#i’m adding them because i’m shippy lmao

[olderthannetfic]

I kinda understand “minors don’t interact” and similar things, but one thing I always laugh at is “don’t tag as [thing].” You know — the whole don’t tag posts with the word queer in them as q slur, don’t tag not-inherently-shippy art as ship, don’t tag character posts as kin, etc. First of all, what would you do if someone DOES tag it like that? Call the cops? Second of all, people are gonna tag things however they want, you’re gonna have to deal with that on a website like tumblr.

There’s a similar phenomenon on Twitter where people say “don’t quote retweet”/“don’t private quote retweet” (which is especially funny cuz everyone is gonna see that and go on their private accounts and quote retweet with nonsense to piss you off, lmao)

Like if you’re really SO FUCKING SCARED of your gay post being tagged as #q slur, your Death Note edit being tagged as #Lawlight, your fanart being tagged as #kin, you probably shouldn’t be on the internet. Do you have the right to not view queer as a slur, the right to not ship whatever, the right to not like fictionkin? Of course! But people also have the right to disagree with you and tag your post however the fuck they want. One time I saw someone tag one of my cosplays as [character] faceclaim, and I was a little bit weirded out, but overall it was harmless. I never once considered adding a banner saying not to tag my likeness as a faceclaim, because if I really want to prevent anyone from doing that, the solution will be for me to not show my face online.

Small tangent: When I was younger I used to have a private sideblog that was basically just a venting diary. No one had the password, and, because it was private, my URL wouldn’t show up in the notes if I reblogged something to that blog. Basically, no one knew the blog existed. And I remember sometimes I would see a cool post on my dash, or in tags, and it would be tagged as #dont reblog (this was before tumblr had the option to limit reblogs obviously). And if the post was cool (or edgy, because like I said… vent blog) and I was sad that I “couldn’t” reblog it, I’d reblog it to the side blog, where OP would never know 😭 Rebellious as hell wasn’t I?

That being said — and this might contradict everything I just wrote — I do think people that brag about not reading/not following DNIs are also a bit obnoxious. Not people who just make statements that they don’t read them, but people who make it known how much they hate their existence. It just seems kinda edgelord-y? Idk. Obviously it’s fine to not read them or like them but making it a huge statement is just like…ok? Congratulations? Should we throw you a party? Should we invite Elon Musk?

I have followers—and follow people—who have “Antis DNI” in their bio. I also have followers and follow people who have “Proshippers DNI” in their bio. No one will ever know what side I’m on 😜😜😜😜

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[padawansuggest]

If I say I don’t want talk about xxx ship on a post of mine. I promise you, I mean it in the kindest way. There are a lot of ships in the world that straight up make me sick, or trigger (as in, actual freaking flashbacks of being bullied lmao) me because of the shippers in the past being terrible. I can’t even reblog any of those SPN New Meme posts because that itself is a triggering ship for me. Not even because of them, I’m ambivalent towards the ship, it’s the fans that ruined it for me.

But if I make a post with *insert two popularly shippable characters* in it, and put in the tags not to talk about this as a ship, I don’t even get annoyed if you TAG it as that, I just sorta get annoyed if you reply or add a comment adding more shippy stuff to it. That’s when I get annoyed. I don’t even care if you extrapolate on the ship in the tags, you do you, I just get annoyed if I ask that no one reply or comment about xxx ship but they ignore that.

And I never really put this one into words till not because it took till now to realize that I don’t really HATE any ships or want the shippers to never touch my stuff, like I said, you do you, but, it’s more like, I can’t handle a post I made (Aka: something I made for me, and people talking about it in replies or comments makes me happier so like bugger off and make your own if you wanna play with that) being turned into something that makes me not wanna touch the post.

It’s sorta like if you made a post saying something about ‘I want an AU where-‘ but someone comments on it being all ‘okay but it would be better if-‘ like. Nah. Go make your own shit. You clearly got words to say go make your own post so you can have funny little bullshit like I do that gives you the happies too. Go give yourself the happies without shitting on someone else’s serotonin.

I’m not saying it’s THAT rude even, but I mostly mean like. Yeah. That’s where my enjoyment of that post ended. A post I made for myself. So like. Idk. Y’all can still ship things just don’t throw them at people who don’t wanna.

[bitchlessbkg]

you know what’s been on my mind recently? allmight the hero has always had part of OFA lost (and inching closer to his end as a hero) due to him sacrificing himself for katsuki.

during the sludge villain his time in his allmight/OFA form was lowered, during kamino he lost OFA entirely and couldn’t be “allmight,” but Allmight still existed as a vestige in OFA, and now once again we are setting up for “allmight” (OFA) sacrificing itself to save bakugou from death. it’s interesting because as allmight he always failed to reach katsuki’s heart, only saving him physically, but it is when allmight (with OFA) no longer physically existed — when he is toshi — that he connects to katsuki and is reminded that he too, is only a boy, and who gives him the formula to become the greatest hero.

it makes this card moment much more impactful, because it reminds us of that fact — katsuki is just a boy who wanted to be like his favorite hero, and in an act of self sacrifice to save/win (that hypocritical gremlin) he is regretting not asking for an autograph.

there’s an interesting concept to discuss surrounding allmight the hero as part of OFA slowly going away as bakugou is growing into his own hero who saves to win. each moment of allmight saving him has been a big step in changing how he sees the world and his ideals in relation to allmight, and each time he grows closer to the hero to occupy half of allmight’s legacy (the one who’s a leader that inspires others to win just as allmight inspires him to win) allmight with OFA gets closer to becoming toshi and him being quirkless again.

from @pikahlua’s post/meta about this chapter with 2nd’s quirk being switch and bakugou’s vestige being in place of allmights in OFA and izuku becoming the greatest hero with katsuki together (in his head lol), i honestly believe that toshi sacrificing his vestige self (allmight the hero as apart of OFA) is him taking a back seat and letting katsuki and izuku fulfill their greatest heroes destiny/goal seeing how bakugou grew as a hero and matched izuku — his sacrifice this chapter mimicking izuku proves it. he’s preventing bakugou’s death (his spiritual one at least, i do think bakugou physically is dead for the moment) and giving him an opportunity to still be by deku’s side this fight. “allmight” is no more both physically and in OFA, but katsuki and izuku in OFA = allmight, and izuku is still there physically so together they’re allmight physically too (pika explains it better lol).

also, if the 2nds quirk is switch, it gives deku a chance to save bakugou by returning his spirit to his body! it’s about time bakugou accepted deku’s hand for him to save him, right?

i do think this moment had so much emotional weight behind it because bakugou truly believes he’s going to die despite his spirit going into OFA because his physical body is dead, and even if second’s quirk could give his spirit/soul back to his body it has no life in it. no doubt the news of his temporary death is going to impact a lot of people (the class/friends/teachers) as well and the morale of everyone in this battle (i want hori to milk the bakugou-dying-inspiring-them-to-win-and-stay-alive angst out of this lol).

i believe that physical toshi is fine (in fact, i believe kamino did the duty of separating toshi and “allmight the hero with OFA” as allmight uses up the last embers he had of the quirk to defeat AFO. OFA is no longer inside of him, but his heroic will as allmight still resides in OFA). i want him to see his legacy and impact stretch from izuku and katsuki to the class like what stain told him about and aizawa foreshadowed before. i want him to witness the new generation upholding what he represented, but making society better. there’s been too much riding on changing fate and him choosing to live and find purpose as toshi for him to die now. (i could go into detail about how bakugou really sees toshi as a person outside of OFA and his flaws, and how him being in toshi’s life brings out a bit of his humanity seen from his connections with bakugou and how it connects to all this but that’s a post for another day lol).

[wovenstarlight]

Hi! I just finished your role swap AU, where Yoohyun is the F-rank and Yoojin is the S-rank.

It was amazing, my gosh, the little 8th chapter that explained everything in more detail was so nice. It’s such an interesting idea, and I think you executed it really well! There were funny moments, silly moments, and gut punching moments all wrapped up in one! In particular I love how everyone is able to use sign language, and how it just shows their love for each other.

Yerim being pissed that she’s 15 again is so funny, who would ever want to go back to highschool/middle school after being an adult? Certainly not her! Also the way that the guild members didn’t know her, and Soyoung also didn’t know her was so sad! Because most of the others don’t really form close friendships outside of the group, it’s always fun to remember just how outgoing Yerim is and how many friends she makes!

Also, not to be ship-y on your interesting and well thought out AU, but I am curious as to how exactly the relationship between Sung Hyunjae and Han Yoojin has changed? What is the dynamic between them post-regression? How about pre-regression? Was shj just another person going hunting with Yoohyun back then?did Han Yoojin have any feelings about him at all?

