#might rb with more later

[staticmono]

ive been reading the death note manga and collecting funky faces that L makes bc hes silly and i love how he is drawn

(edit: look in reblogs for more <3)

[freakinator]

the unstable boys and the guys they have a totally normal attachment to

[ricky-mortis]

I have a lot of thoughts about Tinky fucking Ted up- have some doodles about it

[rusty-courage]

things i wish i'd known before getting an animation degree

[shoyostar]

original pinned

[ ARCHIVING! ]

hi hii so,,, after a lot of thought and contemplating i think it’d be best for me to archive this blog </3

i came to tumblr nearly a year ago and it’s been fun but now i’m drained + uninspired, n i js have so much stress n negative emotions associated w this blog that now its time to leave and maybe start anew ?

who knows! :>

i’ve gone back and forth with if i should delete my works here or not bcs ik lots of people love them but they’ve js been a constant bad reminder to me and i’m not proud of most of them anymore :<< but as of rn i’ll be leaving them + this blog up!!

(may change in the future but i’m scared of the deact button LOL)

js kinda being on here stresses me out and its no longer fun so i hope that by doing this i can have some peace + you still get to read my old stuff :3

i started this blog js before my first year of uni and i never expected to stay this long on tumblr honestly,, like i was js gonna post a bit for fun n delete my acc LOL but i’m vv thankful for the almost 2k of you who stuck around and enjoyed my writing ^_^

youre all vv sweet n i wish i couldve provided more writing on here for yall to read before archiving this blog TvT i feel like i have nothing here honestly LOL

if my blog does deact, i may repost my fics on my new blog but for now i js wanna be lwk on here and not have to worry abt updating so many series at the same time (so sorry to all dfh, vbs, loveholic ++ all other fans of my ongoing series :<< the stress to write and update is too much for me to handle 😞)

please take care of yourselves and i hope to catch you again someday if you find me !! :3

bye bye!

[campbyler]

Hello!!

I’ve had an unpublished modern au byler fic in the works for an embarrassing amount of time and I’ve noticed that you two talk about characterization a lot, which has been my main struggle. I’ve figured out choices to make for characters and how they relate to choices and characteristics of the canon characters in the show, but I’m not sure if the reasoning behind those choices and traits will translate to readers.

I love the fic and I feel like y’all did a great job with making those reasonings clear in your writing without directly saying it, so I’d love to know if you have any specific tricks for that!

Also sorry if this kind of formal, I’m stuck in email mode with finals coming up :|

hello! soooo sorry this is such a late response — i was thinking it over when it came in and then i ended up talking about something similar on another ask and totally blanked 😔 thank you so much for asking for our input, i’ll try to be as concise as i can! (<- edit from future me who has finished typing up her answer to this ask: famous last words. you were not concise. at all. oh my god i’m sorry) i know you said you already made your initial characterization choices and everything so please bear with me while i word vomit and rehash what was probably part of your thought process anyways just to be able to follow my own train of thought lol

some general thoughts here that thea and i have been mulling over for the last few months regarding how we’ve written our fic and choices we have made for it: we’re both well aware that acswy is not everyone’s cup of tea for many reasons, but i’m specifically bringing this up in response to your ask because every once in a while, we do see someone refer to our mike and will as being written out of character, whether or not that’s a deterrent for them in reading. and i want to make it clear that this doesn’t bother us and nothing im about to say is meant to sound defensive or like we’re making a case to people who feel this way — we have our reasons for making the decisions that we did and also already heavily retconned our og concept for them on account of it having been pretty ooc at the time, even to us, so we’re confident with where we are now — but it has made us think about what people actually consider to be “out of character.” this brings me to my first point re: characterization which is, to us, the importance of differentiating between something that the character in the source material doesn’t/probably wouldn’t do versus something that is more of a direct contradiction to the character themselves. for example, we’ve seen people say (often while reading for the first time) that will is ooc specifically in the first couple chapters of acswy, a big reason being because he’s “mean to mike.” it is, of course, vastly different from how he acts in the show and is probably a slightly jarring dynamic to be dropped into right off the bat, especially since the entire premise of the fic is that the reader has almost zero context for why he’s behaving this way, and even more so at the beginning of the fic before his and mike’s relationship develops further. to me and thea as writers, the importance lies more so in the context for it all: how mike and will would turn out after growing up without each other as best friends, with a lot of the cultural pressures of the 1980s removed but having some new ones of the 2010s/20s introduced; not going to high school together, being in the same friend group for years and getting closer over time with many interests in common, but also facing a lot of conflict and having that friend group be geographically separated while a lot of it goes down.

