#krongs ramblings

[krongulous]

No tumblr I do not want to follow “Shirtless anime boys” kill yourself

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20 Questions for Fic Writers -tag game

I got tagged by @zyrafowe-sny, thank you for the tag! This was fun! I wrote the answers at like 5 am sorry if they're rambly and unhinged haha.

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

13, but really 7, because all but one of them are Finnish and English language versions of the same stories sjdfnasdfj

WWAIT 14! one of them is anonymous jhfashdfj almost forgot about that one

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

24 448

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Well,,, the fandoms I’ve published fic for are Hetalia (kringelis krongelis i know) and The Owl House, but when you add WIPs there’s also the Mandalorian, Noragami, and BNHA, and there USED to be HTTYD and GNG as well. Yeah the last one is the old anime where dogs fight bears. What can I say it’s really popular in Finland, Hopeanuoli 4ever

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

hands, grasping (the one TOH fic so no surprise there), Six Sunflowers (which is the oldest), Traitor’s Glory, Two Boys, Two Moments in Time, and lastly December 30th, 1929. 

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I mean I do try! When I leave comments it’s always nice to get answers, so I think it’s just nice to answer others. :) I do have some comments atm I’ve not answered but. Well. Just look at my url lmao

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

LMAO. I have no idea. I’m just going by the published ones here, but like: character seemingly falls to his death, character finds his mom’s dead on his 9th birthday and is left with his two other underage siblings to fend for themselves in the 1930s ussr, character resigns himself to the fact that his siblings probably hate him as he’s starving to death in a prison camp. Which one’s the angstiest? You choose!!

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Lmaooo well none of them are really _happy_, uh. I think Laid Down By Human Hands has probably the most neutral ending, whereas Six Sunflowers is more bittersweet, but like the sweet is there… And then Two Boys isn’t terrible either? Like it sucks a little cuz that kid’s living in WWII time Finland ya know, but it’s _fine_. I dunno! In truth it’s probably the fic on anon that’s the least terrible, but even that ending’s not a _happy_ one, it’s got unrequited pining in it lol.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Nope! So far at least! I don’t think my fics are popular enough to get it haha.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Nope! I’m almost strictly a gen writer, aside from like. 2 AUs and one TOH wip. I guess some of the WIPs could potentially and maybe should have some fade to black kinda scenes because they’re stories involving a fair amount of romance and in one of them it’s even kind of relevant to the plot. But yeah no. 

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

WELL, okay. You see, I actually started out writing via original fiction? I was like 12 when I made up a story based on a long-lasting play-pretend during recess thing I had going on with my dear friend, and it was. Written and plotted by a 12-year-old. But THEN I got really into the How To Train Your Dragon movies, and then I crossed over my story and HTTYD and then tried (still kinda low-key sorta in the process of) to separate it into my original story again, but this time with dragons! So that’s. Like the craziest journey ahfijsd my original as-of-yet unwritten fantasy story has a crossover sequel with HTTYD lmao. Also just occasionally I think about a potential giant crossover that’s got allllll my faves meeting and interacting, but that’s solely for daydreaming and “lmao wouldn’t it be funny if” -scenarios in my head. I’ve later also crossed the characters from my original story with other ones I’ve liked, in my head lol, but I don’t think I’ve written out any. Other than the TT x HTTYD hybrid. (TT is the WIP name for that original story. it doesn’t stand for anything anymore tho lmao it’s just tt)

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope! Not to my knowledge, at least! Again, my fics don’t get enough hits/are too niche for anyone to think about stealing them, I imagine. 

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yeah! Almost all of them! By me. What can I say, I try to fight the good fight to keep my native language alive on the internet and also in my head. 

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

No. I did once talk about the possibility with a friend, but nothing ever came out of it. 

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Hhhh. This is very silly but I don’t really actively ship stuff, and rarely think of ships outside of when I’m watching or reading the source material or something. Thus the one I can feel confident in saying I ship is a…. oc x canon ship sshfskjfsidkfajksaf or maybe it’d be more accurate to say oc x mutated blorbo version of a canon character lmao. It’s mainly in. 2 AUs that have so little to do with the source material that they might as well be original fiction and probably by this point mostly are lol. 

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

GHHH I want to finish ALL of my big 5 main WIPs because I love them dearly and want to read them, but then again. I don’t know if I ever will because I can’t get myself to fuckin WRITE any of them. So I’m just gonna say all of my main WIPs. That is:

TT (original fantasy story thing)

home front fic (historical fic set in WWII Finland about the friendship between a kid and the soviet POW sent to work on his home farm)

Kingdom AU (girl from the country accidentally befriends the crown prince and there’s politics and they fall in love and some cool stuff and some less cool stuff happens. hard to summarize cuz i’ve never had to, target demographic is like. three people + me. here's the aesthetics and vibe blog it's got)

sad BNHA fic (what if. Eri got ofa. but how? i murder someone to haunt the narrative. easy. sad. sad bnha fd. naming skills on full display here) 

anddddd. hypothetical TOH fic (what if i came up with what happens after TTT before the two other eps of s3 came out and stayed on that path. what if the first thing i wrote about it was hunter falling off a cliff to his death. what then).

