#marg answers

[margaritadaemonelix]

Hi!! I've been a lurker + fan of your fics since like. 2020 and as a writer myself, I always admire how you do your descriptions and worldbuilding... do you have any book/reading recs that inspire you? or tips?? and this is also unrrelated but I'd love to hear about what current wips you're working on!!

whjkwhkhww come off anon and talk to me plz, thank you so much for reading my fics??? i'm in shambles anon you are so kind know that i am psychically beaming you a hug

oh boy uhhhh worldbuilding and descriptions. tbh that's less a function of what i read and more a function of what i enjoy. i'm a big proponent of mundane joys like cooking and eating and dressings up, so i feel like it stands that those things tend to reflect the most in my writing. tbh i feel like i struggle with balancing worldbuilding/description with plot because i tend to hyperfixate on the small details, but a lot of people like it??? so i will continue trucking on

so if i had to give any advice, it's like. fall in love with some part of living, and then try to narrate what it is that you love about it. i love the writing with fountain pens because drawing ink into the reservoir makes me feel like a witch mixing potions, and i love baking because that first slice of my spatula through the dry and wet ingredients crunches so wonderfully, and i love wearing mamianqun because the swish of my hems when i walk makes up for the struggle of dripping over them when i go up stairs. little things like that really bring your writing to life

in terms of reading recs for things that have inspired me, i have to say. 90% of it is other fics. there are so many fics that have inspired me over the years and i always try to analyze what it is i love about them in terms of narrative structure, use of language, etc. uhhhh that said i've had my fingers in a lot of fandom pies over the years, and also i minored in english so i'm like. a little bit fussy about my analyses. that said:

if you want some beautiful prose, my favourite book of all time has to be This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (yes, the bigolas dickolas one)

a great example of narrative voice and unreliable narration that i love to bits is Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, it's so different from the movie and is SO funny.

aside from that, lately i've been rereading Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet, which is a literary discourse on the depiction of desire in the fragments of Sappho + later poets.

my current wips... there are Many. i am trying to play cleanup with them and i've been bouncing across ten different wips, not to mention the abandoned ones that are never seeing the light of day again. rn the main wip is this is our eden-in-flames, a direct sequel to within the ruins of me which i finished last year. i've also got a smattering of other wips in the ruination series, a few misc ffxiv fics, and a smattering of hsr fics.

once again, thank you so much anon ;-; good luck with your own writing endeavours!

[saintsenara]

this ship came to me, as though in a dream: Marge Dursley/Muriel Prewett. They are seen by our heroes as difficult aunts. There is some interesting (complimentary?) stuff happening with class and gender with each of them relative to their respective families. Could they make each other better? Could they make each other worse?

anon, i cackled.

because yes, you're absolutely right that there's something really interesting which can be done with their near-identical class backgrounds [the maiden aunts who clearly live in country houses they can't entirely afford to heat and yet still laud their slight class-conventional superiority over the rest of their family].

but i'm committed to backing this because it would be funny. and because molly and petunia teaming up to murder them both after they ruined christmas by complaining about everything would be one hell of a premise for a buddy comedy.

[merwyn-muses]

"How about you get lost" from Dom @ {The bean for the angel au}

Poor thing was just trying to help him out a tiny bit with his place before hiding. Even if she was his guardian angel, he did scare her to a insane degree. She stiffened when she heard his voice and mentally yelling at herself for stopping and hiding earlier. Even if she wanted to go, she couldn't. She was assigned Dom even if he liked it or not.

She was folding a blanket up and was about to put it in its usual spot she noticed it was at but got spotted by the man.

"I..i'm assigned to you. I-i can't leave"

She forced herself to speak quickly before getting yelled at or threatened again.

[merwynpersonalhub]

What does Marg think of Holly? :3c

WELLLLL funny enough marg doesnt really know the antonblast cast- i do hc peppiblast does happen i just dont see marg ever meeting anton or anyone who lived in boilercity (and holly is basically a au version of margarita lol!)

But if she diddddd i think she would sorta be scared of her, due to her aggressiveness and how she treats others, but sorta want to be friends with holly- MEANWHILE HOLLY would actually sorta like her. I mean she has a lot of love in her heart. But she actually still sorta dislikes her bc of her view on people.

