#lucylaneeffect

[sassyhazelowl]

peony, iris, sunflower, and tulip!

peony: au or canon?

I’m old school and a staunch canon fan. If I wanted to do AUs, I could go make my own characters/universes -- and I kind of already do this with some of the underutilized side characters. I generally write fanfictions of a series because I like that particularly world or setting most of all. Sometimes I like all the characters but most of the time I like only a few, and that means if the one I don’t like are in the coffeeshop AU, I not likely to want anything to do with it. There are exceptions and I make a lot of allowances both in reading and writing because I recognize fandom has changed quite a bit but AUs will never be my preferred thing.

sunflower: what is the best feedback/compliment you’ve ever received regarding your writing?

I’ve lost the actual review now but it said something to the effect of “Lyon’s such a dumbass” and that cracked me up for days. I know its not a compliment... except it is because its commentary on how I wrote his character. I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on how I write specific characters, which I think is great feedback, since most people read fanfics for the characters (unlike myself, see up above for what I prefer).

tulip: what is your favorite writing blog on tumblr that you feel deserves more followers and reads?

Hmmm, this... is difficult. I mean, there are lots of writers I personally like and follow, but narrowing it down to one or doing a rec kind of makes me uncomfortable, partially because I’ve fallen out with a lot of the fandom. Also, a lot of my fav FT fics have writers that aren’t on tumblr (to my knowledge) or who have left the fandom.

I’ll play it safe and give a shout out to @dragonshost simply because she’s done a sprawling amount of fics of every shape, ship, size and specialty imaginable. It’s hard not like something if you take a look XD

Another Writer’s Meme

[dreamingoffairys]

minerva + black for the aesthetic?

posted! i tried to tag you but idk if it worked (stupid mobile)

[ahumanintraining]

confirmation bias

she never asked (if she could sit with her). —erlu.

also read on: ao3

notes: with apologies for being excruciatingly late, i present this erlu oneshot to you for ft femslash vday exchange! and oh what a surprise that it’s you, @lucylaneeffect, haha! at any rate, i hope you find this fic to your liking :)

Lucy takes the first available seat she sees in the cafeteria — and she swears this isn’t just because Erza Scarlet is sitting right across from it.

Lucy’s trying to get to know her product design classmate a little better anyway, and today — with a sheer burst of rare confidence — instead of watching Erza eat alone and wondering why she chose not to eat in company, Lucy’s decided that she would have lunch with the redhead and perhaps even figure out why she usually ate by herself.

“I’ll eat lunch with you today,” Lucy announces as she swings her leg over the cafeteria bench, dropping her lunchbag onto the table. “You don’t mind, right?”

She’s a little forceful with her request, but she knows that Erza wouldn’t decline.

“Apparently not,” Erza replies, with a hint of a wry laugh.

Lucy can’t help but look up to meet the other woman’s eyes. Even after an entire two months into the semester of being in the same small group for their product design class, Lucy still finds Erza’s voice surprising.

Erza’s voice is husky, a little rough around the edges but somehow soothing all the same. Lucy wonders why Erza doesn’t speak up more during small group discussion — she seemed to know a lot more than all the other know-it-all men in class and would probably articulate it a lot better. Lucy would 11 times out of 10 prefer to hear Erza’s reasoning through a short answer question than any of the attempts at theory the guys tried to take a shot at.

“Sorry,” Lucy apologizes, out of reflex.

“Oh, no, I really don’t mind,” Erza clarifies. “Why would I turn down the opportunity to get to know the only other female in our product design class?”

Lucy laughs as if she hadn’t thought the same thing just a few seconds before. “The gender-ratio is quite disturbing,” she admits.

“I’m pretty sure there’s more girls in our class,” Erza says. “They’re just smart enough to realize that lecture isn’t worth their time and that they’d rather be checking their email than sitting through an hour and a half of that man’s rambling.”

Lucy perks up. “You go to lecture?”

“In spirit.”

“Oh,” Lucy replies, blushing. She looks down. “I guess I’m not very smart.”

Erza vigorously shakes her head. “No, I think you’re smarter than everyone else because you’re probably able to actually follow along and understand what’s going on in lecture,” she counters. “And I think you realize that even as terrible of a teacher the professor is, his classes are also what we’re all taking college loans out for.”

Lucy can’t help the shy smile that’s formed across her lips. “Not really.”

“Definitely smarter than me, who thought that it was a good idea to spend money on the cafeteria strawberry shortcake rather than take the time to prepare a homemade meal,” Erza remarks, nodding at Lucy’s arrangement of tupperware. She pushes aside the square container and spoon in front of her — telltale signs of whipped cream and red strawberry syrup left on the plastic.

