain

Would I be weird if I wrote fics for this movie lmao

[le-panda-chocovore]

Oh and I forgot to answer the part about my username ! "Panda" and "Chocolate" are the 2 pseudonyms I use online. Panda are like my spiritual animal, and Chocolate is my favorite thing ever. So, you know, some animals are carnivorous, some other herbivorous, humans are omnivorous, and I am "chocovorous" (chocovore in french)

Basically, I'm a panda who eats chocolate.

ANYWAY BECAUSE I COULDN'T STOP WITH ONLY 10 FICS ~

Special Mentions to :

On the internet, Nobody knows your a dog - Dokja x Joonghyuk (ORV)

This is so stupid and funny that it's kinda heartbreaking. Because those two idiots are really dumb, like, desperately dumb. They're both lost cases, I can't- Really, I cried. It's also funny. When I read the summary I was like, this is gonna be so stupid I want to see how this happened, and when I went through it I was so invested like damn it's actually good. It's still stupid tho. I loved it. (they catfished and rejected each others because they were already in love with each other.)

Gender - Shiota Nagisa (Assassination Classroom)

It has been a while I guess but I still think of it time to time. It's a very deep take on some of the things that were addressed in the original manga, particularly Nagisa's relationship with his mother and his own body. It's really really interesting.

The Pain of My Mother will not let me go - Asano Gakushuu (AssClass) & I guess we could say Karushuu ?

It's about TCA and it's about trauma and it's about suffering. This is about trying so hard and not knowing what to do. This is the fight of someone who hasn't known peace for a while. Honestly, everything this author wrote is outstanding, I am clearly in love with their writing.

Would you let me know ? I could make some time if you wanted. - Centenial Husbands (the sandman)

Fanfics about them are always a wholesome lesson of love and this is not an exception. It's a Human AU + Teachers AU and we get to see the slow building of their relationship, how they learn to appreciate each other and understand each other and communicate with each other, and finally, love each other.

It's the mallrat in me - Zukka (Avatar the last airbender)

A Modern AU fanfiction where Zuko is working at a teashop and Sokka is working at a clothing store, they meet, and fall in love. I was obsessed with this work for weeks.

Okay I'll stop there, I know I forgot many many fanfic but it's more than enough here lmaooo

Can I ask your top 10 fav fics ever (from any fandom, if you don't mind)?

Also, just curious, is there a story behind your name "le-panda-chocovore "?

Oh I think I can actually answer that without rambling too much !! (<- took an entire week to answer the ask and select the fics, and I commented on each one of them lol) It won't be a Top in order of preference tho, there's no actual classment, it's just the ones I loved the most.

The Way I Behaved - EraserMic (MHA)

This fanfic gave me the inspiration to write my greatest work (still unfinished to this day) and literally changed so many things about me. It also made me discover a whole genre of music that I've never listened to before and with which I am entirely in love now. Prepare to cry tho, because this is deeply heartbreaking. It's a Villain Mic AU where Aizawa was never a teacher. And it is good.

What if Percy did become a God - Percy Jackson and the Olympians (based on the books !!! do not read if you just watched the show !!!)

The title says everything. This is not a happy story, you will cry, I promise. It's short, like a 1k word OS, it's really poetic, it's deep, it's beautiful, and also, it's painful. Humans were never meant to be gods, not even Percy. It's written like a poem, I read it so many times and it hurt me every time.

Demon and Angel Professors - Ineffable Spouses (Good Omens)

Not a fanfiction but a serie of short works about Crowley and Aziraphale and the people around them. A teachers AU very nice to read with many Original Characters (the students) who are all captivating and appreciable. The story is extremely queer-positive and neurodivergent inclusive and physical handicap representative, honestly, you want to read it. There's everything inside it. If you have chronic pain or if you're a closeted queer or even a curious ally who wants to understand their peers, this is what you need. The love is so pure it's overwhelming.

Honor and Vengeance on the High Sea - Zuko (ATLA)

Tbh this deserves to be published, it's a novel itself (I haven't finished it yet). The author reappropriated the Avatar universe to write something completely new. It's an AU where Zuko becomes a Pirate after his banishment and fights against the Fire Nation Navy, and eventually joins the Avatar's team. There's a whole work around internalized homophobia, the discovery of the self, acceptance, injustice, family trauma and everything. Original Characters are cool too. Chapters are long and very, very complete, you can see the author has historical and cultural knowledge.

Strength, the meaning of - Asano Gakuhou (Assassination Classroom)

I can't believe a fanfic about this total asshole made it to my top 10, but it is beautifully written. The progressive mental breakdown of a man who used to stand proud above everyone, the slow fall down to hell without even realizing it. There's also his son's POV here, which is equally beautifully written. I really hate the man and I don't like the fact that the end of AssClass completely disregard the consequences of what happened on the character's mental state, and reading how even him wasn't okay at all is very pleasant to read. That's karma my bitch.

Je suis assis - BokuAka (Haikyuu)

Yeah it's in french and on wattpad. It has been a while since I read it but I still remember the principal. It's a OS anyway so it's not very long (we didn't do that 20k words OS on Wattpad, this madness is only popular on AO3 lol). Since I'm sensitive to everything that is around handicap, it touched me. It ended up being cute and warm. Honestly I was more thinking of another BokuAka fanfiction but I couldn't remember the name nor found it online so I put this one.

25 - Riren (SnK)

Yeah yeah I know, pedo ship etc, but I was 14 and this is a High School AU where they're both 16 so, it's okay I guess. Yes the name of the fanfic is twenty-five. It's in french, it's on wattpad, and there's Eren's POV too. I don't know how I'm supposed to describe it... I think you have to read it, it's not actually strange or weird but, it's a whole experience.

Here there be dragons - Centennial Husbands (the Sandman)

This is the exact definition of love. What is love to me ? This fanfiction. Engagement, devotion, caring, this is it, this fanfic has the meaning of all these words. I had a hard time reading it because I hate ultra-long OS (I need CHAPTERS, give me a BREAK) but it was soooo enjoyable, and I was crying the whole time 'cause it's so pure and beautiful.

Palm to Palm - KaRen (Assassination Classroom)

Yes I am a part of the extremely tiny fandom that ships Karma and Ren (I do ship Karma with multiple people throughout the manga lmao) but only in THIS specific context. And this is beautifully written, I can't stop re-reading it. Also, the name of the ship makes me laugh. Karma and Ren relationship after losing Gakushuu -the boy they both love above everything else- is peak romance.

Le goût du chocolat - L x Light (Death Note)

I honestly don't remember a thing about this fanfiction except a single sentence, but I do know that I totally fell in love with it. It was one of my fave fanfic when I was full active on Wattpad, and I even archived it because I didn't want to lose it. I should read it again now that I found it again.

Alright that's 10 !!! Finally !!

Oh it was so fun to fall back into all the things I read before ! But it was harder than I expected because, well, I only have AO3 for 3 years and I've been on Wattpad for 7 years, but I started reading fanfiction even before that, I just didn't have any account back then. So, I kinda forgot about some of the things I read more than 4 years ago, and I couldn't find the gems I discovered when I was 12. Most of the books that made out to this list are my recent lectures, it's a bit biased I guess.

Anyway, thank you for the ask ! It was fun to analyze all my bookmarks and everything !

