#might be a a new fixation 🤔

[mars-mell]

I'm not dead🫵😎

[nerdieforpedro]

20 Questions of Writers 📑

I was tagged by @frenchiereading @avastrasposts and @maggiemayhemnj (Bless the three of you. You know a dissertation is coming 🤣🤣🤣) 💜

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

I have 81 works on AO3. There are some that are there and not on Tumblr yet. As to why, some of them are other series I haven’t finished or I’m not sure if I should post them here.

2. What is your total AO3 word count?

As of today: 351,908 words (updated for a new chapter of one of my works)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently: Pedro Pascal, Oscar Issac, Garrett Hedlund and might dabble in Call of Duty (maybe)

No longer writing: Marvel

4. Top Five fics by kudos: (some of these were written long ago, when Nerdie was a wee one in fandom)

Sard’ika Sessions (the most in kudos and hits- it tells me ya’ll like Din being a soft dom and using several different tools, maybe at the same time?)

Our Journey Across the Star Ocean (people enjoy the way I write Din maybe?)

The Viper Longs for Foliage (the one fic I have about Oberyn Martell - I don’t feel I write him well but people feel differently I suppose 🤔)

The Best and the Worst Day (AO3 only - Chris Evans fix it was a phase 🫣)

I want him to see me (AO3 only - I had to look up what this was lol Sebastian Stan fic)

5. Do you respond to comments?

Yes! I make sure to go through my inbox to reply to anyone who was nice enough to leave me one. ☺️

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Bold of you to assume I finish fics regularly 👀

Scarlet Stains and their Echoes Such angst with a Backstreet Boys joke thrown in. 😆

7. What is the fic you wrote that has the happiest ending?

This is a three way tie (cheating because Nerdie is not above it) between Sard’ika Sessions, The Lake Between Us and Parts of you Mr. Morales. Each fic has a different Pedro character - Din, Ezra (I had to give him something happy 😭) and Frankie.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not that I’ve seen. I totally thought I would and that’s why something stay on AO3 or in the WIP folder but so far I have not. It’s like waiting for the other shoe to drop.

9. Do you write smut?

I used to. I used to write a lot and enjoyed it. I find now that when I write smut it’s awkward and takes me at least a month to finish a smut scene because despite watching and reading reference materials (porn and other awesome smut fanfic here and on AO3) I don’t have the same mojo when writing it any more. I feel a bit sad about it, but there’s nothing that’s worked. It’s not like I don’t have thots. I just can’t get them in a fic. 😭😭

10. Craziest Crossover?

I haven’t really done many. One m/m fic where Din and Poe crossed blasters (pun fully intended), one sandwich with a female reader, Lucian Flores and Benny Miller, My Tim Rockford series where Dieter is his brother and that’s about it I think 🧐

11. Have you ever have a fic stolen? Not that I know of. So happy I’m in my small weird little box 📦

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Not that I know of.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic? Nope I would be open to it but I dunno how the process would work.

14. All time favorite ship? The Razor Crest, it has room for passengers. 😆

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

Such heart ache 😣 My first series that I started was with Dave York (he was done so dirty dammit!) and it was pretty smut filled. Felt with him and the OFC’s messed up dynamic as well but because of all the smut and how I can’t seem to write smut to save my neck now, it will likely go unfinished. 😭

16. What are your writing strengths?

Honestly, I’m not sure. Maybe just the weird plot ideas I can make and dialogue. That’s about it.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Finishing a fic, SMUT, weak comedy (I can’t resist it though), fixating on small details that don’t matter and everything that wasn’t listed as a strength. What is writing really? Can I make the words go together? 😨

18. Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

Pretty cool, just make sure you ask a native speaker in that language to look over things before posting. I have found that some of my Spanish is too literal and no native Spanish speaker is actually going to say that. Plus each language always has little nuances you need to take into account.

19. First Fandom you wrote in? Marvel 👀 Look it was a phase dammit! 🫣 Leave me alone. 😭

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

Nerdie will cheat again, because this is her post! 😆 I enjoy all my fics. Otherwise, why would I write them? But one stands above the rest. It gives me all the feels, giggles, some funny banter, smut that took a damn month to write and inspired @soft-persephone to tag me in a meme that @boliv-jenta made, Weddings 101 with Dieter.

If there’s one fic that I feel has the majority of my writing (all styles and facets) in it, Weddings 101 would be it. My humor, agnst, attempt at making a villain and sub-plots, slow burn romance with a goat as Dieter’s ride or die. 🤗 That trash panda gave me a lot so I wrote him a wild ass series. 😋

NPT: @tinytinymenace @megamindsecretlair @perotovar @pedroshotwifey @lady-bess

@djarinmuse @alltheglitterandtheroar @inept-the-magnificent @lotusbxtch

@jeewrites @rosecentaur1916 @westside-rot @jessthebaker @trulybetty

@rhoorl @musings-of-a-rose @saturn-rings-writes @ramblers-lets-get-ramblin @magpiepills

@secretelephanttattoo @morallyinept @goodwithcheese

[fablepaint]