Also also, is Song Taewon a little less repressed in this AU? Because he is a low grade, meaning there’s less chance of him viewing himself as a monster, or does he still have atrociously low self esteem? And I love how you brought back his younger brother, he was such an interesting side note in canon so I’m glad he has a name now! and is alive!

WAHAAA THANK YOU VERY MUCH.... im glad you liked it!! also lol your mention of the sign language thing reminded me of a fun fact i didn't get to work into the fics, which is that while the F-ranks and Dodam high-rankers picked up some sign through exposure by being around the (fluent) Han brothers, they routinely get annoyed with Yoohyun. that's because he's developed a habit of turning away or signing answers where they can't see him--it's because he's used to Yoojin being able to "see" his movements through skin no matter what angle he's facing. lmao.

i did answer the rest of your questions but <- guy who has a terminal need to ramble on and on. answers are under the cut

ALSO i'm adding all the stuff i've talked about here, and any other rankswap stuff i talk about in the future, to the last AO3 chapter as well! they'll all go under the "answered questions/additional thoughts (WORK IN PROGRESS)" heading :3 you can check back to that for any further info!

ok time to get to the rest of it!!

Yerim being pissed that she’s 15 again is so funny, who would ever want to go back to highschool/middle school after being an adult? Certainly not her!

YEAH Yerim was really sad about redoing school... she had a hard time of it for a while but having her family back was definitely worth the trouble. the F-ranks actually discussed how far back to go for a while there, though we didn't see it. they all knew they had to go back far enough to undo Yoojin's death, but that wasn't so far, a day at most so they could call off the raid--but hey, while we're at it, why not reverse far enough back to resurrect Yerim's parents? that's a lot further back, but we can use that extra time to help with other stuff... and let's save Chief Song's brother and MHA's teammates, too! and so it turned into a much bigger regression than first anticipated, and the kids were so caught up in all the things they'd get back that they didn't realize the other stuff that came along with it :P

I am curious as to how exactly the relationship between Sung Hyunjae and Han Yoojin has changed? What is the dynamic between them post-regression? How about pre-regression? Was shj just another person going hunting with Yoohyun back then?did Han Yoojin have any feelings about him at all?

oh feel free to be shippy! i will put as a disclaimer that even my canon thoughts on SHJ have him being demisexual or generally aro/acespec, so i'm still somewhat handwavey on whether he and HYJ have a romantic thing going or if it's more of a QPP situation in any given storyline.

as for in this AU, specifically... well, pre-regression, SHJ was just another one of the hunters accompanying Yoohyun from HYJ's POV. not much more interest in him than that, though he did enjoy their back-and-forths, as did SHJ. (i thought i had a line in their post-reg reunion where Yerim thought it must be killing SHJ not to pick up on their usual banter, but I must have deleted it in the final draft...) SHJ, meanwhile, definitely had some sort of crush on him in that platonic/romantic gray area, but he sort of... never followed up on that? he was happy with their dynamic as is.

post-regression, their dynamic gets a little more intense. MHA has her raid team and STW has his security work at Dodam. that makes SHJ the adult with the most free time on his hands, and he also has one of the best memories for stuff pre-reg--as such, SHJ spends a lot of time with HYJ working out the pre-reg timeline and identifying useful information. they definitely get a lot friendlier over that time, and hey, even if i ditched the idea of making it a formal skill, maybe SHJ figures out how to act as a mana battery anyway, making him a significant asset for HYJ in battle and endearing him further to HYJ.

Also also, is Song Taewon a little less repressed in this AU? Because he is a low grade, meaning there’s less chance of him viewing himself as a monster, or does he still have atrociously low self esteem?

ahahah... well, STW is definitely not repressed for the same reasons as in canon? but he is still. going through it. all that canon self-loathing didn't come from nowhere, and if i had to guess then the Monster aspect was added after the Awakenings, but the root of it was there even before that. so he doesn't think of himself as a monster and inhuman, no, but he's definitely very hard on himself. that flawless track record throughout school and university and work would have taken a lot of effort, which means he must hold himself to exacting standards of perfection, and then when his parents and his brother died, he took that really badly. pre-regression, he was stern and serious and quiet just as he is in canon, particularly touchy about the subject of risk-taking and particularly so when it regarded dungeons/monsters. but he softened and opened up with time as he grew closer to the other F-ranks, and he'll do so in earnest now that he has his family back :D

and yes!! little brother is back with a vengeance!! i like to think of Song Cheolmin as an upbeat balancing force to STW's more serious attitude. he's just about the only person who can coax STW into really breaking free of that seriousness, and has gotten him to aid and abet more than one childhood prank or chocolate thievery. if we get a canon name for him and i have to change all my fics/headcanons AGAIN i will be so so angry <3 love and light

[maskved]

hello, besties ! this is ami (she/her) and i’m probably late with this intro ! first i’m sorry for mass-liking every post but i’m already in love with all your lovely muses. also i must confess that i’ve only read the first book ( years ago ) and watched the show because i have an attention span of - 10 seconds.  but at least i’m a soc hoe, so we can scream about that ... please ... !!! so if i get anything wrong pls let me know or you can also not let me know and i’ll continue being embarrassing 😔. anyway, if you are interested in some juicy plotting pls LIKE this post or message me ( if you want to plot on discord we can also do that 💖). I’M EXCITED.

PINTEREST  . discor*d     six of hoes🔪#7888  //  YEVA

[ viktoriya zobova ], an [ twenty six ] year old grisha in the little palace. she is  a [ tailor ] and are known in the little palace as the [ viscerotonic ]. they are known to be [ resilient ] and [ elusive ] and vaguely resemble [ kristine froseth ]. 

death tw

- viktoriya zobova ( however, prefers to be called vika because every time one calls her by her full name she might as well be in trouble ) had never been more than average. born to average parents ( although grisha their powers pale compared to others ) into an average family and of course as the middle child, vika strived for more than simply being overlooked.

- truth to be told, she dreaded to be tested. to her it seemed like the final reminder that she was nothing special, average, merely an extra to someone other’s story. she even wished, she wouldn’t be a grisha, fearing that like her parents she’d belong to the lower ranks. however, if she turned out to be a simple human without any power, at least she’d be special within her family or could even try to make a story up that she was adopted or something ( i hate her -- ).

- however, the moment she found out about being able to alter people’s appearances with her ability *atla vc* everything changed - 

- truth to be told she knew she was considered to be lower rank among others but what really fueled her arrogance and the sudden feeling of self importance was her knowing that she possessed a rare ability. she didn’t care others treating her badly for her rank because “hey i can alter appearances and that is lit ( she probably didn’t say it that way - )

- ALSO ( here comes the moment i throw in my found family trope bcs i’m a soc hoe and this actually plays a big role in her story ) she’d found comfort in the friends she met.

- (lemme add my childhood friends trope bcs why not ) as vika was never close to her parents ( to be fair her being taken away for the training at such a young age did not really gave her the time to really bond with her family ) her little group of friends became her second family. they called themselves “blood is thicker water” ( gang ???) bcs 1) vika really thought the saying was blood is thicker water and not blood is thicker than water 2) they thought they were incredibly funny.

- they were pretty much known as troublemakers, especially with vika being a tailor it was easy to sometimes shift the blame on others. truth to be told, it only caused vika to be more frivolous. all the fun they had blinded her judgment and she viewed her ability as harmless.

- well, lets say vika becoming more reckless did not end up being the best character development (lmao). as usual , everything started out as a harmless joke. her friend asked her to change his appearance. however, this time they wanted her to change their whole face. not just the colour of their hair or eyes. vika was reluctant at first, she’d never done it before but in the end she agreed to it and much to her surprise she succeeded. she even bragged about it and told her friends ( of the bloody “blood is thicker water” gang (???) ) .

-  to cut a long story short, their friend ended up dying because of it. i have two versions for their death ( i haven’t decided on it yet *clown emoji*)

1) the person they changed their appearance into apparantly was involed in some shady stuff and had some pretty morally questionable people around him. they thought vika’s friends was that person they were looking for (bcs of the changed appearance) and killed them for some reason.

2) vika’s friend was supposed to be part of some mission they didn’t want to go to, thus changed their appearance to escape from it. however, ended up having to do another mission and ended up being killed. 

RIP nameless but vital character to vika’s bio 

- vika pretty much blamed herself for it and maybe her friends of their friend group as well. this incident also ‘humbled’ vika and now instead of being proud of it she hates it.

- right now, she doesn’t really know what to do with her future. she has this ‘oh so grand’ plan that one day she might be able to change her appearance (permanently) and then leave the little palace and live under a new name and lead a life where she wouldn’t need to use her abilities anymore.

personality ( i’m trying to keep it short i swear, i’m just adding a bunch of sentence here bcs i’m throwing all my ideas into this paragraph)

- she’s known to be pretty social. she loves to talk and honestly doesn’t know when to shut up. she can’t deal with silence because it forces her to think about things she doesn’t want to think about. although, her tongue is sharp and trouble seems to follow her, she also loves to dance around the issue, pushing her feelings away and replacing it with a witty joke instead. as if everyone does it the same way, as if everyone is supposed to understand. 

headcanons

- although she was tempted to change her own appearance many times. she never did because she is a coward and doesn’t trust her skills as much others might think she does.

