#i personally prefer the -ie ngl

[shantechni]

I've done it, I've compiled all 32 of them and couldn't be bothered to put them in order, I'm totally not obsessed-

[temeyes]

What do you think each of the boy's aesthetics would be (ie: adventurecore, grunge)

OK I LOVE THIS QUESTION!!

i'll start off with Price: this is kind of a long shot but he gives me like, the in-between of old money and cottage-core aesthetic because he's def the type to dress rather refined. and i think, out of all of the boys, he knows how to color match his clothes right HSAHSSAHH

Gaz is definitely the skater boy aesthetic solely for his affinity for hoodies and the baseball caps!! but personal preference? i'd want Gaz to be a dark-academia babe like FOR REALLLLL, it's why i usually draw him in black turtlenecks LMAO. tho, me thinks he's very much willing to spice up his wardrobe. like, i feel Gaz is the kind of person who changes fashion tastes once a year. (he's so me, like for real)

as for Soap? white dad-core all the way (oakley dad shades, basic tees, thick white socks with sandals LOL JK) BUT SERIOUSLY, i think he'd classify as an adventure-core guy if not norm-core because Soap gives basic bitch energy, but he's the only guy here that can actually carry the basic energy pretty well.

i know most would associate Ghost with grunge, alt, or maybe goth? (tho ngl, it fits with his energy), but this mfer likes to Dress! Up! (he even has a full on cowboy outfit in the COD:M comics like??? LMAO) Ghost is the type and prolly the only one other than Gaz who would be willing to explore his aesthetics. but just for the sake, i'd say he's a combo of grunge, streetwear and/or norm-core.

[utilitycaster]

SDCC panel good so far, EXTREMELY EXCITED for TLOVM and Mighty Nein, loved Laura's answer about playing Emhira, think Krystina is an incredible host for these and I hope she continues to play that role (also I know she is very cool and very busy but would love to see her back on CR again!) so anyway here's my quick takes on audience questions:

the one about Ashley's character creation process: GREAT question and great answer from Ashley!

Future of Exandria question: ngl it's like, this would be a great question if this weren't actual play, but it is and so it's sort of impossible to really get a meaningful answer.

Revisiting VM/Nein characters: I feel the best way to ask more personal or process questions is like, the Ashley question where it is specific; on some level, any "how does it feel" question is going to get an answer of either "good!" or "bad!". That said the cast did elaborate in some fun ways!

If you were a god and could change someone's fate: see end of this post for a discussion of what makes a good question but basically this is a good question.

Session Zero question: VINDICATION; I have been saying from about the Bassuras arc "hmmm it feels the cast did NOT get the same background as they did for C2."

Not a question but the "Sam's fine, he's not here bc he is on a real vacation" is very funny

Balancing the antagonists and heroes: good question! I do think one of Matt's biggest strengths is that he is very good at having the world continue even when the characters are fucking around so it's great to hear his take on how he manages it.

Daggerheart question: great question, very professionally noncommittal answer from Marisha (this is a compliment, she fields those really gracefully)

Laura and Travis question: as someone who draws perhaps stronger parasocial barriers than many, eh, but also answered very gracefully

Music question: YESSSSSSS excellent question, please do drop your new playlists! I do need to briefly note that hilariously, No Church in the Wild was on a Keyleth playlist.

OK so here is what makes a good convention panel question for Critical Role, imo:

Lore or worldbuilding questions that are not too speculative (ie, for which there does exist an answer; 'what would have happened if things went differently' is really hard to answer other than 'shit would be really different')

Specific process questions, like the one to Ashley, the one about balancing heroes and antagonists or the Session Zero one. Really vague "how does it feel" ones can be good but it really depends on whether a cast member finds something specific to hone in on.

Fun stuff that is not invasively personal (music question, the "if you could change one person's fate as an Exandrian deity what would you do, that one question where someone asked Travis about D&D characters on a football team)

What makes for a bad one:

anything overly long, keep it moving

anything extremely personal, this is weird and someone should have taught you not to do this before you were old enough to attend a convention

anything that boils down to "would my preferred ship or outcome have happened had things been wildly different", this is impossible to answer accurately and more importantly asking creators to validate your headcanons directly is tacky, you should wait for that to be dropped when you were not expecting it or else be like "anyway, this is what I believe" and not give a shit what the creators say

[the-clay-quarters]

Okay this took me three days bcus I spent Way too long thinking about it but! here's my guys in @t6fs' template!

The only bit of this that was left blank for non character reasons is the dreams- I avoid all the dream cards in game to avoid nightmares, so I don't really know the vibes oops. Oh, and the key items are distinctive things they carry regularly, excluding things they'd own at home. Otherwise, detail bits under the cut! I ended up with a lot of notes and wanted to ramble, it's really fuckin long <3

Silverstein

"His" pet is Pembroke's Half-Wild Mandrake (from bag a legend). They both agree that it is still hers, it's just hard to take care of in the middle of the city so it lives out with him. Otherwise, he keeps no pets.

Apathetic but also opinionated: On most things, he's very apathetic, simply agreeing with other people's decisions. On the other hand, though, he is strongly revolutionary and aiming for a lot of change... Not that he'd tell you that, not that you should know.

Dreams: It's canon that clay men can't dream :( No rights

Habitat: He likes being out and about, he spends most of his day out in the streets. He does a lot of "low skill" but high strength work, like moving services or construction.

Both hot/cold and coffee/tea are Neither for clay man reasons: Very high and cold temperatures cause him issues in different, equally annoying ways, and he can't eat/taste either, so no preference on food or drink.

Items: The gloves are clay stained, actually, and primarily on the inside. He started collecting first city coins for heart's desire and just has a habit of keeping some on him now. Horse head amulet... fear of death and uncertainty about the particulars of clay men :)

Flower, white rose: Did you know all the funky coloured roses (ie blue or rainbow) are made by dying white ones? :)c

Animal, saint bernard: Big but fairly gentle and lazy, would be a guard dog if asked but is mostly content to just sit

Element, rock slide: Change! Upheaval! Rocks :3

Pembroke:

The pet is her hunting dog, lovely lil thing <3 She doesn't keep many pets as she's a very busy person (and wouldn't want to put that on her poor housekeeper) but a good dog is always useful.

Rude-polite range is because she defaults to, and is usually, quite polite but often is also overcome with the need to be an absolute lil shit. Duality of man <3

Lodgings: Rooms above an ex-bookshop, now her tailoring shop!

Enemies: See: habit of being a chaotic lil shit. Apparently people don't like it when you think their party is too boring and try to spice it up smh

Items: A wedding ring with no match. A pocket watch to keep a tight schedule. A weapon of some sort, picked from a diverse collection. A travel sewing kit for rogue buttons and popped stitches. A hat pin, back up weapon :)

Flower, green dahlia: .......This one's mostly a pun off of Delia ngl

Animal, borzoi: Fancy and elegant looking, but still a hunting dog. Pretty but vicious~

Vincent:

The pet listed is a frost-moth but they have so. many. bugs. The phosphorescent scarabs are also pets. They have spiders. They keep any and every type of bug to either study or have as a pet. Please never visit their flat if you don't like bugs.