First off, congratulations on your help with Lackadaisy!✨️✨️✨️

Second, I've been practicing with the Lackadaisy style using nothing but traditional art (paper and colored pencils), and I'm nervous about using digital art for the first time😓

I've been procrastinating with practicing digital art for years, and now I'm ready to get started!✨️✨️✨️

Got any helpful tips or advice for drawing Lackadaisy characters with digital art?🤔

Also, I have ADHD and I'm Autistic so trying new things takes time with me😅

Well the nice thing about ADHD and Autism is when you get into something, you get REALLY into something. So if you are able to build a routine that allows you the freedom to explore the medium you want to jump into, then you'll steamroll ahead. If you're finding it hard to kick off that fixation so you can focus easier, try to pair it up with an existing fixation. Are you into every kind of horse? Okay then, draw an example of every warmblood, coldblood, and hotblood you can think of. Every pony, every donkey, every mule. Find some good photos and go to town. Piggy-backing off my existing fixations is how I can chain together a lot of information that I would otherwise struggle to absorb and recall fully.

As for helpful tips, you're already doing it. I think starting with traditional materials is a good way to build up good art habits without the convenience of infinite colors and the undo button. You'll make quicker decisions and be a little less precious about mistakes. Cuz you have to live with them IRL, so might as well keep going even if the work didn't turn out great. Maybe you'll learn something along the way?

A second tip, more specific to Lackadaisy, is breaking characters down into simpler shapes and seeing if you can build them back up again. Feel free to trace them to turn them into mannequins. Then, knowing the proportions of those mannequins, can you draw them doing other things?

And research. Tracy deep-dives into historical stuff like clothing, hairdos, jobs, jewelry, etc. If you immerse yourself in something you find interesting, you'll see it cropping up in your work occasionally. Look into art deco and art nouveau, two schools of design thought that have a thread running between them that goes solidly through the 1920s. Consider how that design philosophy might get integrated into clothing or furniture.

Other than that, digital specific? There's isn't much, just have fun with what program feels good to use. Don't go too nuts on color (you have a million colors, but a million colors does not a good painting make) and make sure the ergonomics of your digital art situation doesn't hurt you longterm. Take breaks for your hands and stretch. It's more strenuous than traditional. Maybe it's the lack of physical feedback or the way we tend to curl around our devices. Not sure, but I find it more draining than trad work.

[rinsoap]

˚ ༘ ♡⋆｡˚ ﾐ the big seijoh four's favourite artists!

✿²˖ ࣪ ➣ includes : oikawa tooru, iwaizumi hajime, matsukawa issei + hanamaki takahiro

note : sorry ive been inactive as hell w actual hcs or like. real works LMAOO i have been #depressed and #unmotivated LoL! anyways pls tell me u can see suna's influence on iwaizumi i hc that they r friends <33

oikawa tooru :

!!? KALI UCHIS STAN NEVER SPEAK 2 ME AGAIN. he LOVESSS her he is completely convinced isolation was specifically made to cater to him and his exact music taste delusional king fr!! and he gatekeeps her SO HARD like babes as much as i would like to be her top listener too, the 21,158,866 monthly listeners seem like they might be hard to beat 🤔

his favourite songs by kali uchis are :

tyrant - ft. jorgia smith on the isolation album.

i wish you roses (single).

loner on the por vida album.

!!? this artist is not a guilty pleasure no matter how many times he says he's sooo embarrassed he likes carly rae jepson. "omg stop don't tell people i like her that's humiliating omg stop i don't want people to know!!!!!!" he is a LIAR. he will publicly scream every single lyric to every single song she makes, IN FACT he will shamefully make tiktoks on public buses and shit, lip syncing to her songs on full volume (or at least he would if literally all of seijoh didn't tell him to shut the fuck up LMAO)

his favourite songs by carly rae jepson are :

call me maybe on the kiss album.

boy problems on the E•MO•TION album.

felt this way on the dedicated side b album.

!!? —✩⌗ HONORABLE SONG MENTIONS : good days by SZA. heart to heart by mac de marco. oh no! by marina and the diamonds. conceited by flo milli.

iwaizumi hajime :

!!? UGH ANOTHER AMAZING PERFECT TYLER THE CREATOR STAN. OOH I WANNA KISS ALL TYLER FANS ON THE HEAD I FREQUENTLY MAKE OUT W EVERY TYLER FAN EVER!! he's a very loyal listener, he knew him on vine bro like i said in pt 1, he introduced him to suna (while suna takes all the credit lol) he might even have a slight... fixation.. one might call it a.... crush.... but he will never admit it his ego is too big!!

his favourite songs by tyler the creator are :

A BOY IS A GUN on the IGOR album.

garden shed - ft. estelle on the flower boy album.

SWEET / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE - ft. brent faiyaz and fana hues on the CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST album.

!!? is it controversial to say he fucks w ice spice.. almost a little too much... he knows all the lyrics to munch which is def something he has in common with oikawa's music taste!!! like at this point they're like pavlov's dog, they are absolutely salivating every single time they hear "stop playin with em riot!"

his favourite songs by ice spice are :

bikini bottom (single).

princess diana on the like..? EP.

in ha mood (single).

