#maybe i can do some small things on mobile👀

[biitchcakes]

Hello hello !! I know it's been over a month since my last post on here anyway, but I figure it's time to officially make a HIATUS post. Even though I've not been on the computer in the last few weeks ( lurking here and there on mobile ), I know I'll definitely be without access to it from 14 July ⸺ 14 September !! ( and perhaps even into October, will update if so ! )

I'll still be popping in on the app from time to time, I'm not completely getting off the site, but writing here will definitely have to take a backseat ⸺ even more so than it already has, unfortunately. My goal once I'm back from this hiatus is to get back to writing, I do miss you guys and writing Jess so much 😭 I've just not had the time for tumblr lately.

To keep the blog active, over the next couple of days, I'm gonna try to queue up some posts for the next few weeks. See what else I can manage too while I'm at it, but I'm taking a trip ! (🥳) So I know the next few days are gonna be pretty busy with preparations and what not.

Hope to see you on the other side 🫡🖖💖

[littlemissmanga]

I decided to be sneaky sneak and go anon 👀

Hello Ms. Yen! I was wondering who you'd pair me with for Valentine's day 🥰

Likes: Art, Knitting/Crochet, Movies, Constant music playing (my life needs a soundtrack), candy, History, driving my friends crazy (lovingly), noodles 😫💜, cuddling and being cozy

Dislikes: mean-aggressive behaviour, partying, veggies, silence, the dark, my thassalophobia 💀🤣, scary movies!

I tend to put a lot of care into my loved ones (friends, family, etc) and try my best to make them happy. I hate when they're upset and will dive in right away to hug them and bring them comforting things. I can be very loud, giggly and bubbly but I can also be very quiet, withdrawn and shy. It really depends on how comfortable I am around an individual but also if I'm in a depressive spell. I have a small to negative tolerance for people being jerks to myself or to my loved ones. Will fight for them on a dime. (Also am totally willing to throw down if someone touches my wheelchair or mobility aid) But I'd rather be happy and cozy and loving than fighting...I just get protective of my ppls 😅

Thank you for your time and I hope you've been having fun doing these lovely matches! The Troops are lucky to have someone like you finding them matches for such a romantic day

😘💜💜💜

P.s.

If you haven't figured me out, it's @moonlightwarriorqueen 🤣

Again, thank you💜

Yen Ori'ken's Valentine's Day Matchmaker Services

Yen: I appreciate the flattery, but I also have to give credit to the full team over at Right to Love. The men of the GAR have their mission, we have ours and we're just as dedicated to it!

But in any case, @moonlightwarriorqueen, thank you for sending in your profile! I believe your match is likely ...

Commander Thorn of the Coruscant Guard.

Don't let the shock trooper title fool you, Thorn knows when it's time to work and when it's time to play. That's his whole motto - work hard, play hard. It may (or will, according to a note from Daria) give Commander Fox a headache from time to time, but Thorn's antics are always well intentioned, well controlled, and in good fun.

Your care for your loved ones and protectiveness of them rises to a level that Thorn previously only saw in his brothers. He's drawn in by that part of your personality and respects the hell out of it. He won't like you carrying all that negativity on your own, though. He'll always offer an ear for you to vent and get your plan of action straight (he will make sure that you do have a plan of action and help you organize your thoughts to better support yourself and others).

But if for any reason Thorn feels he needs to, he will absolutely step in to back you up. No one messes with you and if they're getting too fired up at you, then he will settle them down.

He definitely shares your love of history, though it'll take some adjustments to get him to focus on areas other than military history. Thorn isn't crafty himself, but he will wear any knitted/crocheted item you make for him with so much pride. He will be bragging to every single shock trooper and Senatorial aide he crosses paths with. (Fox is so close to asking you to stop so maybe a knitted mug cozy would be a nice gift for him, too).

He has a tiring job, so the idea of coming home to cuddle with you is heaven to Thorn. I believe an at-home movie night would be a perfect date for you. And don't worry, he'll pick up some fresh noodles and broth from your favorite place on the way over.