Lucy blows on the bit of hot pasta on her fork. “Just premade lasagna that I nuked in the microwaved. I’m not that fancy.”

She doesn’t think about figuring out when Erza’s birthday is the next time she’s on social media. She doesn’t think about researching the best strawberry shortcake near campus, and she definitely doesn’t think about buying a slice and gifting it to Erza whenever that day is, saying a witty line that she hasn’t thought of yet referring back this moment.

She eats her lasagna instead, nevertheless aware that Erza is watching her silently.

“So why do you usually eat alone anyway?” she asks, thinking that maybe Erza would take the cue to fill in the silence.

She doesn’t.

“I just prefer to,” Erza answers briefly.

Not expecting the awkward silence to return so quickly, Lucy swallows her bite of piping hot lasagna too quickly. She reaches for her water to take a swig to help cool her scorched throat — quickly, so that she can carry the conversation forward sooner than later.

“I mean, not like I’m saying it’s bad — I’m just curious,” Lucy sputters, screwing the top back on her canteen.

“I like to people-watch,” Erza replies.

Lucy gulps down her water. She forces a couple of laughs, and she’s not sure if the redhead is being serious. “But actually?”

Erza nods, then starts pointing out the various faces around them with her eyes. “She always gets a vegetable pizza but picks out the olives and folds them neatly into a napkin before she throws them away,” she says, looking over at a brunette. “And then the person that always sits next to her is probably her lab partner for organic chemistry. I see him passing goggles to her and lab notes. They’re always half-eating, half doing an assignment so I’m pretty sure that they have that class right after lunch.”

Lucy can’t help but look up — and indeed the two people Erza’s talking about are doing exactly as she said: the brunette is eating an olive-less pizza with her left hand and scribbling with a pencil in her right hand, and the guy next to her looks like he’s working on a spreadsheet, typing furiously away.

Erza waits for Lucy’s eyes to come back to hers before she points to another group with her eyes. “This crew is the one I’m trying to figure out. I can’t figure out if the tall girl is part of their inner circle or not. She seems close to like two of them, but the other three never sit next to her,” Erza muses. “Or maybe they just always take the same seats for lunch. But that’s not entirely true because everyone else switches around, but the tall girl and those three aren’t ever next to each other.”

Lucy tries not to look too long at the group of six to see if she can answer Erza’s questions, but she can’t admit that now she’s a tad interested. She turns her head back to Erza.

“You’re creepy,” Lucy finally says.

Erza only smiles. Then she leans in and looks a little accusingly at Lucy. “I mean, only someone else that also people-watches would know I eat alone.”

“Anyone can notice that,” Lucy defends.

“Anyone that watches me at least.”

Lucy challenges Erza’s gaze, staring back at her eyes for as long as she can. Lucy eventually defers when her cheeks get a little hot.

“Well, you don’t always eat alone,” Lucy says, as if confessing that Erza’s caught her attention more times than not. She picks at clump of cooked tomato in the lasagna sauce. “Every now and then there’s this guy that drops by.”

“Jellal,” Erza affirms, smile never leaving her face.

“Sure,” Lucy replies. It’s not like she knows the blue-haired other person anyway. He’s probably just as mysterious and unassuming as Erza, by the looks of it. Lucy’s tried figuring out who the guy is, without much luck. “He seems close to you.”

“He is. We’ve known each other since we were children.”

Lucy nods, continuing to eat.

“We’re not together.”

Lucy’s fork freezes before her lips. “I mean… I wasn’t assuming anything,” she replies slowly.

“I just wanted you to know,” Erza simply says.

“I see.” Lucy chews slowly, her lunch now no longer as hot as it was when she first removed it from the microwave. She’s not really sure what else to say, or what to make of what Erza says, but she feels like it’s important to respond.

“I notice that you usually sit with that blue-haired girl,” Erza tells her. “But only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so she probably has class or something.”

“Yeah, Juvia,” Lucy replies.

“I guess we both sit with mysterious blue-haired people.”

Lucy laughs. “Yeah… actually, Juvia and I are childhood friends too. We’re very close. Especially this year since our schedules are almost the same, we spend almost all our time together except Monday, Wednesday, and Friday lunches because she has fluid dynamics,” she explains. There’s a brief pause, and then Lucy clarifies, “I mean, we’re not like…together though, you know.”

Erza smirks. “I never asked,” she says, turning Lucy’s comment back around.

“I guess with all your people-watching you would have figured it out already.”

