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starlightseraph · 8 months ago

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final (long) thoughts about the rpf debacle, as i’ve finally blocked all the major accounts involved

regarding david and michael: they seem like two great guys with great chemistry, and they appear to really care for each other. the nature of their connection, their happiness in their relationships, the details of their personal lives, etc are not for any of us to say. we certainly don't need to analyse every thing they do and every flick of their eyes or use 20 year old tabloid bits to create a story about them being trapped and potentially abused and "clearly" wanting to leave their partners so they can fuck. no one dislikes the theorising because it's m/m, anyone who does has issues to work through. 99% of us dislike it because it's invasive, done without any knowledge of the boundaries or comfort of the people it's about.

regarding georgia: idc what other people say, i think she can actually act. i think it's unlikely that my opinion is biased, given that i actually became aware of her before i even knew who david was (merlin, i was 11). do i think she's the greatest actress who's ever lived? no. do i want to fall at her feet to praise every word she types on her ig? no. to me, her public personality is pretty cool and likeable, and she certainly uses her platform for good things. i don't see evidence that david has an issue with the social media stuff that georgia does, maybe a bit of playful annoyance, but nothing too serious. she does actually say good things about him, quite often. when she says things that could be deemed insulting, it’s nothing unique to david, she does that with practically everyone she posts about. i see absolutely no reason to believe that she's abusive, a baby trapper, that her children dislike her, or that david is miserable with her. i genuinely feel that her "stalker" comments were jokes. based on what she and david have said, it sounds like she was acting like anyone with a crush would, texting the object of her affections and wanting to hang out. in my community, completely normal behaviour is called stalkery, just to poke fun at someone for having a crush, sometimes done in a self-deprecating way. as for the peter davison story and its inconsistencies, idk what to make of that. the claims that she got her "david" tattoo right after they met and that she changed ty's name without input from david are completely unfounded. I've seen no evidence for the name bit, and i've actually found evidence against the tattoo story. i'm not proud of it, but i did go digging through paparazzi photos, and she doesn't actually have the tattoo until later. no one, not even the tabloids, seems to have anything about an open relationship or them not going steady before getting married. the first actual records of those rumours is in the blogs that say the rumours have been around for nearly 20 years. all the "evidence" for these last few things that i've seen cited (or even very boldly linked) is from the trashiest of trashy blog sites with 2004-level web design. i take them with a grain of salt, given that not even the daily mail repeats their stories.

regarding anna: i'm ambivalent towards her. i don't see any obvious great talent as an actress or model, but she also hasn't really done anything that has the opportunity to showcase ability in those fields. i also don’t think she has never before seen levels chemistry with the others, but, again, we’ve hardly seen anything. the claims that she got pregnant through a one night stand seem more widely acknowledged, so maybe that was the case. if that is what happened, i have a few things to say. firstly, did neither of these grown adults have birth control? the baby trapping claims imply that she deliberately sabotaged it, which is an incredibly serious claim that we are in no position to make. within this story, michael apparently met her at an acting school graduation and they hooked up. she would've been in her early-mid 20s and he would have been almost 50… the rpf blogs say that they have no personal bias against georgia and anna, and that they're perfectly willing to call david and michael out on their bullshit, yet (to my knowledge) they haven't said anything about this. if they're really so concerned with the truth, and they believe the graduation hookup story, why not call michael out for it?? they were both adults and while i do believe that healthy relationships with a large age gap are possible, it’s still a bit weird given how they would’ve met. also, there are have been lots of (unconfirmed and contested) allegations that michael is a serial cheater, so what makes these blogs think that he wouldn't also cheat on david in this fantasy world view of theirs? i know that at least 2 of the major blogs believe the cheating stories. i believe that people can be bettered no matter what they've done and that they should get chances, but assuming that he wouldn't cheat in this singular situation seems pretty biased to me.

bottom line, we don't know! this is exactly what i’ve said since the beginning, that we have absolutely no place in these people's lives outside of admiring their accomplishments and supporting their work. please, everyone, chill. by all means, write fun stories on ao3 using the likenesses of david and georgia and michael and anna! i find it uncomfortable, but i don't have real moral objections to fiction that is only intended as fiction. i’ve previously said that we don't have a problem with the georgia/anna shipping jokes because they're jokes, and one of the pf blogs said that it was serious because of an ao3 slash fanfic and that we were only fine with it because it was f/f. correction, we were fine with that because it was purely and entirely fictional. not being presented was an investigation into real life.

i've seen lots of these blogs saying that a video of david and michael having sex could be released and the we'd find a way to brush it off or discount it. flipping this and applying it back, i think that david and michael could hold a press conference declaring that they're not in a relationship, and the blogs would work around it, claiming beards and façades.

quick warning to everyone, digital footprint exists. one blog in particular very casually displays her identity, and someone could easily send her graphic sex stories and claims of abuse about real strangers to potential employers or event hosts. this isn't a threat, i really can't be arsed, but it's something to be aware of, that these things can have real life repercussions.

i want to clarify that the only reason i would be bummed if the theories were true is because it would mean that all four of them would have lived in unhappiness. i don’t dislike the theories, while they do claim a variety of disturbing things that i certainly hope aren’t true, because i want to pretend that everything is perfect. it’s the extreme parasocial obsession and complete lack of any boundaries that i object to.

the conspiracy story had been told many times, every single group of devotees to a public figure or piece of media weaves and incredible web of false evidence and imagined narratives. maybe you think that you're actually right this time, that you've become privy to a truth. maybe you are right. but to believe undeterred that this time it’s different and your theories are true is just wishful thinking. if everything is true, great for you, i guess, your favs have been miserable for years, but at least you were right, yeah? it’s a fucking insane mindset to have. until they confirm or deny, you don't get to tell their story for them.

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kroosluvr · 2 months ago

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i'm genuinely curious I WANT YOU to outline how the shu/ake/sumi romance/and-or/situationship would unfurl in a post-p5r reality (where akechi lives, of course). what are the bullet points for what would happen between them. would they have a falling out. are they doomed. would they be horrible at communicating. would they finally be good at it. which pairing comes together first, if any at all. or would all 3 pairings happen at the same time at the same pace. or are they all in a limbo, not romantic nor platonic but a secret third thing.

OMG HI. HIIIII ok so. i havent actually thought about it that much (SURPRISING I KNOW) because i honestly suck ass at timelines (in regards to canon. tennis au on the other hand...) BUT I WILL DO MY BEST a lot of this is loose too.... im totally up for most anything but this is how i see it most of hte time heheeh (TY FOR THE ASK I LOVE THINKIJGN ABT THESE 3.)

this is .. kinda.. long.. ahem

pre-p5r: sumire is acquainted with goro thru her dad's show: they're not friends, but she's talked with him more than her sister. so when goro meets 'kasumi' at the cafe something strikes him as odd but it doesn't quite register: like ehhhh well why should i care / maybe my memory is just wrong / not worth my time

during p5r: 'kasumi' has a crush on akira, a kind of on-the-surface adoration of "wow i think you're really cool and we get along well!" nothing that's super advanced on or anything, and akira doesn't see her as anything beyond friends anyway.

she drops the crush upon reverting back to sumire, and it builds slowly over the course of 3rd sem but is also never really actualized - like she likes him ok whatever but then what..??

3rd sem (long winter au): long winter barebones: maruki's idealized world starts like on christmas or smth (havent thought this out TOO much LOL) and royaltrio-centric part of 3rd sem lasts for quite a while, at least 3 weeks-1 month. how does this work w the timeline i have no idea. BUT it leads to tense moments like spending new years together with the idealized thieves and trying to stay upbeat during all that, all the attempts and failures at breaking them out of it, and a LOT of tension during this time.

they argue and fight and are irritated with each other a lot of the time (goro the most vocal abt it obviously, sumire kind of drawing back into herself, and akira doing his best to stay optimistic. i think when akira starts to lose his spark is when the others r like oh we gotta make up for that slack and they finally up their game a bit) and yeah even sumire argues with akira and with goro and etc. im figuring this out PROMSIE ill come up w stuff and draw comic/write fic for it...

also 1/9 sumire fight is probably the beginning moment when goro starts to respect sumire more/see her more as a friend/comrade than a teammate. bc she almost kills joker and then him LMAO really giving them a run for their money... and also he really sees the pain she feels at being herself and resonates with it, either unconsciously or consciously

also upon seeing her Past broadcasted on maruki live television:tm: he makes the connection and is like oh so that's what happened. so all this time she was just masquerading as someone else. hmmm

anyway they're all very fragile and scared and sad during 3rd sem so they stick to eachother closely bc they're all they got to lean on. i think they have a lot of skinship during this time? handholding hugs leaning on each other sleeping in the same room (they hang out at leblanc A LOT bc 1) they're kind of afraid of being alone during this time 2) they're afraid of the OTHERS being alone during this time 3) leblanc is "untouched", compared to other parts of maruki's reality. can u imagine if even goro's apartment suddenly became nice overnight LMAO) but its like no feelings attached, just pure comfort kinda thing

kissing could also happen during this time but also no feelings attached, purely Why the hell not etc sort of vibe.

also goro and sumire get on first name basis during this time. this comic i drew w goro dying in my head which is Why he initiates first-name basis, but we can operate off the idea that he thought he'd die but somehow magically didnt. YAY!