[small-tragedies]

001 The Simpsons!

Favorite character: Of course it’s Lisa Simpson. 🤣 When I first started watching The Simpsons, I was really intrigued by her character, and she grew to be my favorite character ever!

Least Favorite character: It would have to be Elizabeth Hoover. Lisa’s teacher at Springfield Elementary School. I just never liked the woman, at least with Edna Krabappel, who seemed like she didn’t like Bart. The thing was, she did actually care about her students and Bart, unlike Miss Hoover, who really doesn’t give a rat’s ass about any of them and has actually bullied an 8-year-old just because she felt like Lisa was a show-off. (Granted, Lisa can be a little full of herself at times, but she’s just a kid, and Miss Hoover is an adult who has personal issues and is taking them out on a little girl.) (Hehehe, I really info dump when it comes to a character I don’t like lol.)

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Lisa and Jessica are my OTP forever and ever! And I could go on all day about why I love them, but then I wouldn’t be able to talk about any other ship lol. I like to ship Lisa with the twin weasels ( I affectionately call them this and like to think Lisa does too 😂), Sherri, and Terri Mackleberry in a polycule V-type relationship (no incest), with Lisa as the hinge. (It probably goes without saying that I also ship the twins’ separately with Lisa too, and it’s usually Sherri. 😆) third pairing (yes, we are counting the twins’ as just the second ship, okay? They’re a unit right now, so I can say more ships,😂) would be Lisa and Allison. I love to think that if they had stayed very close friends, it would have turned into a friends-to-lovers situation, and I just think their relationship would be very cute and sweet, and they would grow old together. And my fourth pair I fancy is Lisa Simpson and Francine Rhenquist... You all are probably noticing a pattern... And you’re right because I have a thing—a thing for shipping Lisa with bullies... I just think she can be a bully whisperer and tamer, okay?! 🤣 And now, last but not least, my final and fifth pairing is Allison Taylor and Hubert Wong. I just think these two are too cute for each other! And they are just two cute little nerds in love. (Shout out to my sister @twisting-echo for getting me into shipping these two nerds).

Character I find most attractive: Groundskeeper Willie hands down! Have you seen that man without his shirt on? Absolutely beautiful~ 

Character(s) I would marry: Kang and Kodos, two one-eyed aliens, just for little ol’ me lol. 🤣💕💕💕

Character I would be best friends with: Professor Frink. I always loved his character and his zany antics.

A random thought: I once had a random thought about making a fic where it would be an AU where everyone had animal-like features, and I had wanted the whole Simpsons’ family to be cats. 😅🤣

An unpopular opinion: Oh, boy, here it goes... My unpopular opinion is that I really haven’t liked how they have written Marge in the newer seasons of The Simpsons. Just some of the storylines they do for her feel like they’ve done it a thousand times before, and it’s gotten old. And I have never liked how they have made it so that Homer has no problems bonding with his daughters, especially Lisa, but nothing with Bart. The same goes for Marge. I never like how in some episodes she can’t bond with her daughter, but honestly, it’s the writing overall because they always make either Lisa an asshole to her own mother or Marge is the asshole. Just why can’t they have cute bonding episodes for the whole family like what I’ve seen in Bob’s Burgers? 😭

My canon OTP: I wouldn’t say OTP, but I had always thought Comic Book Guy and Kumiko’s relationship was surprisingly cute and sweet. 

Non-canon OTP: This wouldn’t be me if I didn’t say it was Lisa and Jessica, now would it? Yessss, they’re my little babies! This ship is very dear to me; it’s been my OTP for years. 🤣💕💕💕

Most badass character: Gina Vendetti. I love her and think she’s a little badass. I also love to ship her with Bart. She’s his scary Amazon girlfriend who terrifies everyone around her lol.

Pairing I am not a fan of: Milhouse and Lisa; just no, I have never thought they worked well together ever! It's just sad to see him pine for someone who does not like him at all. Seriously, it was a running joke that Lisa settled for him, and that’s just sad. Millhouse deserves someone who actually cares and will love him, and Lisa needs to be with someone she’s not settling with because it’s all she’s ever known, and she knows he won’t leave her because he loves her too much and it’s just not healthy or fair to either one of them. (I love my girl, but she has to let him go so he can move on).