- she views her ability as a form of art, perhaps that is also the reason she used to love to paint. honestly, she was never really good at it. average and above average with practice. her friend ( the dead one lmao ) used to paint with her whenever they could sneak away but with them gone, she doesn’t see a point in it anymore.

- she secretly envies the other grisha’s who can use their ability to fight. recently, she’d find herself trying to practice some punches so she doesn’t feel that useless in case of a dangerous situation. she also sucks at that so she’s probably in need of a training patner aka someone who is willing to train her or she has annoyed that much that they were willing to help her out ( wc ???)

- being personally trained by the darkling, one might assume that she’s loyal or even thankful towards the darkling. however, contrary is the case and she wouldn’t even grant him a dust particle of her trust. she doesn’t believe that he has the best interest of anyone in his heart and if she could, she’d probably spread rumors about him and telling others that he has some serious case of stanky breath.

wanted connections ( just some ideas, which can be changed ofc ! or some wcs can be connected ) 

(0/3) “blood is thicker water” friend group  : they pretty much grew up together. the death of their friend ( the friend needs a name - i swear...) caused tension within the group. while, one might have blamed vika for their death the other doesn’t and just wants them to be how they used to be. nevertheless, no one can deny that nothing was what it used to be). (( honestly these are just some ideas and we can plot wtv sddm )

training partner ( can be more than one ): connection mentioned in the hcs ! they help her a little out to become physically fit and level up her combat skills of -10. maybe they want something in return for it. help her out bcs they’re just nice or bcs vika annoyed the heck out of them etc.

person vika changed their friend’s appearance into: honestly we can do wtv with it. i just thought it’d be fun to play with the idea and having the person running around when they actually “died” and everyone belieed them to be dead until they found out that it was vika’s friend. might be angsty bcs it might remind vika of their friend.

angsty exes: listen, i love some angsty shit and i love to blame vika for all the problems. they might have dated before the whole dead friend fiasco happened. although, viktoriya acted as if she was fine after the incident ( which she wasn’t ),it only made muse a realize that vika and them weren’t as close as they believed and how much vika tied to hide from them.  BUT tbh anything would work i love a good angsty ex connection djddnd

random idea but i just liked the thought that this person once went to vika for some enhancing stuff. however, this day vika was not really herself, distracted, head in the clouds. so she accidenally might have gotten rid of some important scar or something.

enemies : lbr, vika might prbly be the type who has some enemies. she has no filter and might has stepped on someone toes because of it. (Also maybe gimme some enemies to lovers trope , adding this here quietly to not expose myself as a hoe for that trope )

HONESTLY GIVE ME EVERYTHING, gimme angst, fluff, tropes !!??? more friends, unusual friends, shippy stuff, platonic stuff, family connections djdsd GIMME 

[galiifreyrose]

since the questions you asked me were so good, i’m asking them back! 9, 30, 34, and 72 for the doctor who asks :)

~ janeyre

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OMG THANK YOU!!!! I'm so glad you liked them, I LOVED your answers! I definitely picked the ones I wanted to have someone ask me in the hopes that this EXACT thing would happen so, please prepare for a book lmao

9. Who introduced you to DW? A small group of my middle school friends sat me down on the couch one afternoon! I think I at least had a sense of what it was through Nerd Circle Peripheral Exposure, but I can't recall for certain.

30. Who did you not used to like, but really like now? The closest I have is Martha, I think. It's not that I didn't like her, more that I was... neutral? In the 12 or so years since I started watching as a barely-teen, needless to say my worldview has changed a LOT and I really understand her SO much better as a character and as a complicated, imperfect person than I ever could as a kid, and I've really come to love her a ton as a result that I didn't feel in my first watch-through.

34. Best two-parter? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE IMPOSSIBLE PLANET/THE SATAN PIT, BABEY!!!!!!! I never realized how beloved this one was by so many until entering the DoctorRose Fanfic Sphere, but my reasons for loving it are actually completely unrelated to the shippy factors.

I could go on for hours, and it all comes down to the assortment of such wonderful, real people. I love the concept of space bases in general; they're always my favorite kind of episode because there's such a gritty realness to that environment in the context of both science and sci-fi. I love how much we get to know each of the supporting characters and the really deep conversations that come out of it.

I love getting to see Rose really kick ASS while the Doctor is gone. I love the mystery of it. I love that we have no freakin clue what the devil was, I love the ambiguity for interpretation and how that colors everyone's interactions. I love black holes and weird space physics, and if I could change one thing, I'd have added some of the weird effects you see in Interstellar - but I suppose at the time that DW was airing in 2006, we didn't KNOW those things about black holes yet! HOW COOL IS THAT!

What I love most is a quote, just a little quote, that has inspired me for years - the "why did you come here, why? I'll tell you why, because it was there, brilliant." When I first heard that uttered by the Doctor at age 12, I felt so insanely validated, because my career aspirations are deep space exploration, and so often my mom would ask "why does it matter? What's the point" and the answer? Well, because it was there. Because that's what humanity is, the urge to jump - the urge to fall.

In an INSANE twist of irony, I only recently learned learned that it's a perfect echo of JFK's "we choose to go to the moon" speech. So a lot really clicked into place.

Ok. End rant. Thank you for asking this question XD I have so much fic drafted to really get this all out of my system, too.

72. Favourite piece of Murray Gold music? Song of Freedom, hands down. A lot of people call The Shepherd's Boy my man Murray's magnum opus, but I honestly think it's Song of Freedom. The violin at the start, the bittersweetness of that melody, the hopefulness of the chorus, the beat marching ever-forward, the layers upon layers of incredible harmony... it's. I can't even put it in words. I can't watch the scene of everyone flying the TARDIS together without crying.

Of course, another personal layer to it is that it's the song I listen to on the way to Phoenix Comicon every year. I play it for much the same reasons - it's a song for reunions, for found family, for bright and shining moments even if they only last for the blink of an eye - and that's what the event is for me. So it's very, very dear to me.

THANK YOU FOR ASKING AND LISTENING TO ME RAMBLE AKSDFJLSKDJFLSKDJFKASLD

[thefigureinthecorner]

sam/mark playlist cover is done 👀

notes under the cut again

venus- sleeping at last: I was a billion little pieces/'Til you pulled me into focus/Astronomy in reverse/It was me who was discovered plus like. Everything about constellations in this? bc of the sam constellation and all that. idk this song just makes me Feel Things

from eden- hozier: 

Honey you're familiar like my mirror years ago

Idealism sits prison, chivalry fell on it's sword

Innocence died screaming, honey ask me I should know

I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door

the song has some v good mark-to-sam vibes to me

bulletproof picasso- train:

for sam:

Am I made of paper

'Cause I tear so easily

Am I made of vapor

Because I disappear

Do I have to have a reason

For anything I feel

Just be glad I'm real

Glad I'm real

Am I real

and for mark:

Did you ever see the waves break

Into a million pieces

Or stay awake

With someone who was dying

You don't need to tell me

Anything at all

I'm just glad you're here

Glad you're real

Are you real

world’s on fire- mike shinoda: so much about this song, but i’m v fond of the chorus:

When the world's on fire, all I need is you

I don't always think to say it, but it's true

When I just wanna disappear

You're the one who keeps me here

The world's on fire, all I need is you

fallorun- andrew bird: it has a lot of like. episode 53 vibes. i think. so i guess more breakup-y than shippy lol but like it fits them so it’s here

We could have been together

But you couldn't stand the weather here

You know I was your rain and thunder

Upon your hills and valleys

We could have been together

But you couldn't stand the weather here

stuck- imagine dragons: AAAAAAAAAAA

I've been afraid, don't wanna fade out of my body

I've been astray, barely awake, floating above me

Covered in red, what can I say? I've been a zombie

I'm feeling like I've been locked in a grave

You were the laugh, you were the life, you were the party

You were the brave, I was the weak, you were the army

You were the faith, you were the truth, I was the sorry

I'm feeling like you've been taken away

grow as we go- ben platt: ok once again, episode 53 vibes, but less breakup-y vibes and more “i can’t leave this city but we can change together, here” vibes. it hurts me, is what i’m saying

lucky- jason mraz and colbie caillat: 

They don't know how long it takes

Waiting for a love like this

Every time we say goodbye

I wish we had one more kiss

I'll wait for you, I promise you, I will

run away- ben platt: this just. has some v good sam/mark vibes, especially considering episode 50 and sam singing about how she’s terrified that mark will leave her and all that. plus the fact that mark… does actually kind of leave makes the song a whole lot sadder imo