but they have impeccable communication w each other and are very honest with their feelings. (goro avoids talking about his past tho. so maybe not THAT honest.) but they all achieve a really strong understanding of each other to survive maruki's winter wonderland...

i do think they develop feelings for each other during this time but they're all confused whether it's feelings of like comfort/security with each other or like romance/yay. so like nightmare situationship basically. so they all individually decide to hold on to this happiness while it lasts bc they sure as hell know it won't last (when have any of them been able to keep good things)

3rd sem: the thieves join yay! i think they'd notice that the 3 of them have become very close-knit (bouncing off eachother insanely well in battle, talk to eachother casually, and are generally pretty affectionate with each other. weird but ok! at least they (akira goro.) aren't trying to kill each other all the time.

this is also nice for sumire bc she had those 3-4 weeks to kinda Figure herself (sumire) out btwn akira and goro so she's less like down in the dumps about not being 'kasumi' anymore and more secure in herself and stuff like that. yay!

they beat maruki and stuff. YAY!

post-p5r: akira moves back to his hometown for 3rd year of highschool and college, goro is who-knows-where (i imagine he gets back on his feet of his own making and then goes abroad for school somehow. idk just seems like smth he'd do esp since i think he'd avoid everyone during this time) and sumire stays at shujin for 2-3rd year, then probably goes to a uni in japan but goes abroad for 1-2 yrs (gymnastics and etc.)

the "goro doesn't die and reunites with akira/sumi" timeline

goro, walking into leblanc on 2/4 or whatever: hi guys i didn't die actually

sumire: haha why would u silly? lol

akira: WHAT THE FUCK

the end.

i think they do go to separate universities though and theyre like damn wait i miss those guys but they go thru school and keep pretty decent contact w each other and see each other during vacations and stuff when they can and then when they come back to tokyo it's like no time has passed btwn them and they just pick up where 3rd sem left off but like better and happier and more peaceful. YAY!

i haven't really thought of how they "CONFESS" or whatever but i think all of them just feel (TWINGE OF JEALOUSY) at the idea of any of them dating someone else so theyre like ok well thats that i guess. we're a thing now (they refuse to use any other terms like that i think. For a while at least. until maybe one of the thieves etc gets engaged/married and then theyre like ok we can grow up about this. but basically they're just A Thing and Offlimits:tm: and etc.)

COMMUNICATION IS GOOD HERE!!!! i think for sh/uakes/umi i prefer them becoming a Thing at once rather than 1 couple happening first (esp since i like the idea of "none of them rlly understand romance and stuff so they just say 'fuck it' and become Thing" like thats kinda funny asf to me.)

i also feel like to anyone else they just seem like a group of besties until u see exchanged kisses or hugs or interlocked arms/hands and ur like wait....? hm. well idk. (bc they don't either. no one has any idea)

the "goro doesn't die and avoids them" timeline

also in my head sumire doesn't endeavor for the olympics/world stage/international fame and just kinda sticks around national rankings while she still figures herself out (in this timeline. also probably true for the other one but shrug IT CLD GO EITHER WAY I THINK)

somewhat relevant is my shsm fic where i elaborate on sumire's emotions more during this time (especially while thinking goro's dead). <- actually this is pretty recommended cele sumire reading bc this basically totally encapsulates how i see her. the first oneshot is 6k words tho ITS A MOUTHFUL.. SORRY

she and akira drift farrrr apart. she feels extremely guilty and also bitter and frustrated about goro's death and the fact that akira didn't tell her (or goro, in fact.) and he feels guilty and sad about it too, that he should have done something? anything? for him or for her, and he couldn't figure it out and now its over. so now the two of them r grappling w this and trying to overcome it and forget each other even tho the memories during 3rd sem, although painful and haunting, still were sweet and nice and they don't want to forget but they HAVE TO MOVE ON... RIGHT....

meanwhile goro's probably thinking like "damn i miss those guys." but they also think he's dead so hes also like "this is stupid i have to move on(?) Or whatever." ok imma be honest i didnt really think THAT much into goro's thinking during this time (YET.) bc i think he'd be floundering a LOT with everything during his life and being kinda just miserable.

also during this time they try to date other people and it all is miserable and falls apart and also they havent forgotten about the other two so theyre like fuck.

akira - 25~, sumire - 24~, goro - 26~, eventually goro moves back to tokyo and kinda just goes about his life hoping he'll see them again. or maybe find out what they were up to and finally get some closure. wow he does! they kinda all go back to tokyo at the same time wow shocker soulmate things IM JOKINGGGG but they all kinda hold that sentimentality of ok so much time has passed maybe i'll feel better about this place now. and then when they run into each other again its like no time has passed at all. HAPPY ENDING YAY!

communication is less good in this timeline now they're healing from the "I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD" stuff. so thats a whole nother can of worms. probably ironically in this universe they try to actualyl figure out how this whole romance thing works so they can label each other as partners and be like OK DONT RUN OFF AGAIN. ANY OF U!!! DO NOT!!!!

ok this shit is so long im so sorry. HI. SDGSHKJFHJKDSHG THANK U SO MUCH FOR THE ASK IM BAWLING i really havent thought much of post-3rd sem stuff as u can tell........... but i WILL ipromise.

edit: LAST ADDENDUM im very passionate abt shsm being nightmare situationship. guys who never got together but got divorced 50 times. sh/uake fits into this category as well i think. i can also kinda see ak/esumi like that but ironically i feel like they'd have the most stable situationship out of the 3 individual ships..... idk.. need to let it all cook in my head a bit more BUT VERY PASSIONATE ABT THE SHSM THING.

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jasper-the-menace · 9 months ago

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Hey, since you're interested in scorpion biology, I thought you'd be interested in the idea of... intersex Chima scorpions! Well, sort of.

There's a specific character that's been bugging me a bit. Scutter is kind of the scorpion equivalent of a centaur; he has two torsos, one anthropomorphic, and another of the scorpion body. With scorpion anatomy in mind, it's easy to reach the conclusion that Scutter's reproductive organ would be heavily altered because of his body, making him intersex to a certain extent.

I hope this makes sense. I'm trying to look for possible trans rep in Chima characters (like in this example). What do you think of this idea?

Oh friend, you don't know the essay you just inspired.

You Opened This Can Of Worms, Now Lie In It

Some important bulletpoints before I get going, just to get all of my followers on the same page:

Disclaimer: I am a transgender nonbinary perisex individual. This means I am not intersexed (to my knowledge), I don't identify with the gender I was assigned at birth, and I don't identify as male or female. The closest thing to describing my gender is literally "no".

I am a strong advocate for making as many characters transgender as possible, regardless of "realism". That's why, in my own writing, half of the Scorpions are retroactively transgender (though they don't understand gender on the whole and most of them would probably be nonbinary if someone took fifteen minutes to explain gender, variable social constructs, and the concept of genitalia tying to gender roles) and also Razar is too on account of I said so.

Being intersexed does not inherently mean being transgender. There is a lot of discussion and individual choice between intersexed people about whether or not they're part of the queer community. It's a very individual thing, and I am not part of those discussions on account of not being intersex myself.

When it comes to humans and other beings with a level of sentience and sapience, the term "hermaphrodite" and its derivates are considered slurs. When talking about animals, hermaphrodite and its derivates are scientific terms. So in something like the Legends of Chima series and other humanoid-animal media, the proper term is "intersexed". (I noticed you used the term "intersex" in your ask, and I appreciate it!)

I know too much about scorpion mating and birth.

We're talking way too much about genitalia and gender tonight in regards to fictional characters.

I am genuinely delighted that you decided to drop in here to discuss this, because boy howdy do I have a lot of thoughts about transgender headcanons/representation and scorpions specifically! Scorpions are just. So damn cool.

Note for my fellow arachnophobes: There are no images attached to this post, but it's really easy to find videos of scorpions doing various things on YouTube, which is actually how I've been studying them.

Scorpion Sex, Mating, and Genitalia

Scorpions of both "genders" have genital opercula (singular: genital operculum), and their asses run up into their tails. In order to mate, they don't just do like horses. No no, buddy, they have a really weird, specific method!

In order to start wooing his potential mate, the male scorpion will lock chelae (pincers) with the female scorpion, and they will start to "dance". The male scorpion will drop a sperm packet onto the ground and lead the female scorpion over it. If the female scorpion is down, she'll basically squat and absorb the sperm packet into her body, which is then followed by a "mating plug" to keep it in while it does the fertilization thing.

(It's important to note that the courting process also contains "juddering", aka the male scorpion doing the dance that the stickbug meme did, and may also contain clerchical "kisses". Honestly, pretty romantic for an arachnid. And possibly tail-rubbing and sexual stinging. Scorpions are very kinky!)

(It's also important to note that some species of scorpions have been reported, though not reliably, to reproduce through parthogenesis.)

Post-coitus cannibalism has not been scientifically seen in scorpions, so the male scorpion is generally safe as long as he scadoodles.

Gestation in some scorpion species can last over a year, and different species can have anywhere from 2 to 100 little scorplings - the physical size of the scorpion is not necessarily tied to how many babies they'll have.

Also, scorpions give live birth!