[butterscotch-brigade]

i saw a dhmis au where yellow keeps new batteries. the creator was a dee es em pee fan though so i blocked them but i guess there's nothing wrong with sort of reusing it?

anyway i was wondering what you'd think of a au like that? what would you personally think would happen? if you don't have much to say then perhaps talk about your own aus? idk i'd just like to hear you talk about dhmis :)

OOOOO I LIKE THIS IDEA A LOT AND ITS. MAKING ME WANT TO WRITE A LITTLE NARRATIVE THING IN RESPONSE ASLKJDLKASJFD

uhhh tw for like. unreality i guess?? being trapped in a simulation, mind-altering/brainwashing

so assuming episode 6 still happens as normal, yellow guy still gets his batteries ripped out in the end. but this time he had the foresight to keep a few spare ones in one of the drawers beside his bed. for some reason, he felt compelled to hide them beneath his personal items; the only thing he keeps in there are some drawings and some money he has stowed away for...something. (why do we even have money, he thought as he put the batteries away, when we don't even use it?)

but then his batteries get ripped out at the end of the episode, and he forgets about the spares in his drawer. they sit there, buried beneath his old scribbles and sketches and watercolor paintings, and the memory of them is completely erased from his mind. until one day, hes looking around his room for something - he cant find his art supplies. where did he put them? he looks everywhere; under his bed, in his closet, beneath his mattress. hes almost done scouring his room when he looks in the drawer with his batteries.

he digs beneath the layers of scrap paper until he finds them, and his roaming fingers stop. these look...familiar. a part of him acknowledges, these are batteries like the ones in my chest, but he cant figure out what to do with them, what they're doing there, what they're for. he takes one out and examines it, twirling it around with his fingers. its a battery, he knows that much. this is definitely A Battery.

he looks at the rest of them, then back at the one in his hand. he doesn't know why, but he feels like there's something important about them. but then another voice whispers to him, warm and familiar inside his head: don't these look shreddable?

"yeah," he says, nodding. "shreddable, yeah."

and as he turns away, for a brief moment, he catches a quick glimpse at his reflection, and his heart drops. he could have sworn, for a brief second, that his reflection had green eyes and straight, neatly-combed hair. but he blinks and then the vision is gone, and he's back to normal - how it should be, the voice inside him whispers.

yellow guy stands rooted to the spot, his brain working to make connections he doesn't understand. what was he doing again...?

batteries, he thinks. batteries, right. batteries. what was he going to do with the batteries? a voice inside him whispers, shred them, while another voice whispers, no, don't, you need them, put them back. and he's confused, because this has never happened before, these two different voices of people he can't see telling him to do different things. one time he saw an episode of grolton & hovris where hovris (he was the man, wasn't he?) had to make a decision, and a little devil and angel appeared on his shoulders, each one trying to convince him to make a different choice. he kind of feels like that now, except there are no devils or angels on his shoulders, but he can still hear them.

he stares at the batteries, thinking to himself, what would the angel do...?

he'll keep the batteries, he decides, for now. maybe he'll need them later.

...but it wouldn't hurt to shred a few.

[seriouslysam8]

don’t view the length of this ask and take it as seriousness. i just got away from myself witting it cause i no joke ramble on about anything and nothing for long amounts of time quite often. i just spit words out 😂😂. so yeah, no seriousness or stress from this

i love your hinny so much and how you portray them. you really write them so perfectly. in MOT i guess i was just patiently waiting for the story that showed them young to come along in which we got to see them start to get intimate with each other and have their first time, because harry and ginny’s relationship is one of a lot of passion and i always felt like intimacy scenes with those two were more important than they are for other ships in fanfiction that i’ve been obsessed with in the past. for most characters and ships, sex is just something you can refer to, but for harry and ginny idk why, but sex and intimacy feel just as important as the other aspects of their relationship. but since you’re doing the au and you don’t seem to want to write smut ever again lmaooo, does that mean we shouldn’t expect to see harry and ginny’s intimacy? will their relationship in your writing just be the surface level stuff and pg rated things? no judgement or worries if the au is pg for intimacy, i just want to know now for some reason 😂😂. like i’m one of those people who has to watch the trailer ten times and ask questions before seeing a movie to know what to expect, and what i can get my hopes up for and what not to. don’t judge me lmao! yeah so basically, just wondering if we’re gonna see any intimacy between them or if it’s going to be a “just know things happened and they’re closer now” fic lmao! have a good day! really sorry for the long ask!

The series starts out when they are 14/15 and they’re not going to jump into having sex. I don’t want to write smut in that age group. I have zero interest. Now, when they are adults, I’ll show more and do more. But it’s not going to be every chapter or every other chapter. My stories don’t revolve around sex. It’s not my specialty or what I am good at. I like angst and good family feels story. I like comedy and banter. I don’t think about a story and go “oooh I want to do this smut scene!” It’s just not how I write or develop stories. If I add a smut scene, it’s because it organically happened that way. I don’t plan that stuff ahead of time.

So, I’m not saying no never but it’s not at the top of my priority list. I like to write complex and interesting plots. That’s what I have fun with. I’m not a smut writer. There are far better smut authors out there than me.

[ofmermaidstories]

(i just want to talk so you don’t have to respond to this lol)

but basically, I first found surrender (whenever you’re ready) when I was scrolling through the Bakugo x reader pro hero tags. I honestly don’t know what I was expecting, as it was my first time reading any of your fics or even seeing you on ao3. But when I tell you damn, was I amazed. It was everything I ever wanted in a fic and 10 times more. I don’t usually have high expectations for fanfiction anymore, but you honestly raised those expectations over the roof. Your writing it’s just so amazing and it really transports me into a whole other universe. I can’t even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed reading your works and everything that you let out into the world. I fell in love with how you wrote bakugo, I fell in love with the surrender reader, and I fell in love with just the entire universe.

when I first started watching MHA, i honestly did not like him. But as I kept going, I realize why everyone fell in love with him, and I became one of those people that was just utterly infatuated. But to be honest, I was always just a little bit more obsessed with a Izuku then I was with Bakugo. And then when I was reading surrender, and izuku was introduced, I somehow just fell 10 times in love with him and the fic wasn’t even about him. Izuku just always has a way to draw me and even when the fic is literally not about him, I’ll still be focused on him. I am so in love with izuku i don’t even know what to do with myself. Like my heart centers around him.

 and then when I found out that he had his own fic, I honestly think that I died a little and then came back to life. I was so beyond excited. And then when I read the first chapter, oh my gosh I was already in love. It was everything I expected and even more. Again, your writing is just so amazing that I read it and I’m just feeling all these emotions that I don’t usually feel, I don’t really know how to explain it. every time, I wait for the next chapter to come out. And please, I’m definitely not rushing you, I used to write fics as well and I know how time-consuming they can be, and that everyone writes at their own pace.

I guess, just thank you for taking the time to write all these stories for all the readers out there. thank you for writing it for me, even though I know your writing isn’t just for me, lol, but it still reaches my heart. I hope that you take care of yourself, and that you’re doing well.

there really wasn’t a point to this, i just wanted to express my thoughts and how your writing reaches me. i love u💓

-🍒 anon 

Anon. 🥺 Hello. 🥺🥺 What a gentle ask to receive.

Deku is so special as a main character, because he’s so earnest. And in our day-to-day lives I think we’re kind of trained to like—hide that, with ourselves. So it’s always disarming coming across people who live by it, and by that same theory, I think it’s easy to get attached to characters who’ve had every reason to have it beaten out of them (literally, in Deku’s case lmaooo) but still let it shine through. Like, if you could filter his qualities (and maybe ditch that self-sacrificial streak of his dfjfdkdf) and distill them into someone living and breathing and in this same world, they would be amazing to know. How lucky would any of us be, to know someone like that? That’s such a big draw of the fun with x Reader fics—the ability to imagine what life would be like if you ended up crossing paths with all these different characters. I’m glad others enjoy the journey, too.