I may not be wise

And I won't save the day

But look in my eyes

And know I'll always stay

And I won't run away

I won't run away

ultimately- khai dreams: mkay i’m sharing a huge chunk of the song here for sam specifically because holy shit it’s a good song for her side of the relationship

But I'm still growing up

Into the one you can call your love

I don't know if I'll ever be enough

I'm throwing in my chips

I guess I tend to push my luck

And ultimately I believe we'll be okay

It's so cliché to say these things, but repetition is a key

I think I'm better when I'm with you

But I worry when you're gone

I think I need to learn to love myself

I must learn to be strong

tell me it’s real- seafret: it’s just. so good for them. i say that a lot but it really is

She said I really don't mind if you have to leave my side

Cause I've been made to walk alone all the way through my life

And I never really thought about it

No I never really thought about it

It's because of you that I believe in me for first time

I know, love's always been sink or swim so i won't

Say it's over just as it begins

we sink- of monsters and men: i feel like it has zero hour vibes maybe? sam rescuing mark from the past and all that. other than that i’m not actually 100% certain why i put it on here, i added it a while back, but i like it for them

All those eyes on me

As I sink into the open sea

Color in my sheltered mind

Fill the gap between you and I

wrapped in piano strings- radical face: this is. a v sad song for them. i genuinely don’t know why i feel like the lyrics fit? but they do and they make me sad. it’s the whole song, i can’t really pinpoint specific sections. maybe something to do with how frequently sam mentions feeling like a ghost haunting her own home/feeling like she’s haunted by her parents/feeling like she doesn’t know how to be a person for mark

something along those lines

a world with you- jason mraz: god the mark vibes in this song (i feel like i say the word vibes a lot in these playlist notes lmao)

Think how many doors we'll open

Just as many stars are sure to shine

Who knows where we're going

And who knows what we'll find

I want to see the world

The way I see a world with you

run away with me- ben frankhauser: i stole this off the official playlist entirely accidentally and i think this version is sung by a different person? but anyway, someone in the server recommended it, and i was like “oh yeah ok these lyrics look perfect” so i added it and then listened to it and realized it sounded familiar lmao

laughter lines- bastille: god ok just the entire concept of "I'll see you in the future when we're older/And we are full of stories to be told/Cross my heart and hope to die/I'll see you with your laughter lines" being them is just. aaaaaaaaaa

[smallblueandloud]

18 and 19 for ask meme?

heck yeah!! for this ask meme, which will be open all weekend!

18. do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterizations?) tell us about them.

hmmmm, this is a really cool question but i have a brain made of swiss cheese so i’m just gonna scroll through my ao3 and see if anything jumps out at me lmao.

can i be close to you was an entirely finished draft without any of the daisy/sousa undertones but after the show ended i added it in because i thought they were really cute and there was no reason not to!

retrouvailles had like a 40% chance of eponine still dying, but i’m glad that didn’t happen lmao.

in bodies fashioned out of dirt and dust, i was considering making miriam and lyra end up dating, but i ultimately chose not to because i didn’t want to make it feel shoehorned in and it would’ve taken the focus off lyra. there might be a sequel one day where that happens though.

in the magnum opus, i was originally writing fitz WAY more like his future self, much angrier and decisive lmao. i’m glad i noticed and switched it back though, s1 was less angsty but i love s1!fitz and i’m glad i got to write him. also it’s really helped my perception of fitz’s characterization in the future, although i haven’t actually... written him in canonverse after s3? huh. i should examine that. also it was going to have four chapers and everything was going to hurt.

the landslide will bring it down was originally going to have clint and laura stay dead, i think, in its original iteration? also cooper was supposed to survive as well. but then i read a fic that mentioned lila growing up to be a black widow and i was like “ah, i know who this is gonna focus on.” 

happy at home was originally going to be a five times fic about like, five times amy was cuban, lmao. deje enterrado was going to be the +1, probably, but i didn’t have any ideas for the other four times so i scrapped it.

in blackwater woods originally had an entirely different resolution-conversation, but al, who graciously betaed for me, thought it didn’t quite work and they were right. i’m much happier with the published version lmao.

maybe we should take it slow had, like, four different versions. i wrote half of it normally, got stuck, switched to script format, finished that, then moved back to normal style and only kept like half of what i’d written in the script format. that was a Weird Fic to write.

on that bumpy road to love was originally going to have WAY more plot until i decided i wanted to publish it before s4 and wanted to keep it as canon-compliant as possible.

there’s a version of and i am feeling so small where they kiss and i’m forever upset at my past self for leaving it open-ended

a better version of you know the world is headed for hell lives in my head rent-free and one day i’ll actually write it because god i want to rewrite that fic.

take me into your loving arms will ALSO hopefully be rewritten one day to be less shippy and more “charles xavier has a family that loves him”-centric

(wow, that was like... half my fics, lmao.)

19. is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favorite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?)

i, honestly, am not as self-indulgent as i should be in my fics. like, that one scene where daisy tells jemma “give me the word and i will come from you” in the magnum opus is one of my FAVORITE SCENES I’VE EVER WRITTEN EVER. but i’m working on trying to let myself write more self-indulgent things!! tropes i cannot get enough of and want to write more of: domesticity, devoted backup-ness, domesticity, soulmate aus, domesticity, fluff, domesticity, domesticity, domesticity.

as for tropes i already write and love and should write more of: canon rewrites, outsider pov, and domesticity!!

i use a lot of “anyway”s and “also”s, lmao. i describe people smiling more than i should and am bad at physical descriptions in general. i’m getting better about being sparse about the dialogue tags, at least!

[millennialzadr]

WHY I LOVE ZADR!!!

HEY GUYS WHASSUP? LMAO

So this is a whole ass giant long post of me absolutely spewing my feelings of love for ZADR, it was the very first thing I wrote when I made this blog and I think it’s a nice, positive thing for my fellow shippers to inhale and enjoy 👌👌

it was originally a reply to mitarashiart’s post about why HE loves ZADR (link in replies) but I decided to delete that and make my own post since MY WHOLE ENTIRE TEXT WALL WAS SHOWN IN THE REPLIES and drowned out anyone else who was trying to talk (thanks tumblr mobile u fuckin idiot)

I had also posted a summary of an AU that I’m working on in the original post, but decided to remove it since it just about doubled the length (I’m thinking about posting it separately along with the wips I’ve been putting together, we’ll see 👀)

But ANYWAY, here is about a million reasons why I think ZADR is the fucking best, so if you like reading gushy gay ship feelings, please enjoy ❤️❤️❤️

[Posted June 2019][WARNING, LONG ASS THOUGHT BARF]

SOOO, holy hell y’all my journey back into this fandom has been a wild and unique experience for me, i went from adding invader zim to my bookmarks on kisscartoon, rewatching the series, finding out theres a movie coming out, finding out there was a shitload of content i’d never seen before (commentaries, lost episode scripts and audios, panels, the COMIC, episodes i’d never seen because the dvd i used to watch was scratched!! and a FUCKLOAD of quality modern fan art like oh my GOD) and finally curiously googling ‘zadr’ (which i was way into when i was maybeee 13/14) to see if there was any interesting new art, and holy hell, mita (the artist above) singlehandedly THREW me down the hole into modern zadr hell, first with his absolutely stunning IZ art (all his art is dope tho check him out yo), then reading the above explanation put the final nail in the coffin like, 100%

so i wanted to add onto his post here on why this ship got me so fucked up, both for anyone who might be wondering why on earth i’m shipping two characters from a kid’s show (i’m very aware how weird that is at first glance trust me) and also so i can get some ideas down for possible future reference (will i ever draw them? maybe)

(first of all, a disclaimer, and this is not pleasant to write but it’s important to address for clarity’s sake: I have no interest in romantic or sexual relationships between minors, and do not ship zim and dib as they are presented canonically in the show (as children). what i’m interested in is the conceptualized relationship they may have as modern adults, and i view zadr more as taking the concepts of existing characters and experimenting with them with different interpretations, which i personally think is a constructive and fun creative outlet, especially if these characters hold personal significance for you (childhood faves of course). growing up together is an important facet of their relationship, and certainly they were important to each other even as children (see: mopiness of doom) but as an adult i’m personally curious about what kind of adults they might’ve become, and that’s the focus of my interest. i’ll still be reblogging regular IZ art because it’s dope but if you see shippy looking art of them as tiny lil beans its either friendship or chibis (and i personally headcanon zim as getting taller with dib but some people stick with his canonical height when drawing them as adults, which is super short. it still doesn’t mean he’s a kid). aaand i wish i didnt have to write this and it would just be obvious but we live in a sick sad world and it is sourced from a children’s cartoon so i feel its necessary. end of disclaimer)