The baby scorpion is essentially folded like a Fedex package and launched out of the womb. It will then unfold and climb on top of the mother to make way for its next sibling. These will hang onto the mother until their first molt, which happens as a group and launches them into the juvenile stage. After this, they will still stay with their mothers until their carapace finishes hardening and gaining color, at which point they hunt prey on their own and will wander off on their own terms.

Hey, Jasper, That's Pretty Fucked Up, But How Does This Tie Into Chima?

I'm getting there, hold your centaur scorpions!

This is where we get into the worldbuilding of the Legends of Chima series, the Character Encyclopedia, and our poor boy Scutter.

See, the Legends of Chima as a series is very much a product of its time. There is some rife ableism and questionable word choices in regards to the Crawlers (and Sir Fangar, but this isn't about him). According to the Character Encyclopedia, Scutter is "less evolved". There's a looong history of racism in using phrases like "evolution" in regards to other humans, so taking that and applying it to an animal world leaves us with some very strange dissonance, because it's used in Chima to mean animals turned into a more humanoid form by the Chi.

Because really, what is the Chi? It's a magical substance that, depending on how you read it, could be the animist spirit of the land (I say, as an animist myself), or it could be drugs. Or it could be any number of other things! I know one person who writes Chi as the blood of dead gods, which is metal as fuck!

Ultimately, it depends on how one is writing the Chi that makes the usage of phrases like "less evolved" more or less questionable than it was intended. We're all dragging around the corpse of a Lego theme across our writing desks anyway. And the way I go about answering the question of "what is Chi" is definitely different from others. (Again, see the dead god blood part.)

The question of whether or not the Scorpion Tribe, namely Scutter, would count as intersexed relies on 1) defining intersexuality in regards to genitalia arrangement (scorpions don't have penises and vaginas by default; and the Wikipedia article on scorpions just uses "genital orfice" or "genital opercula"); 2) determining if the Chi has magically changed how genitalia works for Scorpions (admittedly, I do this because I didn't want to have to use the term "genital opercula" over and over); 3) determining the humanization extent of the Scorpion Tribe as you write them (I lean more towards human than you do, just from what I've seen of your work); and 4) deciding if such terminology even exists in Chima.

But looking at Scutter and going with the assumption that the back end is fully scorpion... No, I wouldn't count him as intersex by default. Intersex implies landing between the two human biological extremes (which, as we all know, is not as cut-and-dry as high school biology taught us), when really he's kind of a secret third thing (a Scorpion who probably doesn't have either a penis or a vagina).

(Of course, there's also what you said, paraphrased to my own wording: the Chi may have just decided to fuck up this poor man's genital situation and do a half-ass job.)

That's not to say he can't be trans. I mean, I made Scorm and about half of the Scorpion Tribe trans already. That's also not to say they're not all trans by default, considering scorpions without the ability to think wouldn't have the concepts of genders anyway.

Okay Jasper, So How Do You Write Him?

So, here's the thing. I'm aromantic-asexual, and I also write smut and, to a lesser extent, romance, which means I think about fictional character genitalia too much. But thinking about Scutter has left me utterly baffled.

On one hand, I usually write the Chi as a magical animist force of the land of Chima on the whole, and part of that is that the Chi tries to get everyone on the same playing field, physically speaking, which is how we get retroactive transgender man Scorm in my Tales of Chima series.

On the other hand, look at him. Look at him. He's a centaur arachnid. I know he can pass the Harkness Test, but I still feel weird thinking about his genitalia. If I go with my theory of the Chi giving everyone penises and vaginas at random, then I don't want to think about how much that would get in the way for the poor boy! On the other hand, his lower body is still mostly scorpion instead of, well, Scorpion, so who's to say he doesn't have a genital operculum?

Too Long, Don't Want Details About Scorpion Sex

Alright, spoilsport. Here's your TLDR:

It genuinely depends on what the Chi does in your version of the story and how bad it fucks up. It depends on how dedicated you are to scientific accuracy. It depends on how much you want to think about scorpion genitals.

And being intersex is not necessarily trans rep, unless it is, unless it isn't. I'm not intersexed, so I'm not going to say what that falls on myself. There is an intersex pride flag that was created by Morgan Carpenter in 2013.

Trans characters can exist outside of being intersexed, you don't have to conflate the two in order to have transgender representation. Just hit the characters with the Transgenderinator 5000 Beam. Fuck realism, this is a series about walking talking animal people. Who's going to stop you? The fun police? Transphobes? Eat them.

Further Reading

Start at Wikipedia and go from there through its sources for anything of particular interest:

Intersex flag (in case you're curious about it and its history, which can also launch you into further reading about humans being intersex)

Scorpion (morphology section)

Scorpion (mating subsection)

Scorpion (birth and development subsection)

So, uh, yeah! Thanks for coming to me with these questions, it's really touching that you value my thoughts this much, and I love talking about my boys and scorpions and the complicated web! I apologize for any errors or too-crass sections, because I wrote most of this in one sitting after playing wayyy too much Skyrim today.

~Jasper

#answered #olivescales3 #legends of chima #lego legends of chima #lego chima #chima #scutter #loc scutter #scorpions #science #biology #queer #trans #transgender #intersex

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sixosix · 7 months ago

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haiii pookie snukums muah muah cherry pie :3 idk i just wanna give thoughts (and maybe recieve some from u too 👉👈) from the new trailer bc im bored and i feel like im being toasted alive... mainit

FREMI💀 no bc he looks like he can be blown away from a lil breeze. like a sneeze can turn him into dust💀 BUT BRO BLOCKED A WHOLE ASS HIT FROM ARLECCHINO WHILE ALSO HOLDING LIKE A 30 KILO CLAYMORE💥 HOW BUFF IS HEEEEE😭 (lyney at the side like a damsel)

speaking of lyney,,,,i saw somewhere, idk if its canon or not, but i read that lyney is canonically weak. not weak as in "cannot fight", more like, "brains over brawn" type of weak. his main strength comes from his big fat brain and i think thats hot (lyney as brains, thawed!mc as brawns. an unstoppable duo if i do say so myself)

Im just gonna say, arlecchino DID NOT MISS❗❗ when she chose lyney as the successor. bc think about it, the house's main objective is to adopt kids to make them into soldiers(or other stuff). so why are the children not doing anything about it? because they are blinded by father's "love". they've been provided a home and a family that they can love, ofc theyre going to do whatever they can to repay her kindness. i say "blinded by love" bc its most probably not genuine. arlecchino will only do things if it benefits her. so, in short, the children are being decieved into loyalty and submission.

and what is one of lyney's biggest/ most prominent trait? being able to decieve others very easily. he's a magician ffs😭😭 (this is probably why thawed!mc is hesitant/ doesnt believe him whenever he does something bc she knows that its probably not genuine. and bc of this, they're both miserable.💀)

like, he may not be physically strong, but that brain and charisma can bring you to your end in a snap. and that hot.

i only heard childe's voice but i feel like he's important to the lore. my manz been to 3 countries, and hes hasnt retrieve a single (1) gnosis😭 pack up boy ur no harbinger all u do is look pretty and get your ass handed to u THRICE😭 (i love him tho muah)

WIDNTRACE omg windtrce FINALLYY😭😭uueuedhhsuwh

ur so cool bc i just saw the ask asking if theres thawed update tmrw, and ur gonna do RESEARCH???? this is why i love u. marry me. pookie idc how long it takes, everything u write is so delicious. quality over quantity is so real ily. and i dont want thawed to end so soon....

i think thats all of my brain barf today. congrats again on 5k!!! ily muah♥️

HI AKAAGIIIII i did. i did see. i watched it from zy0xs livestream. first of all, ARLECCHINO IS SOOO COOL her presence… unmatched….. the lore ?! im so excited as a player and as a thawed writer!!!!

I KNOW FREMINET WAS INSANE THERE HAHAHAH the way he didnt fall back.. King. king behavior. LYNEY TOOOO HELLOOO THE LORE BOMBBB the throwback to him being chosen as the next King AAAAAA my brain was going overdrive (thawed!mc being brawns shes so stupid i love her)

and yes!! your thoughts on lyney and arlecchino are so true. arlecchino picking lyney makes sense in her perspective but the fact that lyney doesnt want to do it says so much about his character! lyney is such a well written character im so in love

i was so surprised to hear childes voice i was like oh gosh the thawed is writing itself?????