I hope you enjoy your date with Thorn, and thank you for writing in!

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

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OH MY GOD, ORTHO?????? ROBOBABY GOT A MAJOR GLOW UP??????????? AHHHHHHHHGGGHHhgHHHHHHGH I LOVE HIS FG SSR DESIGN??????????

Lemme ramble for a hot minute about it

My first thought is that Ortho’s look resembles that of Doll from the Noah’s Ark Circus in Black Butler! You can see similar elements in both designs: a lot of white and poofy fabric, flowers, ballet slippers with criss-crossing ribbons, concealed eyes, etc.

Something that’s interesting about specifically Ortho’s design (compared to the other FG boys) is that his look invokes the idea of both life and death while the others invoke mainly life/the idea of rebirth. This may be attributed to the lack of actual fabric on Ortho (which makes him look thin, small, and vulnerable) while butterflies (a common symbol of life, death, and passing) and what little fabric there is resembles “wings” swarm his tiny form. It looks some poor soul has departed, slowly being lifted into the next world on the wings of butterflies. Very eerie and ephemeral!

More creepy elements! His bodice or torso component has markings which resemble ribs!! Not only that, but his arms and fingers look extremely detailed and ribbed in gold, making them look almost skeletal (as there are many small fingers in specifically the hands). Altogether, this makes for a very unique look? I can’t really describe the style as anything but “Jack Skellington got into the cottagecore aesthetic”.

Also????? I don’t know if this was intentional or not, but the windows behind Ortho look like they were arranged to resemble a spiderweb??????????? So like??? Ortho...? The butterfly caught in a spider’s web???? I think that concept is interesting, even if it’s just a visual coincidence 👀 because there’s an old saying about a “spider’s thread in hell” (“hell” in this case being “the Underworld”), referring to fragile hope in a bleak situation. Who knows, it could very much allude to what Ortho’s role will be in the upcoming Fairy Gala: What If? event, especially seeing as he is the SSR for it.

OH and can we talk about his footwear?????? Those are some fancy ass boots if I’ve ever seen them. All the detailed, flowery gold elements (especially the ones around major joints and other points of articulation) look amazing???? And again, they resemble laced up ballet slippers! The fact that the legs/shoes still allow for mobility despite being that ornate is a testament to Idia’s genius (assuming that he is the one that created this new gear for Ortho; I can’t imagine anyone else that would do this??? Maybe Vil offered some help in designing for fashion and Idia made it functional as well).

It looks like the lower part of the legs are made of some kind of see-through component (I can vaguely see the ribbons crossing on the other side of the legs?)! In that sense, the design reminds me of Monster High’s ghost dolls like Spectra Vandergeist. These dolls actually had legs that transitioned from opaque to see-through or more sheer to give it that “ghostly” vibe, and I’m getting similar energy from FG Ortho~

One last thing I wanted to comment on Ortho’s “wings” are a super nice touch! The colors and segmentation reminds me a lot of dragonflies...! I also find it interesting how they fold out around Ortho. It makes me think it was intentionally done so that the wings resemble flower petals, and Ortho looks like he is emerging from within the “flower”. In other words, he is being “reborn”, like how flowers are “reborn” in the spring time, like how he was “reborn” to serve the place of OG!Ortho 👁

HNNNNNNNGH Seeing Ortho’s FG card art in full has me so hype for the new story eventttttt 😭 Can it be the end of May already, I want to throw my rolls at himmmmmmmmm 🦋

[oddishblossom]

If no one’s sent it in for the ask game yet, Wei WuXian 👀

Hey!!! Thanks for giving me the perfect excuse to ramble about my favorite necromancer boy 🥰

Favorite thing about them: Can I say everything? He’s just such a great character! I love his sense of humor, how kind he is, and how smart he is! He can be a bit of a flirty airhead, but that’s what makes him so charming! Did I mention the cool glowey red eyes? He can turn from sweet to dangerous when he needs to. Oh, but he has such a big heart, perhaps a little too big for his body. I both admire him for his strength and just wanna wrap a blanket around him ❤️❤️❤️