Kind of also TOH fic 3 (it’s about evelynnnnn) but that one is. Hopefully. Shorter and has the outline all written out so there’s a bigger likelihood of me finishing it someday. And to be fair the hypothetical TOH fic isn’t that long either, I could get it done, one day, but then the other ones have grown to massive size plotwise so I don’t know if I could ever get them done, actually. I hope so! But ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

16. What are your writing strengths?

I guess my plots are sometimes kinda good? Sad BNHA fic and Kingdom AU are pretty cool on that side. I used to be pretty good at writing dialogue too, but that was back when I a) wrote regularly, b) read a lot, and c) socialized. So. But I used to be good! though back then my plots were real frickin weird lol. in my defense. i was 14 to 17.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Writing itself. That’s the only answer I’ve got because recently I haven’t written enough to know what I’d be bad at. So just. Writing. See I can plot without writing, that’s why I’m good at that lmao

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

Sure! Hell yeah! I’m gonna do that! I have done that! I love it, I love languages. Though translations are appreciated. Though I think it should be for emphasis, more so than just writing it in the language just for the hell of it (though like I had a wip where all the spoken dialogue was to be in Russian because there was so little of it and it was simple enough that I could do that, but i lost my notes for it). I think if it’s just normal dialogue and the pov character knows the language, it’s best to just add like, “they said in Finnish” to the dialogue tag, especially if there’s a lot of it. 

In my personal opinion, also when the character doesn’t know the language, I probably wouldn’t write it out? But then if a character knew the basics of the language and it was maybe one sentence I would write it in the language. Or if it was a really important line, like someone telling another character they love them in their native language, or a culturally significant thing, like, idk the adoption vow in mando'a in the Star Wars universe. But sometimes it’s also just fun to show off your own language skills! So overall, strongly encouraged. Just. Try not to use Google Translate (etc.) for it jfajfasjdn

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Hhooo. Probably the Ginga-fandom, but that one was so brief it barely counts, so I’ll say HTTYD because of the crossover thing. If it’s just fanfic without crossing it over with my own original work lol then Hetalia. 

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

TRAITOR’S GLORY!!!!!! I got to talk about my rather niche but intense area of interest in it, which is Soviet POWs in Finland during the Continuation War 1941-1944. Well, that’s the finished one at least, there are some snippets of WIPs I’ve not posted nor finished that are also very good. Imo. But. Yeah. Most of the other favourite stuff I have, concerning my fics, hasn’t been written. So. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But Traitor’s Glory is pretty nice. :)  Thanks again for the tag! I guess I'll tag some people, though no pressure: @evevoli @cowboy-garfield @peach-oolong-tea @starcloud-nova @littlekysworld @slightlycrunchy uh. yeah. If you see this and wanna do it you can say I tagged you! :) And no pressure!

[krongulous]

If I learn how to draw by the time victory road is out it is joever for all of you because you know damn well I’ll be treating my team like my own OC’s

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Another wish thing I have for great road of heroes (honestly I should just make this a series at this point)

I hope characters body types translate better into the game, what I mean is how the games before this only had a few select body types, which makes sense mind you, the first trilogy was only on the original DS in Japan, it was really limited resources and some characters would look different to how they did in the anime.

Example would be Barrack Daniels

This is how he looks in the anime, but there’s only one “strong” body type and it doesn’t resemble how Barrack looks in the anime, so in the games he looks like this

This is more of a nitpick than anything really, if they just have the same 4 body types for characters again it’s not gonna ruin someone’s enjoyment (unless they’re a “what were they thiiiinkiiiiing” game critic) but I just thought it was jarring how some characters look slightly different, again I don’t think this’d ruin someone’s enjoyment but it’d be nice if they added more variety, since there’s only been one “tall” bodytype and only one “short” bodytype across the series

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It’s my birthday…

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Good afternoon krongheads, just got called a racist on twitter for calling someone a cracker (I’m also white)

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I’m sorry most of my blog is just me reblogging inazuma art for now but I can only gush about Inazuma without me repeating myself, I might try and do some shit to make it better though, trust me once Victory Road is out you know damn well I’ll be talking about that shit non-stop, so stay tuned til like, October lol

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I have a AU in my head for two of my hyperfixations, the autism won……….

