#like 90% of the things I love I just don't mention OTL

[yellowocaballero]

of the fandoms you have written for, which ones would you genuinely recommend? (like, should I play half life?)

That's a difficult one! It's hard for me to give very broad recommendations, "everybody should watch this, because everybody will like it". I can normally really only just list my favorites and the reasons why, and let people see if they're interested or not.

It's also double difficult because I mostly write fanfic for works I find like...5/10 - 7/10. If I like something too much I don't write fic for it - it's like painting on the Mona Lisa, lmfao. There needs to be a sweet spot of 'good enough for my brain to chew on it, has enough untapped soil and potential that there's blanks to fill in'. If I really, really love something, I'm just like...wow, I really love that! I'm very satisfied with that experience and there's nothing I would want to add or change! Anyway! So all of my favorite works that I would recommend without reservation aren't things I would write for.

That being said, my Animorphs, Buffy, and Artemis Fowl works were written from a place of deep love for the source materials. I can't recommend any of those without reservations, but they were written because the source material was very special to me. Other things I've written because I hate the source material. Detroit: Become Human is very bad.

If you're thinking, 'I might want to get into The Magnus Archives!', I do want to suggest that you read some transcripts of I Am In Eskew first. IAIE is my favorite podcast, and it basically did what TMA tried to do a thousand times better. It's incredible. 'Paining on the Mona Lisa' situation.

Similarly, if you're interested in comics, I'd have to recommend specific authors or runs over characters.

So - Half-Life is a classic, and makes the list of 'best of' games. It's acknowledged as one of the best FPS shooters of all time. So if you're the kind of person who likes 90s FPSes that are very light on plot, then it's a great example!

Sorry that's not super helpful haha. I don't actually think I can recommend without reservations anything I've written for. Either it's like The Magnus Archives (which was pretty good, but I really never feel the urge to re-listen or anything) or it's like Animorphs (incredibly high art that in some instances was either just really fucking dumb or really did not age well).

Play/watch a Let's Play of The World Ends With You. It builds character.

[saeriibon]

B,K,U,X!

ask game

answers under the cut again

B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

this is another tough one aaaaaa i'm sure someone else can remember better than i can (tokyosan) of when this has occurred for me... it has to have happened, i just can't remember OTL

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

it's gotta be lunge from monster; honorable mention to mr. grimmer

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

fandom 1: ace combat MATIAS TORRES, CAPTAIN OF THE ALICORN, HERO OF COMBERTH HARBOR-- ahem.

so the funny thing about him is that i wouldn't have gotten into ace combat/doing more fanworks stuff in general. it was basically love at first sight...? my friend posted a picture of him as a joke reference and idk i was like. captivated. lol. i looked at the file name to find out who they heck this guy was which led to the ace combat wiki which led to... everything else...

so like, 1, i think he's the most physically attractive character from the franchise. 2, he's characterized with this fervor of killing that i just like. he has no greater motivations other than to kill as many people as possible; and the great thing is, was that he wasn't always like that, i feel. fallen angel type beat. he's an abyssal creature and a shambling amalgamation of an individual's pride, and a nation's pride and militaristic endeavors. but he's also the last guiding light of so many others who had been betrayed and left to rot at the bottom of the sea. leading them to annihilation, the only end they can conceive for themselves. he also is like, clever on top of bloodthirsty. in-game he manages to launch a nuclear shell at a city (which gets diverted via plot reasons) and almost is able to do it again before you get to stop him. and beforehand he manages to stage a mutiny and steal the aforementioned shells without consequence, despite everyone trying their best to plan ahead of him. and 3, he's so cool and charismatic and handsome and confident and 😍 sorry i'm starting to get light-headed i can't continue this--

fandom 2: monster LUNGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

so like i said before i think he has a very good character arc, but i still really liked him even before the conclusion of the manga. i think the way urasawa illustrates like, simultaneously cartoonish but still realistic looking men (different noses, face, shapes, eyes, etc.) really helped bump his appeal for me. and even then, he's very striking, compared to other characters within the world of monster.