AND YESSS RESEARCH AAA i rlly rlly want to wait and see what the House lore is all about before i write thawed because i think i could really use it. not only for ideas but for keeping it feel like it could easily be an actual genshin quest.. TY AHAHHAA ILY TOO we shall have a spring wedding, like taht post about artists asking permission to draw fanart from writers (thats me)

#606:inbox #606: akagi0021

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graphx · 8 months ago

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OK HANG ON HOLD UP IM OBSESSED WITH YOU (appreciative and complimentary) PLEASE I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PLATONIC KLANCE IM SO SO CURIOUS (genuine)

(the urge to aro-ify one or both of them..........ngl..........)

i definitely think. a lot of the wider fandom that ships them does NOT do it in a way that's accurate to either of their characters (and good GOD i know how annoying it is when ur just Not Into the Token Main Ship of a fandom. i feel your pain so so so so much) and like honestly. my ideal klance dynamic is kind of a qpr situation where they are very important to each other but it's not necessarily Romantic or whatever. but i'm the resident aspec qpr enjoyer of this world so. ANYWAY I LOVE HEARING PPL'S THOUGHTS ON THINGS SO I HOPE ITS OK TO ASK BUT I'D LOVE TO HEAR A RAMBLE IF U HAVE ONE TO GIVE

OH MY GOD ITS THE SCATTERED WINTER IN MY INBOX!!!! YAYYY!!!

i saw one of ur posts tagged as anti-klance a while ago and i LOVED all of the points you made soooo much! Its so cool to see someone view them platonically!! I hate when a majority of content shoves over the other GREAT CHARACTERS TO EXPLORE FOR SHIPPING it makes me so sad :(

(I’m currently trying to get better at writing ace characters if u had any advice u would want to share👀)

I love the rivalry to learn to tolerate each other to friends dynamic but I see so much content that seems ooc cuz I think they make them so…soft?? Once they get together?

like they were fighting like stray cats and now you’ve declawed them(that’s the closest expression i can come up with XD)

I’ve read romantic fics of them that I can tolerate but… Like no they are frenemies to the end of time in my head.

I’m so excited to see your take on it in the rewrite ur doing! The monster chapter will feed me for MONTHS /:D (no pressure tho ty for writing and sharing so much!!)

#voltron #vld #my dribble drabbles #scatteredwinter

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zukosdualdao · 4 months ago

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fandom asks — 8, 9, 10, 19, & 20!

-teaandcrowns 🔥

8. is there anything I wish people would write more about in fics? (A dynamic, an exploration of an arc, just a character that doesn’t get much screentime, etc)

i thing i’d be interested to see more fic reimagining aang’s arc in season three. with how much it’s come up in discourse recently, i am thinking more about how aang doesn’t really get to be an active agent in his pacifism thanks to Deus Ex Pointy Rock Et Lion Turtle, and i’d like to see more fix that lends him that agency and allows him to grow more than canon does. (i would also love for energy-bending to have more clearly defined lore, even if it’s only in fanon lol, and to be introduced wayyy earlier on. i think learning it in conjunction with his firebending as a way of tying all of his masteries of the elements together would have been really cool.)

9. is there anything in general I wish more people in the fandom talked about?

this is sort of a double-edged-sword, because i genuinely understand the criticism of the way the creators chose to write jet as being morally corrupted by extremism when he’s fighting against oppression. that being said, i do wish it was more talked about/acknowledged that the issue in jet is not just wrt whether or not his killing the fn people in the town is acceptable or not. this is a complicated issue all on its own, and one that’s been debated at length already, so i’ll let it alone for now. but what i often find the conversation is missing is the acknowledgment that there are still earth kingdom citizens living in that town, who would have been killed along with anyone in the fire nation. we see this in the scenes showing sokka warning the townspeople and getting them to safety. jet says that he’s fighting to free them, but he is making the choice all on his own, without their knowledge or consent, that the lives of the very people he says he’s trying to help are worth sacrificing in the name of his ideals and retribution against the fn. and sokka says it best: “who would be free? everyone would be dead.”

i absolutely understand the need to criticize this writing, and i’m not saying people shouldn’t. writing jet as this extremist going too far in contrast toward the Morally Upstanding version of rebellion that the show is comfortable with re: the gaang is absolutely imbued with a centrist ideology i’m uncomfortable with and critical of. but when we’re talking about analyzing in-universe character motivations, i always find it striking that this aspect of jet gets waved away or ignored in these conversations.

10. A fic from the fandom I haven’t read yet, but I want to read

incendiary!

19. favorite headcanon

the gaang all do lots of traveling together (be it for political meetings or adventures without the weight of the world quite-so on their shoulders) post-war and stay in pretty regular contact.

20. least favorite headcanon

i know that this is less headcanon and more just how much post-canon screwed her over but the idea that katara would not want to have her hands DEEP in policy and politics (beyond banning bloodbending (which i don’t like but she wasn’t even there for it? c’mon!)) and not only that but have PLENTY of leverage to be as active and involved as she wants (even ignoring that she’s chief hakoda’s daughter and dating the avatar, she’s also a war hero ALL ON HER OWN)??? sounds fake.

thanks for the ask friend!

#💕#asks #teaandcrowns #fandom ask game

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deltastra · 4 months ago

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Tower of God Season 2 OP Thoughts

As I am a Webtoon reader, THIS POST WILL HAVE SPOILERS SO ANIME-ONLIES BEWARE but to be honest, I would say my whole blog is spoilers for anime-onlies so keep that in mind!

In addition, THIS IS NOT AN ANALYSIS POST. THIS IS JUST MY GENERAL THOUGHTS.

First off, RISE UP SLAPS SO HARD AND GENUINELY FITS THE VIBE OF THE FIRST ARC OF SEASON 2.

I was so unsure at first but to be fair, maybe the trailer didn't do a good job of hyping up the OP for me. I still liked it, but I was unsure. Now, however, I am SO on board with this song. TY NiziU!!

Starting off with Bam drowning?? That's cold! But a good way of showing to the anime-only audience that Bam was not forgotten and the story is still following him in a way!

I want to point out the cut-from-paper style that the studio is using for this OP. I'll give more thoughts about this towards the end of the post! But for now, I love it!

Team Sweet and Sour looking at Viole with fear is so </3 I do like that rotating angle with them surrounding Viole!

Ah! Also another thing I noticed when watching episode 1, the studio isn't trying to hide Bam's eyes. They're making it very obvious that Viole is Bam. And you know what, good for them. Let's face it, a lot of us weren't thinking that there is no way Viole wasn't Bam when we first read the Webtoon right? I do wish they only showed his eyes during impactful scenes though. But that's just my opinion!

This is like my second favourite part in the OP. Seeing that animation of Bam struggling to reach his friends from Season 1 looks so real. It feels like FUG is LITERALLY pulling him away from them while hes desperately trying to go back. A wonderful way to show how FUG treated Bam. The animation of his arm movements feel so real.

AND THAT SPLIT SECOND WITH HIM PULLING DOWN THE SCENE AND WE SEE THE STARS? I LOVE THE PAPER LOOKING LIKE IT WAS RIPPED! It brings back that paper style the OP is doing. Also the way Bam tries to reach his friends only to fail and we see the stars instead? Love it. He was betrayed cause of those stars when you think about it. Of course this split second has some other meaning but as of now I don't remember. Still one of my favourite scenes from the OP though! One of my favourites....the top goes to...you'll see. (I believe you all know)

I ACTUALLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS STORYLINE, THE OP REMINDED ME OF IT. I won't read that part of season 2 again, I'll experience it through the anime to remind myself.

HAHAHA I LOVE THIS SCENE WITH THEM. IT GIVES ANIME-ONLIES SO MUCH CONFUSION. Like if you were an anime-only and you saw THIS. What would you think?

Why is Khun helping her? Are they in love, why are they holding hands like that??? Maybe he's pretending to like/help her! Who are those people in the back??? Hahahahahaha. Love it. (Also I plan to make a post on my thoughts on Rachel one day. and spoilers, it won't be a rant post. I hope I remember to make that post though, lol)

YOOO ITS FUG! HWARYUN AND HA JINSUNG YOU BOTH LOOK GREAT! It's so nice to see them aga-AYO WHOS THAT GUY AT THE TOP???? FUG EXPLAIN YOURSELVES. Also Karaka I see you there buddy, you're not sneaky.

The princesses! Love their new looks! Also I noticed Yuri's VA changed?? Why?? Could someone tell me?

I remember in 2016, I was like, "woah it would be so cool if this Emily app was real!".......haha.......chatgpt............anyway

Why is she so perfect, like what's her secret? SIU BRING HER BACK PLEASSEEEEEEEEEE. Also I liked the lip-syncing part! It felt off when I first saw it, but it grew on me!

Don't do this to me.....the way they smile at eachother please don't do this to me :((((

HORYANG CAUGHT IN 4K!!! Okay but tbh I forgot he had a crush on her.

Ngl the transition to the song here felt like a betrayal cause I thought the beat was gonna drop lol.

Not going to screenshot all of the parts here cause it will take time. I just want to say, THIS IS HOW YOU DO FORSHADOWING WITHOUT IT COMING ACROSS AS "SPOILERS". I loved TOP by Stray Kids but man, looking back at that OP, THEY SHOWED US NOTHING. At least this feels more packed and shows you what you can expect. in fact, you can even come back to this OP after the cour and go "Ohh so THAT's what that scene was forshadowing!" Love it!

The sillies! I love them so much!!!!!!!!!! They felt like a family which I loved....It's so nice to see them again. Also maybe I'm looking too deep into it, but I love how they show Viole with no colour while the rest of the team is coloured. I like to see it as the team providing Bam some happiness in his life as Viole. I don't know, that's just me. I'm sappy when it comes to them.

BEST PART BEST PART THIS WAS MY FAVOURITE PART IN THE OP I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. THE TRUE BUILD-UP REVEAL TO UREK BEING IN THE OPENING (AND IN THIS COUR) IS PERFECT!

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THAT ROUGH SKETCH OUTLINES ON HIM? IT JUST FEELS LIKE HE'S OOZING WITH POWER! RANK 4 BABY!