Least favorite thing about them: Oh, dear. He’s too giving 🥺💔. I wish he knew that it doesn't always have to be him to be the one to sacrifice and that he could learn to share his burdens. I know it’s incredibly hard for him to do something like that because it’s never been in his nature to let go. He has to be strong. Has to be brave. Has to be always smiling. Always the one to take the blame, always the defender, always going to extremes to fix things. I know this is a product of his upbringing and his surroundings. He was a teenager suddenly thrown into war after the death of nearly his entire clan. I don’t know if there was another way around this, I’m not sure if speculating would be of much use. What I do know, is that at the end of his first life, after everything wwx did, after learning about how he died, I kept thinking to myself: “It’s too much. No one should have to give so much.”

Favorite line: “But from now on, what you say to me, what you do for me, I’ll remember it all—I won’t forget a single thing! I really like you, Lan Zhan. I love you, I want you, I fancy you, I whatever you. I want to night-hunt with you for the rest of my life.” Basically his entire speech from Chapter 100 ❤️

BROTP: Okay. I know there’s a lot of people I could choose who would fit this role better, like Wen Ning or Wen Qing, my beloved. But if I’m being honest! If I'm being truthful! My answer would be Jiang Cheng (Plz don’t throw a pitchfork at me 🥲). And I get it. Maybe these two brothers are destined to just go their separate ways. Maybe there isn’t a timeline where these two can ever be happy around each other. But idc. I just can’t let go of the idea that the love is still there, buried, smothered, quiet, but there. I know that some things can’t be forgotten and things may never be how they once were; there were many flaws in their relationship, so I wouldn’t want them to go back to being the same. But I choose to believe that with time, even if it’s at a very slow pace, wwx and jc can reach a new state of being. Where they can learn how to just talk to each other again. About the small things. About the memories that aren’t painful. About Jin Ling. And maybe then, and only then, would they begin to heal and close the gap, one tiny step at a time.

OTP: Y'all know who it is! I don’t have more to say about them because the book has already given me all that I wanted! They’re the heart of the story and my favorite ship ❤️

NOTP: Any ship that is not Wangxian. I’m not really a big multi-shipper. I find a ship I like best, latch onto it, and then crinkle my nose at the idea of them being shipped with someone else lol.

Random Headcanon: I think he has a music brain and would easily be able to pick up a new instrument! I could also easily see him writing and singing songs :)

Unpopular Opinion: I guess it’s the same as the BROTP section. I know my wish for him to reconnect with his brother again is an opinion that uh is divisive in the fandom 😅

Song I associate with them: Liar by The Arcadian Wild, Everything I Wanted by Denis Kalytovskyi, Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush, Atlas:Two by Sleeping At Last, and of course, HOLD IT AGAINST ME BY BRITNEY SPEARS

Favorite picture of them: Oooh, no contest. The Yiling Laozu from the Untamed Mobile Game 🥰

Character Ask Game

[cozcat]

Please do tell about the Moiraine x Siuan au 👀

so uh, this is pure self indulgence, so i am very glad that doing a read more on mobile isn't a resounding pain in the arse

also this is book spoiler influenced so like, there's that, although i don't think any are too overt, and it doesn't spoil forthcoming events, because any events i borrow diverge from new spring.

let's call it a modern au.

i'm not sure whether it truly still counts as an au - those reborn in different lives don't necessarily have their lives correlate to the same extent that they do in this

so it's mindless self indulgence that could be lives in the past, or lives yet to be led, or neither, or both (the fun thing about the way in which the wheel of time turns is that any au is technically some degree of canon compliant, because anything could be a turn of the wheel.)

in one age, called the first age by some, in an age yet to come, an age long ago, there were two girls, born into entirely different lives. this was not the beginning, but it was a beginning.

a girl who is the daughter of politicians - she is expected to follow in her family's footsteps purely by virtue of her name, and there is the general impression that her name is what also got her into university. it wasn't, but the truth will never overwhelm such an interesting falsehood.

