#is it almost 2am? maybe.

[dixons-sunshine]

So I know none of y'all asked for this, but I thought I'd give you all an update on where I am with writing requests.

This idea by @louifaith smacked me right in the face and I'm currently working on that, and then I'm moving back to I Never Lived For The Applause (a fic that I managed to combine five requests into) to finish up the last scene, and then I'm gonna work on some NSFW headcannons for Scud (somebody asked for a fic but I tried to write and rewrite it so many times and couldn't successfully write what they wanted, so I thought I'd put their ideas into a headcannon list.) Then it's over to Daryl with a Polish reader and Daryl with a Hispanic reader and then I'm done and can open requests back up!

But while we wait for that, here's a sneak peek to the fic I'm currently working on:

[ectochoir]

thinking about when people were doing Veeswap AUs but for some reason they were only going Valentino > Vox > Velvette when Valentino > Velvette > Vox is like, infinitely more interesting to me.

Fashion designer Valentino? That motherfucker would be telling his models to suck in their ankles while strapping them into high heels, and banning them from eating. He’d be so body-shame-y while also leaning heavily into the “you want to look pretty enough for me don’t you, baby?” guilt trips. He’s definitely not above body modification for the ideal look. He’s also an artist, so it’s a perfect fit.

Media mogul Velvette? Less of a surveillance state, TV programming kind of freak like Vox and more of a spyware, data theft on social media situation. Girl would have millions of bot farms running misinformation schemes to keep the Vees on top in the public eye, and naysayers would disappear overnight, and not necessarily just from social media.

And porn director Vox? Two words. Gore porn. He’s a sadist, and a nasty one at that, and that would definitely leak over into his scripts. His actors would hate him, because it’s either get killed on camera for Vox’s latest snuff flick, or get fried by him directly when you try to refuse. He’d also be all over generative AI porn, and his deepfakes would be near indistinguishable from real footage.

[crow-with-a-pencil]

@naffeclipse

Them ❤️

[hiding-in-the-vault]

hmmmm something something about c!Dream playing russian roulette very boldly since he can just have either party revived

[simcardiac-arrested]

different styles

[void019]

Bomby bfb :]

Silly doodle. Hello!

Aaand felt like doing a couple banner things too. :]

[crystallizsch]

I come bearing another song suggestion— I’m 90% sure you’re already familiar with Ang Huling El bimbo (Eraserheads) but but! Ang huling Cha-cha (Bini) They’re more like a P-pop group… but I love their songs lol

Suggesting this cause of your response to Sheepy’s ask lol

(about this post hfhdjdj)

okay first of all THAT’S THE NAME??? for some reason that song never fails to play during family gatherings when i was a kid you brought back so many memories omg

anyways-

this song (and their other songs) are a vibe honestly???

p-pop,,, i've only been getting into that genre recently tbh and i kinda like it 😭 namely ive been listening to SB19 and ALAMAT

also the lyrics you specifically chose i know it’s supposed to be angst but reading them all i can imagine is jamil somersaulting backwards trying to avoid you (and his feelings) HELP what is my imagination doing rn

the happy tunes does not match the lyrics AT ALL and yknow what that’ll always be one of my favorite type of songs lMao

okay time to overanalyze/commentate on some of these lines i am very much not insane 🤓 (and gonna very very roughly translate to my understanding and i might be wrong)

i could just look up official translations but that’s not fun and sometimes they don’t sound right >:(

Akala ko masaya ang pag-ibig ‘pag nagkatagpo na ng katuwang Posibilidad na hindi ko naisip ay ako lang pala ang nakaramdam

why am i being attacked right out the gate 💀

“i thought loving is fun if you find someone, there’s a possibility i didn’t think i’m the only one who feels it”

ONE-SIDED AFFECTION ???¿¿?? pain…. im imagining a lovestruck yuusha during the first year at nrc-

and then role reversal when yuusha moves on post-nrc and jamil is instead caught missing her 😔

One step forward, two steps back, bawat apak ay kay bigat Kung 'di mo kayang sumeryoso, tumambling ka a lang papalayo

first part is already in english so -> “each step is heavy, if you cant take this seriously just tumble away”

okay i admit this part i probably took a little too literally and it’s the part im cackling at 😭

gymnastics somersaulting jamil,,, why are you backflipping your feelings away come back here-