Erza shrugs, tilting her head to the side. It’s only now that Lucy notices that she’s wearing earrings, a single crystal dangling from a silver ring. “It’s nice to hear if my theories are right or not.”

“Were you?”

And for the first time, Erza’s caught off guard. Her eyebrows raise slightly. “Was I what?”

“Right or wrong —” Lucy says, a grin growing over her face. “—about what you hypothesized about me.”

Erza thinks for a moment. “You mean you want to know what I thought of you before you came over to sit down to eat lunch with me?”

“Yes.”

Erza laughs softly. “I mean, I don’t know,” she says. “All I knew was that you were the only other girl in my discussion section for product design and that you usually bring in your own food to eat from home. It’s healthy because at least from a distance I usually saw some green — and your skin is pretty clear so you have to be doing something.”

Lucy snorts. “Well I’m not being too healthy today.”

The other girl smiles gently. “I just noticed that you spend Tuesdays and Thursdays eating alone and people-watching,” Erza continues. She pauses briefly, then adds, “And I wondered if you would ever come over and join me — especially because I know that you know I sit here by myself.”

Lucy twirls her fork in her food. “So now what?”

“Well now this cute blonde girl is sitting in front of me eating her lunch and keeping me company and I feel like a slob because I wasn’t ready for her to sit across from me on a day I decided not to put on makeup or wear proper clothes or buy a healthy lunch.”

Lucy bites her bottom lip, trying not to laugh too hard. She pretends the heat in her cheeks is from the rising steam from her food even though she knows it’s been fifteen minutes in and her food is more cold than warm now.

Lucy practices the words in her head before she says it out loud. “Maybe next time I’ll ask if you mind if I have lunch with you this Thursday before I sit down.”

Erza smiles. “Maybe next time I won’t stop you.”

[bazzaya]

fairy tail mutuals it's me again liz back from the dead revived by the game i have had no thoughts for the past 48 hours besides minerva please welcome me back dear mutuals

[dragonshost]

Minerva, for the ask meme!

Why I like them: I loved her ruthlessness, and as a villain she was compelling.  It was also cool to see her struggle with her own philosophy, and god damn if she wasn’t so freaking elegant the whole time!

Why I don’t: Her redemption arc isn’t... great.  And also, post redemption her personality seems devoid of a lot of things that made me like her in the first place.

Favorite episode (scene if movie): When she got between Jiemma and Natsu.  That was super cool.

Favorite season/movie: GMG arc.

Favorite line: “Please, I'll be the one corrupting the world in my darkness. Not the other way around.”

Favorite outfit: Her first outfit in Sabertooth.

OTP: Minerva x Max, followed very closely by Minerva x Erza and Minerva x Lucy

Brotp: Minerva x Sabertooth.  A very important Brotp to me.

Head Canon: Whenever she cooked for Sabertooth pre-redemption, it was always served with an air of menace.  Didn’t stop the guild from enjoying her cooking immensely, but they made sure to always heap compliments about it.

Unpopular opinion: Her redemption could have worked if we had seen more about the abuse earlier, and if more had been done regarding her losses to Erza (thoughts, feelings, explanations, flashbacks, etc, - especially during the GMG arc)

A wish: That her issues with Lucy had been more of a forefront plot thing for both characters.

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen:  I kinda don’t want her to end up with any character at the end of the series.  Can she just be Saber-Mom?  Please?

5 words to best describe them: Arrogant, powerful, menacing, COOL, gorgeous

My nickname for them: No nickname.

[everybodys-chains]

How I got into Fairy Tail

Tagged by the beautiful @h2jo <33 Okay this is a dramatic story about how I got into a anime/manga I didn't wanted to watch. It all started around 2013, when I was suuuuper invested into Pandora Hearts. (Great manga, go read it haha) That time I liked a lot of supernatural animes and ny friends liked FT a lot and, because of that I felt like I was left behind lol (truly, they werw pretty FT centric and I didn't understand A SHIT). So one night In a grupal chat my friends and I started fighting about what was better, If Pandora Hearts or Fairy Tail. Me: "Pandora hearts has a prettier style!!" A friend: "Pfff for every hot guy on Pandora Heartw there's 5 Fairy Tail hot guys!" Another friend: "In Pandora Hearts even the females are hot!!" Me: "ALSO THE LACK OF BLOOD IN THE ANIME!!" A friend: "IT HAS BETTER FIIIIIIGHTS" So I was like... "GRRR IT ISN'T THAT GOOD." So I started watching it, as a Challenge since I didn't wanted to watch it LOL. And sure, the lack of blood on the anime didn't made me happy, Since I came from animes that had blood in them, I mean I found it soooo Unrealistic. In the end took me a year to end the first season of the anime. Now, entering FT fandom and meeting the cutie people I met... is another story<3. I taaaaagg: @chychymazzu @the-archangel-of-zeref @sassyhazelowl @lucylaneeffect @dragonshost