NOW THAT THAT’S OUT OF THE WAY

- ok, first reason’s a bit obvious - the nostalgia. holy hell, the feeling of rediscovering a ship that was popular when i was a preteen during the mid 2000s and discovering a totally new perspective on it as an adult comes with an almost totally overwhelming sense of nostalgia and comfort, as well as inspiration!! the kind of art that seems so common for zadr, these sketch pages of scenes and expressions and visual gags where artists would just scribble every idea they had and LOVE doing it, this was exactly the kind of art that made me so passionate about drawing as a kid, and it still sparks such a powerful feeling of love and admiration for me to this day. fan content of iz and zadr is simultaneously achingly familiar and totally new and fascinating, and it just makes me SO damn happy to consume, it is most definitely my new comfort content. and just, GOD. THE ART!! SO GOOD. FUCK

- now for the characters themselves: for some reason i just really love the thought of a mid twenties, modern Dib?? lanky goth dork, disaster bi, depressed as shit, uses bad sweaters and memes to cope?? when i was a kid i didn’t even LIKE Dib, but now i totally sympathize with him! he’s just a hyper obsessive nerd wishing there was more to life than the situation he got stuck with, how wildly relatable. he was a pretty big asshole as a kid (even to people besides zim) but he was also totally isolated and constantly bullied, so there’s a lot of room for growth. i feel there’s a lot of juicy character development potential for that boy, and there’s always been a special place in my heart for characters who are totally sad and screwed and hopeless, but there’s one thing, or person, that means the world to them and could possibly save them…

- aliens. Zim. i love nonhuman characters, i love monsters, i love aliens, i love characters that don’t understand human shit (and thus have much less room for shame or fear bc theyre just totally oblivious the negatives of modern society) and need guidance (bonding!!) from their human. i also love morally grey characters and characters with skewed logic, they’re always really interesting, and Zim himself just has such a unique personality and set of mannerisms, he contradicts himself a lot and you can never quite expect how he’ll behave, and i love that in a character, it makes them super versatile and fun, especially since there’s so many different possibilities for their development. Also, Zim is a gremlin, a little shit, and a disaster. I also love those traits in a character. And don’t even get me started on his character design?? big sparkly eyes? expressive antennae? monster teeth? complimenting colors? he’s adorable.

- mutual obsession. for someone like Dib, who seems almost repulsed by how boring and slow the people around him are, Zim quite literally personifies Dib’s  escapist fantasies, both as an inhuman entity from beyond the stars, and as a person who’s knowledge, charisma and mystery far exceeds that of anyone Dib has met in his entire life. (so basically what i’m saying is that for a shunned, jaded misanthropist, an actual alien is terribly alluring, even if said alien is dangerous, stupid, and possibly insane). not to mention Zim vindicates Dib’s entire life passion, the supernatural! Even when their relationship is totally negative, there is not a single inch of room for Dib to get tired of Zim. as mita explained, they validate each other. for Zim, WHO AGAIN, IS TOTALLY SHUNNED, ISOLATED, AND HATED BY EVERYONE HE KNOWS, Dib is the only person in the universe who gives a single shit about him!! he gives Zim credit as a threat, a capable invader, which if you ask me is the sole thing Zim is after (he’s hellbent on his mission because it would win him the approval of the tallest, all he’s ever wanted is recognition from the people he thinks so highly of). He literally gets depressed when Dib isn’t around to pay attention to him, not even the tallest were enough to motivate him before Dib came back. these two have no one and nothing without each other, and while lifelong nemeses is fine and dandy, i personally prefer friendship, affection and love, cause i’m a softie like that. how could they possibly get there after years of actively trying to kill each other?? well, i think under just the right circumstances it could become a possibility after a long, long time.

- growth. i. love. me. some. good. character growth. especially for characters with trauma/mental illness, bc again, relatable. these boys have issues, and as mita mentioned, their canon stories are actually INCREDIBLY sad! but the happy thought is, they could recover! they could help each other recover, for little reason other than the two are the only source of happiness for each other. now of course this also opens the gate for angst lovers, but at the same time offers potential for comforting, uplifting content of the boys supporting and inspiring each other, maybe even to the point of becoming happy and healthy enough to create the lives they want for themselves (as in appreciating life and doing things that make them actually happy instead of the delusions of grandeur they both sought when they were younger). gimme that positive shit and let the poor beans be happy  щ(ಠ益ಠщ)

- LITTLE THINGS. LITTLE THINGS THAT ONLY COME WITH CHILDHOOD FRIENDS. WITH HUMAN/NONHUMAN. WITH THE SHOW’S WEIRD LOGIC. Zim being the person Dib knows best and vice versa. Zim having an involuntary respect/admiration for Dib because he’s tall. Learning each other’s needs, limits, and communication methods, both emotionally and biologically. Sensitive antennae. Affectionate bickering. Being less insecure bc your partner literally has no idea why you see your flaws as flaws. Laughing at the flaws they do notice because they make no sense. Zim only wanting to eat waffles and chow mein. Dib being forced to overcome his depression lethargy and stay hygienic/keep the apartment clean because Zim has a sharper sense of smell and is afraid of germs. Endless conversation about anything and everything because they’re from literally different worlds, and endless intrigue. TOUCHING. TALKING. DOING EVERYTHING LIKE ITS THE VERY FIRST TIME AND ALWAYS NEEDING THE OTHER TO GUIDE THEM. HOLY HELL THERE IS SO MUCH POSSIBILITY FOR TINY LITTLE MOMENTS THAT MEAN THE WORLD. FUCK. GOT ME FUCKED UP.

so that wraps up the why. fuck man. its just such a good ship. if you read this big ass text post, thank you for indulging me, i hope you enjoyed it! because i enjoy it very much 👀 so stick around if you’d like to for a shit load of IZ and zadr content on this blog, possibly (MAYBE) even from me!! come roll around in alien hell with me why dontcha ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ its a fun time! thanks for reading!!!

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SO THAT’S MY MANIFESTO Y’ALL, FEEL FREE TO REPLY WITH YOUR OWN REASONS!! I WOULD LOVE FOR THIS POST TO JUST BECOME A BIG GIANT PILE OF LOVE AND YELLING!! GO NUTS! SCREAM ABOUT IT! INFODUMP! DO WHATEVER YOU WANT! I’LL READ EVERY LAST REPLY! Y’ALL DESERVE TO ENJOY YOUR SHIP BC IT’S LITERALLY THE FUCKING BEST!!! LOVE Y’ALL!!!!!!

[laufire]

You don't have to do this at all but I'm intrigued by your "favourites" tags and I was wondering if you'd break them down?

No problem! I think I remembered them all (but since I keep adding new ones, then forgetting again about them, who knows lol).

favourites: a straight line

Okay, so this is kind of a hard one because it’s mostly a… ~vibe thing. It’s from a quote by Person of Interest –specifically, The Machine telling Shaw that Root loved her because “if we were shapes, you were an arrow, a straight line”, and I just… loved it. So it goes to character that had that sort of… clear-sighted, straightforward something, that cut through the bullshit.

favourites: birds of a feather

From the saying “birds of a feather flock together”. It’s basically used for my ships where the members reflect and parallel each other (especially when it’s a case where fandom convention classifies them as “opposites”).

favourites: cute married couples

Self-explanatory, I think, tho by virtue of the fandoms I frequent lately I haven’t used it much xD

favourites: fucked up families

Also self-explanatory. And much more used!

favourites: god save us from the queen

Named after the trope. Look, fandom. I know why it’s Problematique. But I just love Evol, Power Hungry Queens! (in modern ‘verses it can apply to women with political power in general –i.e., I would totally use this tag for Mellie Grant okay). And I’m not gonna deny a big part of it is the #aesthetics xDD

favourites: head witch in charge

Powerful witches/other magic-type users in general. Comes from the acronym Head Bitch in Charge.

favourites: i am the law

It comes from Buffy’s speech in s7. It goes from that type of characters that take all that “I am the ONLY one”/”if I don’t try to save the world who will” responsability (sometimes, in a frankly egocentric/self-important way lol, but I like that *shrugs*).

favourites: i can fix that

This one comes from Sam The Onion Man in Holes, though it’s morphed into something quite different in my tag system lol. It’s… somewhat tied to the previous one? In that I apply it to characters that have some sort of… control issues/that need to action/intervention in their enviroment. I guess the difference is that I associate this tag with characters that are in a precarious position? Idk.

favourites: i see you

Cato says this to Noah in Underground; I use it for somewhat-antagonistic dynamics where one character sees through the reputation/façade of the other one, basically (sometimes it’s with a ~shippier spirit than others lol).

favourites: immortal exes

Self-explanatory, and one of my fave shippy tropes in existence.

favourites: like father like daughter

For my favourite father/daughter dynamics.

favourites: living large

I love it when my faves like the finer things in live. There’s nothing wrong with liking nice things lol.

favourites: love at first bite

It’s the title of a film I have yet to watch (a comedy where Dracula has to move out of Transylvania). But the quote fits perfectly with my adored blood-sharing/vampire ships, so –tho this is one of the few I often forget to use lol.

favourites: love is the drug

Title taken from a song. For those ships that can’t stay away from each other, despite how ill-advised it might be.

favourites: machiavelli’s alumni

Tag for political savvy people/situations.

favourites: mamma who bore me

Song from the musical Spring Awakening. It’s become short of a catch-them-all for mother characters, but the song/main intent was about controlling/overprotective ones lol.

favourites: mirror mirror on the wall

This is one of my newest ones and I’ve barely used it/edited old posts with it yet. It’s for my very narrow type of fave femslash dynamics lol: aka older/younger women (though there’s ships without the age difference that I’ll likely use it with) ships with lots of parallels motifs that have probably tried to kill each other at least once.

favourites: monster women

Because I love them, and the stories about them.

favourites: my foe beheld it shine

From William Blake’s A Poison Tree, a super dramatic poem about enemies lol. Perfect for enemy ships.