and with this context, what we would consider to be ooc would be if we just like. made will a straight up DICK or something lol. no nuance involved, constantly berating mike with no reason to do so, even with their unknown history, like just ragging on him all the time and never backing down, even when mike isn’t engaging (side note: giant personal pet peeve of mine that max constantly gets written this way but i digress). we see in the show that will is often snarky and sarcastic and will stand up for himself when needed, especially with mike — which imo is another sign of will’s trust in him and their bond, that he can be honest with mike and not fear genuine retribution, and in acswy, he knows mike will meet him where he’s at. he sometimes isn’t afraid to hit a sore spot, but he would never ever just be a jerk for the hell of it -> we even see him apologize after their fight in s4, despite it clearly being a very emotional moment for him and a lot of truth behind what he was saying. whether he intended for it to come out that way or not, he still felt bad for reacting that way and apologized to mike’s face about it. likewise, there’s a reason acswy will acts the way he does with mike specifically, and we were also intentional with making mike match his energy like he does in canon, which will counts on, even — the way these boys BICKER, oh my god — and he has his own ways of pushing will’s buttons which prove to be very effective. even in the early chapters there are a lot of moments of softness and real friendship between them that (we hope!!) make it pretty clear that it takes some effort to maintain this facade, that there is more than enough of their “canon” bond and dynamic and chemistry where being friends and having fun together is a much more natural state to exist in, and is where they usual end up during those brief periods where they let that mask slip. same principle if we had made mike some uber-jerk who had completely different interests than he does in the show (we are so glad that book annotator and zelda fan mike wheeler is ringing true for you all ☺️), or someone who’s super self confident and popular and charming (outside of will’s very unreliable pov) once he and will start hooking up. i think most people would look at that and look back at canon mike wheeler and say yeah that is Not my mike, because making will an actual asshole or making mike any of these things would be going against core character traits that are central to their arcs in the show. will wouldn’t be will if he was generally a confrontational dick, and mike wouldn’t be mike if he was popular and exuded self confidence and so on. that’s just not them! so to summarize, i guess the question to us is more along the lines of “would they ‘not do this’ in the show out of circumstance/lack of necessity (e.g: canon byler going to the same schools until s4, never having a reason for rivalry to develop, growing up living in close proximity to each other and all of their mutual friends, etc) or would they ‘not do this’ in the show because it’s antithetical to the way they have been written?” we find it much more interesting to put a character in a situation and then essentially work backwards in a way to see how they would react to it, rather than putting them in situations that correlate to things we have seen before, and therefore would probably result in them reacting in a way we have seen them do before.