AAAAAAAAAAAH

HEADON I SEE YOU THERE BRO. EXPLAIN YOUSELF OVER THAT STUFF WITH ENKIDU WHAT WERE YOU COOKING????

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET THIS NEW STUDIO COOK WITH THIS FIGHT PLEASE. SEEING VIOLE VS HORYANG IN EP 1 GIVES ME A BIT OF HOPE. BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT OF EXPECTATIONS ON THEM SINCE THE GREAT JOURNEYS OP FIRST CAME OUT. Nice that Viole will wear his casual clothes though.

Nice job covering Khun lol. It legit took me about a week to realise that it was him because I forgot he wore that at the Hand of Arlene.

THEY LOOK SO HAPPY AND EXCITED TO BEGIN THEIR JOURNEY <3

I love them so much.

Alright now let me just yap a little about my overall thoughts on the Opening as a whole!

You see, I....saw the OP when it leaked. I tried my hardest to ignore but I was too curious. What were the leakers saying about this looking trash? The style is genuinely unique!

I adore the cut-from-paper style, so what if they're only doing it to save money? They did cost-cutting WHILE making the OP as unique as possible. I would glady take this style over black screen with text and short animated scenes of Bam fumbling. (Yea I went there)

Besides, the opening does a great job of hyping you up and showing you JUST ENOUGH of what you can expect, the rest is up to you to figure out. All the forshadowing is done perfectly, only webtoon readers can pick up on the clues, while anime-onlies have the pleasure of going "OMG I FINALLY UNDERSTAND THIS"! It's a win-win for both of us!

Overall, a fantastic opening to the new season, I look forward to see what they'll do with Cour 2. Will it be paper-style as well? Who knows... But for now, i can say that...

WE ARE SO BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

#tower of god #tog #tower of god anime #tower of god spoilers #tower of god anime spoilers #tog anime spoilers #tog spoilers #Tower of god season 2

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trans-queen-administrator · 1 year ago

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oh i have been tagged in a thing. ty @yugonostalgia2019. time to overshare

3 ships: Hmmmm ok I gotta list Taylor x Lisa, their dynamic makes me go absolutely feral without fail. Honestly I don't even need them as a ship I just love how horrible and amazing they are for each other. I am limiting myself to one Worm ship here, despite how much it pains me, but I shall provide brief descriptions for the other ships for the people who don't know the non-worm stuff here. Marina x Pearl from Splatoon are so damn cute and I adore them. Nepotism baby punk soundcloud rapper x runaway genius former child soldier military engineer is honestly just 10/10, and they're just so good! I swear to god if the DLC doesn't have a 20 minute cutscene of lesbian cephalopod kissing I'll riot. Splatoon is my biggest fandom besides Worm which is kind of hilarious to me considering the sharp difference in tone. Third ship... hmmm, The Doctor x River Song. I just think it's genuinely such a sweet concept and wonderfully executed, two time travelers who are in love but keep meeting each other in the wrong order so their experiences and knowledge of the other don't match up is tragic and great and I nearly cried at their final episode. Honestly just been a River Song fan forever too, she's eternally my transition goals.

First ever ship: Ohhhhh gosh this one is lame. Back when I was a wee lass in middle school browsing FF.net endlessly, my main fandoms were Pokemon and Super Smash Bros. I flat out didn't realize that you could ship anything except a man and a woman because like, no one told me, and I kinda was just not a fan of romance because I thought it was always forced in stories (I was right about that tho). But then I read a Smash Bros fanfic that had Lucina and Palutena shipped and I was just like... damn, women can kiss? That sounds so cool. Shame I can never do that. And so I read the shockingly large number of fics shipping those two because it was the only wlw ship I knew existed.

Last song: I don't actually listen to music that much. Last song is uhhh... the Monster Sanctuary PVP Theme I guess due to playing Monster Sanctuary PVP. If we're talking actual music, I think my sister forced me to listen to some Taylor Swift song recently? Idk what it was but I think the album was called 1984.

Last movie: I also don't watch movies much! Uhhhhhhhhh I think it was Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No. Might have been a different one? The Sharknado movie that ends with them crashing down to Earth inside of a shark after fighting them off from a satellite and one of the characters gives birth while coming down inside the shark and the baby cuts its way out with a chainsaw before the mom gets crushed by falling debris. Sorry for spoiling, I know everyone was really looking forward to watching Sharknado 3.

Currently reading: Making my way through the Snapshots series of Splatoon fics which are so fucking good. For published stories though, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for a class. Thinking about rereading Worm and posting about it but I gotta beat the Lakesbian copy allegations.

Currently watching: I'm don't really watch anything when I'm on my own, I prefer to read in almost all situations. When I go home though, I watch One Piece with my sister because it is nice to spend time with her and she's very passionate about the show.

Currently consuming: Nerds Gummy Clusters. I regret every bite but I bought this shitty bag of candy so I gotta finish it. Fuck these are terrible.

Currently craving: Mini Chewy Sweettarts. They're my favorite candy and I have a massive sweet tooth so I've been craving them, but I swear every single damn store in a mile radius stopped stocking them and is now selling "Sweettart gummies" or "Sweettart chewy fusions" or "Sweettart ropes" or "Sweettart rope bites" and that is not what I desire! Where is my delicious mouth hurting candy ;-;

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vetinarivimesy · 1 year ago

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Gargh I genuinely wish I liked this show more - I like the returning characters, I loved all the intriguing hints of new lore stuff, aesthetically it looked fantastic... The casting was mostly perfection. I could even (mostly) put aside my increasing annoyance at post-Lucas-Star War's increasingly negative stance on the jedi that seems to be influenced by the fans who were adults when the Prequels/90s films came out who insist that those films were all about how the jedi were evil actually, when... No seriously those films were aimed at 12 year olds how did the very basic genocide is bad actually message fly over their heads so collectively?

But ye gods I really felt the whole, Filoni's been working on 20 minute episodes his whole career with this one.

I think the thing that properly tipped me over from, I'm enjoying this show, but it's frequently frustrating, because I am unfortunately a fan with opinions... into no, this thing is just frustrating as the finale rolled to its extremely predictable end that he'd not so much done an Empire ending, as promised, yet again, to answer the questions he'd been posing throughout next time... Only next time is hardly guaranteed, as sadly epitomised by the waste of Ray Stephenson's rather intriguing character - let alone the way both Claudia Black and Wes Chatham were essentially one step above being glorified extras.

Eh I liked Mando S3 and even BoBF I adored Andor and Kenobi - I'm hardly impartial. I even quite like Ahsoka for what it was, rather than allowing my sheer annoyance at what it wasn't get me too enraged at all the George Lucas never implied that moments with his worldbuilding - stated very publicly to be the opposite to Filoni's takes several times.

I loved the new galaxy, the Purrgils, getting to see the Rebels gang again, most of the Baylan and Shin stuff and Claudia Black getting to be a terrifying Nightmother, the Kintsugi troopers, and the extremely blatant Stargate type worldbuilding can I copy your homework stuff. Even Huyang in live action, as frustrating as the constant jedi-negging by proxy was... Ezra was perfect. Love the little crab people and seeing Chopper, as toned down for live action as he was.

But Filoni, Dave, Hat-Man, please, if you're going to do glacial and epic mysteries that end on an Empire style cliffhanger at least give us some reassurance that you have a plan and know how all the plot-threads are going to go? And that your worldbuilding is in fact internally consistent actually and not just based on vibes with some degree of yeah this does have coherence... The occassional utterly incoherent aside, for you to go oh yeah, the New Republic are all fucking terrible actually, as bad as the space nazis actually, moments were not reassuring. And in the hands of a different writer I'd have been fascinated by the Sabine getting the force stuff... But I really sincerely do not trust you with this.

You keep leaving extremely important character and worldbuilding moments off-screen, not even summed up, just stated in a sentence then rapidly glossed over. With excruciating lengths of time given to portentious dialogue and incoherent ramblings about how the jedi deserved their own genocide actually.

No? Too much to ask? One and a half plot-threads proved too much to keep spinning..?

Of which, admittedly James SA Corey/David Abraham/Ty Franck you are not you could barely keep one plot thread going coherently let alone the half-dozen or so they kept spinning all the way through.

Actually, no, you know what. Fuck it. This has annoyed me enough that I am going to go off and watch Wes Chatham not be utterly wasted in a glorified extra role, in a sci-fi series featuring mysterious rings and huge conspiracy theories by corporate and fascistic government powers alike fuelled by greed and capriciousness but above all about humanity overcoming.

At least that one doesn't flanderise its own characters and worldbuilding for the rule of cool, and the at times seemingly glacial (but not actually) very deliberately paced plot actually serves a purpose that comes together into something spectacular.

Its that or Farscape to wash the bad taste out. But that's another property heavy on the evil space fascists who never quite seem to get an in-universe comeuppance.