(she has a best friend, whose position is not what it was, and he is who her family expected her to marry for a long time - it was only shortly before she was actually married that her family accepted what was to be. but both dear friends know full well that they have only ever wanted friendship. he doesn't factor into this story. but he's there.)

a world away, at least until there's something of independence in them both - a girl who is the daughter of a fisherman from a small town, who goes to uni on a scholarship, who feels like she has to fight for everything she wants

it doesn't matter, once they're there at least, because it is their worth that matters once they're there.

and they meet, and they fall in love, and they're happy. that's the long and short of it: two young women, falling in love.

the daughter of a fisherman finds herself in an incredibly powerful career, and the daughter of politicians isn't so powerful - but she works hard and is happy with what she does. maybe they're in law, or public service; it doesn't matter, really, because they are making the world better in what way they can, and because they are able to be good at what they do, without it forcing them to hide who they are.

the daughter of politicians finds her parents aren't thrilled with her relationship - not that she fell in love with a woman, but that she fell in love with someone they see as beneath her, and that she'll lose the connections they gained by doing so. (never mind the connections that their daughter's wife will make. but neither of them should have to justify it, and they don't.)

(why not your best friend? you get along well. his family are old money. good connections.)

(we care for each other, but not like that.)

and it's not going to be perfect - when is it ever? - but it's good enough that even though one family's gatherings are always a bit intense and the other's are always quite quiet, they still have their families. they never had to fear losing each other, and the prospect of having to choose between their love and the rest of their lives wasn't even something they needed to contemplate. they can love in the light of the world.

they don't have the weight of the world resting on their shoulders. just the weight of being the rich lesbian aunts who always fuck it right up with the best presents for the niblings.

in a life that is long ago, a life that is yet to come, they never had to fear running out of time.

[sparatus]

🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊 for an oc of ur choice 👀

Send me a 🖊 and I’ll talk about my OCs!

i had to stop doing these for a hot minute cause tumblr mobile eating my whole entire previous ask answer pissed me off too much. anyway i’m back also zi i would kill for you

one oc per emoji, strap the FUCK in kids we’re doing the 6 shepards i’ve done actual development for and converted into non-shepard ocs so i could jam them all into one canon like a madman, plus that one cute golden retriever puppy in a turian suit who’s been in like 3 chapters out of 30+ so far yet is everyone’s favorite somehow

i swear i tried to keep all of these to one paragraph but i like!! to talk!! about my characters!!

matteo shepard is amab nonbinary, he or they pronouns, and is the canon shepard for my no-reapers au. they’re technically a colonist shep, but also super not cause i customized their backstory, my city now. they were born and raised on terra nova with their older brother leonardo and younger brother pietro. when they were twelve, their mom mysteriously vanished without a trace, leaving the family devastated and confused. matt’s dad did his best to raise the kids by himself, but never gave up hope mom would turn up some day, even when the cops concluded she was probably dead.

matt themself joined the alliance after college with a vague idea of maybe being able to find their mom in their travels, but eventually hung up that idea, deciding it was probably unrealistic. they managed to save two others of their squad on akuze, jai landry-torres and roman klein, but privately don’t think they did anything special, and don’t understand why everyone thinks they did. according to matt, they were just lucky, and they panicked, and they blame themself for not being able to save more of the squad.

niazmina khulozai is an earthborn software engineer from afghanistan, who went to stanford and only joined up with the alliance because it was her best opportunity for working on starships. she personally thinks very poorly of the alliance itself, but keeps her mouth shut so she doesn’t get in too much trouble. she’s muslim, and has seemingly no fewer than 3 hijabs for any given occasion. she also has a variety of sunglasses customized and programmed to function exactly the same as the visors you can find in the games, because she hates the hassle of trying to get her hijab to lie the way she wants it to over the visors and it’s much easier (and, in her opinion, more fashionable) to just slide on some cool shades. she’s bi and poly, has a girlfriend katya and boyfriend orion, and they’re all one big happy healthy polypile.