and now coming back to what i think you were actually asking: i think my biggest tip to making those references without it being said outright is honestly just to have faith in both your readers And the creative choices you make. which sounds like a bit of a cop out answer but i simply can’t understate the important of trusting your readers to pick up what you’re putting down, and to trust that they’ll read between the lines for you. a lot of my favorite characterization moments in aus are ones that are really really subtle, where a character does or says something that is clearly a callback to something in the source media, but it isn’t explained in a way that’s actually calling attention to it — it always seems much more natural that way, like whatever they did is just a progression of who they are in that story instead of the author trying to make a point or force a connection. just off the top of my head a small example might be how i see so many authors in non-magic/no upside down aus still make will really struggle with the cold, often just as a throwaway line or paragraph which imo is much more effective for me than trying to explain why he’s feeling this way. or having him enjoy the same media as in the show in a slightly varied and less direct way (e.g: being into the new star wars shows as a continuation of his canon interests, putting him in theater club to play off of the posters we saw in his room, etc). i think it also helps to have something specific in mind that you’re trying to tie back, like an important moment for that character’s story or something that stood out in the source material. like, i love writing lucas and dustin bickering over stupid stuff bc it takes me back to them in s1 in the principal’s office or s2 in general, or one of my personal favs in my own fics was one where i had will be on a constant rotation of fun patterned socks. he’s creative, he’s an artist, it’s (hopefully) a pretty clear connection to make once i write it in, and i really do think a modern version of him would get a kick out of something like that! and sometimes people just won’t pick up on what you’re trying to say and that’s okay too! everyone reads fics a little differently so some connections might be more obvious to some people than others and so on. from my experience as a reader, i find it pretty easy to connect the dots between an intentional and thoughtful moment of characterization vs one that doesn’t quite hit the nail on the head, or the author felt the need to spell out for the reader which maybe took me out of the moment a little too much or something. to me, making those choices and translating canon to an au is honestly the hardest part, especially with a modern au and a show like st that is So defined by the period it’s set in, so if you’ve already got that out of the way i genuinely think you have the rest of it in the bag as well. unless you worked through it in the month it took me to get to this in which case i am so so so sorry LOL

okay that’s been my word vomit of the day, hopefully any of this made sense or was useful at all, but thank you again for your kind words and support and for thinking to ask us! always always happy to chat writing, even if it takes me a million words to do it 😗

[short666bread]

[bookshelfdreams]

(cw: mild gore, violence)

Edwin makes it out of hell on his hands and knees.

It is not his first attempt, and as he crawls up the winding stairs, he does not believe it will be his last. Every step he hauls his broken body over seems to grow back above him. Edwin can see the top of the staircase, can even almost see the shape of a doorway in the dark, but it never gets any closer.

Ten more, he lies to himself. Ten more, and you're out.

Far, far below him, he can hear the creature giggle.

It is a part of the game for it, Edwin knows. It likes to play with him like a well-fed cat plays with a mouse, likes the chase, likes to see him twitch and scream. This particular game, it enjoys even more than all the previous ones.

It will hurt him. Not fatally, just enough so he is slowed down, just enough to make sure he can't get away. Then it will let him escape, give him a few moments head start, before it takes up the chase. it will let him get to the stairs, will watch him climb step after agonizing step. At the perfect moment, it will strike.

Edwin has no chance. He knows this, too. The creature has become far too good at this game, and if he is honest with himself, Edwin can no longer imagine a existence where he is not being hunted. He does not even know if the staircase will lead him to safety, or if he will only stumble into another circle of hell, another pit of eternal torment.

There is no hope of escape. No, what makes Edwin crawl upwards, with his forearms long since rubbed raw on the sharp edges of the stairs, dragging the remnants of his right leg behind him - what makes him promise himself Just ten more, over and over, is not hope. It is something far sturdier than that.

He simply refuses to accept his fate. Refuses to succumb to despair, to just lay back and let himself bleed out, even though the respite death offers, however impermanent, grows more and more enticing. It would be easy to give up. To accept being devoured in exchange for brief moments of peace, when the creature is distracted with the carcass.

Yes, despair is tempting. But here is another thing he knows: If he makes a thousand, a million attempts at an escape, the creature will have to catch him every time.

Edwin will only have to get lucky once.

Suddenly, the top of the staircase seems to be a lot closer.

The creature's giggling grows more agitated now, still far below him, but closing in. This too is nothing new; it will let him get close, so close, close enough so his fingertips almost brush the top floor, before it snatches him and drags him back down.

Giving up would be easy.

But he can clearly make out a doorway now.