!!?—✩⌗ HONORABLE SONG MENTIONS : she likes another boy by oscar lang. attention by new jeans. just a stranger by kali uchis and steve lacy. NASA by ariana grande.

matsukawa issei :

!!? unlike iwaizumi, he will admit his huge crush on brent faiyaz with his ENTIRE CHEST. brent faiyaz his love, his one and only (i am projecting!) <3 most of the content he consumes is brent faiyaz related tbh the algorithm knows him too well and before you ask the burning question on your mind, YES he did almost start a stan twitter in year one!!! makki will never let him live it down as if he didn't ACTUALLY start one for bruno mars..

his favourite songs by brent faiyaz are :

ADDICTIONS on the WASTELAND album.

what you heard (single) by sonder - technically still brent faiyaz.

talk 2 u on the sonder son album.

!!? he really should be ashamed he likes drake tbh. he physically could not compell himself to show anybody his spotify wrapped because almost all drake songs were in his top played. please never ever speak to him about the time he genuinely ugly cried to one dance. he will never elaborate and will probably go and sob to god's plan next.

his favourite songs by drake are :

way 2 sexy - ft. future and young thug on the certified lover boy album.

9 on the views album.

circo loco on the her loss album.

!!?—✩⌗ HONORABLE SONG MENTIONS : love is only a feeling by joey bada$$. small worlds by mac miller. awkward by SZA. finesse (remix) by bruno mars and cardi b.

hanamaki takahiro :

!!? ACTIVELY PUSHING THE MAKKI BRUNO MARS AGENDA!! fuck an evening with silk sonic he wants an evening with bruno 😭 all he is doing every day all day is praying bruno gets his heart broken again so he can drop another DELECTIBLE album!!!!! also him and iwa like to say that since makki is puerto rican and iwa is filipino, together they make one bruno mars <333 (this is a hc dont take it too srsly lol)

his favourite songs by bruno mars are :

that's what i like on the 24k magic album.

treasure on the unorthodox jukebox album.

after last night (with thunder cats & bootsy collins) on the an evening with silk sonic album.

!!? he is a dork and i am a dork soooo i'm gonna have to say he is a the living tombstone stan.... oikawa will go on full rants about how cringey 2020 was and how weird that video game animatronic type music is and he'll look over at makki and see the single tear roll down his face as he says he has no idea the music genre he's talking about 😭

his favourite songs by the living tombstone are :

my ordinary life (single).

drunk on the zero_one album.

jump up, super star! (single).

!!?—✩⌗ HONORABLE SONG MENTIONS : new person, same old mistakes by tame impala. your teeth in my neck by kali uchis. join us for a bite by JT music. ORANGE SODA by baby keem.

[suspendingtime]

Let's play tag!

Thank you @hydriotaphia, for tagging me. 😊

Last song: 'Purpose' from Avenue Q.

I've just been on and off rotating soundtracks from musicals all day. Highlights, that have been replayed an obscene amount of times, have included; 'We Know' from Hamilton, 'Say My Name' from Beetlejuice, 'If I Were A Man' from The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical (ofc, lol), and 'Surface Pressure' from Encanto. And yes, I sang/yelled along to them.

Fav colour: BLUUUUUEEEE. 🩵💙

Currently watching: Fellow Travelers, Star Trek (TOS), Invincible, and also rewatching random episodes of Community.

Last movie: Fair Play, which starred Phoebe Dynevor! ❤️

Currently reading: 😳 'Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea's Elite' by Suki Kim.

The title pretty much gives you the gist. I put it down for a while when the last round of my North Korea fixation ebbed, but I'm hoping to go back and finish it soon!

Sweet/Savoury/Spicy: IN WHAT CONTEXT?! But... spicy.

Relationship status: omfgbdurrjhelp

Current obsession: Please see the answer above, and Bridgerton obviously, and also Fellow Travelers for now.

And uhh, making some uhh, strange digital 'art'. 😬

Last google: 👀 'machine that gives people contractions'

Umm, I was trying to confirm if the name of the thing I was thinking of was correct. It wasn't, I confused TEMS (whatever that is) with a TENS machine.

Currently working on: Hawgle. ❤️ 🦅🙎🏻‍♂️

This is one of those digital 'art' projects. I won't explain the reasoning, but I'm editing Hawkins Fuller's head on to the body of an eagle. Phase 1 has been baselined. And the aesthetic objective of phase 2 is currently being workshopped.

Current game: Hm���, I think the game the last game I played properly was Cities: Skylines (it was borderline obsessive; a "night and day, I dream of you." level of attachment).

Before that there was another bout of The Sims 4. But I've been itching to replay Life Is Strange: True Colours lately.

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😅 I shall be tagging those who tagged me (and who I subsequently tagged) in the last one I did: @andthebubbles, @stars-of-kyber, @islemeadow, @ladykettlechips, @eleanor-bradstreet, @colettebronte, @faye-tale (some of you might wanna go ahead and clear your search history lmao). And, let's see *rubs hands together* @bridgerversemusings, @sorryallonsy, @queenofmean14, and @mimix007.