Idk, Anon. Your message was so lovely—I’m kind of having trouble responding to it like it warrants. All I can really offer is that your words meant a lot to me, and when I write to finish the Deku fic, I’ll be thinking of them and of you. 💌 I love you too, 🍒 Anon. 💕 Thank you for finding us. I hope I can write you an adventure with your boy that’s worthy of you both. 🌷💌🍒🎀✨

[imbeccable-writes]

👀 🏅 👨‍👧‍👧 aaaand 🤔

👀 - Do you have any WIPs that you would never let see the light of day? If yes, what are they about?

I have so many half-baked ideas for fics sitting in my Google docs, it really is sad. Like, there's this one for the game TWEWY that I was fixating on like, four years ago, that has like. five paragraphs in it and was basically just about Shiki asking Neku why she was his most important thing. And there's this My Hero fic that's based on the song Heat Haze Days that's like, half done, but I never figured out exactly how I wanted ~the Twist~ to go so I just stopped working on it and that was two years ago I think. I also have another My Hero fic from 2017 that was about an adult Izuku finding out people are shipping him and Uraraka together and Freaking Out Over It, which literally just needed an ending scene and it would've been done but now its been so long and its probably out of character and also I don't like writing/reading adult bnha character fics anymore bc I don't think the society they'll be in in the future will be like that and- anyway.

And again, there's my half dozen Luca fics that range from being half finished to literally just existing in my mind, waiting for me to actually write them down, and at this rate I don't think any of them will ever be officially published akdjakdjajsjsj

This isn't really answering the question, because it's not that I would never let them see the light of day, it's just that none of them are FINISHED, and I don't feel comfortable releasing them if they're not at their best. I just have a lot of ideas that I never flush out and soon I lose interest in them, like the adhd brain does, and they haunt me, constantly.

🏅 - What is something you recently felt proud of in regard to your writing (finished a fic, actually planned for once, etc).

I figured out what I wanted to do for a few scenes for the next chapter of Separated! I've been trying to figure out what I wanted, but my ideas were so vague (to the point where one scene was literally just "Wakko has a scene now" skdkaksjakw) that I was really struggling with writing. But now I've got a better idea, and hopefully I can start putting pen to paper, as it were!

(Also, someone said they were inspired to write their own fic after reading a chapter of mine and that made me feel all akdkakdjakdjajdjaj inside)

👨‍👧‍👧 - Do you tell people in real life that you write fic? 

Yeah, actually. I don't like.... talk about it a lot, but all of my friends and family are aware that I write both fanfiction and original stuff (though mostly fanfic lmao). My brother actually helps me out with my smut fic.

I'm definitely, like... weirdly ashamed about when I talk about it, cuz I'm afraid none of them would get it? Cuz I put my heart and soul into my fics and I'm very very proud of them, but I grew up in that era where it was taboo to talk about writing fanfiction, so it's kinda hard to get out of that mentality. I know in my head that fanfiction is just as valid as original fiction (and honestly, is sometimes even BETTER than original fiction), but talking about it with my parents (who have even admitted!! to writing star trek fanfic!!! and stuff!!! so why is it weird!!!) makes me Big Uncomfy, lmaooo.

Ah, anyway, the answer is yes.

🤔 - What is the hardest part of writing fic?

I think, probably making sure the characters stay in character, especially when you're changing up their backstory or making them Go Through Some Shit. Like, for example, in my animaniacs fic Separated, I'm having Dot be like, super abused, right? So I write her as being kinda timid and quiet, and metaphorically rolling over when there's confrontation. But Dot's canon personality is very spit-fire and angry and self-assured, so I'm always second-guessing how I'm characterizing her. I'm trying to find a balance where she's still like that, but just more subdued and only that way around her Safe People, and I think I'm doing well. At least, no one has complained to me about her being wildly out of character, so-

But yeah, it's about finding that balance between canon and fanon, I suppose.

thanks rex!

[w-ngs]

jan21

hello 2021! you did not get off on a good start. let’s try and be a little better, okay?

i didn’t read much this month (and probably won’t be for a long while because of school), but it was a wild month. well, you’ll see.

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crooked kingdom, leigh bardugo — oh my god???? i completely forgot that i read this before i left for school and almost didn’t include it in my monthly wrap-up????? how dare i forget this masterpiece.

it was great. i loved it. i think overall, i preferred 6oc because heist stories are my guilty pleasure. but romance-wise... let’s just say kaz and inej have made it to my top 10 ships. but also i read through this so fast because i had to finish it before i left that half the story is kinda just not in my brain lololol

the most intriguing part of the entire story was the anti-wraith. her character kind of came out of nowhere, and i’m not really sure she had much of a purpose than being someone who could physically match inej. i guess she was also anti in the sense that she had no respect, just ruthlessness, which is the opposite of inej and what she stands for. but i don’t know if the anti-wraith was significant enough of a character to really be considered a foil.

i don’t really give spoiler warnings because hardly anyone reads these other than myself lolol but big spoiler ahead. skip the next paragraph if you don’t want to know. cuz i accidentally spoiled it for myself before reading and i kinda ruined it for myself lmfao.

poor matthias. he was there, and then he was gone. i feel terrible for nina. they were finally on the same page, and then he had to act all saint-like and trigger some idiot into killing him. and matthias finally came to terms with what he’d been taught and what he was trying to teach himself (#charactergrowth), so he wrapped things up neatly for himself before the bye-bye. but nina, she finally got her guy on her side and they were supposed to change the world together. sigh.

and of course, we got kaz. he’s my favorite. how could he not be, with his trauma and desire to overcome it but not letting it define him and still maintaining that evil genius act he’s so good at. it definitely hit harder in this story, the extent of his trauma. it made him more real, too. both sides of him coexist, and one could not exist without the other. he’s crazy, in nearly all senses of the word. also crazy in love, the mfing idiot. ugh, i love vulnerable kaz. i love what inej brings out in him, how she knows just how hard to push without driving him over the edge. also i saw a tiktok (this app is gonna come up a lot more in the next few reviews fsjdsdfkjdf) with a photo of them kissing with a towel between their mouths because he can’t touch her but he desperately wants to and what a perfect solution is that their... bathroom scene had me holding my breath. or at least taking very shallow breaths. it was intense. so intimate, i felt like i shouldn’t even have been there. ugh, the cute little babies. uwuwuwuwuwu

one last note. leigh bardugo is a very good writer, plot and characters and all. everything flowed much more smoothly in this book, and once again i was impressed by the detail provided. you go girl. i can’t wait to see the tv series development.

a 10/10.

***

the shadows between us, tricia levenseller — literally what did i read lmaooo. this is my first tiktok book recommendation. and it. was. boring. boring characters that didn’t make much sense. boring plot. i skimmed it after the first 50 pages cause it was so boring. that’s it bye.

a 3/10.