Moving becomes more and more difficult, even though Edwin tries his best to ignore the heaviness in his bones, the exhaustion and vertigo that make everything spin around him. It is the blood loss, most like. He knows he is leaving an easy trail for the creature to follow.

It screeches now, chattering his name, Edwinedwinedwin, as it only does when it is very excited. It still sounds to be far away, but Edwin's ears feel stuffed with cotton.

The door is right in front of him now. One last step to take. One last edge to drag his broken bones over, up, up, up, and then he's there.

He made it.

The door is ajar. And only a few steps between him and the Outside.

The stairs rattle like something very heavy is moving on them. Very quickly.

Edwin does not waste time trying to get his feet under him, he could not stand anyway. He crawls forward on his stomach, and when he hears a hundred tiny voices scream with rage he does not need to look behind to know the creature in here, it caught up it has him, jumps on him, closes its horrible jaws around his right ankle -

and bites straight through the already broken bone.

Edwin feels his foot come clean off and does not allow himself to be horrified. He rolls around, away, through the door, and with his last heartbeat collapses against it, slams it shut with his body weight.

The whole wall shakes as the creature crashes against it.

But the door is gone and Edwin is out. It cannot get him anymore, because if it could, it already would have.

He lies there, unblinking, unbreathing.

He is dead. Is he not? He has to be dead. Has felt his heart stutter and give out, he knows what it is like to die.

But he is still thinking, still aware. He tries to take a breath, and it is difficult, but his chest rises and falls. He raises his hand, and it appears before his eyes. Tries wiggling his fingers, and they move.

He seems to be wearing a dark wool jacket, but he can't feel the fabric against his skin. Edwin tries to push himself up, and his hand goes straight through the floor - the very solid floor that has so far born his weight with no trouble at all.

Curious. And something else, even more curious: he is not in any pain.

If he is still in Hell, it is unlike any other part Edwin has seen, and he has seen a great deal of it. Perhaps - and he barely dares to think it - but perhaps he truly made it out this time. And if he made it out, it is obvious that he cannot be alive anymore. If he is indeed back on earth, there are only so many things he could have come back as. Most likely, he is a ghost.

(Yes, he did spend most of his time in Hell being horrifically tortured. That does not mean he did not learn anything about the Afterlife.)

He tries to push himself up again, and this time the floor remains solid.

Interesting. It seems that he has much to uncover about his new condition.

[hughesquinn]

hi i actually got bored last night and went and figured out how many usa born players r on each team and then also. how many canadian adn swedish players r on eahc <3 this is based off of rosters as of 5/21 <3 cause i kept fucking it up WHOOPS

for usa players boston leads with 20!! and team with the least was calgary flames with 4!!

and canadian players, edmonton oilers led with 24, followed by toronto with 21 and vegas with 20!! team with least was rangers with 5!!

and for swedish players, vancouver had the most with 7, with anaheim and florida tying for 2nd with 6, and la, minnesota, pittsburg, and toronto tying for 3rd with 5 <3 and teams with least were arizona and montreal with 0!!

[ferronite]

Quick(ish) doodles of some more of my nuggets :)

...I think the quality got tanked. Damn.

[cousingregs]

that line from the s1e02 script when greg’s poking around logan’s apartment that describes him as ‘half goldilocks, half burglar’ is a ridiculously apt description of his character that is echoed throughout the show by the way. this is built through joint semantic fields of criminality (cruises fiasco, the threepenny opera poster in his apartment, the talented mr greg) childishness (his desk toys, him being the youngest central character by a considerable margin, descriptors of him from most characters especially early on derisively containing ‘kid’) fairytale royalty (europe’s weirdest king, leggy princeling) and the fact that he is fundamentally an individual (absent father, distant mother) coming into what is in his mind a complete family unit (logan and marcia are married. that serves my argument and his initial perception of the situation well enough). worthy of further consideration is the class commentary inherent to the framing of greg as a criminal and the fact that this metaphor perhaps informs us of how greg perceives his situation in s1, that is to say that 1) he is aware of his own immorality which can i say the spectator is never given reason not to believe and 2) he considers himself a vulnerable if overly cocky child in a den of predators, both of which say very interesting things about him as a character and the choices he makes from here :)

[yeonban]

I was thinking there aren't enough memes catered to third parties on this site (ex. two muses talking about a third) which imo make rp flow so much smoother sometimes bc it feels more realistic for interactions to not start & end at only the two people directly involved, but then I realized... blud, you have a meme sideblog. You can literally make your own dreams come true

[graveyartblog]

Birthday gift for my friend @spiritumantophila for their @thewizardprincessau! (Image ver below!)