Gender: Bureaucratic misunderstanding. They filled out various forms wrong when they were first travelling to the neath, rolled with the neutral pronouns, realised they like it more than they probably should, and simply refused to think about that at all

Logic-emotion range is them trying to lead with logic but also having high anxiety

Lawful-chaotic and apathetic-opinionated are also anxiety, honestly. Though, for the latter, they are just quiet about their more out-there opinions, especially in the realm of politics. It's a culture thing kinda sorta, if I get into that here it'll add like 3 paragraphs at least.

Cultural identity: Catalan! Very proud of that! But won't default to that and will usually say they're Spanish. I can't get into that for the exact same reasons as the last point oops

Allies: This guy ☝ is depressed and isolating themself

Remember vs forget: When you're this far from home, your culture comes just from your own memories that you can't afford to lose. But also fuck wouldn't it be nice to simply forget the things causing you anxiety.

Items: Big round glasses to counter their shortsightedness. Bugs. Anti spider goggles that aren't prescription, both because they were originally lent and because they don't usually need to see very far with them on. Catholic rosary, worn under their shirt. Bugs. Surface currency, specifically Spanish pesetas, sent from their parents. Bugs. Bugs. More bugs.

Flower, forget me nots: Blue, anxiety coded, pretty <3

Animal, mantis: Awkward looking, vibes <3 Also, specifically hierodula papua bcus it's blue!

[stillresolved]

💕!!??! almost missed this 🥺 mx ferre, what if we... put (more of) our goons in (more) situations 🥺

@mythvoiced / send 💕 and I will tell you some muses…

ahhhh lenlen, the other person on here who enables me with 283948230 plots and dynamics...time for us to add like 8293048293 more 💕💕💕

okay so this was at the top of my list since you said?? That you were planning on bringing EUNJAE into our wonderful thg verse 🥺🥺🥺…and so the first person I actually though of throwing at them was ANNIE….I dunno?? I guess I just have a feeling that Annie would like eunjae for their personality- like they’re rough in mannerisms and a tad messy, both of which Annie doesn’t mind bc she’s used to being around ppl like that ( ie. Ga-ram & ara ) and also…I think she actually prefers…I think being treated completely like a piece of glass will begin to drive her up the wall :’D also my interpretation of annie is suspicious of most men/male-aligning individuals….so eunjae already checks all her boxes there <3

another dynamic I had been thinking about when you changed their fc :’D granted I’m not too sure how well these two would work out since SABRIEL isn’t the best at reading between the lines and ANNIE often operates in shades of grey but it would!! Be fun to see how they interact with one another especially at least for me throwing Annie at someone who is peppy and yet still for most part?? has good intentions?? even if sabriel can’t completely empathize with what Annie is going thru, I do think Annie would appreciate their good intentions at the very least :’D

DOE is a revolutionist (and a hacker, I could have sworn I read that somewhere but if not ignore me jfksljfsl :’D) and so is NELL, do I need to say anything more? granted they are on the same side when it comes to #revolution…but that doesn’t mean they agree to the degree which they should go for it. Doe is all for changing the system, where as team checkmate is more focused on….taking out one and only one enemy and looking out for their community. Perhaps interacting with someone like doe could radicalize her? also if doe is a hacker, nell can always have…a rival :)

okay HEAR ME OUT, I know that we do have EUNJAE and Patrick in verse one but WHAT ABOUT?? Eunjae and MYUNGDAE in verse two bc if Patrick is the competent if not a tad distant parent ( aka he had to adjust to fatherhood ngl ), then myungdae is…well think of say, jeo*ng jin*man from a shop of ki*llers, :’D aka parent that’s there, he just looks ( okay always looks ) a tad exhausted?? Out of it even? But he’s doing his best for four year old Yuri (Elise) even if he doesn’t quite feel his emotions fjskldfjs this is all to say since I’m seeing that lynnie is throwing Dante at them we might as well…bring the rest of the crime world to eunjae’s doorstep JFKLSDJFLD <3

If AERI knows of hyun, then she’s also gotta know…hyun’s sister, MIYOUNG 🤩🤩🤩 granted, Aeri might be a tad testy with miyoung since well, it’s not like miyoung could exactly be there for hyun when they were younger and is that really any different from the way bel and sera treated Aeri as condescendingly inferior :’DD ….but I also do like the idea of LGBTQ+ icons being friends with one another / media pals with one another….that and if hyun is hanging out with bel behind Aeri’s back, Aeri might as well…do the same 😂😂😂

you know who MARÍA reminds me of? Yeah that’s right, our favorite pink hair menace Nimona 🤩🤩🤩 they’re both little gremlins ( but very lovable) who wanna start shit. The revolutionary kind of shit…so this being said….WHAT IF?? Instead of Nimona being the cause of BALLISTER’S shift in mind, it could be maría instead?? We could even do it in their modern verse since I believe María does have one and is a werewolf there 🤔🤔🤔

so I know we already have a lot for them, PATRICK and MARÍA and I am a sucker for hurt/comfort with these two, but perhaps?? Later when the revolution is in full swing and should hyuk be kidnapped by the Capitol, a thread there? Aka Patrick cycles between being 💯 focused on the revolution efforts and being two steps away from a mental breakdown bc literally hyuk is his rock and his peace so take away that and uh….not good things happen. This is all to say, it could be interesting to see a scenario where perhaps maría for once is the stabler one ( however much Patrick will try to still be a pillar of stability for her tho 🥲 )

[theglitchos]

tldr: gender is soup. i don't want a dick. but hypotheticals are interesting to consider?

gender and identity is fucking complex, both mentally and physically i am still v much soup regarding my gender expression (ie, my outward aesthetics such as clothes), and my brain has apparently decided to add physicallity, like, my actual body, into the soup. which, to a degree it has already done, there's a reason i have a compression/binding top. but. at charmed, there was going to be a class on gender fuckery. i don't remember if it got cancelled or if i just ended up not going to it, but it was on my small list of "maybe i'll go to that" and tbh, the major reason i was hesitating on going was i was not sure how comfortable i'd be and what reactions would happen in my brain. six years ago, i was new to the online hypnosis community, and i fell in with someone who took advantage of my naivety and curiosity. someone who i was friendly with at the time advised me of things he'd done to them that they were not ok with and they'd cut contact with him, and were a patient sounding-board as i pulled convo logs and processed that yeah, this guy was an asshole and manipulative. i cut ties with him, and afaik he's not in the hypnosis community at all anymore. (look, i'm moderately competent at using the internet, i have my ways of finding things). but anyways. he's the reason i was v hesitant about going to the gender fuckery class? like. part of pulling logs and going through shit… i found logs of where i had explicitly said i wasn't comfortable doing a thing (essentially a "hypno body swap" with another person he was playing with at the time)… and had been manipulated into doing it anyways. it was one of the key things that made me say fuck this i'm yeeting him. which, yay noobGlitch. but yeah. i've been fairly skittish and avoidant of transformative play since then. not to say i haven't dabbled in some forms of it, but nothing involving gender-specific physicality. until i read spitfire. tldr, spitfire is an incredibly queer polyam fantasy smutty romance by maya kern. one of the core characters is a dragon, who can transform his body into whatever physical form he wishes. and uh. yeah. it's good. and it was the first time i'd ever succumbed to the stereotypical trans person's experience of "transformation as a superpower/magical ability would be neat ngl" and ever since then i've become.. not comfortable. i'm not sure i'd ever be truly comfortable. but more open? to at least occasionally considering the idea of having amab physicality instead of afab. idk. on the one hand, i know i'm probably never going to get top surgery or do t or anything else to physically alter my body in that way. my body is fine, i'm used to it, it looks good and feels right most of the time. at some point i want to get a better binder, but what i have right now is fine. i don't want a dick. but that doesn't mean i'm incapable of imagining what having one might be like? sure, it's difficult since i do not have the experience. and most of the time i don't give a shit/prefer my afab body. afab is comfortable now, i'm used to it. ANYWAYS the main originator point of this ramble is i somehow got involved in a discussion about hypothetical dicks, and someone ended up asking "glitch, if i may ask, and i totally get if this is too personal to answer - if it's not a power/control thing, why the desire for specifically getting your hypothetical dick sucked" and my roundabout answer was basically "pleasure good, if it were purely toppy/control then maybe a strapon or something would be fine. but i would only get off mentally? like, there's no physical there." which they spun off into a tangent on "why sex toys that integrate with the human nervous should exist" that was v cyberpunky