***

manacled, senlinyu — um. wow. i literally......... even hours after finishing it my brain is still ridiculously scrambled. edit: it’s about a month later and sometimes random scenes and images still pop in my head for no reason and then i feel all twisted inside again. i love it.

so, this is not a published book but a dramione fanfiction on ao3. i don’t read fanfics that often anymore, mainly because i’d rather read other things, not because i don’t like them. but i found this one because a tiktok that showed the illustrations in the story and i was so blown away by the fact someone would illustrate an entire fanfic that i just had to read it. and i have no regrets. it’s kinda long and a biiit wordy for me at times but holy shit that hit like a mother trucker. and i haven’t read dramione in ages, not since... years. so this really hit different.

the illustrations are beautiful. they’re what dragged me into the story in the first place, so, of course they are. but i’d literally spend minutes looking at every detail in amazement at how perfectly the emotions were captured and the lighting casting the perfect shadows and just… everything. i know nothing about drawing but my eyes were truly blessed.

i think integrating the handmaid’s tale with the hp world was ingenious. i would never have expected that. and wow. the relationship between the two, it’s…….. i can barely put it in words in my mind, and it’s even harder to articulate on paper. complex, but at the same time not, simply the desire for the other to stay alive. timeless. destructive. their only defense from the harsh reality of their situation. desperation at its most desperate, their one and only survival method. depressing. it’s so depressing. i was so sad, the angst almost too much at times.

the flashbacks were insanely intense. and i thought the handmaid section was bad. it was awful to read. i could hardly bear it, it was so dark at times i didn’t know how either of them got through it all. i mean, they barely did. the near-death scares, the constant need to create a blank slate within yourself in order to not overwhelm yourself with crushing emotions… wartime sometimes has a tendency to sound romantic, but theirs wasn’t anything near romantic, and i appreciate that the author chose to be very real about it.

at the beginning, and in the middle when we went through the flashbacks, i was afraid the love would be toxic. and, well, it kind of was at some points. but in a time like that and a situation like theirs, it would be hard to not have a toxic relationship. i was glad that in the end theirs was a good love, the kind that sustained and kept them alive and got them through until the very end, because it was what they needed from each other. and, of course, my favorite part of it all was draco’s ceaseless possessiveness that only seemed to grow, never fade. i love simpy men.

they deserve each other. i was afraid at the end they wouldn’t, that one of them would die—that draco would die because hermione basically did once already for him, so he would have to “return the favor”—also she was pregnant so there was no way she’d be the one to die—idk many theories. but at the end i’m so glad they both ended up alive. after everything, they deserved it.

i did nothing for two days straight but read this book. except eat. and barely sleep. and i have no regrets.

a 9/10.

***

bloodlines, richelle mead — dang. i used to be obsessed with vampire academy when i was in middle school. i even watched the terrible movie that released because of it. and now i can’t believe i really thought that was peak literature lmfaooooo

i remember adrian being such a funny and interesting character that i picked up bloodlines to see if it was gonna be as good as i remembered it was. i was disappointed. it was just... well let’s just say there wasn’t enough to get me invested in the characters as i used to be. i think what it was is that adrian’s characterization was so weak. he wasn’t as ~quirky~ as i remembered him to be haha. the plot was also way too slow-paced, and a little too easy to guess. maybe if i was 12 again i’d be going crazy over it like i used to. but i’m not a pre-teen anymore and my brain craves stuff along the lines of manacled—destruction, death, angst that wants me to pull my own heart out to stop it from hurting.

a 5/10.

[evalieena]

35 Questions for Fanfiction Writers

well since dearest @bachint​ asked, here goes nothing!

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

well if no downplaying’s allowed i guess i’d give it a 3/5? some mistakes since i’m not a native plus i”m still working on getting my english style better! i like what i come up with all the same, i’ve improved a lot these past two years, and my grammar isn’t that bad i guess?

2. Why do you write fanfiction?

to do what developers didn’t do in the first place to make good use of my imagination, to cope with the fact that some characters don’t exist and i will never follow another one of their adventures, to forget about a boring real life...

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

my writing doesn’t stand out lmaooo but i guess i’m always trying to focus on the character’s psychology, struggles and all that, so if someone likes my work, it’s ‘original’ bc it’s usually quite different from the usual stories where there are a lot of dialogues and interactions.

4. Are there any writers that inspire you?

i’ve been inspired a lot by @welcometogressenheller​ (i wish i could do as well as she does.....), @aceklaviergavin​ (kudos to you even if you never see that post and you probably don’t know who i am), and some others whose name i forgot (sorry!)

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

i didn’t write much but i guess that my latest fics are really nice (There’s No Light In You Anymore, and the whole Faith series on AO3). also my big project “Now That You’re Gone”, i’m glad i’ve been able to write that much for it and i intend on continuing as soon as i find the motivation!

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

pain, struggles and all that comes with it as long as it’s in the character’s mind, because beware here you step in a dark space

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

ordinary scenes of life? i always find my writing lacking as soon as i step out of my comfort zone, i’m all for rambling and never-ending pain

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

desmond/descole surely

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

all the good guys (and dimitri allen because i’d love writing about him but i’m? just unable to?)

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

that may come as a surprise! angst!

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

a mix of question 8 and 10 and you’ve got your answer

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

professor layton and the shattering secrets!!! i’m so happy of what this AU will look like when i’ll be done writing the following chapters, at first it probably looks annoying but heck i wanna promise anyone who’s reading it that the plot twists are gonna be worth it even though the overall background isn’t that original because i’ve mixed up different elements from other games (aaaand we’re back in our oh-so-amazing comfort zone that covers up a massive lack of imagination)

13. First fandom you ever wrote for?

ummm? the vampire diaries maybe? back when i was 10 or 11 lol

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

hands up... pROFESsoR LayTON

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

i didn’t write for many fandoms but back in my younger days i used to do self-insert fics with the vampire diaries cast and it was so odd and i wish i hadn’t just confessed that on my tumblr blog

16. Any guilty pleasure trope(s)?

nothing that comes to mind

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

dunno either

18. Wildest fic you’ve ever written?

PL and the shattering secrets! huge canon divergence and one heck of an AU (also its original version is much worse, my mind was going crazy when i was 15)

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

i love reading AUs, writing some requires solid imagination which i have not, but honestly i don’t really mind

20. Gen fic or shippy stuff?

gen

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

desmond sycamore x his wife / randall ascot x hershel layton (be it romantic or platonic) / randall ascot x basically anyone from the MM i guess though i didn’t write anything about that yet (it’s about to change guys)

22. Do you listen to anything while you write?

yea i can’t write without listening to music - any playlist does the trick as long as i like what i’m listening to but usually i listen to sad soundtracks, or i’m inspired by some random lyrics

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

i’d go with challenges bc my horrible ass has very few ideas but i usually come up with independent ideas

24. One-shots or multi-chaptered works?

one shots!

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

i don’t remember ;_;

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

i’ve got one OS in mind with randall/layton but i don’t want to be the talk of the town because it’s probably going to be awful? also any other fic including the PL3 crew

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

@welcometogressenheller telling me she believed i was a native!!! i struggle so much trying to improve my writing style in english and i have a lot of insecurities so it was so heartwarming and incredible to read...

also basically any other comment where people tell me they like what i write. i love that writers feel the need to take some time reviewing my works bc i need constant validation

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

well i’ve never really received ‘harsh’ criticism or anything, save for some very rare remarks on my grammar so i guess i don’t know? at first it’s always sad to see that what i’ve done isn’t perfect but i guess it’s impossible to be perfect so i’m really happy that people take some time to underline what looks wrong to them

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

currently trying to with shattering secrets and it’s actually a great way to improve!

30. Tooth-rotting fluff or merciless angst?

MERCILESS ANGST

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

i wish i could but it would perhaps be a huge spoiler so i don’t wanna say much about them...

i have 1) annabell sycamore, des’s wife, whose personality fits very much mine. she’s a playwright, spends lot of her time writing and acting in front of des AND WITH des. also she’s a very realistic person and some people usually tell her that she’s being too pessimistic 

2) aurelia from the shattering secrets and on her i really cannot say much... if anyone’s read this far it would be so nice if you could give SS a shot by the way!! 