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): I have never liked the slow decent at which they have taken Lisa’s character in how the show writes her. Back when the show first came out, she was intelligent, kind, and passionate about the planet and all living things. Mind you, she is still very intelligent, but they have taken some parts of her personality and turned it up to an 180. She is flawed, which is why I love her, but over the years, they have made her more of a snotty brat at times who throws her intelligence in people’s faces, and it doesn’t seem like she’s that kind anymore, and most of what she rebels against feels performative and hollow now. She could always be somewhat intolerant of opinions that differed from her own, often refusing to consider alternative perspectives and showing a feeling of self-righteousness. But it feels like that’s how she is all the time now, and I just haven’t been a big fan of what her character has become.

Favourite friendship: Now I’m going to completely talk about a “fanon” friendship since The Simpsons didn’t give me it in the canon of the show. I mean, sure, I could talk about Millhouse and Bart’s friendship, but sadly, while I like it, it is not my favorite, and the truth is, sometimes they abused each other more than they were good friends with each other lol. 😂😅 No, I’m going to talk about a friendship between Lisa Simpson, Allison Taylor, and Hubert Wong. I always thought it would have been nice for Lisa to at least have someone who was her friend in the show, someone she could bond with, just like Bart with Millhouse. But no, they have always made her a loner just for the sake of writing that not a lot of people like her in Springfield (poor baby, 😭) and they wasted the potential of Lisa and Allison’s friendship. In the show, they always show Lisa as a miserable adult who’s so bitter about everything. I like to think she would have grown up a little differently if she had at least one consistent friend (not Janey; Janey was just as bad as the twins’ with the way they bullied Lisa). And honestly, it would have been nice to see her hang out with two other people who shared similar interests as she did, and it just would have been cute. I definitely have more things to say about their friendship, my sister and I have made up in fanon over the years, but that’s definitely for a different post lol.

I’m so sorry that this is soooo long. 😂 Once you get me started on the Simpsons, I can’t stop rambling like a mad woman about it. 🤣 Thank you so much for this ask. This was so much fun to write out.

[merwyn-oc-askblog]

Gay ass

"WE ARE FA-"

"Please don't say that.."

[ardate]

ohhh ann-doreen … 24, 30, 32 :]

[Simpsons OC Ask Game]

24 – Aside from their home, is there a specific place in Springfield where your OC likes to spend time?

Well, I'd truthfully say she likes going to the prison's visiting room to chat with Snake very often... But I feel like she deserves me giving some other answer LMAO

I can see her going to some sort of café or bar as a semi-regular,, probably the Hard Luck Cafe. Besides the title being very fitting for her (rip) well, the vibes of the streets it's in feel suitable for it being in the same neighborhood as Ann (and Barney)'s crappy appartment building, and with how exhausted she is in her daily life she'd definitely pick something close to home to become a regular at. Moe's bar feels fitting too, I definitely think Barney brought her here at some point, but she wouldn't like the vibe of the place - and it being a goddamn sausage fest of a bar she'd just stay out of there. You come in once, have Moe say some godawful thing that he thinks is a smooth flirt and you dodge that street for the rest of time. Otherwise she does appear in crowd shots throughout the whole city like most characters from the show :]

30 - Does your OC know the Simpson family? If yes, what is their relationship with them? If not, what would they think of them if they ever met?

Ann-Doreen most closely knows Marge from back when they were in the same Housewife Association, before the big split from that one episode we all know and love [insert imaginary episode number and title in which the association disolves into two groups that wage war against each other, one led by Helen Lovejoy and the other by Sally Cruz] They get along well enough, although they aren't close. As for the other members of the family, I frankly dunno yet. It will depend on the way it goes as I think of more episodes :]

32 – Your OC is either in trouble or feeling terrible. Who’s the first person they can rely on for help?

Well, most of the time* not her boyfriend LMAO sorry girl. She'll tend to turn to her housewife friends a lot (sometimes dragging them in trouble too as a result), but as far as canon characters go it's a bit of a harder question.