-shrug-

[1roentgen]

what do you guys think of the name ‘Auden’ ?

[teamconductors]

Hi! Do you perhaps have any pointers on how to write the twins? I personally think you have one of the most accurate characterizations of them! so do you have any tips? Dialogue or general writing points? As I plan to eventually include them in my own pkmn au comic and I feel just a bit off with my writing for them so far? and I’d love to hear what your thought process Is! ^^

Okay, I'm gonna list some pointers and then include some other stuff under the Read More. Because I really like oversharing.

In terms of characterization, I love how the twins have a lot of differences in addition to their similarities. The most obvious one is Ingo expressing himself primarily through words while Emmet does so primarily through his facial expressions and actions, but there's others as well.

Like yes, obviously they both love trains and battling and raising pokemon. They work so well together that they don't always need to verbally communicate actions in battles. But they aren't the same person.

In terms of dialogue, looking at their quotes pages helps a lot. I pull out these pages when I beginning my editing stage because they usually don't sound quite right during my first draft. Here's Ingo's and here's Emmet's for reference.

Honestly, writing their stuff is a skill! I don't know why they're like this, and I'm sure this is me being like "I love these characters a lot so I wanna make sure I write them perfectly". In the original Lost Tracks one shot, I think I did at least 4 read-throughs specifically for their dialogue to make sure they sounded Right. Now I need 1 or 2.

For my in-depth rules of thumb...

Ingo specific:

Ingo really likes to overshare his feelings. I think it goes hand-in-hand with him relying on his speech to express himself.

He also talks formally! He does a lot of pleasantries and likes to refer to people with their titles (ie Lady Sneasler, Guildmaster Irida)

This is a man who takes his jobs seriously and passionately. This isn't to say Emmet doesn't care, but Ingo strikes me as the person who is so sincere about his role as a train conductor/warden for the Pearl Clan/pokemon rescuer that it scares others sometimes

Ingo seems really introspective. He's thinking about the past and especially the future a lot, ie encouraging people to improve themselves and continuously seek out new goals

(which I think is why he became so depressed in PLA and is still wistful in Lost Tracks)

(PLA/my fic specific) Ingo does things that he doesn't quite know why he does. Probably the most obvious example from my fic was when Ingo charged into the Distorted Floor to check on Team Stardust. He's bothered by this

Emmet specific (I have a harder time with Emmet ngl)

Emmet speaks very matter-of-factly and yet doesn't sound formal. I don't know how to explain this, just look at his quotes page

He tends to speak in shorter sentences

He's also blunt and a bit sassy. Ingo may be his impulse control, but his filter is only halfway equipped properly

Emmet prefers to live in the Now. He is concerned about following schedules, but he can get lost in the moment (especially in a battle) and is focused on having fun now

Because Emmet has a harder time with talking, he does a lot of scripting ("I am Emmet", his spiels about following the rules)

(Ingo does scripting as well but Emmet's is more obvious)

I've always interpreted Emmet's signature smile as him masking! People like it when you smile, right? This isn't applicable to dialogue probably, but it helps form the image I have of him in my mind

Looks up to Ingo, big time. He does care for the safety of others, but the care he has for the safety of family (including his pokemon) is even more so

Both of them:

You can't overdo the train references. You just can't. Whenever I think I did too much, I look at their quotes page, and I'm just like "yeah, they're really like this. These guys are goobers and I love them"

They share a brain cell, especially when they're together. They don't always talk at the same time or see eye-to-eye, but they're on the same page on a lot of things

Ingo tends to lead the way in battles, with Emmet following his lead. This is a trend, not a hard rule

Obviously headcanons affect how you write them. I subscribe to the 'Ingo and Emmet are autistic' camp and that influences how I write them. I like to show them reacting to different textures, and Emmet has explicitly stimmed multiple times, for example

I hope this makes sense? I definitely missed some things, but this is just me rambling about train guys

[stargazer-balladeer]

Jealousy [Genshin Impact]

Characters Included: Kaeya Alberich, Diluc Ragnvindr, Venti & Razor

Notes: Heyo! I was inspired to do this while playing Genshin Impact. Sorry if some may seem OOC, especially Razor’s. Hope ya’ll enjoy this and have a lovely day. 

Reader’s Gender: Neutral

Warnings: None

Kaeya Alberich

— I can see him as someone whose jealous not that often. Like he’s actually more amuse at the fact that someone is flirting with you when its obvious you’re dating the cryo-wielder knight.

— This guy is so chill (pun not intended) ngl. He leaves you be because he knows you can defend yourself from them. Though he will tease you afterwards.

— It just shows how much trusts he has in you. He loves to initiate affectionate things like hugging or kissing or picking you up bridal style. So pretty much everyone in Mondstadt knows you two are together by this.

— But if he sees that someone is clearly making you uncomfortable, its time for him to intervene. He will smoothly slide to your side, with a hand on your waist pressing you to his side, while smiling (or smirking) at the person. He will act his cheery self until that person takes a hint and go away.

— If you started hanging out with Diluc more often, he wouldn’t get jealous at all. In fact, he encourages you two to hang out. He loves the idea of his (adopted) brother and partner getting along. Though if you start hanging out with the pyro-weilder more often, Kaeya will surely drag you away to make you notice him. Leaving an bemused Diluc behind.

— Overall, Kaeya isn’t gonna be jealous, even if you tried.

Diluc Ragnvindr

— I can see him being more of a jealous-type than Kaeya but not too much. Like he trusts you to not leave for another.

— If you start to hang out with opposite gender, Diluc would leave it be. He lets you have the freedom you want. But if he sees that you’ve been hanging out with them a bit too much, then he’ll get jealous.