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

desmond sometimes finds happiness but it’s always taken from him

(isn’t that a summary for everything i’ve ever written?)

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

i don’t translate my works from my original language to english, i write straight in english. i spend a lot of time making sure i haven’t done any grammatical mistakes, checking the definition and the use of some words i’m not sure about, and sometimes it’s quite a pain and it can be also very discouraging bc i end up believing what i write comes from a random internet dictionary while deep down i know it’s not true but hey what can i say. huge insecurities laid bare here.

(if any reader of mine’s reading this, i apologize)

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

(beware: spoilers for the whole prequel trilogy!!!)

“Hershel Layton was puzzled. A funny emotion to feel for someone who loved puzzles that much, but nothing could ever describe better the way he’d felt for hours now, hours that seemed like ages.So much did happen in the span of a few hours.

First he’d learned his parents could be targeted by Targent, then Aurora had made it clear that she didn’t want to live anymore, all so she could protect them. Then Desmond—no, Descole—had taken the key from her hands, and revealed himself as the dangerous scientist Layton knew him to be.

Then they’d fought. Despair was filling the air, though Hershel didn’t understand what Descole meant when he cried that the Azran legacy was all he had to live for.

And as if there hadn’t been enough betrayals as it was, Emmy was soon to follow. Luke had been abducted. He’d had no other choice than siding with Descole to prevent Bronev from unleashing doom on Earth. Misery didn’t seem to end.

Just when he’d thought he’d finally be able to change things, Descole had been ready to sacrifice himself to save Luke. And then…

Then everything just collapsed.

He held his agonizing brother in his arms; the one who’d wanted so hard to take him down only a few hours back was now confessing, fearing death was on the way.“

[...]

from ‘Six Times Hershel Layton Remembered, Plus The One Time He Didn’t’

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

oops i haven’t got anything more to say but thank you for reading? perhaps?

[mal0dramatic]

QUESTIONS FOR MUN - All of them lol

——————–QUESTIONS FOR MUN

1. Who has been your favorite muse to play? Hmm...it kind of changes depending on which mood I’m in. But there is definitely a reason Mal is my main blog. 2. Do you listen to music while you write? If so, what do you like to listen to? 

Answered here! 3. Are there any particular aus or plots that you’d really like to write?

A plot where our muses are stranded on an island together after a plane crash (sort of like on Lost) and they have to work together to survive. I would even be up for using multiple muses in the same thread!

A plot based on that show Westworld! It goes like this: Muse A is a host and muse B is a visitor in the park and falls in love with muse A, but muse A keeps getting their memory wiped so muse B gets heartbroken every time but still comes back to the park anyway and then eventually starts trying to hack the system or something to give muse A the ability to retain their memories so they can escape the park together.

A plot where both of our muses are in a cult, but one of them starts to realize the true nature of the group and tries to get the other one to break out with them and then the cult comes after them.

 4. What are some of your rp pet peeves? When people make every other word bold or italic. I know it’s an aesthetic thing, but it makes it hard to read and know where the emphasis is supposed to be. 5. What is the most difficult thing about writing your current muse? 

I write multiple muses at the same time, but I guess one thing that is difficult is that some are way more popular than others, even though I like all of them. 6. What is your favorite thing about writing your current muse?

Favorite thing about writing Mal: She’s very open and curious, and can be very nurturing, so I can easily put her in any difficult situation and she will just try to help the other muse.

Favorite thing about writing Jack: He’s very calm and understanding, and when I write him I am a lot more introspective and try to empathise with the other muse more, because that’s what he would do.

Favorite thing about writing Holly: She’s quite different from any other female muses I’ve written, she has a lot of inner conflict and her family system operates almost like a little cult, which makes writing her and her reactions to things super interesting to me.

Favorite thing about writing Rusty: He’s basically in love with drugs, while I myself don’t use any. So that’s kinda interesting to write.

Favorite thing about writing Rosie: She’s a very dynamic person, and I like that she’s a bit older than my other muses. She has experience, but it hasn’t made her bitter.

7. Who was the very first muse you ever wrote?

Answered here!

8. Have you ever written a novel? If not, does it interest you? 

No and no, I don’t have the patience haha.

9. Do you write fanfiction, or have you in the past? 

I have, when I was like...15? 16? Anyway it was terrible.

10. Do you like stylized icons and formatted text or do you prefer to keep things simple? 

I like to keep things simple. Small text and medium sized gifs/icons are fine. 

11. When did you start roleplaying? 

At 14. I’m 23 now.

12. Have you roleplayed anywhere other than tumblr? 

Yes! On a Dutch website.

13. Who are five of your favorite characters? (In the rp community or otherwise) 

Answered here!

14. What are five of your favorite ships? (In the rp community or otherwise) 

Mallory x Penny, Holly x Desi, Jack x Emerson, Rusty x Sofia, Jack x Opal, you said five but there are so many more. Oh and as for canon ships, I like Alex x Piper (OITNB), Poussey x Soso (OITNB), Agnes x Elin (Show Me Love), Adèle x Emma (Blue Is The Warmest Color), lesbians in general I just ship them.

15. What sort of muses do you tend to write? 

All kinds, really. They vary greatly in personality/motives.

16. Do you like to queue your replies or just post them when you finish?

Depends on how tired I am lmaooo.

17. Do you prefer winging it or plotting everything out? 

Depends on my mood! But I do like to plot in between writing the thread, coming up with new ideas for it and the direction the story could go in next.

18. What makes for a great roleplay partner in your opinion? 

Answered here!

19. Have you received anon hate? If so, how do you deal with it?

Surprisingly, no. Never have. If I had, I guess I just wouldn’t respond.

 20. If you could tell your muse something, what would it be?

Mallory, pour some of the love you give to animals and people into yourself. Jack, some people don’t want to be saved. Leave them be. Holly, not everyone is out to get you. Some people just want to help. Rusty, lay off the heavy drugs. Rosie, stop running from the past.

[feelingsinthedark]

Mid-year Book Freakout Tag 2020

thank you for tagging me @blaine-andersxn <3

disclaimer: i've been absolute fucking SHIT at reading this year lmaooo i literally started out the year rereading the Heroes of Olympus and it's almost july and i havent fucking finished so i've only read 6 books this year and i'm not gonna include the buttloads of fanfiction i've read XD except maybe All the Other Ghosts and Grey by rainjoy bc those were basically books so

Best book you've read so far in 2020: Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare

Best sequel you've read so far in 2020: only sequel i've (re)read this year is Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan lol

New release you haven't read yet, but want to: You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson (among others lol)

Most anticipated release for second half of the year: The Lost Book of the White by Cassandra Clare

Biggest disappointment: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (i read it for school... it wasn't terrible but)

Biggest surprise: All The Other Ghosts and Grey by Rainjoy lmao yes its a fanfiction but wow i was fucking surprised by how good it is and how fucking invested i got in it (and the literal only other choice for this would be Chain of Gold bc the rest of the books i've read this year were HoO rereads and AToTC)

Favorite new author: i havent read any new authors this year except i guess rainjoy lol

Newest fictional crush/newest favorite character: i don't really have a new crush from Chain of Gold yet but Matthew Fairchild is probably my newest favorite character

Book that made you cry: i don't cry much at books or at anything... i don't think i've cried i've definitely gotten sad lol i think Chain of Gold got me close to crying but i don't think i did cry

A book that made you happy: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan i was just happy to be rereading it and revisiting my bby Jason <3

Favorite book to film adaptation you saw this year: i don't think i've seen any??