next surface level trait of his that i love is his voice in the anime (both JP and EN). i'm a sucker for those low, gravely tones 🤤

starting to realize i have a type... he's another confident, intelligent old man who is passionate about his work, acts as an antagonistic force (for the majority of the story), and has the ability to engage Sicko Mode (see: when he got stabbed in lunge's trap, and then his encounter with roberto in ruhenheim; incredibly sexy of him tbh)

fandom 3: armored core 6 v.ii snail...

idk why i'm saying his name with less enthusiasm; i like him probably more than i should XD

like the previous two, his voice, especially in english, is great. i want him to degrade me and also i want him to whimper for me in that voice-- who said that.

anyways, i don't think he's that old, per say. lunge is around like, 45 i'd gander, and torres is canonically 51 at the time of his death; snail is like... in his 30s (though i share a headcanon with tokyosan that he's like, pushing 90 and only looks/sounds young due to medical augmentation). i suppose if we follow headcanon rules he fits my old man quota lol.

since i have nothing to say on his appearance, character-wise he combines traits of lunge and torres. cold, calculating, and ruthless, with a clear goal in mind and a path mapped out to get it. prone to getting his plans foiled and then going on tirades about it too which are always cute to listen to. commands respect and lords his authority over others in a way that both makes me want to listen to him, and also purposefully disobey him just to piss him off, and also [REDACTED] him.

X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

i loveeeeeeeee love love love faceless character(s) getting fan-interpretations of what they look like. i find it especially funny and cute when multiple artist's designs of the same character share similar aspects amongst each other. and on the less fandom side-more media side of this prompt, if there is an Old Guy, tied to a Military or some other government institution, more often than not in a Leadership Position, i will fall in love with him in some way. he's mind now (honorable mentions to yuuki from joker game, satou from ajin, and tsurumi from golden kamuy who did not make the top 3 for favorite characters)

[tartagliaxx]

hi lei!! how are you? after school i just relaxed and played genshin thinking i didn't have any homework but i do and its due in the morning 😆 i'm trying to convince myself its all good but its not and i'm ready to snap a few pencils also remember when i talked about a bug and having to pull an all nighter in another room yeah when i asked someone for help it just turns out it was just the paint on the ceiling that wasn't properly coated so it looked slightly darker with my lights off,,,,OTL its bad enough this happened twice but finding out it wasn't actually anything makes me realize how much air is in my head

enough of that though because kaeya gave me his namecard!! this is basically a proposal n we are married i'm excited for ludi harpastum because i heard we're gonna see him i miss him he's literally in my party and i just acended him to lvl 90 but i miss him yk? also i heard we're gonna see albedo in that event i'm trying to save for him but its more difficult when i haven't seen him in a while as a fellow albedo lover i wanna know your opinion on his design 🧎‍♀️ honestly speaking i think he's beautiful and pretty but his clothes are ugly its mostly the jacket and his boots that save it though i don't like the fact he wears shorts,,,it reminds of the boys in my grade who only wear basketball shorts i'm trying to get over it because he wears stockings and i think its cute of him 🥺 i wear them too so i'm replacing the hate of his shorts for a daydream in which we're matching or borrowing his pair when i run out-🍰

hello sweetheart!! i’m doing well as always. i can relate to that accidentally skipping over work for genshin bit bc i almost had my ass handed to me by the amount of times i pulled that shit off. good luck on your homework and i hope it isn’t too bad. as for the bug bit, well, i mean... it’s better your imagination than an actual bug right? anw i think your fears are valid and if i see even the slightest shadow of a bug in my room i swear i would burn it down.

ayeee!! congrats on your marriage :)) finally getting someone’s namecard after months of grind is v satisfying. i get the missing a person thing too cuz like, i also have childe on my team and he’s lvl 90 but i still miss him?? like what,, how does that work?? point is, we need more content/cutscenes to simp over for. glad to know he’s likely to be making some reappearances though!

eye— why would you mention that basketball shorts thing??? now i cant unsee it 😭😭 jokes aside, i like it? i mean, i don’t particularly love it like zhongli’s or ningguang’s but it’s not horrendously bad. from my pov, it’s p practical esp since he’s always out and about doing experiments in the wild. on one hand though, it’s also not my favorite part of his design. i really like his hair (in the character art bc his hair there hits different) and ofc his coat. his shirt’s also a nice color and his face,, don’t even get me started on his face.