Completely optional for everyone, except for the first person tagged (as the one responsible for the googling and the new 'art' project; this is mandatory).

[kathren-is-here]

Lil oc intro

Whoa- howdy there it’s been a hot minute whoops, completely forgot to post here

but might as well show of my second favorite oc I made yet 🕺🏻

Meet Brass (Ford) Buzzard! My lil guy!

he was shortly made after I kept on thinking about ideas for Brass Mirror (which I have yet to explain whoops) and I love him!!💖💖💖

Here’s some info on him!

So the story so far is Bradford goes behind Cassidy's back to make a clone hybrid child when he got the chance to, not sure what he was thinking, but it ended up resulting in an angry Cassidy, and he technically got what he wanted? A baby duck/vulture/thing! Cassidy eventually warms up to them both again but not after some heavy angst with Bradford :)

this is after the show events btw! Unless I made an Au that states otherwise!

He's super like his parents, loves to observe people and stuff, generally a quiet kid early on but love to talk about what he's currently into and loves asking questions,

As a little kid, he loves that stringy rubber fidget toy, he finds it fun to play with and it's for his sensory issues:)

He gets into reading at an early age, and his parents keep on getting new material for him to read to keep up his reading level that's always expanding (Cassidy wants to get one of those really long books but Bradford wants to save that for when he's older haha). When they couldn't get more reading material, Cassidy suggests teaching writing to him so they do just that, and so starts his fixation on writing.

He often tends to go out in the world as Cassidy tries to show him how the world works, funny, since Cassidy isn't from this world in the first place, but it works out.

He also likes going to his local library! And spends hours reading there. That's his go to safe space.

Cassidy tries to inadvertently teach him how to sneak and fight, by playing some games disguised as lessons with him!

He gets a music box he likes to listen to! It's entirely made out of un-melting ice! I wonder who gave him that who has full control over ice/water magic🤔 (definitely not Cassidy who I fail to explain him and his story so far whoops)

He loves going to the beach, playing in the sand and water, having enough space to do all sorts of stuff, wonderful!

As he grows up, he gets into Spells! Because Cassidy was partly known for making and using spells! But Brass is mostly interested on what words mean and what meaning they hold when it involves a spell, he just likes words!

Bradford is cautious of him learning spells (can you blame him), but trusts Cassidy enough for him to teach Brass about it and the history of spells. (Totally gonna reference Merlin haha)

He later learns the ins and outs of dulling and fighting with magic, Merlin style😎

Brass, does meet the McDucks eventually! I’m assuming this is after Cassidy finds out about them, so both of his parents try and keep him away from them, without telling him exactly.

he does pass by them once or twice while he’s reading in the local library, he tries to be nice and polite, but will quickly get impatient if they’re causing too much of a ruckus around him.

he actually meets Webby first! And just bc I can, I decided to do a little parallel with him, Bradford, Webby, and Scrooge!

after the kids invite brass over for some sort of gathering one day, they accidentally take him on and adventure! Which his is not too exited about at all. He finds them all overwhelming and a lot, after he leaves as a new rival/in their eyes an enemy, he meets three girls.

Turns out these girls already have beef with the kids over there, and were spying on them, Brass meets up with them and teams up with them!( I personally call them the fake clones haha) since they have a common rival to deal with.

after he teams up with them, he quickly finds out he likes being a leader! Actively working on solving problems and organizing against someone! Definitely a trait passed down by both parents.

I’m still figuring out future stuff but here’s what I got planned so far!

He’s really proficient with magic spells and casting and all that!

His hair gets nicer! Not as clean and tame when he was a baby, but definitely better than when he was a kid that's for sure

His hair gets nicer and longer!

And his feathers get darker! idk if I’m gonna keep the fade from his younger feathers though 🤔

Here’s a few alt designs for him I did! Since I’m running out of things to say!

I have a few more art pieces with him but that’s all for now! Just glad to get all his info into one post so far!

[scarefox]

Am I still an addict when I use my addictions / fixations as a motivator, small serotonin shot during hard times and treat for accomplished tasks? (they are also not my number 1 priority overshadowing my whole life) 🤔

Thing is I know I get easily hooked on to serotonin / dopamine producers of any kind, and might overdo it sometimes (nothing harmful evene except caffeine). BUT I notice when I do that and at some point I get annoyed at myself and slow it down again and/or use it like mentioned above.

Still hung on my therapists implication that i am a hard media addict (based on 1 short talk we had about my bad era) and should stop it asap... ma'am tumblr and my silly little dramas are the things that kept me alive the past years of mental struggles. I am in fandoms since 20 years before social media ruined the internet. I even had a bunch of RL friends for years in my city till it all broke apart just few years ago. And now it's harder to find new people of my kind of weird because social media sucks compared to closed forums we had back then.

She's comparing me with the tiktok addict in my therapy group but I am so not like her.

It only gets too much for me when this is my only serotonin source which it was for a while. That's why I wanted antidepressants to level that out a bit for me to not be starving all the time.