Most beautiful book you've gotten this year: Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare and A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown they're both so pretty :3

What books do you need to read by the end of the year: SO. MANY. probably the one that's been on my tbr the longest and i have physically owned the longest is Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, i am ASHAMED to have not read this yet (yet i'm still here not reading it lasjdf;lkajdslfjadf i have to read it this year)

Tagging: I'm not gonna tag anyone bc idk who and i barely interact with anyone on this blog (lmao I just live on my glee sideblog now @kuiinncedes :3) so yeah lol but if you want to do this i tag you :)

[folkinsomnia]

My darling Bonnie (@anybodylessgayso) has once again given me license to yammer on about myself YEET

Nickname(s): Given name is Andrea and I go by Annie, if that counts. Was Turtle in soccer for years (NOT BECAUSE I RUN SLOW DAMMIT); my uncle used to call me baby dink. People do not and may not call me little orphan Annie or anything to do with Smooth Criminal or I am legally allowed to kill them on sight.

Gender: An Woman

Height: 5′ 8″ babey!!

Time: 9:59 PM EST

Where I’m from: Southwestern Ohio, 45 minutes east of Cincinnati and about two miles south of nowhere

Hogwarts house: Slytherin hiss hiss bitch

Favorite show: The Nanny! The Twilight Zone! Jeopardy! Eat my ass, modern television!

Favorite animal: Fuckin polar bears and sun bears

Favorite band/artist: I have a top five! The Killers are my babies and darlings and sons and boys and dads, and then in no particular order we have Counting Crows, Vampire Weekend, Jack’s Mannequin, and Goo Goo Dolls. I used to have a top six, with Alpha Rev rounding things out, but they moved to a weird subscription-based music release model...thing. Haven’t heard anything from ‘em in years, sad to say.

Song stuck in my head: Quite randomly, Mabataki from the Ghost Hunt OST  (it’s an anime I watched once in early high school and it was...mediocre...and here I am)

Last movie I saw: Can’t remember what I last saw in full, but I watched a few minutes of Fried Green Tomatoes the other day by way of sitting in my mom’s living room and noodlin’ around on my phone

Last thing I Googled: Ben Kissel (from The Last Podcast on the Left)

Other blogs: Not today, Satan, you bitchboi

Do I get asks: I do! Eight ish years of begging for the attention and it’s finally worked lmaooo blessings

Why this URL: I was likesynonymsforjoy (from an Auden poem, bless him) for several years and was kind of over the drama of the name, I supposed. What I have right now is my reddit name, and it turns out I rather like the name. Chose it because I was eating toasted coconut chips like candy as I made my reddit account. Carried it over to tumblr because it felt like a nice lighthearted change, and really, it fits because I’ve realized how entirely I fucking adore the shit out of nearly all things coconut

Number of blankets: NOT NEARLY ENOUGH

Followers: 594, unless I gained another porn blog or two recently

Following: 143. A bitch is selective!

Average amount of sleep: When I was working, it was 6-7 hours most nights. During the Great Unemployment Debacle, it’s been wildly inconsistent. When I’m really down and struggling it can be like...10 hours with naps. Insomnia benders can be like 3-5. Am looking forward to the structure grad school will force me into.

Lucky number: 17 and 31

What am I wearing: My hashtag queer jorts (big. long. gay.) and an uber soft blue men’s shirt I got at goodwill for running but is basically my happy cozy shirt these days

Dream job: I want to be an archivist and goddammit I want to be in a community archives that’s niche and offbeat as fuck!

Dream trips: I am not a traveling kind of person. Guess I’d love to go back to Bulgaria unencumbered by money or time or another person’s schedule, though.

Favorite food: Rude unfair question also idk probably sweet potatoes (babies....) greek yogurt or like...soup

Instruments I play: I’ve had a guitar for six years now and I’m still only passably able to play

Eye color: Blue, sometimes gray-ish blue but like. Generally blue. Idk. Lighting matters

Hair color: Very dark brown with some fun ~secret auburn-ish streaks~ on the underside that you cannot see unless I flop my head upside down which is stupid and unfair

Aesthetic: Any time I reblog something and start hollering about Edward Hopper’s paintings in conjunction with loneliness, architectural emptiness, and crowded isolation, I’m getting lost in the sauce of my own aesthetic. And I guess natural lighting, organized clutter, and superfluous things.

Languages I speak: English and the sad remains of an educationally mandated basic Spanish that I really need to bolster with like. Practice and study.

Most iconic song: Like I’ve been halfway working on this truly brilliant absolutely inspired diatribe for months where I go into the intricacy and multitudes contained and exemplified within Someday by Nickelback. But y’all ain’t ready for that level of critical thinking.

When I created this account: Think it was March or April of 2011. I had an earlier account back in 2010, though.

Best memory: Nothing absolute, but some little vignettes - my first Pride when Josh said, “I love my bi girlfriend,” and I knew he was learning to understand my queerness and things would be basically okay; getting the email that offered me the archives internship at the convent (back in 2017) right before my fanfiction theory class began and my incredible professor walked by as I started crying and geekin out; the summerlong friendship I had with this dude who like yeah is someone who hurt me deeply in the end but at the time it was just...such a fulfilling and loving and beautiful friendship

Best pun: I can only think of these things off the cuff tyvm

Random fact: I have lived in brick buildings my entire life and thank goodness I’ll be continuing that unintentional tradition in Iowa litcherally if you are a mutual (or fuck it if you aren’t too) hmu and do this I’m just forever far too lazy and dumb to tag these things

[oswinsdolma]

You said anyone else who wants to do it and this looks fun!! Sorry for turning up somewhat uninvited lmao xxx

How many works do you have on ao3? 10 currently!!

What's your total ao3 word count? 122,915!!

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they? I only write for Merlin lmao

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 1) Exceptional Circumstances. 2) A Ghost of the Past. 3) You and I. 4) Breaking History. 5) Knight of the Cart.

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I do respond to comments because I appreciate people who take the time to comment so much and I like chatting with people about their headcanons etc :))

What is the fic you've written with the angstiest ending? Ooh I have a couple of wips that I know the ending of but I don't want to spoil then now (especially as one is multiple stories long). Published? I think my angstiest is probably Hitting the Ground (in which Merlin fails to convince Morgana to change her murder-path and they give up trying to reconcile)

Do you write crossovers? Not as a rule. I did something ages ago as a joke but I sent it to one person and never published it. I will not be disclosing details.

Have you ever received hate on a fic? Luckily, no, haha. I always welcome constructive criticism though (cheers to the people who have ever pointed out one of the myriad of typos in my work lmao)

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Abso-fucking-loutely not. (No hate if you do!! I just don't like it lmao)

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of :)

Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope!!

Have you ever co-written a fic before? No, I haven't. I probably wouldn't be very good at it anyway because I can't even agree with myself about what characters should do next, least of all another person lmaoo

What's your all time favourite ship? Merthur because I am basic. Also Pynch is a close second, as is Bluesey. And Patrochilles :) and me x Clara Oswald hehehe

What's a wip you want to finish but don't think you ever will? I started a snowbaz fic when I was twelve but I stopped, and I'm just not as invested as I was in the characters now :( it was also my first fic and I really don't want to read that writing ughhh

What are your writing strengths? Honestly? I'm not sure. I guess people have said I can write quite poetically sometimes? I hope that's true :)

What are your writing weaknesses? I find it really difficult to flow from descriptive passages to dialogue. Also if I've spent a day writing essays and move on to creative writing, it feels really clunky. And I reuse phrases a lot.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? I'm not against it! The only time I've ever really done this is when using spells (which I usually derive from either the show itself, Old English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic, Latin and French for a bit of spice. I don't speak any of these languages.) Or dragonlord tongue. I'll usually put it on italics and/or bold if it's magic.