— How is he when he’s jealous? He grumbles while glaring at the person from afar. You can also see a pout on his face as he stares (reads: glares) down at the person. This usually leads to someone (ie: Kaeya) to tease him, much to Diluc’s dismay.

— Diluc wouldn’t say anything about it, since we all know he’s not much of a talker. He usually do something to attract your attention to get his daily dose of affection from you (like tugging on the back of your shirt, twirling a strand of your hair, or just standing in front of you). But unlike before, when he’s jealous, he’s much more affectionate. Like he’ll initiate a hug or kiss (or maybe sex) with you. But expect him to be blushing while doing it.

— You can instantly know when he’s jealous. Please don’t tease him though lol

— He is not a person who easily meddle with other people, especially your’s, affairs. But when he sees that someone is clearly making you uncomfortable, he wouldn’t hesitate to stand in front of you and stare at the person. No matter who it is, they’ll take a hint and run away (well, except for people like Kaeya or Lisa).

— The person he’s jealous of is none other than Kaeya. He is instantly a bad mood when he sees his adopted brothed talking to his significant other. He likes the idea yes, but he prefers with distance and not THAT close! He would definitely push Kaeya back, pick you up and bring you somewhere (preferrably at his house) while leaving a laughing Kaeya.

— Overall, it’s easy to make him jealous.

Venti

— He’s an easily-jealous guy, even though he’s a God 😐. Out of all the guys here, he’s the one whose easily jealous. (Let’s hope that this wouldn’t turn into a Yandere one 😐)

— Venti spends the last 500 years all by himself, so of course he wants your undivided attention. But he knows that its important in the human cycle to gain and lose people, so whenever you hang out with other people, he’ll pout and sulk but he understands.

— But he usually just join you and the person you’re hanging out with, it goes two ways. One, the other person being uncomfortable in Venti’s presence or, two, a trio hang out :)

— Venti is jealous of most people since he knows the sad truth that you’ll someday leave him to find another of your kin or die. Venti is scared of these possibilities. And that resulted in him being so insecure.

— He might comes off as clingy but please don’t leave him 🥺 He just doesn’t want you to leave him just yet.

— Believe it or not, he’s actually jealous of the Traveler, Aether (the male protagonist). For some reason, whenever he sees you two together, it sets a horrible feeling in his stomach. He hates it.

— Venti loves affection, just like Kaeya, but much more extreme. So expect him suddenly kissing you out of nowhere and hugging you unexpectedly. If you’re shorter than him, expect him to wrap his arms around your waist with his head on top of yours and sway you left and right. I can’t help but gush at how cute it all seems.

— Anyway, if he sees someone making you uncomfortable, he will appear next to you, smiling innocently, as he begans to talk with that person. I don’t think anyone would take him seriously so whoever that person is would ignore him. Venti would probably get annoyed at that, so you might need to drag him away before he could give that person a “piece of his mind”.

— If he sees you hanging out with Aether, he will definitely sulk or whine about it. If he sees someone else, let’s say Diluc, he would pout but wouldn’t whine. He grew to respect Master Diluc ever since the Dvalin’s incident. Besides, free drink :D

— Overall, he’s easily jealous and it wouldn’t be hard to make him jealous.

Razor

— I recently got him and just got his mission (bc I just finished the Dvalin’s Prologue thing), so yeah. Sorry if he’s a bit OOC.

— He doesn’t understand the emotions very well, since you know, he was raised by wolves. But I feel like he’ll be easily jealous, he just doesn’t understand what that feeling is.

— So if you start to hanging out with other people, he would feel lonely and (actually) envious. He will pout but wouldn’t call your attention, instead, just watches you from the shadows.

— Razor can’t talk fluently and actually doesn’t like to talk since it’s hard for him. So he prefers just doing the action, albeit similar to Diluc in a way. Though you might need to teach him how to do some things about being a couple.

— He’s jealous of everyone, not even the same gender is out of his list. He’s jealous because of how fun you seem to be having with them than with him, and how you look so animated while talking.

— Razor’s an insecure wolf boi, so he might copy what other people are doing with you. Like intertwining your hands, hugging you from behind and other things. He might also start giving you things like meat, flowers, etc.

— You might need to reassure him that you wouldn’t leave him all because of his “unique” traits.

— If he sees someone making you uncomfortable, he would raise a brow while frowning, clearly not knowing what’s happening. Yet despite this, he decided to go near you and ask if you need help. The other person might mock him because of his “language” and appearance. This time, it’ll be him trying to drag you away.

— If he sees you hanging out with someone else, he would follow you and that person around. He’s actually quite sneaky when following you, with a few close-calls. Though you might catch on once you notice a strand of light blue hair sticking out of a rock.

— Please just ask him to join :)

— Overall, he’s a jealous-envious kind of person.

[x] Main Page || [x] Mondstadt Page

[katierosefun]

god okay this might sound totally ridiculous, but do you know of a good source for finding the names of all the beyond evil characters? cause i'm trying to write my first fic for the fandom, but literally the names are spelled differently everywhere i look. like, for example, sometimes its dongsik. but sometimes it's also dong-sik, or dong sik, or dong shik. and ngl, it's stressing me out.

oh, not a ridiculous question at all! i personally go to asianwiki for the names of characters who i might not remember quite as well (ie. i needed to look up the name of kang do su's wife, im seon nyeo...i remember liking her character a lot, but they also don't say her name a whole ton, so that's why i was glad this page existed.)

in terms of name consistency: i personally like putting a space between the characters' name syllables (so "Dong Sik" instead of "dongsik" or "dong-sik") just because i feel like that's the closest in terms of authenticity, only because one of my korean friends pointed out that a lot of people feel the need to put the syllables together or hyphenate names as some way to appease westerners...which....i can understand that perspective, but idk? as a korean-american, i'm not entirely bothered by it (for example, i spell the romanization of my own korean name as one name--"hyejin" instead of "hye jin"). but when it comes to writing fic, i guess that thing my friend told me stuck with me, which is why i separate the syllables. (that said though, i'm not very offended by those who stick the syllables together, and i don't think most people are bothered by it either).

in terms of more specific character names: i would very much go with "dong sik" over "dong shik" just because the subtitles in more common streaming platforms like netflix or viki use "dong sik", i believe. i personally also prefer "joo won" over "ju won" just mostly out of personal preferences? (and also idk, if i want to write that joo won's name is cut off, it's just more satisfying to me to write "joo--" instead of "ju--", so that's a silly reason, but it makes sense to me lol)

anyways, long story short: it doesn't particularly matter. i say if anything, choose your preferred spelling and keep it consistent throughout the fic! best of luck writing!

[missguomeiyun]

Yirgacheffe Latte Double Shot by iBrew

Review of a birthday gift I received from Tkan & her husband.

I had to Google what Yirgacheffe was bcos I had no idea. Yirgacheffe is a region in Ethiopia where coffee beans thrive! Its climate, elevation, & other conditions are very well suited for growth of beans & so basically, it’s a famous region that Ethiopian beans originate from. I also read somewhere that bcos of its high elevation, the beans generally have a citrus / berry tone to them.