ETA - favourites: persephone’s revenge

One of them is Hades; one of them is Persephone and they’re at Hades’ mercy. I want Persephone to get even xD

favourites: pinocchio stories

Named after the trope; tag for all my artificial intelligence/robots feelings (no, I do not care to explore why the hell I almost always relate to robot characters, leave me alone xDD).

favourites: rags to riches

I will always root for social climbers and gold diggers on principle and this is the tag for that :P

favourites: romantic tragedies

For when what I love about a ship is their angst lol.

ETA - favourites: samson and delilah

One of the members is setting out to destroying and manipulating the other

favourites: smash the system

Inspired by that Hulk “SMASH THE PATRIARCHY” twitter. For characters/stories that seek to tear down the status quo.

favourites: soul siblings

For my fave siblings relationships.

ETA - favourites: sun and shadow

Great for light vs. dark dichotomies, especially in characters. Think Lizzie and (dark!)Josie, Buffy and Faith, Chuck and Amara.

favourites: that fucker

For my Problematic Faves, cold MOFOs, villains and the like.

favourites: the hashtag blessed crowd

My faves are being self-obsessed.

favourites: the masquerade

Another brand new one. It’s inspired by the trope “The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life”, and it’s for my ships with Identity Porn Shenanigans.

favourites: the powah of lurve

For ships that overpower everything hehe.

favourites: the walking dead

Because I love resurrection/comes back wrong/ghosts stories.

ETA - favourites: the wordsmith

Tag I inaugurated for those characters that can get out of anything and create everything out of nothing with only their words.

favourites: the world is my canvas

For characters that mark the rules of a ‘verse and control narratives, and the world around them (aka: one of the main power fantasy tags xD).

favourites: three’s company

For OT3s (potentially OT+ in general).

favourites: to die like this; with a last kiss

From Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Face to Face (aka, the Batman Returns BatCat song). I wanted a tag that err… expressed how sometimes I’m into how the members of my ships try (and even succeed!) to kill each other?… it’s majorly fucked-up, foh sure, but I do believe shit like that ~enhances the shipping experience even when it troubles us shippers (and often, because it troubles us shippers, sooo).

favourites: to fall another moment into your gravity

From Sara Bareilles’s Gravity. I love it when my OTPs have broken up and are bitter af about it, yet can’t help but feel drawn to each other, and it’s the perfect song/quote for it.

favourites: vultures in lurve

I knew I had to have heard that expression before because I think vultures are Good™ lmao, and it’s apparently the title of some book. Either way, I kind of like how it sounds, and it’s my tag for when assholes are OTT in love with each other and enjoy being assholes together (pausing for moments where they’re super tender ofc), a la Unholy Matrimony trope.

favourites: you raise sons

Another brand new, barely used one. It comes from the quote “You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.”. For father-son type relationships.

favourites: you’ve got the love

From the Florence + the Machine song. For those amazing, fulfilling ships where the characters bring the most and the best from each other *-*.

And though this is technically not one of those tags, I have to add #you WISH your faves could ever, which is basically my “this unpopular OTP is magnificent and fandom is jealous about it because their faves suck in comparison” tag xDD (btw, it’s curious how almost invariably, those ships include a WoC presented as The One…).

[dcarhcarts]

What’s your OTP for your Muse(s)

Call it a copout but I don’t want to list cause it will.......be v v long but in general any canon ships, also Muse x Happiness

What are you willing to RP when it comes to shipping?

Pretty much everything up to explicit NSFW. I will take fade to blacks.  The caveat being that EVERYTHING IS COMMUNICATED. Please don’t spring a fade to black/random pregnancy/a massive breakup/idk whatever else on me without talking to me first?? I don’t mind horribly if the relationship is a little toxic....but like, intentionally. Like we both know that it’s toxic and we’re actively wriitng it toxically in an interesting...way? 

How large does the age gap have to be to make it uncomfortable?

I think....more than 8? My grandparents are 8 years apart so personally for me this is the largest age gap I know a couple to have. Obviously, that age gap being not uncomfortable is always dependent on the fact that both muses are of age. Shipping an underage character with an adult is just....no thnx.

Are you selective when shipping?

Yes and no. This is a trick answer. On the one hand I’m not and on the other hand I am? I get the ship feels very fast if our interaction/plotting sparks the Chemistry Feel, but also the Chemistry Feel is very specific and if I don’t feel it, I don’t feel it. IDK if that’s selectivity or just......normal shipping. 

And then there’s also the fact that in general if our muses have a canon relationship, odds are that I probably ship them and want to write shippy stuff. B u t the kicker with all of that is that I don’t like shipping with someone just based off a canon connection bc there is every possibility that I will figure out later on that our portrayals don’t mesh very well or that I don’t actually have the Chemistry Feel from between our muses during the interaction, and I like...I never want to ship for the sake of having the ship? So like.....always talk to me first. Some plotting or interaction would be Best before we decide if shipping can happen.

How far do steamy moments have to go before they’re considered NSFW?

When clothes start coming off or when That Kind of Touching (tm) starts happening. That’s where I’d like a fade to black thnx haha no sexual NSFW on this blog pls thnx.

Who are other muses you ship your muse with?

Hi is this where I LOVE ALL MY SHIP PARTNERS cause here i come. if i missed anyone it’s honestly cause i just got off a 4 hour shift of nothing but leaving answering machine messages and my brain is mush.

@personnages I’m only tagging one blog so I don’t spam the hell out of you but bUDDY PAL WE PLAY SHIP ROULETTE SO MUCH. There are so many that if I put all of them I’ll probably lose my place and cry but my favorites include: Pierre/Marya, Sonya/Andrei, Cass/Anya, plus you be the OG mr. darcy to my lizzie / OG andrei to my pierretasha so like!!!! legendary!!

@gcneralvaganov my partner in crime re: Glenya, Glima, and Glimya. You’re?? actually the 8th wonder in the world??? and I love you??? 

@skylarkmuses IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN SUSAN/TARAN. SURAN???? TASAN???? ANYWAY WE STAN. Just. I love them. They temper each other perfectly. ALso Im yelling about the mcfreaking Anya/Death Angel and we haven’t even really gotten shippy in thread

@outofthelight / @slackerphilosopher The Evan to my Zoe, the Henry to my Natalie <3 love ya Callie. love that we agree that our kids deserve i n f i n t e softness.

@starblcssd a sAINT AND MY SAVING GRACE WHO ADDED DIMA AFTER FIVE YEARS OF ME CRYING ON THE TAG. Like everyone else you write, your Dima?? may as well have just walked off the stage and straight into these posts.

@moretreasurewithin aNOTHER SAINT WHO PLAYS DIMA AND S O WELL I LOVE YOU and all our threads. I love how our Dimya ship has a bit more taste of the animated movie to it!!

@anastcsie what would dima be w/o *john mulaney voice* HIS WIFE??????? look dima is basically ned from the try guys with how much he talks/thinks about his wife probably. 

@spareisms  Dima adores???? the squishiest princess. Anna’s his sunshine, that’s it, thank you.

@tsvxtok while we’re on the topic of people dima adores.....Dima would literally die for Senya ok??? it’s established c a n o n facts. not that you’re going to let him die, but I can try, can’t I? lololol

@soulcrossed tHE SOPHIE TO MY HOWL. THE MICHAEL TO MY MARTHA. AND HOPEFULLY, IF I HECKLE YOU ENOUGH, THE BEN TO MY LETTIE. in any case, you’re brilliant, I love that we’re literally the entire hmc rpc, and i’m so soft for all our kids???

Does one have to ask to ship with you?