What was the first fandom you wrote for? Actively? Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. I was obsessed when I was 12/13 lmaooo. I didn't publish it though, thank GOD. (though I wrote loads of creative writing at primary school that I didn't realise was fanfiction because I didn't know it was a thing. It would usually include OCs and would be set in a similar universe)

What's your favourite fic you've written? Arghh I don't know!! I'll probably always have a soft spot for Exceptional Circumstances, as it was the first fic I published and is still my longest. It was also getting comments on this that made me think "huh, maybe I'm not as shit at writing as I thought". But I do love A Green Dawn and Hitting the Ground because I think those are technically the best ones I've written to date.

Tagging: @arthur-rex @tcs-main and anyone else!! xxx

Ask game that @bbcfandomsuniverse recently did (hope you don’t mind me jumping in 😊)

Their post is over here in the larger font like above with the questions if they are easier for you to see! But from here on the text will be in the standard regular font, Thank you!

How many works do you have on AO3?

-Nine? And far too many WIPs that are like two paragraphs from being finished

What’s your total AO3 word count?

-92,277

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

-On AO3, 4 but In my little book of things and my docs a lot more…

BBC Merlin, Mortal instruments fandom, Durarara, The Umbrella Academy (*ones not posted* Penny dreadful, Robin of sherwood, BBC Atlantis… And other horribly written things for many many anime and manga series)

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

• Rain Before The Rainbow- 146

• Snow and Powdered Sugar- 49

• Broken Raven- 39

• The Ingenuous- 21

• I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You- 20

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes! I always try to respond to comments and continue what whatever they talked about or just give my thanks.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

It’s not currently posted but it’s another one of my fics that is almost finished and pretty much is a retelling of the Diamond of the day of BBC Merlin if events had gone differently with saving a bunch of characters including mordred, daegal, kara, sefa, Gilli among many others and it’s very angsty. Like tears and sobbing angsty…

Do you write crossovers? if so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I actually wrote ONE crossover that I never posted and it was a disaster… I will never mention it again.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I wouldn’t call it hate but it was simply someone voicing their opinion on the fic which yeah… Kinda you know hurtful to me but i’m just a stranger to them that’s writing fanfiction so…

Do you write smut? if so what kind?

Nope no nopitty no

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

To my knowledge no. And also who ever does steal my fics you picked the most worst person to do it from XD. (But in all seriousness if someone ever finds one of my fics posted anywhere else or under a different user name please message me here on Tumblr 😊)

Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, but again I’m completely open to it and would love for my fics to branch out to all of the non-english speaking audiences.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but I would love to work with another writer on a fic! I actually really want to but have no clue how to even go about it.

What’s your all time favorite ship?

Oooo, I’m gonna go back to my beginning fandom roots and say a platonic relationship I love is from an anime called Princess TuTu and it’s Fakir & Muto… I watched the anime along with another one called Sugar Sugar Rune when I was like 4 and they will always hold a special place in my heart along with the Original Fruits basket and the Manga…

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Probably one of my Umbrella Academy fics that I had started to write. Mostly because when a lot of stuff happened with the very strong opinions in certain comments it made me loose inspiration and hope in writing for the fandom in a way. But it was my favourite idea and now I can barely look at it anymore…

What are your writing strengths?

Figurative language my beloved… I mold and bend works like clay to my will and abuse them for the sake of art. I sometimes place words that have no correlation besides each other but with their surrounding pears have all the meaning of everything I mean for them to say. My teachers all throughout school loved and hated my writing all the same but i always counted it as one of my strengths.

What are your writing weaknesses?

That I get distracted in words and go off on off topic tangents. I always do this and I have to stop myself. And like I’ve said before this just end up a old tangled yarn ball of metaphors that in another persons hands, the knots are yanked at and pulled so impossibly there’s no chance to get it undone. But in mine, the twist and turns of yarn become limp and fall so incredibly loose between my fingers. So I want to make my writing able to be untangle without too much of a yank or tug.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I’ve done it myself with Raphael Santiago from Mortal instruments in Spanish and Small dialogue bits I’m okay with. But if it’s like a full speech I’m not too keen on it even if I understand the language.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Wait funny story real quick, I recently found my old notebook I used to write fanfiction in when I was like 8 and it’s atrocious. But if I remember correctly the first fanfic in their is with Magi (another anime and manga series very dear to my heart) but if i’m correct the first piece of actual fanfic I wrote was a bit earlier and it was Pandora Hearts maybe? Or even around the time that shows like Avatar and Teen Titans aired…

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

I have to go with “The Ingenuous” mostly because I remember many years ago thinking those two would be good friends but completely abandoned the idea because it was like 2015 and I thought the fandom was dead… And also because these two don’t have a canon relationship I have taken free will with it and halfway through writing it I realized their relationship has elements of practically me and one of my friends I’ve known my whole life. And that person is very near and dear to me and I’ve always held them close to my heart… So really that fic just has everything of me and I’ve given my all into that fic.

I’m tagging

@zoingfandom and @ohanahoku-ao3 and thats It because I feel awkward tagging other people I know are Ao3 writers XD

Zoing & Ohana please save me from my awkwardness and tag more people please, I beg of you. But also Anyone else if free to join in!

[skiasurveys]

tell me about your crush!!!!!!! - Hes my boyfriend. I love him a lot, he’s funny, he loves gaming. He likes anime ( lmaooo), he is white but hes part turkish and german. but born in canada haha. He’s 7 years older than me (or 6.5) , we went to the same high school except he graduated WAYYYY BEFORE ME. He knows a lot of weird stuff. He loves MMOs and is on the leader boards for ESO which i find hilarious. We met on OKcupid which is a dating app. He says hes serious about me lol.

tell me about your ex-  well my most recent ex, i dated for only 3 months. we dated from Nov 2015- feb 2016. He broke up with me on Valentines day last year, which is funny tbh because he spent lots of money on me and then broke up wtih me. apparently i was too invested which makes no sense. I didn’t really connect well with him. we were more like close friends than boyfriend/girlfriend. He was slightly autisic or whatever so he didn’t really understand sarcasm sometimes which was really fucking annoying. I would make jokes and he took them way too serious or hard and would get mad at me -.-. He wasnt a bad boyfriend but he was just not my type. I said i loved him even though i didn’t. i was in love with the idea. I knew i didn’t want to spend my life with him. we never connected super great either, like we had nothing in common except the fact that we liked video games but he played shit games like (League of Legends). After we broke up, we met a week later to clear shit up i guess and it was super awkward and i was acually over him within a day so i was like this sucks and is weird. Then a month after we broke up he wanted to hang out but then he stated he wanted to have a hook up.. we never had sex when we dated either so that was weird -.-  Then he started dating other people and if i messaged him asking how he was, he would get all pissed off and said we couldnt talk any ore and i was like whatevr thats fine but then his relationships never worked out and he would break up within a week LOL and then tried to date me again. THEN when I started dating Connor ( my current bf) he got really jealous and mad, and tried to tell me to get out. Then later in my relationship like 6 months he asked if we could fuck (three some) and i was like i rather kill myself, then he would randomly text me asking if connor and i broke up, and then would claim he missed me but all he wanted was a booty call. He got super mad when he found out i fucked connor lol. anyways, i told him to fuck off and respect me and connor and he finally stopped being weird. But i recently deleted him off Facebook because I was so tired of seeing him on fb, so yeah. we dont really talk anymore. thank god.

