#i'll be tagging it 'the locked tomb' if you want to block it

[omegaverse-anesthesiologist]

(Updating this because that post brought in like 150 followers and I can no longer get away with having the worst pin known to man)

Hi! I'm Nina. I'm 18. Any pronouns are fine. This is the reblog and shitpost sideblog because I (used to) have somewhat of an image to maintain on main. If you want Good Content, go follow me on my art blog, @nina-the-ninth. I draw. Some of it is almost good.

Fandoms:

persona 5 (lotta shuake but I'm not a ride or die kinda shipper i'll reblog anything tbh)

alien stage

madoka magica

hades

twewy (original, never played neo)

vocaloid

dungeon meshi

locked tomb

I try to tag stuff appropriately, but I also suck at doing that. Apologies in advance.

Original posts are tagged #in which nina screams into the void. I suggest blocking this tag unless you want 8 d8 of severe psychic damage.

That's it. Have fun.

[violet-embers]

*TERFS DNI* (cis men can interact but you're on thin ice. Be normal or I'll block you)

This is a sideblog for @smoldering-violets to be a bit more sfw. I'll keep all my hornyposting over there and less horny things will be over here going forward.

Ember's also in here, though no idea if/when she'll post so unless otherwise specified you can assume posts on here are from Violet. Posts which are at least partially from her will be tagged with #enkindled embers

As for interests, I'm really into TTRPGs (though I only really play DND 5e since that's what my regular groups play) and books! I mostly read fantasy with a bit of science fiction, some of my favorites are basically all of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere books (though the Stormlight Archive has a special place in my heart) and the Locked Tomb series. If you have any favorite books please share them with me! I play videogames too but a lot less than I used to since I have less time than I used to.

I tag my random thoughts and rambles with #violet's rambles so if you want to read them that's a way to find them.

[a-green-onion]

Formal Sexybeing Contest Intro Post

Greetings, citizen, and welcome to the Glove Kink Cinematic Universe Sexybeing Contest, run by our Most Glorious and Immortal Emperor, @a-green-onion (you can also call me Tooth; pronouns he/him).

What is the Glove Kink Cinematic Universe? More commonly called Lesbian Space Atrocities, or "that microgenre in contemporary queer sci-fi/fantasy, yeah you know, that one", it consists of books like Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, the Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson, or the Murderbot books by Martha Wells (and many more--these are just my favorites).

If you don't want to see this, the tag to block is #gkcu sexybeing contest. If things get too busy I'll make a separate sideblog for it.

Authors of books being discussed are welcome to participate in any way they want.

Current Status: Nomination form is open until 3/8/2023 or sometime around then-ish.

If you want to be @-mentioned when polls open, you can put your url in the nomination form or reply to this post.

Rules:

Submit characters you personally are attracted to: sexually, romantically, sensually, affectionately, aesthetically, familially, out of a sick sense of horrified fascination, etc. Anyone whose magnetic presence generates desire for you.

Submit as many characters as you like, but one character per form, please! I know we all love a well-functioning bureaucracy.

Only characters from contemporary novels in the sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction literary movement sometimes called Lesbian Space Atrocities/Glove Kink Cinematic Universe/etc. This literary movement is nebulously defined and I reserve my right as Emperor to be arbitrary, ridiculous, and unfair in what I include and exclude. You can find some of my personal criteria in the nomination form.

No characters from the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. There are too many fans of that series and I want this to be a chill low-volume tournament.

Nominations close in a week or whenever I remember to close them.

I'll make brackets of some kind using the answers and then you can vote on them by Tumblr poll. Which characters do or don't make it into the contest will depend in part on how many nominations each character gets, so nominate characters even if you're confident someone else has already nominated them.

Corruption: This genre is all about the uses and abuses of power! As such, it is my duty as Emperor to abuse my limited power. If your favorite book doesn't quite meet my personal criteria for inclusion? If your favorite character got eliminated but it was really close you swear, maybe Tumblr glitched and counted it wrong? Something else you want from me? I'm morally flexible. Do not threaten or blackmail me; I'm pretty sure that's against Tumblr TOS and also it's not fun. Bribes are welcomed; do not spend real actual money to bribe me. Seduction is technically possible but I'm in a sexually and romantically monogamous relationship so you'll have to get creative.

Rules are subject to change whenever I feel like it.

Have fun!

[okayprairie]

tagged by the endlessly kind @shichidikai !🙏💌 honored to take this opportunity to yap about myself for way too long

how many works do you have on ao3? nine

what's your total ao3 word count? 51,392

what are your top five fics by kudos? A Single Nail, A Single Ruby (to this day I don't understand how this got so much traction?? did someone on here post abt it??)