Blender render vs the CPS file where I drew everything in separate layers! I referenced alleesaur's 2.5d art method and I recommend checking out her stuff!

[h0n3yk1tt3n]

@biscuitbakerbecca i told you I'd make fanart hahaa >:D bitchy rich kid Jeremy my beloved

Anyway yall should check out Weakness on ao3, under the username BeccatheBiscuitBaker

[whimsicalcotton]

Radio Anon — Now obsessed the Apparition of Rachel Amber That May or May Not Be Real, may you please elaborate upon the concept

[voice of someone with category 5 brainrot] Of Course,

basically i listened to Anybody Else by Dom Fera (mv is really silly but still somehow amberfield flavored) one too many times and started thinking about timelooper Max being Literally haunted by Rachel. but like Heathers The Musical style where you're left wondering if ghosts actually exist in this universe or if your protag just really needs a nap.

it probably started after a few loops (aka few weeks w barely any sleep) and so Max has no idea if there's actually a dead girl hanging around her dorm or if she's been digging in the junkyard one too many times and now she's tipped over the line into guilt hallucinations. hence The Apparition That May or May Not Be Real. usually Max will spot either the deer or Rachel herself lurking around blackwell/hanging around Chloe. the ghost deer form is pretty much the same as canon but i've yet to decide where she falls on the 'oh that's just a person' -> 'holy shit 4k bloody mary' ghost-scariness spectrum. probably depends on what kinda state Max is in when she sees her.

i also haven't decided whether they talk to each other. like Max definitely talks to Rachel but i don't know whether i want the angst of her not being able to hear anything Rachel says back or if i want full Chandler-mode Rachel providing ridiculous/unhelpful commentary on everything going down and exercising her skills as a one woman greek chorus.

that's all i have for the moment! here are a few scribbles also bc she's been on my mind lol

[paalove]

okay thinking about "attitude to personal property" as a defining character trait in j&j might seem a liiiittle obvious bc. thief show. but rose and p'nang talking about being absolutely committed to (rosé's) moral right to her legal property made it click in my mind-

bc theres the loan shark thing too, of course, collateral being property that is yours but isnt, is the boss's but isnt, the way the ring especially is transformed by being collateral and then stolen collateral and then (briefly? depends on next episode) free and clear.

so yeah there's joke as A Thief - if it helps me, if youre using it wrong, then it's mine, and there's the desperation-led thefts of tattoo and safe, which are interesting in their own right, but the really interesting thing is jack returning the ring because its not really his if he hasnt acquired it Legitimately - in a way he perceives as legitimate, perhaps in a way the law does too. this aligns him with rosé and nang but in the inverse of their statement - "what's mine has to be mine", then "what's owed to others has to be theirs", and i suspect we'll see rosé trying to align her previously inwardly-focused beliefs with this, over the next couple of episodes.

and when you start asking questions about the extent to which love and people fit into this, it gets really interesting. nang makes it explicit with jack, but - the ring as jack's parents' (and jack's parents as jack's) and the necklace as arun's mother's/boss's wife's (the question of which of them has the right to it, thereby to her memory, being absolutely key to arun's arc lately!). rosé is more straightforward - don't even look at jack's things, give me jack.

(and boss, of course, doesnt see a distinction really - underlings, at least, are always things. he can take and damage arun's things/people, because arun is ultimately his too - he can give away jack, because jack is absolutely his.)