feliks haugen is also earthborn, and is mostly notable for the fact that he somehow just, seems to keep collecting cats. each installment of matteo’s adventures he appears in, he somehow has another cat. he lives on arcturus station when he’s not on the normandy, and there’s quite a few stray animals hanging around, which he feeds, and sometimes the cats just. decide to come in. the big three are jonesy the ginger tabby, who likes to steal oatmeal out of feliks’s bowl and thinks he will someday catch a mouse on the normandy; kitty the caliby (calico, but the patches are tabby instead of solid color, with a lot of white), who is a Shoulder Cat™ and very small; and blackfoot, a seal point tom who mostly hangs out on top of the fridge scowling at everyone and is mostly just an expy of my favorite warrior cat because i can. feliks has hypersomnia, and does his best to keep a normal sleep schedule, but that’s a lot harder than it sounds on the normandy.

zofia wen qian malinowski is the lone spacer, nonbinary, and afro-chinese polish. she’s an adept, and is very good at what she does. as a result of all the eezo exposure, because it’s radioactive, she had quite a few issues at birth, including a hole in her heart and some lung problems that were corrected with surgery. one of the things that wasn’t corrected was her right hand being deformed, with just a nub for a hand with 4 smaller nubs that should have been fingers. she’s perfectly capable of using it as well as her other hand, but she has a prosthetic hand she can control with the nubs for when she needs it. it’s very convincing, and sometimes she likes to just. take it off, to see people’s reactions. she has two pet rats, each of which is named one syllable of the mandarin word for “rat,” as an in-joke with herself because everyone thinks it’s super deep and philosophical when she really just named them “rat: parts 1 and 2,” and that is very funny to her.

gavrail nikolayevhich stoykanov is the butcher of torfan, but it’s not recommended to say so to his face. he’s still very sore about how the alliance threw him to the wolves after torfan, and would rather nobody speak of it in his presence, ever. he had a rough childhood, being jerked around by both sides of his family and only having three people in the whole giant group who really seemed to care about how he felt about the matter and how all the drama was affecting him (his mom, his twin brother dragomir, and his grandmother on dad’s side), so the alliance treating him like collateral the same way his family did really didn’t endear them to him.

he took the matter to udina, who was rightfully horrified and sought help from the big guns (aka sparatus, who as a Good Turian™ was also angered over the alliance’s dishonorable conduct) to go over the brass’s heads and get some laws in place to make sure it wouldn’t happen to anybody else. after that, gav fucked off to omega to be hurt and angry and sad in peace. his therapist before he left recommended he get a pet to help him, so he adopted a dog from a rescue, a cream standard poodle named foxtrot who had been abandoned by her owners when she wasn’t a tiny adorable puppy anymore. he felt a kindred spirit kinda thing for her. by 2186, she’s been officially trained and registered as a therapy dog, and he affectionately calls her his “war poodle.” he has a big crush on kaidan, but is too socially awkward to say anything, but then cortez comes on board and they bond over similar experiences with loss and trauma and the alliance not getting them therapy, and they get together so it works out.

michaela schulz is a jewish trans woman, and the hero of elysium (or whatever the war hero title is, they give shepard so many monikers that all sound the same i can’t keep them all straight...). she started her transition after the blitz, so sometimes there’s confusion from reporters, but by the time of me1 most of them get informed before they talk to her so they don’t ask any rude questions. she has a wirehaired fox terrier named skippy, who she adopted so she could have a jogging partner, and he likes to curl up in her lap while she’s doing computer work after he’s gotten his fill of exercise for the day. she gets with kaidan (after skippy gives his approval, of course), and they adopt a few kids together.

taniria arterius is the 17yo (in 2183) daughter of desolas arterius and valis abrudas, special no-reapers au exclusive oc. she’s cute and energetic, but she knows more about her family’s situation (her parents both suffering severe ptsd and her dad fighting alcoholism, to summarize) than she lets on. while her family themselves never pressure her, and in fact encourage her to be whoever she wants to be, she does get a lot of pressure from the rest of society to live up to her parents’ and uncle’s legacies, and it makes her very anxious. she just wants to be a singer and make people smile. she’s very curious and likes to be helpful, even if there’s not a lot she can do. also she’s a lesbian