Sides of the box - medium roast =/ NGL, I was a little . .. not disappointed, but like .. you know, I like dark roasts. Just a preference!

So much writing :O the important thing is: they were #1 from 2016-19 for the Korean Consumer Satisfaction Index (ie: Korean love them; them as in the brand iBrew).

Brewing instructions

Ooooooh the individual packaging is so sleek! Omgg I’m in love! The individual sticks were in this matte black packaging & it feels so good lol

The “open” end was very easy to open.

That looks like a lot of milk/cream powder content o_O

Added 100mL boiling water, & stirred well.

The aroma was actually very light. Some instant coffees, as soon as you open the pack / before you even add water, you can smell strong coffee scent. This Yirgacheffe double shot was very mild throughout. Even as I was stirring, it didn’t smell ‘strong’, you know what I mean?

The flavour . .. haha they asked me this too bcos they wanted to know. I described it with the following:

“mellow, velvety, comforting, harmonious, unassuming... safe choice”

It was very easy to consume, as in the mouth feel was soft & pleasant. In my opinion, is like a “for everyone” type of drink - for those who don’t normally drink coffee, for those who do drink coffee but not into the dark/smoky coffee, beginner coffee drinkers testing out the waters looking for an instant coffee... you know?  Hence I started using personality trait terms. It’s a crowd-pleaser haha it’s not harsh, not strong, calm XD it’s not full of light & bright energy, & it’s not blunt & bold.

TBH I’m not the biggest fan of it. From an instant coffee perspective, it’s unexciting with no real character. Some instant coffees, as you know, are more sweet (those 3-in-1 kinds), while others are black espressos. I actually would prefer the sweet ones over this Yirgacheffe double shot. I generally don’t like lattes to begin with so being a medium roast latte . .. noo.... sorry!

[johannestevans]

ngl there's something very funny to me that the people who comment on fanfic WIPs asking thing like "when's the next update?" or "how long is it going to take you to finish this?" are. almost guaranteed to be people who've never commented on the WIP before

no one is obligated to comment on fanfiction.

some people don't comment until the end bc they can't do chapter by chapter, some people need time to edit comments, some people just don't have time, don't feel comfortable with writing like they do reading, are nervous, etc

i personally certainly prefer people who don't comment over those who comment only an emoji or a one word comment, and I often delete those 🤷‍♂️ as far as I see it, stuff like that is what the kudos button is for, and i don't get a direct notification about kudos

but commenting on and engaging with fanfic authors, reccing and talking about fics you like, etc is, imo, like... part of the community aspect of fandom?

for me as an author, i have frequently abandoned WIPs bc of a lack of vocal engagement

it's all very well getting loads of kudos and bookmarks, but when the draw of creating fanfic is the community engagement and social aspect, which it always has been for me, there's no point writing fanfic that people don't comment on no matter how popular it actually is

comment culture has changed significantly over the past few years - the combination of growing fandoms, more centralised sites (ie not like LJ) and less direct interaction between authors and readers outside of ao3 sometimes, people work more, and ppl "consume" fanfic like media

not to mention that gutting literature and history classes in many places and the increasingly literalist approach to media analysis has made people a lot less adept at doing their own analysis of what they read and putting their thoughts into words

but when people don't comment on the actual content of a fanfic, but DO say... are you gonna write more???? when?? more? more chapter?

like. babe. why should i? i wrote it, and you didn't say anything in response

so why should i write /you/, specifically, more?

and honestly a big part of declining comment culture in fandom was a large contributor in why i stopped writing fanfic entirely to write my own original work, and even now why I'm only writing fanfic for a fandom that's actually respectful of authors and their time - ST DS9

but funnily enough I still regularly get people petulantly demanding why I'm not abandoning my professional working job writing my own stuff, which for many people is a dream, to go back and update a good omens or HP fanfic

and saying its UNFAIR I've ~abandoned~ fandom

when it's like... look.

fandom culture has changed. that's okay. comment culture has changed, and approach to media analysis, including fanfic analysis, has changed, that's okay too. you don't owe fanfic authors anything!

but we don't owe readers anything either lmao

you don't get to have it both ways

"oh but i read it! i got invested in the story! it's unfair not to finish it!"

you think the author who wrote it wasn't invested in it themselves? you think maybe they weren't also invested in... people reading it? lol

[kae-karo]

Ok so I am in love with your fantasy AU (the one that starts with DabiHawks) on AO3 especially the BaukTodo one 🥰 sooo my question is, do you have any quick advice for an amateur writer that wants to do their own fantasy AU? But I love novels of advice too in case you have time haha i know it’s silly to thank you for this but I appreciate how approachable you are. I’m just shy lol ok bye…

HI DEAR I HOPE U KNOW THIS ASK MADE MY DAY ???? u are so sweet, first of all thank u so much i'm so glad you're enjoying it so much!!! ngl i love excuses to talk about writing from a meta perspective so i am ALWAYS glad to offer my thoughts!! (also, fantasy dabihawks et al series for reference - x)

i think when it comes to a fantasy au especially (although this could feasibly be applied to other au ideas) there are 2 key approaches, and really that just depends on how you personally prefer to write. the first is a worldbuilding-focused approach, the second is a character-focused approach

in a worldbuilding-focused approach, i usually view the goal as setting the stage for your characters to be dropped in - building the magic system, if it exists, the political system/governing bodies and hierarchical systems, the world state (wars? power struggles/imbalances? stuff like that), and the local states that might affect your characters (ie are they subjected to the governing bodies? the justice system? the slums or small towns? etc) - i actually have a good friend who ADORES worldbuilding, so a lot of this is stuff i've learned from him. from there, the world gets applied to the characters - do they have magic? if so, how does that affect them? are they a part of the governing body, subject to it, outside it? etc. i'll be super honest, though, this approach is not my strong suit when it comes to fantasy aus! i'm not a very good planner, and going from the outside in (worldbuilding first) requires a lot of planning 😔

so, with that said, i'll dive into my personal approach, which is character-driven. and, in many cases, situation/interaction-driven - i'm more adept at starting small and working my way outwards as topics become relevant, and i am notoriously very horrible at planning, so if you are a planning person, this might not be your exact cup of tea lmao

okay so i think fantasy aus are SO much fun but can definitely be tricky, if you are like me and are a very character-driven/interaction-driven person when writing. if you are indeed like me and haven't built out a whole entire world from scratch prior to building (or inserting, when we're talking fanfic) the characters/interactions, some things that i've found helpful to have really solidly nailed down are the magic system (if there is one), general political climate (kingdoms? rival countries? power structure? religion?), and relevant influencing factors

for a magic system, which tends to factor pretty heavily into my fantasy aus, my key considerations are typically:

how does magic happen? via writing? speech? diagrams/glyphs? rituals? a natural energy flow from a person who can control magic? can everyone control magic or just certain people? are certain items involved/required for conduit purposes, or for ritual purposes?