Nakakapagod na magcha-cha, cha-cha kasama ka

idk if there’s a more specific way to translate “cha-cha” but i think it’s literally just a dance

so -> “it’s tiring to dance with you”

I CAN NEVER ESCAPE THE DANCING METAPHORS CAN I. BUT THIS TIME IT’S SAD HELP ME 😭😭😭

all this dancing, all this back and forth… one step forward, two steps back-

they never got to anywhere like it was never meant to be 😔😔😔😔

[jiji-was-here]

i can only draw him someone help /_ \

ignore the hand i dont wanna talk abt it

also its kinda shit but i like him so shrugs anything for that sweet sweet activvity 😈😈😈

PLS REGLOG!!!!!!! PLSPLSPLSPLSPLS!! it makes me all happy :)

[skwivr]

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[adozentothedawn]

More thinky thoughts about The Guy because I cannot help myself.

You think the wider Readceran public knows where Waidwen came from? Like the specific village? They definitely don't know his opinions and/or reputation, they do know he used to be a farmer (but then so are most people there). Do they know about his family life? And if so, what is the lesson they took from it? Is abusing your children bad or is it how you get yourself a prophet? The answer is probably just No, it's not publicly known, but that leads to its own questions. Does the Morning Council know and they decided that that's a bad look and to keep it down? Did Waidwen spend that one year dodging questions about his origins like League players dodge Yuumi games? Is there a whole group of conspiracy theorists dedicated to trying to uncover the mysteries of Saint Waidwen's origins? Just how much bullshit is floating around in the rumour mill? Did the people of his old village just never make the connection because the idea of "Waidwen, prominent Eothas hater" and "Waidwen, prophet of Eothas" is just so absurd?

Lots of questions, none of which have canon answers I'm pretty sure but all of which are fun to think about...

[msommers]

4, 5, 23, 26 and 27 for rook!maeve and alidda

thank youuuu!! xoxo // rook questionnaire

4: If your Rook was a companion, where would they be found?

rambler's note: i took this as where they would be found in the lighthouse?? idk if that was the intention, but it's what my brain decided at 2am so that's how the answers proceeded.

MAEVE — i think it’d be the right amount of fantastical magic suited for Maeve that you’d access her space by going through a portal in the mini library of the lighthouse’s entryway, and then end up in a laughably larger library that’s inside one of the floating towers outside. multiple floors that you can explore by taking a spiral staircase, and she can either be found on the ground floor relaxing in a reading chair or 2-3 floors up in what looks to be her designated bedroom, sat up at a writing desk scratching away at some parchment.

ALIDDA — i’m deciding it needs to be obnoxious to get to her room because it’s funny. you know that walkway that leads up to the big ass eluvian, where on the sides it just has empty spaces of blue?? let’s add a broken up staircase going down to one side, that so clearly looks like a low effort jumping puzzle, and then at the end it opens up into an abandoned map room. Alidda never had the stairs fixed because she’s already used to hopping and climbing to navigate terrain, she feels right at home. the cutest updates to her room would be map markers and notes showing Rook’s progress in exploration, little comments about uncovered locations and shelves holding some of the collected artifacts/momentos. partway through act 2 one of those magic studying desks that are always lying around gets added to a corner of the room and a codex entry is on top of it with notes on how Bellara’s teaching her some advanced arcane analytics or smth.

5: What emotion did they usually pick?

MAEVE — i don’t know if they have names in veilguard, but Maeve was a majority blue with some dashes of purple, and some friendly flirting tossed in here and there for good measure. just bard things 🥰

ALIDDA — and if i admitted right here that i only played maybe 30 minutes of Alidda’s save before i went and made another mage. what then. my called shot is a 40/35/25 split between direct/humorous/helpful (using da2 terms lmao) because it feels like the right kinda energy for a girly raised by Jorina and then later being influenced by said sister and her chaos boyfriend once they’re around more.

23: What do they do after an absolute crisis?