But I can literally look at photos from Thailand, Korea or Japan and get a little serotonin spark from it. Same for my favorite characters or celebrities.

This is literally the same as the emotion regulation strategies they teach us, just that they want us to use pictures of our holidays or friends and family, pets etc. Stuff that I can not use atm...

I think my therapist is also not a fan of us having "idols" or "heroes" as she calls it. I mean there is some valid point in it. She basically says weak / insecure / hurt people need heroes to feel protected and that opens the doors for narcissists and abusers. (which is true. I know. I got raised by someone with narcissistic tendencies and attract people like that, which is also a reason why I stay on distance with new people)

But I look up to my idols and favs as motivation, inspiration, for me to become similar like them (most of them are similar like me if I wasn't mentally ill) or as comfort or affirmation that even my idols are struggling sometimes etc. I adore them and am happy when they are happy. I am not romantically in love with them. Even with Taemin, who is my top number 1 guy, I still wouldn't waste my money on his bathtub water or something. lol. All I get are his his albums and a bit of merch... if he had something useful like cool shirts ................................

[loveandvore]

🤔💻😐

Tysm for the ask!!

🤔 - How did you find out about vore?

I was looking up pictures of Tails the Fox on Google images, as you do, when I came across a picture of him swallowing a tiny Fox McCloud. I was immediately fixated on the image and the concept but didn’t understand why until a couple months later, when I went to look at the artists other work and saw the term vore thrown around…

💻 - How do you consume (pun intended) vore media made by others?

I mostly look at art people have made, since I can be a bit picky when it comes to written vore. I’m a bit anal about how sensory details are described haha. But I do enjoy shorter text posts and things as well! And every now and then I’ll find a vore fic I adore.

😐 - Any vore tropes you dislike?

Not really? I guess aside from only really liking oral and anal vore as far as the entry point for the prey, I can’t think of any tropes I outright dislike. Obviously I have my favorites, but I always find myself being awakened to new tropes I didn’t know about that I wind up liking, or coming around on tropes I might not have cared about in the past.

[writeahurricane]

Going back and forth over the idea of whether or not I want to post fanfiction here 🤔or if I want to make a new blog. But I so rarely get into fanfiction so I just might post it here? And I’ve never been so hyper fixated on anything fandom related like this

[kitkatt0430]

🤔🐌💥🛏️

��� Are there any new characters you want to write about?

I've been really getting into Tomb Raider again lately, so I might write something about Lara or one of her friends. Sam especially seems interesting to me - the truth about Himiko and Yamatai were certainly just as traumatic for her to learn about as they were for Lara (albeit in different ways) and it's got to be hard for her to square the childhood stories that were probably like fairy tales to the truth that nearly led to her being body-snatched.

I'm also really enjoying some of the silly 'Villainess' themed mangas and anime right now - 7th Time Loop and My Next Life as a Villainess are both turning out to be really funny in particular. It might be fun to write something about Catarina (from the latter series) - I really like the idea that she's demi-romantic and that's part of the reason she's super oblivious to the fact that everyone has fallen in love with her. It's not just her obsession with sweets (her true OTP, tasty sweets all hers to eat) or her fixation on avoiding 'doom flags'.

🐌 What is one of your smallest writing goals?

Pay better attention to how I'm feeling so I don't burn myself out. This was a pretty stressful year for me between the year starting with a hole in my hallway ceiling, the wasps that were basically a yearlong thing, and the home reno (with the walk in closet addition that took three tries for the wall to go up in the right place -_- ) and I didn't really realize how much a toll that was taking on my creative side until Flufftober arrived and I just... completely lacked the energy or drive to really participate. Since I still have a (much smaller) home reno project in mind for 2024, I want to do a better job of identifying when I need to slow down and do a bit more self care. Right now I'm focusing on some non-writing projects to kind of help myself reboot. I'm not avoiding writing, but I'm not pushing myself to get back into it right now.

... hmmm, not sure if this is actually a small goal or not now that I've written it down. But it's something I kinda struggle with towards the end of every year and hit me both harder and earlier this year so it is really important to me to find a better balance. (Also need to actually use my SAD lamps more, I think that factors in too...)

💥Is there a chapter, scene, or WIP you're most excited to write? Share a snippet or tell us about it!

So I'd love to share something specific about my Eobard vs Eobard series but I don't wanna give spoilers either. Suffice it to say that Eo (Hero edition) is very oblivious about a few things that everyone - Meloni, Gideon, Robern, and even Barry - figure out before him. (You know he's being particularly oblivious about something if Barry figures it out first, am I right?)

But that's also a few stories away; the next fic in the series is going to be Barry and Eo vs ... I'm not sure yet. Eobard will intend to stay out of the fight at first but when Barry's hurt it makes Eo change his mind something sharpish. It'll have Eobard and Barry's first kiss, but also Eowells getting the first clue that Herobard may be a time traveler too.

🛏 Is there a new trope you'd like to write this year?