Her boss Cora can support her sometimes as long as it's not too big a bother of a favor - as detached as she seems and as hard as she overworks her, Cora still appreciates Ann in a strange roundabout way and will sometimes let her off the hook and get away with things she shouldn't. Otherwise, Ann can get some surprising (?) support from her neighbour Barney who can be a very good listener... When he's sober mostly - but even when he's drunk Ann and her magnificient powers of denial will just decide that he'll listen anyway. Mostly she'll ramble at him and then feel better all on her own, thank him and leave. Even if he's splayed on his couch barely conscious. Her past relationship with Fat Tony can also be convenient. They ended things on a fairly cordial note, and although it doesn't really earn her any special favors with the family, it does make it easier than for most to just go knock on their doors if something is amiss. When a regular gets too pushy and creepy towards her at work, it's nice to go whine to your scary ex-boyfriend about it.

Besides the housewives however she doesn't really have any close friends in the canon roster in my mind yet.

*I say "most of the time" because although their relationship remains mostly static throughout the seasons/episodes as expected and he'll never truly stop Using her, overtime he'll act a bit more like a proper boyfriend and start appreciating her slightly more - thus helping her sometimes. when appropriate for the ep.

Besides that I'm not sure, but who knows what sort of relationship will arise through the seasons in my brain,, :]

[lctibule]

✏️ Jinx..... :3c

incorrect quotesㅤㅤㅤㅤ☾ㅤㅤㅤㅤ accepting!!

jinx: guess what I'm about to get! margaret: on my nerves.

margaret: so, you lied to me? jinx: that depends on how you define lying. margaret: well, i define it as not telling the truth. how do you define it? jinx: um, reclining your body in a horizontal position?

jinx: don’t worry, i know exactly what i’m doing. everything is going to be fine! margaret: how can you still say that? jinx: because sometimes, when things get tough, denial is all we have!

margaret: y’know, maybe things aren’t so bad. i’m here. i got the nice ocean breeze. just me, alone with my thoughts. jinx: hey, marg. margaret: GODDAMNIT!

[prcttyinpcnk]

@theoldsecretkeeperandfriends asked:

Ah, a rushed wrapped up present thats covered in bunch of ribbons! Inside was a rushed note with bunch of fabrics, jars, and glitter!!

"Hey sweetheart! I hope you don't mind me being sorta late! I got you these since I know how crafty you are! There some pinks, blues, greens, mostly all the pretty colors! I don't know what you can use with the jars or glitter, but I know you will use them! Take care of yourself and give your father a big old hug for me!

with lots of love Margarita!"

"Young Miss? Another package! This one seems a bit on the rushed side, though."

Phiona only rolls her eyes at Luci before taking the package from his mouth. Ribbons?? Fabric?? Jars?? Glitter?? Oh her aunt new her very well!

"Nunca cambries, tia. Nunca cambries."

Ya know, it's days like this, she's constantly reminded that her family is pretty fucking great.

[mxdam]

@therelentless sent: ❛ Do you remember pain? It kind of tickles, doesn't it? ❜

"Darling Nandor, don't flirt with me. I shall blush."

Something about him brings out the girl in her. She feels light, almost giddy. He's like a foreign sweet she shouldn't eat, some confection to palm surreptitiously off the table, gobble ducked into a far corner, not letting even a crumb of sugar drop onto one's bodice, so Mother can't scold for gluttony.

It's the peculiar admixture of qualities in him: hardened warrior, lordly viceroy, awkward boy, ferocious vampire. It's so very provoking. She wants to see which Nandor will come to the fore.

[rainbow-wolf120]

Teehee, my finger slipped

Ok, when I first say Milo and his longness, the first thing I thought of was this pose lmao

Also Yay siblings. I love siblings, I have siblings

Anywho Milo is silly and I pronounce his name as Mee-Low, so my bad

He's schmoovin'

Milo is owned by @supgoddo

Penny belongs to @troutagon

Pose I was talking bout:

[margaritadaemonelix]

🎨🐻 for crafter asks!

thanks for the ask ^-^

🎨What is the one craft you think looks amazing, but could never do yourself or can't get the hang of?

never got the hang of knitting, to be honest ;-; i've tried to learn from my mom a bunch of times, and there was a little bit when i was about ten or so when i could knit in flats, but anything more complicated than pure purls has always been beyond me

🐻What is the cutest thing you have ever created?

i'm sure i've done other really cute stuff that has entirely slipped my mind, but here's mr giraffe! i picked up needlefelting during the height of the pandemic and occasionally come back to the hobby here and there

[saintsenara]

May I propose: Marge Dursley/Petunia Dursley, Gilderoy Lockhart/Voldemort, Pansy Parkinson/Narcissa Malfoy, and Severus Snape/Phineas Nigellus Black’s Portrait?