MAEVE — seek out loved ones, which is blessedly simple in the lighthouse. she knows where to find somebody if she feels drawn to needing their particular energy in the moment, or can just as easily find a grouping of the companions to surround herself with. she can't stand being alone and draws a great deal of comfort from talking things through with her friends, though sometimes it's enough to simply be there as they talk amongst each other. after that entire [redacted] ordeal of act 3, for a time it was borderline impossible to find Maeve anywhere without Emmrich or Neve, she became so horrendously clingy and reliant on maintaining physical touch to ground herself.

ALIDDA — funnily enough i think Alidda might be almost an opposite in this department. she would've reached a point growing up where she realized that it would make her big sister's life so much easier if she was independent and could handle things on her own, and one of the habits that came out of that goal was isolating herself to work through any big emotions alone so that she wouldn't burden either of her siblings with it. she'd still rely on that in the present, retreating from the group and coming back half an hour later as if she'd found a reset button, right back to normal. (she was off-screen talking to herself for like 15 minutes and then took a 15 minute nap tbh)

26: What animal best represents your Rook?

MAEVE — luckily i got to avoid extra research by remembering that the swan is one of Maeve's symbols! they're known for beauty, grace, love, and loyalty, all perfect for the babygirl. i also just think she’d like them a lot so i’m counting that towards being important and nobody can stop me.

ALIDDA — animal symbolism research drives me up the wall so i'm going to just settle for now and go with a hawk: clear vision, keen senses, adaptability, courage, loyalty, trusting yourself, etc etc.

27: What was their life like before the events of Veilguard?

MAEVE — i truly straight up ignore the in-game shadow dragon background for her because i don’t give a fuck, it’s Maeve. she’s in this world just for the fun of it, not being canon compliant. i was looking at the faction-given surname the other night and goofing to myself about how it’d be funny if she used that while adventuring purely because she’s also a famous author in this world and can’t be going around as a shadow dragon having people recognize her off the bat. i want to see companions gagged that this modern icon of romance & adventure novels is their de facto leader, it’s so funny to me idk. the less goofy stuff is that i think she could actually be fairly similar to her usual backstory here, just further along in the journey. a lady freed from her abusive, dreadful excuse of a husband that was able to build a ridiculously successful brand as an author while moonlighting on the side as an adventurer over the years, just this time she ends up working with the shadow dragons instead of witchers lmao. she would’ve been something like a connection of theirs that provided resources and occasional hands-on assistance, maybe initially based in Orlais?? i don’t remember where i said Carden would have been from in Thedas, but doesn’t matter all that much, she still ends up being recruited into the most fanciful quest she’s ever had put to her.

ALIDDA — the current Alidda concept is that she joined the veil jumpers very early on, alongside Jorina and Aleksi! i don’t know if we have any idea how long the faction has been active?? but i imagine that they’ve been at it for a good while. Alidda was greatly influenced by Jorina and Aleksi’s stories of their time with the Inquisition, and tbh she probably got to visit them there once or twice?? during those years between Corypheus and the Exalted Council, and i can easily see a girly in her mid-teens getting inspired there to become something more than just another city elf getting by. i love toying with the world and recent DA media has been all over the place with its magic system, so i think it could be a fun thought that Alidda initially began her veil jumper career in a space more akin to a classic scout like her sister would have, but then somewhere along the way one of the insane magic surges of the forest resulted in her gaining some magical abilities. it fits into some of the rogue abilities in the game, plus plays off that years old joke concept of elves regaining their magic as the Veil gets toyed with that’s always been entertaining.

[interpolationz]

gay marriage was still illegal the summer gravity falls takes place

and it wouldn't be fully legalized for another three summers

[forelnorel]

my skill when I try to draw something for real vs my skill wnen it's time to shitpost

hes a wittle kitty

[all-hail-trash-prince]

Do you ever finish reading a story and then you just sit there staring at the ceiling and wondering how you're supposed to just go back to living your normal life after that Experience™

Anyway if you like infinity train you should read Enchanted to Meet You (AO3)

[cheesby]

this game is a little boring

[apathyfairy]

every time it's the end of the year i feel like i'm going insane like the entire year just culminates into me just mcfreaking losing it on new years eve