Something LitRPG-ish. I shared the idea not too long ago of Iris getting Isekai-ed into her favorite visual novel/dating sim and it'd be a lot of fun to write that one. And also I think she deserves her own little harem of cute guys and gals :D

[gogolstoelicker]

Hey it’s my birthday is the same as vil so how would vil act with a mc who is the exact opposite of them , like only interested in skincare and natural beauty? And they have the same birthday!

Note: •HAPPY BIRTHDAY‼️‼️ I HOPE YOU HACE A BRIGHT YEAR AHEAD

•and uh im sorry if i got both wrong(character and mc)🙏‼️

Vil Schoenheit

Vil is very fixated and obsessed with maintaining a beautiful appearance. He acts dignified and magnificent, suitable that of a queen. He is also very much a neat-freak.

Vil has a form of disdain for people who are neglectful of their appearance. He also dislikes the idea if wishing for something to present itself, as he believes that true hard work can lead you to your goals.

So how will he react when he meets someone the complete opposite of him?

well i mean at least u fit the bare minimum of his standards?🤷‍♀

you have clear skin and is naturally beautiful, so vil might go 🤨😒like um miss gurl, why are u not putting any efforts in that appearance of urs???

he's really passive aggressive at first

well since u guys are the total opposite, u guys might clash a little in the beginning?

since vil acts like this

and you act like:

so yeah don't be surprised if you guys clashed a little‼️

vil is the type to be strict abt his appearance and works hard for it

and u just apply some skincare and call it a day🤔

and we all know how much vil dislikes that kind of behavior

but if you guys are not close, he might just judge from afar

bc why waste ur beauty🤨u could work hard on it and be even more beautiful

but if u guys somehow got close? hoooboy

get ready for that epel 2.0 training session💪‼️

but not too bad since he is a new man🙏‼️

ofc he wouldn't make u wear too much makeup at first

its mostly just light makeup or just putting om the base so u won't get too shocked or uncomfortable with the new change

but as time went on, vil will encourage u to experiment with wearing more makeup etc‼️

he doesn't really mind if u don't act as dignified or as magnificent as he is, as long as you're a little polite and won't ruin your own reputation, he's fine with it

happy-go-lucky like kalim? sure yeah

a shut-in genius like idia? ok

mysterious and intimidating like malleus? right yeah sure

he's fine with it so dw‼️

but don't get him started on how messy u are

he usually scolds u abt it and help u while also making u clean urself

when he found out u guys have the same birthday, he have this smug feeling

beautiful people are born on this day what can he say🤞⁉️ u guys are living proof of that

when your birthdays came by, he makes it his duty to make u look the prettiest you've ever been

might even have a sleepover the day before so u guys can have do your skincare together

and also ur own personal spa day to shine tomorrow‼️

the people who attend the birthday surprise might get blinded by both of your beauty

overall, a powerful duo once y'all break the ice💪👊💥

[haleigh-sloth]

I think you may have talked about this before, but I was wondering what your ideal living situations for the LOV trio will be after the series ends? Touya will go and stay with his family I guess, but what about Shigaraki and Toga? Will they live with All Might or Aizawa or someone to get their footing back in the world? With mandatory hangouts with the kids and at the Todoroki residence of course (for some reason I've had the image in my head of Shigaraki on a bike with Toga behind him, and he just keeps ringing the bike bell over and over outside of Touya's window like hop on loser, we're going shopping...)

I have talked about it before but I always try to sugarcoat what I think will happen so people don't jump down my throat.

But, I'm beyond that now and I don't care. Plus my predictions really haven't changed since like...early 2021.

Let me start with saying that, yes there is always the possibility of the hospital ending, where the LOV get institutionalized to "heal", but I personally have a lot of issues with that and hope it doesn't go that way. And, for the reason I don't see it going that way, is that the readers (us) and the kids won't get to see the immediate payoff of their decision to save. It feels a bit too close to "oh try to keep it realistic!" Fuck realistic. Let them heal with the power of newfound friendship with the hero kids and family (for Touya). Jeez.

Anyway:

Touya:

Touya I think will go home. Plain and simple. I think he'll be with his siblings and his mom in the new house Endeavor built for them.

Toga:

I think Toga will end up at UA. I think there is more than enough existing content to lead up to this. Of course it could easily not, but again, these are my predictions.

Toga being the only villain who is high school age is an indicator. Toga being obsessed with the UA kids is another big indicator. Even after having found healthy bonds with the LOV members, she continues to reach out and try to get close to Ochacko, Deku, and Tsu. It's relevant enough to her character for the author to go out of his way to point it out in a volume extra, because he couldn't clarify it in the panels—

—and then there is extreme unlikelihood that she and her family will want anything to do with each other ever again. There’s also the fact that this drawing now exists, as if to say “hey, what if? 🤔”

I expect Toga to be integrated into the Deku friend group too. Like this is a canon friend group I 100% can and do see happening:

The jump festa drawing basically showed me my vision without me even asking 😂. So I think there is a lot of precedent set for her to end up at UA, under Aizawa's watch* (expanded on below).