what is the cost? most of the time, magic has a cost, though it doesn't have to (especially if magic isn't central to the story!) but it can be meaningful (like dabi's magic in my fantasy au) to the character's development or mannerisms, or to the way they interact with the world. costs could look like energy drain/passing out in extreme circumstances, physical costs, costs prior to doing magic (sacrifices of some kind, either to oneself or others), emotional costs/effects (i'm lumping this in here, but magic users with innate magic of some sort having emotional moments that trigger their magic is *chef's kiss* content!!), is the cost a damage to their mental health, etc!

what are the limits? can magic do anything? (if it's not relevant to the story, maybe it can! or limits are never discussed, but usually, they matter!) it could be a user's limits, limitations of creation or impossibility, or varying degrees of difficulty - transportation might be a challenge, but lighting a fire might be considered simple. or the other way around, if that makes sense in the world or for the story! this can also tie in with costs - ie a healer might not be able to heal a lethal wound if the cost for magic is one's own energy, as that might mean the magic user would have to die in order to heal the other person!

what is the societal reaction to magic? friendly, wary, outright hostile? is there any relation to religion, if it's relevant? is magic ubiquitous? rare? just rare enough that it's unusual to come across, but not unheard of? is magic classified in any way, either to outside users or to everyone? is it categorized or structured, ie with terms like '-mancer' (pyromancer, necromancer, etc)? is magic forbidden, or are certain kinds forbidden? if so, why? and how logical is that forbiddenness? is it out of a desire to protect magic users? or to protect non-magic users? or some other reason altogether?

what is the characters' reaction to magic? how do they feel about it? are they a user? if so, do the costs affect them? how, and how severely? do they fall into a category of magic user? are they set apart from other magic users in some way? what are their opinions in comparison to the overall societal opinions on magic? how do they react when encountering new people, where magic is involved?

this is a super minor one but i find it useful to pick terms and stick to them! are the magic users called magicians? sorcerers? wizards? witches? mages? do they vary based on the magic user? are there gendered terms? are there slurs, if that's relevant? what are the magic activities referred to as? spells? rituals? incantations? are there more specific terms for types of magic (again, terms like pyromancer, necromancer, etc), or terms for different degrees of magic, dnd-style? basically, because we're the ones defining it, sticking with something consistent helps reader understanding, and if there's a difference between 'witch' and 'sorcerer', or 'incantation' and 'ritual' if it's relevant!

ngl a lot of times i have this sort of already intrinsically figured out by virtue of what i'm writing, what characters will be a part of it, and how they interact - i knew the cost of dabi's magic would be something physical early on, and knew the reaction both hawks and initial village would have to his magic. the limits i ended up figuring out in tandem with the concrete decision about how the cost manifested, and the method of magic was basically decided from the start to be something intrinsic that didn't require any spells, words, etc! however, i crafted the method by which dabi received his magic as i went, mostly by answering relevant questions as they arose within the framework i'd already built

i've also written fics where magic doesn't have a huge prevalence, but it does exist - and most of the time with those, my process is 'only answer the questions that need to be answered'. how does the character do healing magic? it's innate, he was born with it, but he doesn't use it often because it draws dark forces to him and is widely unaccepted outside his home country. why is it unaccepted? oh, because the dark forces are dangerous, and they've gone to war with the people in his home country. there, questions about magic answered in a satisfying way, with the depth relevant to the plot. as a side note, is there a cost to this character's magic? nah, not really, because the cost isn't relevant and he doesn't use his magic often enough in the story for it to be a topic of discussion. for the most part, i find i work best when the amount of effort i put into building the magic system directly aligns with how relevant it is to the story

okay now that i've waffled about magic for like sixty five years,,,,,everything else lmao. i think it's pretty relevant to at least have an idea of the political (and religious, if relevant!) climate to the extent that it affects your characters - dabi is (spoiler alert i guess?) son of the king, hawks is a part of the spy network. the characters fit into the political structure, which means i need to build it out around them as far as it's relevant. and ofc that got a lot more complicated as i started adding characters, so for me personally, i found it especially beneficial (contrary to instinct) to have only built out exactly what i needed to know. it gave me a lot more freedom and flexibility to build beyond that with new characters without directly contradicting anything i'd done/said so far. this is definitely my personal favored approach, but there's also nothing wrong with planning it all out ahead of time - if you've accounted for everything relevant one way or the other, then it hardly matters how you got there!! i'm just horrendous at planning lmao

and now i'm using the most generic term in the world but..."relevant influencing factors". which is super vague, but really i just mean...what matters to the characters? if i'd told my whole story from, say, bakugou's pov, all the stuff about the intricacies of dabi's magic might be totally irrelevant, and there wouldn't have been much need to even build out all that detail. but i might've had a much stronger focus in detailing the army's proceedings, the hierarchy, etc (which doesn't become relevant for dabi and hawks til they're dealing with it directly!) this could expand in a thousand directions, but basically the gist of it is twofold: relevance to the characters in the moment and relevance to them eventually. if your characters are coming across something, make sure you know what your characters need to know about it, then make sure you know what you as an author need to know!

say they're stumbling across a shop in the rain - do the characters care about the wares being sold? the shopkeeper or the building? if they do, how much do they care? passing notice, maybe more ardent notice if it's a character known for their attention to detail or awareness of surroundings? maybe it hardly matters what they sell, your characters are only staying for the night, they'll be gone by morning. but you as the author want them to take note of the shopkeeper - maybe a physical description, if it's relevant later, or something they say, etc. maybe you have a whole entire backstory for them, or maybe you don't! maybe the characters only note that the roof is leaking, but everything else about the building is irrelevant. rinse, repeat, and apply to everything your characters come across! sometimes, this is where worldbuilding really shines, if you don't have to build the world as you go - but sometimes, building as you go leads to new ideas and discoveries that take you off the beaten path! that's part of why i love character/situation-driven approaches so much, it allows me more freedom to have my characters change course. perhaps one of the characters would notice something unusual about the shopkeeper, maybe ask after some topic and discover something that becomes cleverly relevant later on, or maybe it steers them down a different path from that point forward! either way, i find that 'what is relevant to my characters'/'what might be/will be relevant down the road' helps me build exactly the world i need to tell the story i want to tell

okay last point i promise lmaooo i know you wanted a novel i'm giving u like a four part series alskdjfsdf but the other general things i've found helpful are timelines (i had one written out for the dabihawks fantasy au once it got more complicated!) to make sure characters are referencing the right times/time periods (ie a week ago, two weeks ago, etc). i've also done timelines that include which characters were where, if that got especially complex. and while i don't often have planning docs anymore, for big stories like that, i had a lot of my details about the magic system, concepts, ideas, etc all written down in one place to refer back to and make sure i was consistent! i also have a personal discord server for just me where i put ideas now, and i'll make channels (most of the time, if i'm somewhat organized) that have references/scenes/etc which serves as the equivalent of a planning doc nowadays

ANYWAY i hope that was somewhat helpful? every now and then i have the thought to do a (general) writing advice post, so perhaps i'll do that at some point if there's any desire for more/more generic thoughts/experiences/advice?

[unforth]

Are there issues with svsss and consent (Just things I’ve heard I wanna know before I read it invade it’s rly not my thing lmfao) or are they more “issues” like in mdzs?