I'll Keep My Lanterns Lit (trc fandom is anyone still alive i miss you guys)

The Whirlpool Radius

Shallow Heavens 

Like Soft Water Holds The Sun

what fandoms do you write for? Current WIPs include The Locked Tomb, Jujutsu Kaisen, Monkey Man, and The Queen's Thief (with a prediction of HOTD on the forecast...) Published works are TQT, One Piece, Dune, Raven Cycle, and The Secret History

do you respond to comments? why or why not?i try to always respond!! as a very shy person irl and chronic lurker in fandom i think every bid for connection is a tiny miracle to me

what's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Hmmm maybe Seeing Blue/Be The End of Me? I don't aim to write angst most of the time. Imo it requires a lot of plot maneuvering in order to be both satisfying and believable, and my interest is mostly in the mundane moments between big canon plot points

what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Like Soft Water was the closest to a good ol "ride off into the sunset" but the ending that made me happiest to write was Morning Bird Noon Flower

do you get hate on fics? No thank GOD i don't think i've even gotten called out for grammar mistakes which like. the gallows await me

do you write smut? Ok here is what I've been mulling over the past few months- yes I write smut but every time I finish an explicit scene I get hit with horrid block!! Or stuck in the middle of it! So it drags everything to a trudge and I feel like the quality of the writing in these scenes is never as strong as the rest of the piece. I'd really like to experiment more with my style, maybe try moving through these sequences more gesturally while keeping the heat cranked up. If anyone has recs like that please divulge, maybe I just need to read more ?? SOS

do you write crossovers? Honestly never considered it, characters feel so dependent on the context of their own franchises to me

have you ever had a fic stolen? No thank god. There are much better fics worth stealing

have you ever had a fic translated? Very interested the creative negotiation of translating but no!

have you ever cowritten a fic before? Not since middle school...But i love bouncing ideas if anyone ever wants to swap lore about their own WIPs, I'm too shy to bring it up but i am🥲very available🥲🥲👋

what's your all time favourite ship? Listen it's always going to Bel/Freddie from BBC's The Hour like god i have seen what You have done for othersss the childhood friends to codependent rivals slash coworkers plus [REDACTED??] and they're sooo secret-third-thing that everyone around them is 1. irritated to the point of violence 2. sick with jealousy. Like I have whatever autism makes you feel like no one understands a single word you say so imagine having someone who understands everything you're thinking with a single look?? to communicate so effortlessly and be so studiously known???? Christ on a bike

what's the wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? My white whale my pandemic lifeline 75,000 words that will not under any circumstance see the light of day... (band member x OC childhood friends to lovers) (not saying which band) (if you see me pillage any scenes for future works: no you didn't)

what are your writing strengths? *putting my foot in the stirrup of my highest horse* there's one thing I'm always working on- I want to align all the imagery, metaphors, everything toward worldbuilding without exposition. Like I'm not going to say "Gen's coat was acid green" because that evokes a color in the reader's mind that's too modern and people in Gen's world wouldn't call it that, they'd describe it as "a sickly, flamboyant green" or "an eyesore," but not "a total eyesore," because 'total' evokes a 90s feel. Everyone sort of does this I just agonize over every word choice (HOWEVER incongruous language can be a tool especially for characters in a setting that demands formal-ish speech. AO3 user Molter deploys these moments to the effect of that first thrilling gasp in an icebath, or the electric chair. Nicola Griffith (author of Hild) also uses them, more so to press Hild's warm cheek against yours across the centuries. I aspire to their talents)

what are your writing weaknesses?

How much time do you have- KIDDING. Sort of. I have TV script brain and my first instinct is to not dictate anyone's interiority, as if I can just rely on the actor to telegraph the character's thoughts n all those subtle layers of emotion. I'm also hyper conscious of how repetitive my sentence structure gets🫠 and how often i write events happening to characters instead of characters making choices that cause events to happen🫠 criminal over-reliance on the semi colon🫠 sentimental🫠🫠🫠

thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? I have a basic grasp on french but if it's a language i don't know i don't much see the point? words have meaning, why would I sling around ones that might evoke connotations I'm not aware of. Tldr control freak tendencies

first fandom you wrote for? The very very first fanwork I ever made was a hardcover diary I kept in middle school that was harry potter self-insert journal entries written as if i were a student at hogwarts. i would poke holes with a needle through the margins and say it from was my cat's claws🥲

favourite fic you've ever written? To this day I feel like The Color of Want came from someone else. Like who tf wrote that, tell her I just want to talk-

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I don't really know anyone on here so if you're reading this I tag YOU and if you fill these out please @ me in your posts so i can snoop🫶

[astrid-beck]

I have new followers so I'm going to do something I've never done before and make an intro post. Hi my name is elena and I blog incessantly about the love of my life astrid becke. I finished C2 in September 2023 after liveblogging roughly the second half of it on #lena watches cr, which is also my general CR tag for most intents and purposes, although I don't tag any fandoms consistently. All my best posts r from that era and it's all downhill from there.