#ahsoka series #ahsoka spoilers #the expanse #star wars #fandom #fandom salt #every single damned episode of this thing felt like one of the twenty minute animation episodes streeetched out to breaking point #and thats being polite about it #order 66 #genocide mention #stop making the jedi the villains of their own genocide challenge

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Reaching for Stardust - Part VII

Read Looking For Space here // Playlists here // Read on Wattpad

Word Count: ~4100

Warnings: none, really, unless you count conflict & slight sexual content

I'm very nervous to post this chapter, honestly (well, I've been nervous to post this entire fic lol). Writing conflict is something I often find challenging, particularly in fan fiction when it doesn't take much to accidentally yank the reader out of the story. But it's been a while since these two got into some emotional hard times and I hope you'll appreciate how it will go <3

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On our third and final day in Savannah, we were walking through the cool morning air with iced coffees in hand somewhat aimlessly. I felt perfectly at ease among the charming townhouses and apartments, pale moss hanging from the giant oak trees, squares of historical plaques and statues that lined the streets and the soft blue sky. But there was a silent beckoning to return home, too. That wasn’t an unfamiliar feeling when a trip was winding down–as much as I didn’t want to leave, I also was ready to return to familiarity and guaranteed comfort. Nevertheless, I wasn’t wishing for our last day and night to fly by–quite the opposite. I wanted it to move as slowly as the breeze and the clouds above.

Josh’s hand was in mine as we walked and when half my coffee was gone, I felt more of an urgency in his steps and his grasp as we headed east back to Forsyth Park. He was on the quieter side again though I was as well, feeling content to be lost in the vivid imagery that I was trying to commit to eternal memory when I wasn’t able to snap a million pictures. We breezed past the fountain and the trees and artists selling their own colorful prints and rogue musicians, then crossed the street and I looked up from watching a little lizard scuttle into some bushes to see an impressive white building, as old and as full of character as everything else in the city, in front of me.

“SCAD, right?” I remarked, flipping through the blips of Google that I could remember and tying that information to the architecture.

“Yeah, SCAD. Bad acronym, I think,” Josh said, holding my hand tighter as we walked around the perimeter.

“It’s small.” I took note of how busy it appeared to be despite its modest size–people were bustling in and out of the doors we were walking past in that end-of-the-semester rush that I didn’t miss in the slightest. I looked at Josh then, curious: “Why are we here?”

“Let’s keep walking,” Josh said, carrying me onward with a swing of his arm and more speed to his steps. “Although, there is something I need to talk to you about.”

Josh had never begun a sentence with those words–they sounded foreign and awkward coming from him, too formal and weirdly foreboding. The strange moment made my heart skip a beat and I felt the same sort of dread and fear I’d felt before our flight return, something dangerous telling me to get ready, but I wasn’t prepared for whatever was coming. I waited for Josh to continue, not willing–and not feeling particularly able–to speak first.

He led us away from the school. “There’s one additional reason why I chose Savannah for this trip in addition to genuinely wanting to explore this new place with the love of my life,” Josh began, and instead of his touch keeping me from tensing up, my body began to grow tight and stiff while we walked. He paused his words until we reached a park bench, but he didn’t let me hand go as we sat down.

Now I was dying to know. “What?”

Josh looked up, his perfect profile aligned with the sky. “I had a job interview with SCAD right before I booked this trip, so I thought we should come down here and see the city for ourselves. See if it would be the right fit.” He turned to me, placing my hand on his knee. “I’m so, so sorry for not telling you when all of this was happening, darling. I sent out the application sort of on a whim–I didn’t truly expect them to reach out. But when they did, it felt like a chance I had to take.”

I was trying to put the missing pieces together in my mind, body recoiling in horror as all the inklings, suspicions and fears I’d felt prior to the trip became one tangled web. “So you–you wanted us to come here to see if we’d want to live here?”

“Only possibly. If we don’t–”

“Wait, wait,” I interrupted and took my hand away. “Did you get the job?”

Josh looked crushed; I was sure that I felt worse. “I’m not sure yet.”

There were so many other things I wanted to ask–did he really want to move? He really wanted to live in Savannah? Was he really ready to leave all our friends and family? Was this the whole reason he’d wanted to wait to buy a house? Had he been planning on a new job and relocation for months? But the only thing I could bring myself to voice was, “I really wish you’d told me.”

“I know. I know, mama, I’m so sorry,” Josh said, intuitive enough to not touch me at all though I was certain he was fighting every instinct to do just that. “We’ve never had any secrets. I’m not sure I can explain why I kept these secrets and apologizing doesn’t make up for it but I really am sorry. My mind was going too quickly throughout all of this and I let it all get away from me–from you. That wasn’t fair. But I love you and we’re not going to do anything until we decide together.”

I looked down at the sidewalk, into the dirt and grass popping up through a jagged crack. “It seems like you already made a few decisions on your own.” I wished that I were angry about all of it–anger seemed like it would be easier to deal with. Instead, I just felt hurt. Josh had never betrayed my trust like this before. The secret trip being motivated by nothing more than love and whimsy was tainted. The worst thing of all was how I was made to learn that he was more than capable of keeping secrets from me for longer than I ever thought would have been possible.

“I know it seems that way. I decided to apply and I decided to go ahead with the interview. Anything else–that’s both of us.” Josh sighed; I still wasn’t looking at him. “I realized very quickly that I need to talk things through with you, always. I should have done that from the beginning. I can't make these decisions on my own. I hope you believe that.”

I could feel tears welling in my eyes and I wanted to just walk off, walk away from all this and pretend it wasn’t happening, while another part of me wanted to reach out in desperation, to grab hold of everything he was and everything we were before it turned to dust. “Is that why you keep pushing for us to get married?” I dared to ask. That question scared the hell out of me. “Because you wanted to like, lock it down so I couldn’t–”

Josh reached for my hand and I let him take it. “No, no, that’s not why. I’ve wanted to marry you since we first met. That will always be the truth.”

I smiled a little despite the tears, but the curving of my lips made the tears start to fall. I laughed, feeling stupid, still feeling hurt, feeling lost and wanting Josh to make me feel secure again. “I know. I wanna marry you, too.” I squeezed his hand in mine and wiped tears away with the other before Josh could do it for me. “But you won’t buy a house in Michigan–do you really want to move to Savannah?”

“I don’t know. Honestly, I don’t. I would go anywhere with you, including back home and staying there if that’s what you want.”

“But that’s not what you want.”

“I want us to be together. Wherever that is isn’t nearly as important as just that–the two of us.” Then, Josh inched closer and reached up to gently wipe tears from my cheeks and I helplessly, instinctively laughed again.

“I like it here, Josh,” I told him. “I really do. But I can’t imagine living here. I like where we live now. I like being close to all our people. And it doesn’t matter where Jake, Danny and Sam go–they’ll always come home and that's our home.”

Josh nodded. “I know. That’s true.” He scrubbed one hand over his face. “I know you know I try not to let it bother me, but the truth is, I miss my brothers just the same. When the sadness about missing them–and the way things were–wouldn’t stop, I thought, well, why can’t we have our own whole new, little adventure, too? What’s stopping us from leaving?”

I sniffled. “Instead of moving, we really could just be touring groupies. Or roadies. Whatever.” I was trying to make light of it all, not having expected that sort of confession from Josh. I could read him, sure, and anyone who knew him in the slightest would be able to discern he missed the three guys who lit up his world, but still. Hearing it after months and months of watching him try to just zip through those feelings was intense and I knew how he felt too deeply. I added, “I miss them too, Josh. So much.”

I was glad that Josh laughed. “We need a home base. We need a place they can visit us at, stay with us. Wreak havoc. Get on the neighbor’s bad sides.” He leaned into me playfully. “It doesn’t have to be here.”

I looked around at where “here” was–the new little adventure that I still couldn’t envision as a potential home. “Well, the interview must have been good if we’re already here.”

“I’d say it did go well. But like I said–and this is the truth–they haven’t followed up with an offer or denial yet,” Josh assured me, laying his tear-stained hand atop mine. “I felt like I dug a deeper and deeper hole for myself. I really did want to go away with you–take another vacation and have fun–but then I felt like really being here was the only way I could find the words.” He turned my hand over and laced our fingers together. “You just say the word, darling, and we won’t do it. Offer or not.”

“It’d be a huge change. Do you not want to have any real winter anymore?” I asked, wondering if that was a draw. The idea of warm, easy winter months was appealing, I couldn’t deny that. But perpetually, I wasn’t so sure about that, no matter how good it might be. Some of my most favorite moments between us had actually happened in swirling snow.

“Oh, on the contrary,” Josh said, smiling for the first time since we’d begun this conversation. “I was thinking about a winter wedding.”

“Really?” That perked me up. “Or just to align with this new job?”

Josh smirked and put his arm around me. “They might tell me to fuck off for all I know. But really, yes–a winter wedding. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?”

Even with the delightful times throughout the cold months, we both eventually struggled through the long, dreary, dark winters of the Midwest–maybe a wedding full of sparkling white, silver and blue would help us see it through for the years to come. I could see it.

“It would be,” I agreed, wiping away the last remnants of tears. Had this sequence of events happened even a year ago, I was sure my instinct to run away and retreat would have reared its head with full force; now though, the security and unwavering love I felt from and for Josh was enough to keep me there, sitting on that park bench with his hand in mine and my confused, sore heart already on its way to healing.