tell me about your day It was okay. I slept til 2 Pm ( yikes..) and picked up Pills and played video games. nothing to do.

tell me about your dreams  I cant remember my dreams actually.

tell me about your drama  I have really no drama in my life.

tell me about yourself :-)  I am 20 years old, I like cats, mcdonalds fries. I am a art student in college. I am dating someone, its our one year today. I live in Canada..i like taking surveys too much

tell me about something awkward/embarrassing  I once had sex and then got my period during it and that was super awkward and embarrassing, and i was so embarrassing that i hid in the bathroom for 20 minutes and he was like “yo its okay jen” and its still awkward when i think about it.

tell me about a funny story or something  Lol, okay. this story is like 4 years old but whatever. so i was in grade 10 at the time and I went to this Youth Conference with my youth group from church. So my best friend was with me and we were at the concerts and stuff, and she had to use the washroom but she didn’t want to go alone so i went with her. So I use the stall next to hers but I come out way before she does. I am washing my hands and she comes up to me and washes her hands super quick turns to me and says we need to get the hell out of here, and before we run out this girl comes out of the stall that i was in and my friend turns to her and says “ Im so sorry i thought you were my friend” and im like what....so we leave quickly and she tells me. so basically This girl was wearing the same shoes as me and same colour pants as me, and my friend thought it was me so she grabbed the girls leg from under the stall and the girl was like “wtf???!” and so she thought that girl was me, and i honestly can’t stop laughing whenever i think of this because its just something that she would do. I never let her forget.

tell me your favourite band/artist/album/song  My fav band is Of Monsters and Men. They are from Iceland, and they sing different songs. They have a unique sound too. I love every song they produce.

tell me about your favourite meme  I can’t just pick one..

tell me about your favourite fic  I dont read fanfiction really.

tell me a secret ;)  um. when i was 18 i almost banged some 34 year old because I was stupid and actually thought he liked me LOL. Thank god i got rid of him. LOL i still laugh at my stupidity 

tell me a lame joke/bad pick-up line are you a astronaut cus your ass is out of this world.

tell me about your favourite tumblr user(s)  I don’t really have a FAV..i love all my mutuals.. 

tell me about your least favourite tumblr user(s)  I only dislike people who are super self righteous..who think they are always right.. who give out false info..especially people who use their followers for money..etc

tell me what you’re thinking about  just life.

confess your sins  I sometimes lie a lot but thats usually just to get out of shit LOL rant about stuff!!!  Not really a rant. But i super duper hate it when people leave you on “read” idk its super annoying. Like if you cant talk just say youll talk to me when youre off work/etc but i hate it when they have no excuse. Im fine if its a few minutes or whatever but when they just dont reply especially if im asking a question it just gets so fucking annoying. If i know youre busy its differen’t. But idk i just wish people would just tell me they wouldnt be texting that much a certain day or at leas jjust reply something quick. it takes 2 seconds..

let’s talk about the sex because sex ed isn’t talked about enough  dont have sex until you know you could handle a child. 

talk to me about astrology stuff!!!  I dont know anything about that stuff.  talk to me about aliens!!!  why havent the aliens taken me..yet..

[ofmermaidstories]

Hello!!!

Ahh I recently read the first chapter of 'The Sun God's Bride' and omgg I'm so sooooo excited!!!!! It looks like it's going to a fun and emotional journey!!!

I love your world building!! Its so realistic but fantastical?? Idk like it just seems sooo lovely, pls I wanna live there 😫🤲💖

I'm curious! When building a world what's your process?? Do you use references such as art and photography to build the world along with your own imagination?? I've noticed that you like to draw, do you draw concept art???

Also!! Pls I'm so in love with how you reference 'flower girl' in your work! Its such a cute and fun little nod to surrender!

Ahh I look forward to going along this journey with you!!! Super excited for the next chapter!!! 💖💖💖

Hello Anima!!!!!!

I want us to live in the Sun God world too. 😩 We could be temple brats, surely it’d be easy… swimming in pools and idk…. eating fruit, LOL. (Oh my gosh though LOL i’m…. so glad you like the florist references :’) IM SORRY GUYS, but that little joke/thread makes me way too happy so i’m just going to include it in everything LOL. like a multiverse theory — somewhere out there, a flower girl version of us is just living their best life, over and over again, falling in love a hundred different ways :’)))) )

But okay, to the crux of your ask — I like to make moodboards when starting a story!!!! I do this for everything, literally, not just fanfics (I made a moodboard for my friend’s and I’s summer trip last year LMAO no chill :’) ). But I have a weheartit account that’s like a million years old, so I use that to collect inspo. Basically, like, if I’ve decided to write something I generally know the feel of it, if that makes sense? So I use my moodboards as a way to pinpoint key visuals/feelings I wanna convey (or just for extra inspo!). Like, for instance, this is just some of the images I have saved under my Sun God board:

Not everything will make it into the final product that is the fic — but this is generally a good way to remind myself what I was trying to achieve LOL. They also have the added bonus of being the images I’ll use when I post about the chapter updates, here on tumbles!!! But as I continue to work on a story, I’ll keep adding to each board as needed — weeding out pictures that don’t work anymore, adding new ones. These are some of the latest ones for something (just like this):

My process for any kind of world building, whether it’s trying to create a fantasy world, or just expanding on a canon one is pretty much just to give myself visual keys!!! Like, I’ll make a few written notes of things in my initial outlining of stuff, but generally, I’ll know a story is sticking if I’ve driven to scribbling for it, or doing this collecting of inspo. Like, with the Todoroki x Reader fic I wanna do, after Deku’s, I’m currently in the “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” stage:

So what I have currently is just…. flat-out inspo, Idea collecting. The earlier images I have for it are very ocean/sea based, because I started musing about this before I wrote The Widening Sky — so a lot of my oceany-inspo can be seen here, LOL, I dunno if the final product will be as…….. dependant, on the sea, for all that it starts off on a beach.

Doodling for the fics isn’t as common as it is when I’m working on something original — what I’ll draw instead, if I need to, are like, key details. So for example, this one here is — a rough idea of like, how I visualised the cove in The Widening Sky. A priestess/temple Sister sketch for a ceremony in The Sun God’s Bride. And some details from the outfits I’m going to force Y/N to wear in Chapter Four of something (just like this)! LOL

What I really like to draw is how I imagine the characters to look like — with fanfiction I don’t really need to do that, lmao, since most of our cast already exists, but I have drawn what I personally see the Readers as?? I’d never share those sketches though lmao, because I wouldn’t want anyone to like…. see that, instead of what they want. And it’s fun seeing other people’s interpretations!!!!

Saying all that, I guess the “world-building” process kind of looks like this, all together:

this is something I’ve compiled for the manuscript I currently have collecting dust lmao. Doodles, moodboard, mock covers because i’m vain LMAOOO dslkfjsdlkfjkldsfjkldsfj. I’ll have all these bits and pieces in their own folder!! they make me happy to look at ldfkjksdlfjkdlsj. I like having things in front of me, LOL.

whew this was longer than i intended dslkfjsdkljsdkljfkdlsfj i hope it was somehow enlightening??? basically — i just think of something, and then collect a bunch of pictures LOL. and if that fails, i’ll draw some. :’) Thank-you for asking me LOL, i had fun talking about my little visual aids — I’m excited for The Sun God’s Bride, too, and excited we’re starting out on it together. 💖🌷 Here’s to the adventure ahead. 🌅