Rn I am getting caught up on bells hells and liveblogging it. I don't tag spoilers bc at time of recording I am about 60 episodes behind, but if you don't want two year old CR spoilers, block #lena watches cr3. If you send me spoilers for c3 I'll block you and raze your fields. I have seen exu, calamity, and downfall, as well as TLOVM and some of c1, and I post about all of that too!

What to expect:

This is my evil women blog

I have great opinions about Astrid Becke and I post them all the time whether anyone wants to hear them or not

This blog isn't generally a place of shipping content, although what counts as shipping is subjective obviously what I mean is this is just ur warning that I mostly post about relationships when they r weird or bad or something other than straightforwardly romantic. Most often blumendrei and its permutations.

I love polyamory and codependency and siblings and friendships and evil sex and obsession and enabling and coworkers and divorce. I love when characters suck and get worse.

I also write fanfiction.

I'm trans and I'm a dyke. He/him pronouns.

Aside from the Caleb backstory grind here are some other CR characters I post about a lot: vex and vax, imogen, laudna, the matron of ravens, beau, jester, patia, laerryn, delilah briarwood, cassandra de rolo. sometimes essek and I have been known to engage in shadowgast/shadowdrei on occasion but don't get used to it. Send me asks about any of these people and I'll love you forever.

The other two main fandoms I post about on here are ASOIAF and the locked tomb! I am a real diehard for Ianthe Tridentarius and Cersei Lannister which shouldn't surprise you bc this is my evil women blog. My HOTD tag is #dreams didn't make us kings and when alecto the ninth comes out you'd better be ready

[lykoi]

coming back to tumblr and being able to just.... search for things?? is wild

twitter is... fine.... if you have a general group of people you don’t mind or enjoy seeing updates and likes from in a kind of grab bag opinion/art/news sort of deal, but searching??? for things on twitter??? awful

[handwrittenhello]

PLLM Day 1 Roundup

The day is almost over, and I thought I'd address a few things before the next round begins!

1. Most importantly, PLEASE make sure you're not voting just based on who your blorbo is. There are a billion ways we could find out tumblr's favorite character; this poll is trying to find out who the POOREST LITTLE MEOW MEOW is. Keep factors like sliminess, amount of war crimes committed, and piteousness in mind when voting!

2. It's all fun and games lamenting your personal meow meow of choice not being included, but please don't take inclusion or exclusion of any characters seriously. If you want to make your own bracket, go ahead! We could all meet new meow meows :)

3. BE CIVIL. Keep your threats lighthearted ("I'll tie your shoelaces to the train tracks unless you vote for Harrow", etc.) and your anger in check. This is a silly fun poll. Corollary to that, I've already had to post one warning to an anon who came into my inbox. If you think it's funny to clown and be rude in there when we don't know each other, you're getting blocked. This is your heads up.

4. Time for fun stuff :) Below are some stats and highlights I caught when scrolling through your tags. Under a cut to not flood your dash, and please message me if you want yours removed for any reason.

#1 Underdog: Jiang Cheng (The Untamed)

Fiercest Competition: Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad) vs. Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb)

Closest Match: Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) vs. Catra (She-Ra)

Biggest Sweep: Howl Jenkins (Howl's Moving Castle) vs. Daemon Targaryen (House of the Dragon)

Funniest Comments*: Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) vs. Lestat de Lioncourt (Interview with the Vampire)

*to ME

[greyflyingsnakes]

Yall I just finished Nona The Ninth so I apologise in advance for the spam of posts that are coming.

I'll be using the tag #the locked tomb and #nona the ninth consistently so you can block that if you want to avoid it.

[thegreatskywhale]

I think I'm going to keep live blogging the books I listen to, it was really fun with The Locked Tomb and plenty of people seemed to enjoy it. If you don't want your dash cluttered with my reactions to books as I listen to them I'll tag it all "live booking" feel free to block it. I will also tag for spoilers in all the books I read, even older ones.

I've got a little bit of a queue for books but I can get through them pretty fast so feel free to recommend me stuff. Im mostly into fiction and high fantasy/sci-fi but I'll give anything a try.

My next read is Dustborn by Erin Bowman, described as a post apocalyptic western. 11 hours, so probably 3 days.