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[wetterfishguts]

hai goob

[fernsproutxx]

something i wrote for one of my fics like a year ago;

“We all have those people in our lives where we would say I would die for them, you know? And it’s actually pretty easy, to say that you would die for somebody.” “But taking a bullet for someone is a one-time demonstration of your love for an individual.” “The tough part is living for them every day. It’s hard to live for people you care about because to live for someone is to do it with actions, not just words. It requires you do things every single day to show them that same love.” “Everything is just about playing with this constant paradox of being in-between, that limbo of living and dying for someone.” “And if you’re not willing to live or die for yourself, you can’t do the same for anyone else.”

[agirlinthegalaxy]

It's been rolling around in my brain the last few days for some reason, but I still hate the family backstory reveals for Sophie and Eliot. I've seen some of the meta for it, but quite frankly, it still makes no sense. If it had been something actually thought of and intentional in the original, I think it could have been so fascinating. I mean, Sophie's willing abandonment of Astrid to contrast with Nate's loss of Sam or Eliot's adoption in contrast with Hardison's and Parker's? Could have been excellent! But they came out of nowhere in Redemption and don't work with these characters.

Sophie was still actively using the fucking alias that she met Astrid under! She met with someone from her past on the show! Like. Quite frankly, that one is unequivocally bullshit that they made up and threw in and pretended could fit with the established canon. (And I'm sorry, but the idea of Sophie abandoning Astrid and never telling Nate about her just... So much of Nate's trauma was rooted in the loss of Sam, and I think that introducing this element after he's gone and unable to respond to it taints Sophie and Nate's relationship in a way bc I'm not exactly sure how Nate would've responded to learning about this but I think that it's something he'd have needed to know. I don't know how to fully express my thoughts on that but yeah.)

As for Eliot, I don't like the adoption aspect literally at all. The way that he would interact with his family and the memory of his family would be different, and I think that it's flat out ridiculous to think that he'd have never mentioned it to the team in the original show, especially when dealing with the kid cases. (I also dislike the biracial adoption as its own element because if Eliot was actually raised by Black parents in the... idk what 80s/90s? That just. doesn't feel congruent with how they write Eliot interacting with PoC, not necessarily in a bad way, but babe, he's written like a white southern man raised in a specific kind of culture that does not jell with that. It also makes Eliot look... really bad that he was apparently raised with the knowledge of how fucked up the military was and his parents' history and made the choices that he did.) Like the show may not have explicitly stated it but the implication of that relationship was vastly fucking different throughout the original show.

Just. These were not backstories that were congruent with their depiction and characters in the original show, and they're also just moves that I don't particularly like or find interesting directions for those characters. There's also something to be said about how it was apparently unacceptable for a woman to not have kids or someone not reconciling with their biological family when that was something that the original show handled a lot better. Out of all the directions to take Sophie and Eliot's stories, that's just not really one that I think was a good idea.

[ikilledamanforthisurl]

really fun parallels between Minami & Nishida in which one guy who wants most of the fights he gets into generally has a bit of a dodgy win/lose ratio, meanwhile the other who has only ever welcomed one single fight in his life is the more violently competent

[candyheartedchy]

Still thinking about the wraith theory and doodle something just because.

[minthandsoap]

gonna watch challengers tomorrow i’m excited ‼️‼️‼️

[fiori7ura]

here's a feminine rage edit i made. i'm kinda torn between whether i like it or not, but i'm just saying "screw it" and posting it. i'm not a great editor, and the coloring sort of screwed itself/the quality up, so i'm sorry for that lol. song is ptolemaea by ethel cane (literally the best shit ever).

[sovaharbor]

warren's aesthetics to me are literally just marble figures (pretty, sculpted, perfected), clouds and the sky (bird), and very symmetrical architecture (ocd. also if it has a view of the sky even better becuse double bird)

if you cannot tell everything ties back to his ocd and perfectionism for me (i am mentally unwell)

[council-of-beetroot]

My older sister used to get annoyed that nine year old me couldn't be bothered to read the last four books of HP so I always told her I thought JKR was shitty because I am a twin and I couldn't wrap my head over why a writer would kill one twin and not the other. like twins are an all or nothing deal here, you kill both or you don't kill either. that was my logic. but damn, anytime HP discourse appears on my dash, I think about this

[zealctry]

casual reminder that Hidan’s build is athletic.

he’s not bodybuilder buff like, let’s say, Kisame or Kakuzu, but he has enough muscle on him to break a few bones if he sets his mind to it. physically, he’s anything but weak.

[cryptid-pet]

@diabolikpersonals @i-write-hurt-not-comfort

OH MY GODF

[ambivalentmarvel]

just went through the main azula tags i have to write more wtr the economy is in fucking shambles

[darkforestwarriors]

having conniptions at 3am as I realize that my only fully finished and realized fanfics are a one shot warrior cats vampire AU and a long ass one piece self insert shipfic that no one other than me will ever lay eyes on (probably?)

why am I like this help

[esteemedbastard]

20 Questions for Writers

Tagged by @ragdoll-ren

1. How many works do you have on A03?

10, under the pseudonym zacehild.

2. What is your A03 word count?

99,727. Damn, almost one hundred.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Almost exclusively for MXTX; primarily Heaven Official's Blessing but I have a HOB crossover fic with Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. I'd write Silmarillion fanfiction if the lore didn't scare me.

4. What are your top 5 fics by Kudos?

1. Something Like Soulmates, by a wide margin.

2. Garden of Hades

3. In the Night, Dream Delight (NSFW)

4. Flight of Persephone

5. Elysian Fields (also NSFW)

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Angsty endings make me sad! But I'd say ICSATOD will have the most angst.

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably Something Like Soulmates or Elysian Fields.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

No! I'm shocked that after 5 years of not updating my works, I haven't gotten any hate. Everyone was very patient (albeit reasonably disappointed.)

9. Do you write smut? If so which kind?

I write the smut kind of smut.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest crossover you've ever written?

I can smile at the old days (yes the title is from Cats, don't @ me), a crossover fic between Heavenly Official's Blessing and Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Maybe.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! Something Like Soulmates has a Russian translation!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, I'd probably just get impatient and write the whole thing myself.

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

That I've written for? Hualian.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

The Messmer-as-Maedhros fic I came up with in March. I keep telling myself I'll start working on it after the DLC is out so I can chew on the lore, but I have too many projects in front of it.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I've been told I'm a very descriptive writer!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Perfectionism.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Should I get around to writing that Messmer-as-Maedhros fic, I'd love to write something in elvish.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Shaman King, probably.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

The previously mentioned I can smile at the old days. I love putting characters into Situations that change the story, even in subtle ways.

Tagging: Absolutely not. Do it yourself.

[symerr]

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[appl3soupp]

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