Yes. Please. Even if it’s a canon ship that you know explicitly I ship, honestly.  Please always ask. If you’re too shy to ask, send me an ask with “<3?” or smth, and I ‘ l l take it upon myself to hop into your IMs and guess which ship we might want to talk about until I get it right. 99% of the time I’ll say yes, but it’s just 1) good manners 2) good to let me know? because sometimes we’re writing something vaguely shippy but I would just like the verbal confirmation? it’s almost like my muse poking yours and being like “so are we dating now” except it’s me poking you and being like “are we shipping now??” 

And also sometimes our muses have clear chemistry but I have Hard Lines on how I ship with that muse (i.e.....Anatole). Or sometimes I don’t really want to ship, and your muse might just have to have unrequited feelings.

How often do you like to ship?

I am a l w a y s onboard when there’s chemistry. If my muse is making heart eyes obviously I can’t stop them lmao. Likewise if they’re really not feeling it....sorry nah.

Are you multiship?

Y e p. Multimuse, Multifandom, h e l l a multiship. 

Are you ship obsessed or ship more-or-less?

I’m not ship-obsessed but I think ships are fun, and I would like ships for my muses. I spent a long time doing rp like...avoiding ships, bc they were generally not a part of the rp experience that I really enjoyed, based on past experience? But now I’ve got the Most Wonderful Ship Partners and while I don’t n e e d ships, I know that I want them! 

What is your favorite ship in your current fandom?

"Current fandom” lmao who is that????? How do I pick out of my 1701 fandoms?? I mean........I’ve been looking at a l o t of Kastle edits lately....sooooo that? I’m also catching up on my Punisher sooooo.

Finally, how does one ship with you?

COMMUNICATION!! Plotting! You can skip the initial interaction thread and hop straight into my IMs/Discord if you want, but plotting is the most important element I can think of when it comes to shipping with me. Always let me know what’s going on. Always build on our character relationships. And like..........tell me outright if you wanna ship!!  

tagged by: @skylarkmuses

tagging: .....uhhh whoever wants to I guess, this thing got v long and i don’t wanna accidentally put pressure on anyone jfaskl;jflsadf

[overnightheartbeats]

* getting  to  know  the  mun :

name :  Luna nickname :  not really faceclaim :  lol not at the moment tbh, before I used Stitch and even Vanellope at some point pronouns : she/her height :   5′3″ birthday :  April 10 aesthetic :  heat changing mugs, tea in the evening, music so loud it blocks everything else out, pictures of home/family/friends, cloudy days with just a bit of sunshine coming through, laying down on a grassy patch on campus, watching the sunset on campus - the Golden Gate Bridge from across the bay, the feeling after a hike 

last  song  you  listened  to :  Lose My Mind - Dean Lewis favorite  muse (s)  you’ve  written : uhh...yikes, it’s hard to pick but I’d say James, Danielle, probs Laurel too? 

* getting  to  know  the  account :

what  inspired  you  to  take  on  this  muse/these muses :   different things I suppose, I’ve added/moved muses around a lot in the years I’ve had this account (though my first muse was created as a favor to a friend, later on, they moved on from the rpc and I stayed, ended up developing said muse. I think just hectic life back home in LA help spark my creativity in terms of muses

what  are  your  favorite  aspects  of  your  current  muse(s) :   I love exploring my muses and seeing them interact with others because depending on who they’re interacting with, I get to see their softest sides and they’re so sweet, but I also do get to explore what makes them tick. I really enjoy seeing them work things out, working through things that they may not know/understand or things that make them uncomfortable. 

what’s  your  biggest  inspiration  when  it  comes  to  writing :  music I think, I listen to a lot of music...I love listening to upbeat music, usually Spanish music. It’s weird but when I have to write/read in English, I have to listen to Spanish music so I can concentrate aaaand when I read/write in Spanish, it’s the opposite? My brain haha but anyways, yes music !! But I think also just having those conversations with the other mun really get me going :)) it helps learn about the muses and how they’re interacting with each other, learning beyond their bio I suppose

favorite  types  of  threads : I love the angst tbh. I thrive in pain lmfao…i don’t know what else to say about them, I’ve noticed that not many of my muses are in touch with their feelings, or I should say..not comfortable with them (in varying degrees and for varying reasons) but angst tends to put them in spots w/ friends/family/partners where they kind of have to work with it ?? reminds me of something we say at my job, ‘challenge by choice’ (except that here..the choice is mine lmao). I do love shippy threads, but I think for them to really work, I need to talk to the other person and we really dive in..those threads? *chefs kisses* 

biggest  struggle  in  regards  to  your  current  muse(s) :  I'm in my last year of college and...it’s hard out here. Sadly, I don’t have as much time to just sit and write, and when I have some time, my muse gets tricky. I feel guilty easily, so completing threads is hard because I feel bad I can’t finish everything I owe (yikes). I try to keep in touch with the people I have threads with, but this school really takes everything, and my job..it’s difficult to keep up here (even on IM’s, i’m the worst at responding haha)

tagged by: @enchaxxted

Tagging: @stxrroving @erstwhles @wtfnoie @goxinsane @oldmcncy @hellcbeautiful & anyone else that wants to do this !! :))

[eatingfireflies]

Fanfic ask game: A for Cat's Cradle, F, P, W and Z?

Yay thanks for the ask! :D For some reason I can’t make cuts so #long post #text heavy and I hope people’s filters pick those out

A: How did you come up with the title to Cat’s Cradle?

Firstly, there are two very good works with that title that I know of: Vonnegut’s novel and pengychan’s fic (which has a really good and probably my fave portrayal of Kubota). I wasn’t necessarily thinking of them when I wrote this fic, but there’s something about the game (it’s called ayatori in Japanese) that I guess resonates with us?

In my fic, Junpei likened Kubota’s emotions to the Gordian knot. The title of the chapters is part of the extended metaphor (as in ‘The knot unravels’ and ‘The tangled web’ for chapters 2 and 3). There’s a lot of strings there and I just went with that when I had to choose a title for the whole thing.

There’s also how when you try to make shapes while playing ayatori and have it all fail, you can get your hand ‘caught’  by the strings. Which is kind of like what happened to Junpei.

Lmao I don’t like talking about/explaining my fics because I feel people would be all ‘I didn’t see that at all and now my interpretation is ruined’ or ‘you’re so pretentious lol’ but here we are! :’D

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Oh wow this got really long? So I’m gonna put this under a cut! Well looks like cuts don’t work for me now. Wtf is happening. 

This if from New Year’s Eve Bell, a fic I wrote for 365: A Soukoku Zine.

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‘A promise is a promise.’ Dazai cheated, as Chuuya said. He doesn’t like taking chances, not when it matters, and has rigged the machine in the arcade before making a bet with Chuuya. ‘You said you'll be my dog.’

‘Never said that.’ Chuuya snorts, but even in the dim moonlight Dazai can see his face has turned pink. ‘You don't even like dogs.’

‘Fair.’ Dazai looks away from Chuuya, fixing his eyes on the temple bell as if it will start ringing if he stares hard enough. ‘Will you come with me?’

Chuuya breathes in sharply; any other time Dazai would have turned to look at him. But now Dazai finds he can't and has to satisfy himself with imagining the expression on Chuuya's face, surprise mingled with suspicion as he narrows his eyes at Dazai.

‘I'm not your dog.’

Dazai forces a soft laugh. ‘I know. That's why I'm asking.’

‘You'd really go so far just to fuck with the Mafia?’

In Mori's dreams Dazai will come back and become the Mafia's Boss. That’s not going to happen and the Mafia already has a perfectly capable second-in-command who can step into Mori's shoes once the old man pops his clogs.

It would be a shame if that second-in-command absconds with Dazai.

‘That's an added bonus, yes,’ says Dazai.

‘Oh?’ says Chuuya. ‘What's in it for me, then?’

‘Front row seat to my death bed.’ Dazai shrugs. ‘You'd want to make sure, wouldn't you? If I've really died. You can't just trust rumours.’

Dazai finally turns to look at Chuuya. For a moment they look at each other, until Chuuya breaks eye contact and laughs.

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There are so many good Dazai/Chuuya fics in that zine and I’m probably the one person who went with a more gen interpretation (I didn’t tag the fic as Dazai/Chuuya so much as Dazai & Chuuya because I didn’t think it was shippy enough), but I love that convo because it allows the two of them just enough space to admit they are willing to keep each other company in their old age without admitting to their real feelings. I think it fits them.

When my roommate was all ‘that sounds like them’ I was very happy.

P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)

It depends on what people mean when they say planning. I’m the type of person who doesn’t like sitting down to write until I know how I start and how I end--something which surprised one of my writing professors because he’s the gardener type and doesn’t necessarily know where the story is going. But me, I like knowing point A and point B. Writing is usually just me trying to get there. That’s what I did for Kissing Santa: I knew what I needed and how it would end, I just had to reach that point. I didn’t plan on how to get there, though.

For fics like Dry-cleaning services, I had bullet points of themes I wanted to address and that’s probably one of the most ‘planned’ fics I’ve ever written. It’s still not planned, though.