“I should have married you a long time ago,” I said, meaning it with every fiber of my being. What had I ever been waiting for? What was there ever to be afraid of? The secret Josh had harbored began to feel less and less consequential–he was always going to be by my side, and vice versa, no matter where the universe took us. And I knew whatever we decided would be what we decided.

Josh smiled and traced my knuckles with his thumb. “Yes, you should have and I should have told you about this job the second I saw the posting for it. Lessons learned. Better late than never, hmm?”

I leaned back, turning my face toward the sky, and sighed. “Sure, of course. Jesus, Josh. Now there’s so much to think about.”

“Let’s not think about any of it right now. Let’s think about what we want to do for the rest of today.”

I blinked up at the clouds. “I want to eat something delicious.”

“We can do that.”

“I want to drink copious amounts of alcohol.”

Josh giggled. “Absolutely.”

“I kind of want to punish you for being bad.”

A surprised, excited laugh. “Oh! Well, I imagine we can do that, too.”

I sighed, looking back down at the ground. My heart still felt a little heavy, but my mind was clearing with each exchanged word. “I love how excited you get about things,” I told him, meeting his gaze, catching the sunlight sparkle in his pupils. “I love how you never stop moving, body and mind. But I like to feel like I’m right there with you.”

“You are.” Josh brought my hand to press against his chest. “Always.”

I moved it down to try and feel his heartbeat. “You know, we’ve talked about getting married so much, I really don’t know if the proposal will even be a surprise. You say otherwise, but–”

“Don’t say that,” Josh said with a little laugh. “It will be. I promise. I’ll just throw myself off a cliff or into the ocean if it falls flat.”

The house from the estate sale returned to my mind and I felt tense again, guilty for harboring my own little secret, though I had to admit to myself that my intentions behind keeping it weren’t quite as scary as Josh’s. “I have to tell you something, too,” I said, clearing my throat as if I were about to make a big speech, but really I was just trying to work the rest of the crying out of my body. “I actually kind of forgot about it while we were here. But you know that necklace I just gave you for your birthday?”

Josh reached up to touch the pendant. “Yes.”

“Okay, so, I got it from that estate sale that was happening like 15 minutes away from our place. I mentioned that to you.” I could hear myself talking too quickly, excited and nervous to finally relay the full experience of that event. “But what I didn’t tell you is that the actual house is going up for sale soon and I told the woman, the daughter of the owner who passed, that I’d be interested. She said she’d call me when she actually puts the house on the market.”

Josh smiled, genuine and big, and my heart’s heavy weight began to dissipate again. “Really? What’s it like?”

“It’s really cute. The outside needs some work,” I told him, trying to remember all of it. “But the inside looks pretty good. Some new paint would help for sure, and if we did look at it, we’d need to really look, but–yeah. I liked it. It felt like a real home.”

“Alright, so let’s look at it when it goes up,” Josh said, taking both of my hands in his.

“Really? You want to?”

“Absolutely, my darling. I got so caught up in the mere idea of this SCAD job that I don’t think I could see the forest for the trees.” He scooted in closer across the bench, locking our fingers together. “I never meant to make you feel like I was putting your wishes on hold. I want it all–to marry you and to have a home and everything that happens after. The little pieces are just that–little pieces.”

I needed to be sure so I asked, “So your heart isn’t completely set on Savannah? Because if you really want this job–and you get an offer–and you want to live here, I’m not going to discount it right away. Okay?”

Josh shook his head. “My heart is set on us being together and being happy. Truthfully, I’m not so sure I could live here either. It’s not calling to me in that way. But I love it here nonetheless and I am so glad you came with me on the journey.”

Over dinner Josh filled me in on more details. The job at SCAD did pay more than his current job, which was the biggest thing I had to consider, though it seemed to be the least important thing to him. Josh had never been all that motivated by money–he was truly in his field for the experience. He loved teaching and mentoring, loved the history of film, the ins and outs of the craft and he loved learning and creating more than anything. He told me more about how he hadn’t really thought about moving until Jake, Danny and Sam moved themselves, and how he thought about Detroit because the thought of being away from Jake wasn’t something he wanted to deal with yet, but when their band started to tour more, Josh felt almost rebellious about it. He was happy for their success, of course, and wanted to see them grow, but he felt like some of his own roots had been torn from the ground and figured setting up more roots of his–and our own–elsewhere might be a way to cope.

That was when he sort of, kind of, as he said, started looking around at other jobs. He thought my own desire for adventure would fuel whatever we decided, though right after he applied for the SCAD job, he realized that my own version of adventure wouldn’t really involve moving away. Josh said he knew how much I loved where we lived and how I wanted to be close to everyone we loved, and he almost didn’t go through with the interview but went for it anyway, then felt so wrapped up in his self-made sequence of events and subsequent fear–something he seldom had to face–that he didn’t know how to tell me. But he really did want to see this place for himself, recognizing that he couldn’t move somewhere without exploring it first, and he was leaning away from Savannah being a new home.

That reassured me even more–I really did love our small hometown in a way I’d never loved anyplace else. I loved the four seasons, how the lush greenery exploded after the spring rain came and the sun graced us after another harsh, dreary winter; the hot summers that were so short we had to hold onto every day of extended daytime as if it were the last; the brilliant autumn when slants of sunlight cast warm spells over the changing leaves. I loved the trails we walked together and I loved the Kroger that was just a few minutes away from our apartment; I loved being so close to my sister, to my parents, to Josh’s parents, to Danny’s parents, to everyone we treasured; I loved that abandoned barn that had helped to begin my relationship with Josh and the vast, deep sky that hung above it, housing millions of stars that felt closer to earth when we were really home.

We were tipsy again as the night was dwindling to a close and the twilight hours were inching near us. Back at the airbnb, Josh and I shared the last of the wine from the night before; once it was finally gone, we were pulling each other’s clothes off to trade for the sheets on the bed. I climbed over Josh and grabbed his wrists, pinning them over his head. He looked delighted at that, his toothy smile gleaming in the cool, low light while his eyes sparkled, staring into my own.

“No more secrets,” I said, bringing my face close to his. “From either of us. Okay?”

Josh nodded. “No more secrets,” he echoed, then stuck his tongue out.

I ducked and swiped my own tongue over his bottom lip. “Good.” I freed one wrist and ran my hand down his arm, squeezing his bicep before I felt the warmth of his chest beneath my palm. “You really scared me, Josh.”

He gave an exaggerated yet earnest frown. “I’m sorry, mama,” he said, lifting his hand to my face, running his fingers through the hair at my temple. “That was not my intention whatsoever.”

“I know,” I assured him. I mirrored his action, cupping his cheek with my hand, then traced the shell of his ear with my fingertips before I ran them through his hair. He was practically purring then, a soft, low rumble from his chest while he kept staring into my eyes. With anyone else, the level of eye contact Josh demanded would have been exceptionally uncomfortable; with him, it made me feel like we were the only two people in the universe.

Josh’s hand wandered down to my hips. “You should take these off,” he said, tugging at the waistband of my underwear. “Then take mine off, too.”

“I don’t think you’re in any position to be making requests,” I said with a chuckle, then an uncontrolled giggle burst from me when he tickled the inside of my thigh. I clamped my legs harder around him and grabbed that hand away, pinning it over his head once more. “No, no tickling either. That’s not fair.”

Josh turned his head to the side and sighed dramatically. “Fine, fine. Whatever gets you on my cock faster.”

I laughed loud and sharp, not expecting such casual, flippant dirty talk. I let his wrists go so I could slide down and away, leaving him with his arms extended after me; I grabbed his own underwear and yanked the fabric away from his body and his erection sprang free. In my tipsy state, with my mind still clinging to scraps of fear, I gawked at his nude form, so free and beautiful that it felt insane in that moment that he was there with me at all. But he was.

I wasn’t going to let the worst parts of myself creep up any further–I freed myself of my bra and panties before Josh could say or do anything, then I was on top of him again, collecting his face in my hands so I could kiss his soft, sensuous mouth. Even his little mustache and beard combo were soft thanks to the oils and moisturizers he diligently used, though I giggled again when he began kissing my neck and the hair tickled my skin.

“I really hate when you feel far away from me,” I said as Josh reached one hand down, grabbing my ass in encouragement. I laid my fingers over his jaw, making him meet my gaze. “Even if it doesn’t happen very often.”

“I could never be far away from you,” Josh replied, sincerity dripping from the words even with his buzzed slur. He giggled and added, “I could be on the other side of the world and I still wouldn’t be far.”

I huffed when his hand moved between us, his effort to try and fully connect us sending a shiver up my spine. “I’d just follow you.”

Josh’s wild, wine-drenched smile appeared on his face. “You would?”

“Duh.” I kissed him again, slow and sweet. “No question.”

With that, I lifted my hips and took him in; Josh hugged me snugly around my waist as he lifted his hips in return and I braced my hands on his shoulders. A brief blip of the memory of our first time together appeared to me and I caught my breath in my chest, recognizing that, in this moment, it felt so similar. The vulnerability and exposure of our first time was long gone, but the special something that drew us to one another so viscerally was still there–an invisible string that wrapped us together and tied the knot. Josh still looked at and touched me with the same reverence he’d had then; I tried to reciprocate with gentle strokes over his face, looking down at him and still able to see the bursting bundle of stars I’d fallen so madly in love with so quickly that it’d been an aching pain to come to terms with.