[the-colossal-t]

Music Shuffle Tag

Instructions: you can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to. Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people. No skipping Tagged by @reylin-stormfury ya Jerk (jk I'm glad to have been involved) 1. Fresh Eyes - Andy Grammer 2. Your Man - Josh Turner 3. Let Me Down Easy - Billy Currington 4. No - Meghan Trainor 5. Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold 6. Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects 7. Time of Dying - Three Days Grace 8. How You Remind Me - Nickleback 9. How to Save a Life - The Fray 10. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor Tagging you mutuals @lucylaneeffect @crimsonxblaze @ice-bringer @cheeekyerza Honestly those are all I can think of rn I'm sorry

[sassyhazelowl]

minerza, for your brutally honest opinion

Wow, right for it. No playing around.

While I do like this ship, I have to admit it pretty much has the same flaw as kag//erza: it’s completely one-sided. Worse, half their relationship is spent on opposite sides and Minerva does some pretty vile (and IMO nearly unforgivable) shit not only to Erza but to Milliana and Lucy. The second half of their relationship seems to be distant... uh “friends” I suppose? I mean, Lucy and Minerva seem to have more interaction post-T-arc than with Erza?

From a canon perspective, it’s fueled on crumbs and has a lot against it.

HOWEVER, the potential is there and real. I honestly have no problem with former enemy to lovers most of the time (there are specific exceptions). Strong emotions and feelings can create bonds regardless of whether its via a source of anger/lust/love (arguably Minerva has all 3 for Erza, like damn girl, put down the lady boner), and Erza has the biggest fucking savior complex I’ve ever seen. The reason I could see potential though is Minerva is willing and trying to change, even though it’s shown very poorly in canon. She apologizes to Lucy, she apologizes to Kagura, she apologizes to Sting and Rogue, and not only is she regretful for her crazyass actions, but she’s willing to work for reform. Working for change is what saves relationships.

UNFORTUNATELY, while I’m in love with the potential for the ship and as a writer the dynamic and dramatics are amazing, it’s not really viable without a lot of manhandling and rebuilding. Also, it ignores some actual canon relationships, which tends to force it into a gal pal corner. So, overall, I ship it but it’s not a favorite ship without more canon backing to address some issues.

[ranger-kellyn]

lucylaneeffect replied to your post: Emoji Movie FanFic

reading this on desktop turned this into a hellscape and you should be ashamed

please send me a screenshot 

[dreamingoffairys]

minerva orland + black

for @lucylaneeffect 🖤

[bazzaya]

finally have my new url and it feels nice

[localgaysian]

Yesterday was fanfic writers' appreciation day so here's a message saying that I love your work. ;)

IZZY akjsfkadfj enOUGH

[yurisakura]

dude i cant believe you got me hooked on that one girls' generation song 'reflection' bc it played on your blog smh i cannot believe this

OMGGG REFLECTION I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS EITHER???!!

That song’s my fave on Girls’ Generation’s 2nd Japanese Album! There’s also T.O.P, that one’s so good too asdfgashd (i just added it lmao go check it out pls)

Their Korean songs are good but their Japanese songs are 🔥🔥🔥”

[sinnohqueen]

Cynthia, Diantha, Commander Mars, and Shelly!

this is tough cus i hc mars as shelly’s cousin (pls dont ask i have a weird AU) so i will go Cynthia/Shelly which is actually my guilty pleasure ship cus theyre my top two favs and then Diantha/Mars would be interesting as hell i would pay to see

Send me an even number of characters and I’ll tell you which ships I’d prefer if I had to pair them all up

[sassyhazelowl]

you made me ship minerva and kagura, it's all your fault and now i'm invested in the idea

Good news for you, I’m in the middle of another fic. Can’t believe they’re canon.

Come in my inbox (anon or not) and tell me if I made you ship something/made you watch a show or movie/made you read a book/ etc and if yes, name it

[sassyhazelowl]

lucylaneeffect replied to your post: minerza, for your brutally honest opinion

no one understands having to manhandle this ship more than me seeing as i am manually rebuilding every part of its foundation as we speak, so yeah, i mostly agreealso yeah minerva calm down with that anger/lust/love cesspool of emotions with erza but at the same time it’s absolutely delicious from a writing standpoint

You are a brave and noble soul, and I agree with your hypothesis regarding Minerva entirely in regards to holes in canon. It is delicious to write, isn't it? >:)