My collab with @greaseonmymouth​​​  Hope & Legacy, was also planned. Which makes sense because there were two of us writing the thing and we needed to know where to go and if it could be done within our time limit.

W: Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?

Either works for me! The thing is, no matter how specific the prompt I still might not follow the thing so :”D I’m very bad with interpreting prompts tbh.

Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?

I might not write major character death unless I have to. You know how when people ask if you really need to write the word ‘fuck’ in your work? That’s me with major character death. (I don’t care if the whole story is peppered with fucks.) It has to have a purpose other than to shock or wring out some easy tears from the reader. L’s death in Death Note is one of the inevitable deaths that I think is handled well. Kaworu’s death(s) in NGE is also good. The deaths in Harry Potter are not that great (especially I think compared to how the deaths were handled in say, Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain series).

In fic it depends on how the writer handles the subject. I’m not opposed to it, but like I said before, it needs to mean something for me.

A permanently dead Kurashiki Akane will probably make me not read the fic.

[mswyrr]

further inveighing against will they/won’t they

I have actual narrative reasons (in addition to fluffy shippy feels) that make me think they need to move beyond that.

Someone said the show is kind of a coming-of-age narrative and handling trying to be partners in a long-term relationship for the first time is a dramatically interesting thing for the lead

Trying to be serious with a woman who’s a mom means, on some level, having to share in parenting. For a lot of people, parenting brings a new angle on/brings out their own issues over their parents. So far he’s been the kooky family friend who can leave all the hard work to Chloe and Dan. But if he’s actually, say, living with Chloe... he can’t just pop in and disappear. That could be really interesting. You know, all: I’ve realized I might be adding another, far more terrifying title to my already long list: that of “step-father” /soul-deep shudder/ That sort of thing lol

This would be particularly fun because Trixie is getting older, into more difficult years of development - what would he do facing down some “rebellion” himself, he who has defined himself as the Ultimate Teen Rebel Against Dear Old Dad???? lmao

Being there for someone consistently and getting to know them in that way is different than the romance and grand sacrifice stuff - as awesome as as that is. Committing to live a life and being vulnerable instead of pulling off a (very impressive, but still) act of self-sacrifice once per season would require him to grow more. He’s not terrified of dying like he is of letting Chloe truly know him

The main people in Chloe’s life have let her down repeatedly. I love Dan and his redemption arc--And her messed up mom. I like that all the family stuff is messed up but there’s no real villains either: it’s not that insufferable “abuser/abused” dichotomy Tumblr loves so much--but... jesus, he was awful to her. And IMO she was kind of playing pretend with Pierce. But trying to be “real” and long-term with someone she feels so deeply about would really bring up her issues about relying on other people and whether they will be there for her. Considering so far that all of Lucifer’s acts of being there for her are mostly secret from her, it could be really interesting. AND she’d have to struggle with her own questions about destiny/fate/being a miracle etc

I get how the Big Reveal is itself something it would take a whole season to work through. Totally! Chloe is going to have major issues (and L too) on that front. I’m happy to see that done organically. But I really do think you could have them actively choose to be together, as the people they truly are, by the end of S4 and if there’s an S5 go into some super neat stuff about trying to be partners with another person.

[coldasyou]

shaire still hasn't had any scenes or any mentions?? what??

it’s REALLY sad lmao like they talked once in the quarantine episode but they haven’t been on the same service or spoken for an extended period of time since episode 8...we’re going in to episode 15. remember this is the same two people who were so close in season 1 but god forbid shaun know another person!

anyway the tags @inbrinity wrote on one of my shaire posts sums it up (hope you’re cool with me adding them, they’re just spot on)

#YES#I mean the thing is I'm not even asking for anything shippy#I'd like that but he's all obsessed with Lea atm and whatever that's fine for now#but the fact that they aren't even interacting at all ever... that's ridiculous#they were so close in season one#she was his person... the one he went to for advice#the one who could change his entire future plan by softly saying she'd miss him#the one that even A CHILD noticed he looked at with googly eyes#the one he never has an unkind word to say about#there's so much there and now they don't even acknowledge that they know each other let alone that they're close friends#they both survived life-threatening situations recently and we didn't even see them checking in with each other about it#it just upsets me because it was the writers who established their relationship in the first place#and now it's like none of that never happened and he's spending all his time with Morgan at work and I hate it#I'm not asking for a freaking proposal (though I'd like that lol) I'm just asking for the writers to give us SOMETHING#don't make them adorable together and make us care and then act like it never happened#the good doctor#shaire

[wandyrlust-a]

name: lacey, “lala” if you’re my grandmother, occasionally “haircut doctor,” “bitch” if you’re flora while i bullied a fictional character star sign: sag sun, cap moon, cancer rising  height: 5′0′’ (i wear heels a lot tho) what’s your middle name: marie put your spotify/apple music on shuffle. what are the first 6 songs that popped up? (i’m doing more becasue i feel like 6 misrepresents me sldjflskjfksdf)

"lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off” by panic! at the disco

“do i wanna know?” by arctic monkeys

“i don’t want this night to end” by luke bryan

“hard to forget″ by sam hunt (this was my spotify wrapped song of the year, don’t judge)

“stay alive - reprise” by hamilton original broadway cast

“outnumbered” by dermot kennedy

“born for this” by paramore

“shiksa goddess” by jeremy jordan (the last five years soundtrack)

“she’s in love with the boy” by trisha yearwood (i am a WHORE for 90s country ok)

“once” by maren morris (THIS IS A SHIPPY SONG PLS LISTEN)

“fall for you” by secondhand serenade

“woke up in nashville” by seth ennis

ever had a poem/song written about you? i fucking hope not. i’d die in a bad way, that sounds awful. do not perceive me pls when was the last time you played air guitar? air guitar? the womb probably who is your celebrity crush? literally everyone sljdflksjlfksdjf uh chris evans is probs my number 1, but robert pattinson, victoria pedretti, aubrey plaza, aaron tveit, anyone with bisexual energy. i am seldom attracted to anyone under the age of like 27 which is tragic because i also don’t believe large age gap relationships are always ethical sldfjsldfjsdf. so i’m gonna be single for a while lmao. what’s a sound you hate; sound you love? sound i hate? the citizen app notification sound. it makes me think i’m about to die. sound i love? uhhh i just thought of this time i was doing this little girl’s hair a year ago at work (i am a professional hairstylist) and she was three years old at the time and it was her first ever haircut and she was excited (she kept calling me haircut doctor because the only “appointments” she had ever been to before were for check-ups with her doctor, so she applied the same logic to her haircut appointment, and HONESTLY? valid. i immediately added “haircut doctor” to my professional instagram bio.). well, she was just pumped to be there, so when we went to wash her hair, her mom came with to hover nearby because often little kids are scared at the shampoo bowl. but not this girl (her name was austen), no, she giggled the whole way through the wash because she thought it felt funny on her scalp. it was the most pure and simple elation i have not only ever witnessed, but been involved in. it was especially significant because for a lot of small children, it’s hard for them to let me hold water up near their face, and it was super cool that this little girl trusted me enough to enjoy it. now, i do not enjoy being a hairstylist. i never wanted to be one, i was pressured into becoming one, but moments like that make it bearable. so, the sound of that little girl’s laugh is one of my favorite sounds. do you believe in ghosts?  yes but not in a spiritual way, more in a “we don’t yet understand this kind of science yet” kind of way how about aliens? YES do you drive? every day. if so have you crashed? yes, i was t-boned when i was 16. what was the last book you read? the wicked king by holly black do you like the smell of gasoline? YES it’s nostalgic for me. my dad is a mechanical engineer and the smell reminds me of hanging out in the garage as he worked when i was a kid. what’s the worst injury you’ve had? idk if this counts but i have flat feet and once i went to urgent care because i couldn’t hold any weight on one of my feet and BASICALLY the doctor said that because of how fucked my feet are, i’ve been using the wrong muscles to walk for my entire life and those muscles aren’t design to carry the fully body’s weight and they exhausted themselves. i had to basically wait a few days for those muscles to heel, drop $500 on new shoe inserts, do special stretches for my feet and all this other stuff. i continue to defy reasonable logic every day and wear heels to my job where i’m on my feet for 11 hours without breaks. :) do you have any obsessions right now? complaining about homework that i’m neglecting & dissecting the validity of daredevil revival rumors do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong? no, but i reform my opinion about people. i won’t hold it against anyone or do anything to them, i just change how i interact with them. is that a grudge? maybe. so i guess i don’t know. in a relationship? you’re JOKING. look, all i’m gonna say is that if someone is attracted to me, that’s a red flag sldjflsdjfjldfjsdkfjsdfj

TAGGED BY: stolen from @stonedgilbert​ bc it seemed fun TAGGING: YOU