Hmm...okay, so I read SVSSS a bit ago, and pretty quickly, but the answer is basically...yes there are consent issues but I honestly think they’re actually more mild than in MDZS? But it’s also a little complicated, and some of them are different issues...

(spoilers under the read more)

Okay. So, on an overarching plot level, I can think of three potential things that might lead people to say there are consent issues related to the main ship, Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe. Note that I haven’t really seen any posts on this topic so I don’t, like, know what issues people single out? I’m pretty much just guessing.

1. Shen Qingqiu is an advanced cultivator and a teacher. Luo Binghe is considerably younger, and his student. This, obviously, could be seen as problematic. However, I personally didn’t feel it was (even though I’m personally sensitive to this dynamic and generally uncomfortable with it) for a few reasons:

a. Shen Qingqiu has absolutely no idea that Luo Binghe is crushing on him when they’re young. He’s as clueless as can be. (I’ll explain why when I get to “thing two that might make people think it’s problematic”). Like, to a reader who knows where things are going, it’s pretty darn obvious, but Shen Qingqiu is entirely fixated on a belief that Luo Binghe is developing a relationship with another disciple named Ning Yingying, and while he’s occasionally confused, like, “huh why did that happen?” he really is absolutely clueless. 

b. Then, for plot reasons, they’re separated for five years...and when Luo Binghe returns, Shen Qingqiu thinks Luo Binghe hates him (for  plot reasons), and then they’re separated AGAIN for another five years (or maybe it was 3? something like that) and only then does Shen Qingqiu finally realize he’s massively misunderstood literally everything. So...they haven’t had a student/teacher dynamic for about a decade by the time they actually start having a relationship.

c. While their apparent age difference is pretty big, their actual age difference isn’t, because...

2. Alright, so the basic premise of SVSSS is that a young man named Shen Yuan dies after reading a stag/harem novel, and then wakes up and discovers that he’s been transplanted into the novel he was reading...in the role of one of the villains. From that point forward, the older man “Shen Qingqiu” is actually Shen Yuan. Shen Yuan is still older than Luo Binghe, but less so...Luo Binghe is roughly 14 or 15 when the book starts, and Shen Yuan is probably 20 or 21. Now, that might be an awkward age difference if they started a relationship right away, but as I say above - years and years pass before anything happens. First, the story advances by about 4 years (give or take, it might be more even) before their first separation, and then ten more years pass before they get together. So at the point when Luo Binghe and Shen Yuan (in the body of Shen Qingqiu) actually get together, Luo Binghe is probably around 30 and Shen Yuan is probably around 36, which...that age difference is not significant between two adults, imo. 

Further, because Shen Yuan “knows” what happens in the novel, he also knows - it was a stag harem novel. So instead of seeing Luo Binghe’s behavior toward him and thinking, “oh no my student has a crush on me,” he spends ALL the time before the separation being like, “oh, Ning Yingying - she’s in his harem! Oh, that other character - also in his harem! Aw look, first meeting with a member of the harem! Oh oh look he’s talking to a harem member.” He has absolutely no fucking clue and it’s ridiculous.

However, all that said...Luo Binghe never actually finds out that Shen Yuan isn’t the same person as Shen Qingqiu, or that Shen Yuan is even in there. It’s clear in the extras that basically everyone who knew Shen Qingqiu figured out that something had changed and collectively decided... “well the change was for the better so uh let’s just not do anything about it okay?” Luo Binghe isn’t part of that conversation, so it could be argued that while Luo Binghe consented to be in a relationship with Shen Qingqiu, he never consented to be with Shen Yuan. It’s a weak argument, though, since Shen Yuan’s arrival is what derails the original harem plot of the “novel” and causes Luo Binghe to fall in love with Shen Qingqiu - so Luo Binghe never loved the original Shen Qingqiu, he always loved the Shen Yuan version of Shen Qingqiu. So...there is a minor consent issue here since Luo Binghe doesn’t know but it’s small.

3. Now, the third point also relates to the Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan divide. Shen Qingqiu BEFORE he becomes Shen Yuan is a nasty piece of work, and is highly abusive toward Luo Binghe. Early on, Shen Yuan is kinda...forced...to continue being abusive? Like, there’s this computer System that’s forcing Shen Yuan to “stay in character,” and he’ll literally die (again, for real and permanently this time) if he doesn’t do things at least somewhat like Shen Qingqiu would. But as soon as he “levels up” high enough that he is “allowed” to behave out of character compared to Shen Qingqiu, he stops being abusive and goes out of his way to help and support Luo Binghe. Now, despite that, I could see a case being made that the weird combination of “highly abusive toward” and then “nice” could be seen as manipulative and gaslighty, so that would open up another potential avenue for consent issues.

Now, on a specific “things that happen” event, all of the ACTUAL consent issues are in the other direction - Luo Binghe toward Shen Qingqiu. Cause Luo Binghe is...kinda a whiny bitch...and he is not very good at taking no for an answer. Like, at one point he literally kidnaps Shen Qingqiu and holds him prisoner. Actually wait, he does that at two separate points. And he always kinda...bullies...Shen Qingqiu in a way that pushes into Shen Qingqiu’s comfort zone.

Further, their first time is flat-out fuck or die (Luo Binghe is the top in the book and Shen Qingqiu is the bottom). That’s explicit, it’s not played as romantic, and Shen Qingqiu doesn’t enjoy it and doesn’t pretend to enjoy it. That’s not to say he’s unwilling - by that point it’s fairly clear he’d like to have sex with Luo Binghe in other circumstances, but it’s very rough and injures him pretty badly, there’s no prep, etc., so it’s not a good experience and it’s not treated as one, but Shen Qingqiu does volunteer because it’s important to him to prevent the “die” part. Luo Binghe feels bad afterwards. Reading it actually gave me more appreciation of MDZS because the scene made it clear that MXTX really does understand consent in ways that hadn’t been clear to me when I read the translation of MDZS.

In general...these two communicate for shit, and so things are never as clear cut as they should be. Also, at least for me personally, I never really fully “bought” that Shen Qingqiu was in love with Luo Binghe. Like, he’s affectionate and indulgent, but in romantic love? I dunno. So in that regard their being a thing always left me a little...unsure...maybe? But that’s a personal preference, and I’m sure there are others who felt differently, and it also might read differently in a different translation or in the original Chinese.

As an aside, there is a side ship which isn’t featured prominently in the novel but is significantly developed in the extras (like, a lot of the extras are literally about them, instead of the main ship). ngl...I wasn’t very interested in them so I didn’t read all their extras? So I couldn’t say for sure? But certainly, those two have some huge power level differences that I could see leading to consent issues, and also, one of them is also from “the real world” and transported in the “novel” (he’s the author) so that also adds a layer of complication.

Sorry if this is confusing...it’s not the easiest book to explain to someone unfamiliar with it. 

tl:dr, I personally didn’t think the consent issues were severe; the structural ones (ie, age difference and teacher/student) might LOOK severe on the surface but aren’t as the story is executed, and the “actual” consent issues (ie the fuck or die) are handled, at least in my opinion, better and more clearly than the ones in MDZS were.