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Another victory road wish thing hoo-wee (get some food this is gonna be long as shit)

Ok so I don’t know how many of you have played the DS games but since the third game, recruitment has been fucking awful

In the third game you can only recruit players from the Asian qualifiers and Team K during the main story, making team-building super restrictive since you can’t even use the most random benchwarmer from Oumihara, which is dumb because they’re teams in Japan, natives of the country who you can’t add to your team until you’ve beaten the game and are very overlevelled since the third game will have your team at level 59-63 by that point.

The GO games do this too, and it’s worse there because of the Palpacking system (I’m not getting into that now,

just go on the wiki and look at all the requirements to recruit Kazemaru in the first GO game) all I want for Victory Road is for them to get rid of this restriction since it makes team-building tedious, especially since the game will most likely feature the new teams and characters from Ares, who players will want to use first chance they get.

[krongulous]

Mini inazuma rambles (I stole this idea from acepfheartsred) ((also these are probably gonna be me shitting on the series mostly lol))

-I don’t like Tenma, I’ve said it before but I just think he’s a bland character who whines too much, the whole “football is sad” shit is just grading.

-Season 2 should’ve had more team line-up changes than it did, I’d rather have characters like Kidou, Gouenji, Domon, Ichinose and Kabeyama get injured and join the Emperors so the team actually feel like underdogs battling superhumans and not just struggling for plot convenience.

-Matsuno should’ve joined Inazuma National instead of Kurimatsu, it’s not another “grrr I hate tod aaahhh” thing but Tod was already in both seasons prior and did nothing, give some other characters spotlight.

-Inazuma National kinda sucks as a team when you realise there’s 6 forwards on one team and because of that they had to bump Sakuma and Fubuki down to the Midfield, if Tachimukai wasn’t there you could fill the whole bench with Forwards lol.

-Saginuma and Yamino just wasted potential honestly.

-There’s too many gimmicks in GO, spirits, miximax, totems AND special tactics.

-I’ve said this before but until I actually started consuming fan content properly I never cared much for Kazemaru, which is funny now considering how much I post about him.

-Genda should’ve been in GO with Sakuma and Kidou, if not him then Jimon or Henmi.

-Did you guys know Nishigaki is the only member of the Dark Emperors to not be in the GO games?

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“Dude you don’t even wanna see what’s in my fucked up evil meme folder, god these are so offensive hurhur” who wants to bet it’s just Ronnie McNutt memes and transphobic “memes” with a dash of unfunny anime memes where the punchline is hentai

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Can tumblr add a way to mute accounts instead of just a full on block, I don’t wanna block someone because I find them slightly unfunny

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Watching Wholecake rn holy fuck man Brook and Sanji are on fire this arc.

They kinda fell out of my favour at the start of timeskip but man wholecake is such a good arc for the both of them rn, Brooks whole “panties” gag was wearing on me a bit since Sabaody and I’m not a fan of nosebleed gags in general so when fishman island started obviously I was a bit eh

But like since then they’d both been gradually getting a bit better (Sanji stops the nosebleed shit very shortly after it starts thank god and Brook doesn’t ask for panties nearly as much) but wholecake was like, “the final step” ig? In terms of making them “good” again

Idk how to put it into words properly but this arc is great for the both of them so far, Brook fighting a battle he can’t win and Sanjis family drama have been the highlights of it so far, not to put other moments down though, Pedros backstory with Zepo and the episodes focused on Luffy waiting for Sanji in that field are great too, I just have slight bias towards Sanji and Brooks arcs since I’m ngl, they were my 2 of my fav strawhats til they got “ruined” but I don’t like saying that word, it’s a bit strong yk, it’s like saying I hate them

Hope the arc improves more from here since I’m only on Pedros fight with Tamago☝️😲

Also idk where else I’m gonna mention this but Opera is my fav Charlotte besides Big Mom but that’s obvious

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I don’t like scrolling outside the tags I follow cause most of the user base of this site is annoying millennials who think being snarky is a personality trait and think the lack of a user base means they have to gatekeep it

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I’ve been thinking about the branching narrative stuff for sparking zero and I’m thinking, what if by the time the story reaches TOP your choices all culminate in choosing the Universe 7 lineup

If you do everything like it does in the original timeline it’s the exact same right, but what if certain choices exclude characters from joining

What if in the story mode there’s a choice to blow up 18 as Krillin, and if you do she doesn’t join universe 7 since she doesn’t feel she has a reason to, especially if she’s working with the guy who killed her

What if in the buu saga, if you save Gohan and Goten instead of Hercule and Dende when Kid Buu destroys the earth, Hercule doesn’t wanna leave majin buu with the U7 team and “forbids” buu from joining like an angry parent, and buu just goes with it cause Hercule bribes him with promises of candy if he stays home

I’m probably being a bit ambitious with how big these choices will be but I think to end the games story mode this would be a nice “final choice” to make, hell the game might get weirder with it and give you more options