Shigaraki:

Shigaraki I think will be another Eri situation. Aizawa gives him a place to stay and slowly heal at his own pace at UA, but also contribute to and participate in life things. I think this is the most ideal and also likely, because in this scenario he's around Midoriya and Bakugo. Given Midoriya's track record of keeping relationships with the people he reaches out to and saves (Bakugo, Shouto, Kouta, Eri), I don't think Shigaraki will be an exception to this. And I expect having Midoriya around is gonna be an integral part of his healing journey anyway. I always expected that from the get go, and that hasn't changed. I expect him, Bakugo, and Midoriya to have a life long friendship also. I think we'll see that it happens.

Also, another small little detail I find kinda funny, Shigaraki is also kinda fixated on UA? Lol, he watched the sports festival, which is fine, but what's funny to me is that during the Re-Destro fight he went out of his way to quote their fucking motto 😂:

Literally why quote a high school that you never attended, your most hated icon/idol/symbol teaches at, and that your nemesis attends. If not to just, live for it in the moment LOL. Like....just more little hints that he wants to be a part of the bigger, acceptable part of society. It's just funny.

**Okay, following up on Aizawa. Sigh. We're still waiting for the manga to touch on this. But this whole speech here is just so on the nose:

"You have to fight" is exactly something that needs to be said to the LOV between the being saved, and the ending the war. They need to be told what Aoyama here is being told, before everything concludes.

Then this:

It's exactly something that needs to be said to the LOV at the end, after all is said and done. It's the perfect speech they need to hear, right before they start their lives again and head into the scary unknown, in their new environment, with new people, new circumstances. It's just....too perfect.

The fact that it was Aizawa who was the one to say it, to Aoyama who is feeling loads and loads of regret, and feeling irredeemable and hopeless, and the fact that Aizawa briefly thought of Kurogiri during this speech, all of this is what leads me to expect Aizawa to play this type of role at the end.

And then, a less credible reason but still worth noting imo--Aizawa's clear, obvious, blatant inspiration character from Naruto:

--played this role EXACTLY. Played the "you're pardoned, but don't fuck it up" role. He's the one who gave the "Normally you'd be punished, but the only reason we're all alive is because of you, so you get another chance" speech. So like...I expect nothing differently from Aizawa lolol.

For the LOV in general, I absolutely expect everyone to keep in contact with each other. I've said it over and over and over and ov--

I've said it a million times but I expect an FMA-esque ending where we see that everyone got their own happy ending, but also stayed in each other's lives.

Anyway those are my predictions and what I hope for. I'm gonna save this post so that I can come back to it later and see how accurate or off it turns out to be lol.

[tauforged]

Hi so, your caladium! Please feel free to ignore this, I’m just a bit fixated on plants and I go into golden retriever mode (which is good because my job is, uh, selling plants).

Windows decrease the sun strength really dramatically - the general rule of thumb is that it’s reduced by 50% a few inches from the glass. Also, most windows are designed to block UVB rays, which can have an effect depending on the plant (all windows reduce UVA a bit, some specialty stuff like windshields actually do block a significant portion). It looks like your caladium is up against a window with colored glass, so that’s actually going to be much less light than outdoor-shade levels.

Caladiums are also really finicky about humidity levels, which is the main reason they’re considered difficult to grow inside. They generally want 50-70% relative humidity, and if it’s not high enough, the leaves will curl and brown on the tips. A lot of people use pebble trays, though I tend to just drop my high-humidity plants into a big tub together (old aquariums are great) and mist them occasionally.

Caladiums can sometimes be forced to flower by stressing the plant (increases the chance of producing seeds before it dies), which might be why yours is flowering even though it only has one leaf. Some people say to cut the flowers off if the plant is stressed because blooming requires a lot of resources, but that only applies before the bud is actually formed. By the time it opens the flower, it’s already used the vast majority of energy so there’s no harm in letting it keep going!

Anyway, major props for keeping a caladium alive indoors. I have a ton of weird plants, but I would absolutely not have the wherewithal and it would be dead immediately.

no worries at all, this is a lot of really cool information!!! she started putting up the flower not long after i relocated her to the windowsill, so im thinking the move might have caused some of the stress 🤔 she does have supplemental grow lights in addition to the windows though, although i dont know WHY shes so light crazy for a shade plant???? baby hungry i guess. at least shes not withering, ill take it

if id caught the bud sooner i probably wouldve snipped it to make sure she focused more on her leaves, but viewing it from the back it sorta looked like a new leaf sheath from the start and then shit got chaotic for me so i wasnt paying much attention until i looked over a couple days ago and saw a whole ass flower lmfao...

im really surprised to see her doing so well honestly, when i planted the tuber i wasnt 100% sure it'd even grow-- ive had bad luck with more demanding plants like caladiums and alocasia and calathea in the past (not sure why - ive got carnivores absolutely thriving on my grow shelf but the big leafy 'low maintenance' houseplants are the ones that give me trouble -_- drama queens) but she's just really truckin along. no clue how and why she got so big, every other bulb my dad grew from the batch is teeny tiny and has little baby leaves so shes just an overachiever i guess

[eclctve]

I was discussing on a topic of writing lyrics and the process of putting those to music and I thought I might write it out in longer form 🤔

Personally I can be a bit inconsistent on the order by which I write songs(say like figuring choruses or verses first, all at once or over the course of days or years, etc), but the consistent things I've found are that I tend to write and then put the words to melody, or write and then figure chords I like and cram words in over that, I've never composed the sound before writing the lyrics -

Lyrically I prefer to fixate on a theme and then tell a story through that theme -

You like dogs? There's a theme.