Now, it was so easy to love Josh and to show the entire world how much I did, no matter how small that world was.

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luvhyun3 · 2 years ago

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It's the season of love! and you know what that means, time to find yourself a valentine! and who better than one of your beloved mutuals? answer these questions, and the mutual with the most mentions your tumblr valentine:

Mutual you can always rely on?

Mutual who never misses a post?

Mutual you share the most interests with?

Mutual you have the most in common with?

Mutual you look up to?

Mutual you'd run away and live in a cottage with?

Spouse material mutual?

Mutual with the best personality?

Mutual that never fails to make you laugh?

Mutual you'd have a crush on if you knew them irl?

Mutual you absolutely cannot live without?

figured i’d actually do a game for once 💀 im sorry y’all i swear i’ll get to them one day…. until then keep tagging me i may not do them but it makes me feel good being included anyway 🥰🤞

mutual who never misses a post — without a doubt @j0swhiterice 🤭🤭 my number one supporter since she started following me <33 she likes pretty much everything i post HAHAHAHHS thank u for that ily

mutual you’d run away and live in a cottage with — @1-800-lixie she gives very cottagecore vibes idk ,,, i feel like it’d be very fun living somewhere idyllic and tending to a cute lil cottage w a pretty garden w her <33

mutual that never fails to make u laugh — @yujipg sae ur so funny im dying literally every time u post/comment how do u do it (also off topic but u genuinely make me smile sm every time u interact w my posts ur so fun to talk to 🫶)

spouse material mutual — @cutieseo fae’s so lovely i think she defs fits this one 🤭💓 would get down on one knee if she asked

mutual(s) you look up to (this is less a ‘look up to’ section and more an excuse to compliment my moots 🌝) —

@torhues ur so smart and cool and funny and u have rly good writing … that was rly badly worded but i want u to know that i think ur great ☺️

@hwangsify i know u arent on tumblr anymore but ur writing was genuinely some of the most beautiful stuff i’ve read on tumblr i still come back to it sometimes bc its SO GOOD

@byhees too !!! i’ve only just become moots w u recently but ur writing is so beautiful and u seem like such a lovely person !! 🫶

@acaiasahi ur themes always slap and u have the most based opinions 🙏🙏

@i-luvsang i havent interacted w u very much but u have such a pretty acc ++ the cutest fics ever

@jennaissantes u seem like such a cool person i’d defs wanna be bsfs with u if i knew u irl

mutual you’d have a crush on irl — @astrozuya based off vibes i think i’d find you cute too 🤭🤭

@dokiyeom also bc she gives cute girl next door vibes i think🫣 🫶

mutual you have the most in common with — @ everyone bc we’re all obsessed w unobtainable korean men ….

@ox1-lovesick honourable mention bc U GET ME when it comes to my struggles on atzblr/blr in general 😓 ty for being there at my lowest 🤞

mutual you share the most interests with — see above ^

mutual with the best personality — cmon guys i feel like it’s pretty obvious that it’d be me 😒 (/j)

mutual you absolutely cannot live without — @cheezbot my love ever since u left me i havent been able to live with myself … u pieced my heart together and then ripped it out of my chest, leaving me unable to love and trust ever again ☹️☹️

mutual you can always rely on — @n0vad ty for giving me ur english answers 🙏🙏

@svngcore i can always rely on you to be my most delulu moot 🙄

im sorry if i didn’t include u! i love all my moots very much but im a bit forgetful 😞

#[ 📞 ] . . . call for : luvhyun3 !#call from : unknown number❔#tag games! 👾 ˖ ࣪#not in order sawrry 🤕#ty for sending me this ask anon!#tell me if i missed one 😭

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fireflylitsky · 1 year ago

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And If I can have more than one 👉👈

AHH TY FOR THE ASK PRINCESS (Sorry for delay I needed to wait for AO3 to come back up and have time to pick out a snippet for F)

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

Okay, this was stupid hard to pick because once you read your own stuff with this question in mind, literally everything sounds like garbage 😂 So I just went with something recent people seemed to enjoy. (For context: KisaSaku, Canon divergent, Yokai infested post-apocalyptic AU set about a decade out from early Shippuden. Shameless use of one tent and shared body heat tropes.)

With a tired sigh and a shiver, Sakura had begun to absently nod before looking at him with a sudden halt. Her eyes traveled up his barely clothed body, over to the tent, and back. “You’re not going to put on clothes?” she asked. An adorably genuine, but very silly question. “Not even a shirt?”

His brows raised in clear amusement. “You’re wearing it, Kunoichi.”

She rolled her eyes. “I assumed you had another.”

“Oh, I do,” he said, looking highly entertained. “But it got all nasty because someone decided to punch me into the mud.”

Sakura choked on a snort.

“Yeah. Welcome to the consequences to your own actions,” he said with a flourishing, if not arrogant gesture to himself.

She sighed. As far as consequences went, she’d definitely dealt with worse… not that she’d tell him that. “Fine. Let’s just go to bed,” she said, kicking off her shoes and ducking into the gloom of the tent.

“Fine by me.”

“Kubikirbocho can cuddle with Samehada if she doesn’t mind,” Sakura muttered, already stuffing her sword next to Kisame’s.

“She’s probably cool with it. We’ll find out if not.”

Sakura looked up at him with a weary smile. “What’s she gonna do, eat it?”

He smiled back with a shrug. “Maybe.”

“Ah. Well,” Sakura sighed, shoving her pack into the corner by her head. “Samehada will have a very iron rich diet then.”

“Hey, not bad, Kunoichi,” Kisame pushed his jaw out with an approving nod. “Freezing to death and she’s still got jokes.”

“Yeah,” she yawned, flopping onto her back and rubbing her eyes. “Thanks, I’ll be here all night.”

“Great,” he said, nudging her side with his foot, “now scooch.”

“No. Crawl over me. I want to sleep by the flap.”

“Why, so you can get snatched up by another yokai with the hots for you?”

“I was hardly snatched,” she sneered up at him, most of its impact lost in the darkness.

“It wanted to snatch you,” he asserted, looking down his nose at her like he was some sort of authority on snatching . “You were very snatchable. Snackable even. Neither of which would have been the case if you’d just listened to me from the start.”

She snorted. She didn’t mean to. She really wasn’t in the habit of encouraging him, but that was kind of funny. “I was not snackable,” she grumbled, pulling the blanket up and sighing deeply at the warmth of it.

“You were. I saw the way it was drooling all over you.”

"Oh, gross, stop.” Sakura pretended to gag, curling in on herself and tugging the blanket over her head entirely. “Don't remind me."

Kisame chuckled, “You were like a steamed bun to that bitch.”

"You're just jealous she picked me over you."

"Pfft, no way. You were just an appetizer. She knew who the main dish was."

“Good lord… would you just get in here please?” Sakura flipped the blanket off her in a huff to stare up at him very seriously. “I’m freezing to death, if you’ll recall.”

“Oh, so now you just want to use me for my warmth,” Kisame feigned offense terribly, not even dropping his grin. “I see how it is.”

“That was the plan–your plan–yes.”

“Oh, well if it was my plan then it’s probably a good one.” He promptly tucked inside, awkwardly fumbling over her as he kicked his muddy shoes off. His presence instantly tested the limits of the two person capacity.

As far as tests went, the tent failed.

“Kisame,” Sakura wheezed, squishing against the edge of the tent. “You are large.”

He had a joke for that but opted out. Low hanging fruit and all. He needed to up his game.

“I’m also warm. Get over here, Kunoichi,” he grunted as he rolled onto his side. Freeing up some space, he used it to reach out and loop an arm around her stomach. He tugged her back against him. Curled around her like a shrimp.

Sakura let out a startled squeak, launching into a fit of dissent. “Oh my god , what do you think you’re… what do you…” she found herself stalling, petering out as her base survival instincts began to override her pride. “Oh my god ,” she sighed, lids fluttering as Kisame wrapped the blanket around both of them with a chuckle. “You’re like a human boiler.”

"Human," he echoed, "that's mighty high praise coming from you."

“How are you so warm?” Her fight had all but died and had a eulogy.

Here lies Haruno Sakura’s dignity, backbone and fighting spirit. They were nice while they lasted. She’s warm now though, so that’s something. If it’s any consolation, she will surely regret her decisions later. Something something, it's all very sad, may they rest in peace.

“We’re not sleeping like this,” she decided aloud. Like that would counteract the way she’d shoved her face into his bicep. She was currently using it as a pillow, by the way. Her nose burned cold against him. "This is just until I can feel my limbs again."

“Sure, Kunoichi,” he chuckled, settling in.

A breath scraped out of her throat. “Can you not say it like you’re placating me?"

"Sure, Kunoichi,” he repeated in a mockery of deadly seriousness.

“You’re an ass."

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

More than I care to admit 🙃 the scenes should be better, given the amount of revision tbh. I'd say 5-10 times on average for any given chapter. I'll do separate read throughs with each character's focus in mind, make sure I'm not missing anything. It's a tedious process that I love (this sounds sarcastic. It's not. I actually love editing and much prefer it to writing.)

#fanfic ask game #TY FOR THE ASK MY DEAR #Talking about writing #avoiding writing #KisaSaku

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