Everyone else reading this...did I miss anything? I can’t think of anything else but my memory is so fucking shot that I can’t say I trust me as much as I’d like to.

Overall, I think it’s my least favorite of the three novels, not because it’s bad but because it just doesn’t quite feel...finished. Like, it’s such an interesting idea, and MXTX does a masterful job of twisting tropes throughout it, and more than either of the other books, it improved my opinion of her as a writer, but it feels a little incomplete, like maybe it was more story than she was actually ready to write? Like...she had this idea and she wasn’t quite a good enough writer to see it through to it’s logical conclusion yet, but all the pieces were there, so the potential is through the rough but the execution is a little lacking. Especially, the ending felt a bit rushed/abrupt to me. Then again, I feel that way constantly so some of that was probably me, I like a lot of denouement at the end of a story. (My favorite is TGCF, with MDZS in second and SVSSS in a close third...purely as a novel I didn’t like MDZS all that much but some of that was probably a translation issue.)

ANYWAY.

I’ll stop now.

If, after all that, you’re interested in reading it, I read two translations:

1. This translation, hosted on Tumblr, is really good but still a work in progress (they’ve released like four chapters since I read it in October.) I thought it was excellent and really enjoyed it.

2. Since that one wasn’t finished, I read the rest and the extras here. It was also good, but not quite as good in my opinion.

Hope this helps!

[inkykeiji]

Thank you so much, Clari, both for responding quickly and for the response itself. (I was kinda anxious about this ngl) and I knew you weren't intentionally trying to hurt anyone! I'm glad you understand what I was trying to say and didn't feel hurt or attacked because that's the last thing I want😭 I make a conscious effort to separate cw and tw because boy oh boy have I gotten myself in sticky situations by using those interchangeably without a second thought so I suspected that's sorta what happened here. I prefer drawing stuff which I also have to tag appropriately and I really think that as artists (writing is art too!) we need to use cw just as much as tw. I genuinely can't express how thankful I am that you understand that, it's kinda silly but it makes all the difference. Someone who's unaware of what polyamory is would really misunderstand if it's labeled as a trigger, same with anything else that's not actually a trigger. And don't worry, I understand what you're saying completely so don't worry, you did not leave any room for misunderstandings about the bad relationships part of your response! :3 if anyone wants to avoid reading the xmas series because of the poly content then they should block the cw tag for it and not the tw tag!! I really hope I didn't start a war in your inbox though ;-; I'll be looking forward to reading the xmas series because it's not that often that I find stories with poly relationships written respectfully or by a person who understands them well enough so it will be the best gift to be able to feel so loved and included through a story with some of my favorite characters written by someone I admire so much. Thank you again Clari and keep warm! The weather is getting really bad in many places in the world🎃🧡

absolutely!! no problem <33 it's a serious issue, and likewise the last thing i would want is for you to think that i don't care or that i am intentionally trying to be disrespectful.

(just putting the rest under a read more because i know it's gonna get long hahaha)

no, you're right, and i should do the same, so thank you very much for bringing that to my attention!! i will be much more mindful about the differences between tw and cw in my tags going forward (though i plan to leave the general 'warnings' at the top of my pieces the same, though maybe i could bold the trigger warnings and leave the content warnings unbolded? at the moment i had only been bolding severe triggers (ie mental illness) but i think maybe bolding triggers in my little warnings paragraph is a good idea, too! just as an extra precautionary measure). i am also very glad to hear that you knew i had no ill intentions and could kind of see the error/mistake (as in, you could guess/suspect why it happened), and once again i am very grateful you brought it to my attention immediately!! this is how we learn and grow and become better, right? <3 i entirely agree with you, we need to use cw just as much as tw!

it is NOT silly. if it hurt you, or you felt insulted by it, it is not at all silly. your feelings are important, and they deserve to be heard and discussed!! you bring up very good points, and have been kind and respectful in bringing my mistake to my attention, thus aiding me in correcting it promptly!! additionally, i hope that through my mistake and you bringing awareness to it, that others can learn from it and be careful and mindful about cws and tws as well!! <3

you didn't start a war in my inbox at all, don't you worry about it pumpkin! i think everyone can understand where you're coming from, and i think everyone can understand where i was coming from, as well as my mistake. so there's no war to be had <3 your feelings towards the matter are valid and, again, i'm very happy you brought them up to me immediately so i could 1. explain myself and calm your anxieties/soothe any pain i had caused, and 2. so i could rectify the situation immediately as to not accidentally hurt anyone else/cause any further misunderstandings (on any side!).

i'm super glad to hear that you're looking forward to my christmas series for this year!! i would like to take this moment to warn you though that there will be rocky moments throughout their relationship in the series (ie verbal fights, feelings will be hurt, misunderstandings will be had, there will be some jealousy + some possessiveness (purely because those are traits specific to my characters regardless of whether the relationship is poly or not) and learning how to deal with those emotions/soothe them/find compromises, there is definitely a hefty amount of angst in there, tomura + dabi are still quite toxic), especially because they are literally JUST starting out, so one of the main themes of the series, or it's purpose and what it aims to explore and dissect, is how the three of them are learning and growing together, and how each of them is learning how to navigate this new relationship dynamic and this new chapter (the very first metaphorical chapter, or book, really, that's being penned by all THREE of them!) in their lives! so in that way i think it is very realistic as well. but there are plenty of super sweet moments that i think make up for the angst <3 either way, i always aim to be as respectful as i possibly can in my work <33 i just wanted to explicitly make it known that it won't be ALL sunshine and rainbows: bittersweet, just like life truly is <3 i will be very diligent in the warnings for each piece of my christmas series, i promise!

aw pumpkin you are the sweetest and i am sending you so so so much love!!! it is VERY cold over here hehehe we've been getting a lot of snow and i love it!! i'm not sure if it's cold where you are, but i hope you are staying safe and cozy either way <33

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i recently downloaded twitter n i've noticed some stuff. ngl, i think tumblr these days is very calm and nice, and twitter has a *reputation*. but their formats are fairly similar? the main diff i think is that on twitter, not only are you more likely, but you will definitely see whatever a lot of ppl are talking about. on tumblr, u get to stay in ur lane WAY more imo. dk where i'm going with this lol, i kinda just wanted to hear ur thoughts?

Can’t talk too much about this, because I never use twitter. I downloaded it for my professional life and then decided that actually I didn’t want to go down that road, and so now it’s just dormant on my phone

But I think twitter is more performative. Many people use social media apps are used to be seen, not just to consume content. Tumblr is like that in a sense too, but there’s a veil of anonymity here that doesn’t exist like on twitter. I’m a blog. But on twitter, I’m a person. That, along with all the real life people (ie. verified accounts), breeds a different environment. Interacting and calling people out is more intimate and in your face on twitter because of formatting. On tumblr, it’s a lot harder to scroll through your notes, you know?

I don’t know. There’s a lot of reasons why the difference might exist. There’s still plenty of similarities between the websites of course, but I still prefer tumblr’s format. It feels more like the website equivalent of hanging out in our sweatpants and looking at funny posts and cool art.