You had a friend get bullied? They're a corgi.

the bullies? They're some pack of wieners.

The outcome? Reap what they sow; life hits one of the wieners with a kid on a bike and now his name is tripod.

Were you that tripod? Did you learn new tricks as an old dog? Can you write it from that perspective even if you weren't that?

I list phrases that can be associated with a theme:

And usually keep them in mind while writing and try to include some of them to tell stories more effectively 🤔

I don't often have the ideas of a song perfectly in order and outlined from the beginning, and the final fully formed thought of the song isn't usually figured until the end of the song. I tend to use initial verses to set the stage and path of the song's story and further verses to either double down on ideas or use as a modifiers to change the vector of the song 🤔

Suppose I might mention that a number of bands are known to have written many songs and only selected the best of their work which at the least would put one into the mental space of practicing writing songs like practicing instruments -

I don't do that, but I also don't purport to be a more than a dabbler 🤔

In any case of love to see what The Process™ looks like for others, so if you've an alternative method to mine I'd love to hear about it 🤟🏿

[aeroplaneblues]

ok ok ⚠️KIMETSU NO YAIBA LAST CHAPTER SPOILERS⚠️

I did said before I had problems with this manga, idk if I feel like pointing them out? If Gotouge had issue irl therefore they rushed the manga then I hope they get another chance with the anime! Maybe not major changes but added development if that’s what they intended.

An overall of my issues are the deaths, Muzan at the end and that thing Nezuko said that she has been sleeping for 2 years. Of course I don’t care for Zenitsu’s excessive creepiness with Nezuko but its shonen so it was expected.

ANYWAY the thing I liked about last chapter! 

-Kanroji’s restaurant gives BIG portions of their dishes and I thought to the first time I went to america and order um a little TOO much for myself😂 -Kanae and Kocho😭 just smiling being happy its great. -Shinazugawa bros working together as policemen and then chasing Tanjiro’s descendant😂😂 (the little gentan crumb gotouge just fed to me so i’ll stop bitching about the manga *CHEF KISS*)     -I’m terrible and im already thinking of making a gentan reincarnation au to fill       my lonely heart, but like genya doesn’t get a new name here :( idk because         he is not a descendant but a reincarnation they probably have the same               names??🤔 -Sabito, Giyuu AND Makomo being friends like they were suppose to in their past life 😭😭its so cute they treat her so well😪 Anyway sabigiyuu’s have suffer for sooooooooo long they have rights now. -Rengoku’s descendant being bffs with Tanjiro’s descendant?? BEAUTIFUL -I think Gotouge likes parkour. -Baby tokito twins😪 I’m overly emotional that this manga ended, I started last year when I was on berlin because I couldn’t wait for the episodes to come out😂 I had high hopes which might be why I got a little disappointed mid way🙇🏻‍♀️(sorry) BUT the characters and the anime have made me fall in love with it so much I’ve made a lot of art and will keep making more??? So no matter how much I nitpick this manga, I’m truly grateful for Gotouge and their hard work! Hopefully they can make another one as they’d want.

Thank you all for supporting yet another shonen hyper fixation!! Stay if you want more kny art! I have comics planned out, prints (for inprnt) and maybe a digital zine?👀👀👀 

[ziskandra]

For the fic writer questions! 1, 14, and 39 :)

I’ve answered 1 here for my BioWare writing, so I’ll jump down to the next question instead 😄

2. What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

Apparently they are: Character Study, Post-Canon, First Kiss, Established Relationship and Drabble. Honestly this is a pretty accurate reflection of my writing habits, but part of me is a little surprised there's nothing smutty in the top 5 😛 (Apparently, those tags are hiding in 5-10: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pining, Cunnilingus, Masturbation and Dubious Consent 😆) 14. Are there any tropes you would only read if written by a trusted friend or writer? Honestly, I'm so far behind on my reading list that the only things I'm really reading are by trusted friends and writers, and the only reason to stretch beyond that are for whatever my current pairing fixation, haha. If I imagined a scenario where I had unlimited free time and was looking for new things to read, I think the thing I'm pickiest on is probably trans headcanons? What I'm looking for out of such a fic is gonna depend a lot on my mood at the time, and also on how I see the characters, so I'd probably want to be sure the author saw the characters in a similar way so I wouldn't get surprised by something that I might either find unreadable or triggering? 🤔

39. Is any aspect of your writing process inspired by other writers or people? If so, who? Not really when it comes to the process itself, I don't really have any set rituals beyond preferring to have a chunk of time set aside so I can focus uninterrupted! I follow a few writing resource tumblrs and ask my friends for advice if I know they're good at something I struggle with (plot pacing and descriptions are probably the main two), but that's about it! Questions for Fic Writers