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

marge dursley/petunia dursley

"Excellent nosh, Petunia."

presented without comment.

gilderoy lockhart/lord voldemort

this initially goes really well, because lockhart's the only man on earth could hear the story of voldemort modifying his uncle's memory in order to frame him for murder and think... smash.

it crashes and burns when he attempts to get the dark lord to use bronzer. lockhart's tell-all book - double-penetration with dictators - goes on to become the prophet's number one best-seller for a full year.

narcissa malfoy/pansy parkinson

narcissa is very much giving the sort of #boymom who becomes an absolutely toxic mother-in-law. which means that i think pansy [or astoria, or - god forbid - ron] would have to end up entwined with her... but not necessarily of her own free will...

portrait!phineas nigellus black/severus snape

a brief slipping of snape's occlumency shields just after he was called to the shrieking shack allowed the memory of him... achieving release while phineas talked about how much he'd hated sirius to ram its way into lord voldemort's consciousness.

murdering him with nagini was the only possible solution.

[merwyn-muses]

📐 creech is like 3'10". microorganism.

Meme

had to do margarita-

FUNNY THING IS SHES SCARED OF CREECH A BIT- SO ITS SO FUCKING FUNNY TO ME IDK WHY-

[not-poignant]

I'm a reader and from Western Australia. The description of the UTB facility always kinda reminded me of Woodman Point Recreational Camp. Like that kind of set up. More space between the cottages. Being close to the beach. But with Margaret River bushland...... if that makes sense.....lol

Hello fellow Western Australian! :D

I had to look up the Woodman Point Recreational Camp because I'd never heard of it and kind of cringed at how spartan and jail-like it looked. (I'm sure it's very different and a lot more fun to experience! But the photos aren't kind).

I actually imagine for example that Gary's cottage looks actually way more like this, just kind of without the white fencing around the verandah:

Literally like giant forest behind it, garden around it, kangaroos, and the grass is greener and better maintained and there's also just in general on the grounds, way, way more greenery to create a sense of things being screened off from each other.

There's a reason Efnisien's not mentioning all the other chalets on the property, and it's not just because they're very far apart (because many aren't, they all have to be reasonably reachable by staff).

The standalone chalets I imagine a bit more like this, but more modern, and a lot more glass / curtains to fully open the house (to air out pheromones). And while they're less likely to have forest behind them, there are just a lot of trees etc. and gardens and benches etc. on the property.

This is probably a better idea re: an aerial view:

(Though yeah as you say, more space between the cottages, and more grass. There's also a central cluster of buildings where Gary's office/s, the medical suite/s, caterers and all the professional/corporate meeting rooms are!)

It's more of a radial design. Some cottages are clustered closer together, some are duplexes, and some are quite far away due to the possessiveness of the omega (so Caleb and Lucien are very close to the beach and quite 'separate' so they're not likely to catch any pheromones from anyone else).

I'd say there is more grass, and more like...lush maintained gardens with a mix of native and exotic plants from the aerial view. Because it actually used to be a very kind of 5 star self-contained chalet experience, it's got botanical garden level of greenery around the place, that's very well-maintained by gardeners etc. on staff. It's not the kind of place where they get a lawnmower person out once every few weeks, they have full-time gardeners who come in every day and leave every day because there's just so much to do / maintain in the garden/s and on the grounds!

I hope that helps some! I mean it still might remind you of the Recreational Camp, the photos that came up for me in an image search were pretty bare.

[byanyan]

ㅤㅤ" so, like— "ㅤa beat. this... might not be the best thing to ask. and yet—ㅤ" —look, i'm the last person t' judge someone's choices in, like, self-expression, but... are y'ever gonna take off that mask? s'kinda weird, y'know? not knowin' what ya look like under there even though we been buddies for a while now. "

⋆:°* ♡ @smilingmxsk ⋆·˚ ༘ * no pressure one-liner call.