#minchen0897

[ruleofexception]

9 people you'd like to get to know better!

Tagged by @itspotatobee, @jhalya, and @kaedix (I have combined the two sets of questions, because that felt like the right move) <3

three ships: Obi/Shirayuki (Akagami no Shirayukihime), Hunter/Willow (The Owl House), Yato/Hiyori (Noragami)

first ship: Probably Sailor Moon (Usagi)/Tuxedo Mask (Mamoru) (Sailor Moon)

last song: sTraNgeRs - Bring Me The Horizon

last film/show: Pretty sure that it was the most recent episode of The Saint's Power is Omnipotent?

favourite colour : Teal/Green

currently reading: Nothing at the moment; I've been bouncing between re-reading what I wrote for Nano and the next chapter of A moment apart (I think it's ALMOST ready to post)...

currently watching: A bunch of things. But the BF and I are actively trying to keep up with JJK, Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, and Shangri-La Frontier.

currently consuming: My third coffee of the day lol

currently craving: Dill pickle chips. Also, coconut milk.

sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet or savoury. Depends on how I'm feeling, but typically sweet is the way to go :3

last thing you googled: uhhh... either different careers/responsibilities of astronauts or where to buy fun, sparkly cloaks for festivals lol.

It's been a while since I was tagged in these, so I'm going to try tagging @reaperthegenius, @zephyronthewind, @k-itsmaywriting, @minchen0897, @sabraeal, @aroyalpaininthecass, @kirayaykimura, @fear-the-grape-goddess, and @amozon28! <3

[laternenfischchen]

Last Five Songs I Heard

i was tagged by @derpylittlenico but kinda forgot.. better late than never!^^

 Sabaton - Night Witches

 Rammstein - Zerstören

 Avicii - The Night

 Dritte Wahl - SAS Beluga

 The Dead South - Banjo Odysee

...i should really make less random playlists.

feel free to ignore this but:

@chershare @killergirlfuria @minchen0897

[blackkatmagic]

Re: the row of gifs with red lightsabres.

I am aware this take can be ignored because animation and movies have come quite far and also are two different techniques but i want to share it anyway: the red sabres of Kylo Ren and Vision!Ray are flickering at the edges, kinda like flames, which makes them look unstable, and i like to draw parallels to their mental and emotional states from that.

(Because i think it could be cool if the lightsabres reacted to the emotional states of their wielders, beyond bleeding red when said wielder betrays the morals they had when making the sabre and commits atrocities.)

xD My reaction to anything in SW is “but what if it means something??” so we’re on the same wavelength there for sure. The idea of lightsabers reflecting their wielders so immediately is a really good one. 

[whirlybirdwhat]

Hey whirly Today i woke up and had a horrible thought that made me sad. So now i'm sharing. Marco is Moby Dick's Doctor right? And Thatch was attacked on the Moby Dick and died? Depending on how heartbreaking things can be, Thatch died under Marco's hands. (Do you hear that? It was my heart shattering)

okay so i started this awhile ago abut this writers block hit BUT WE ARE HERE NOW AND IM SO SORRY FOR THE WAIT! BUT HERE YOU GO!!!

eight bells ringing 

read on ao3!!

warnings: canonical character death

Marco is woken to bells ringing loud and relentless throughout the night. It is not the usual bell for time keeping, soft and melodious and as constant as the sea. No.

This one is violent.

An alarm.

Fuck – it’s the alarm bell.

In an instant, Marco is out of his hammock, blue-gold fire streaming after him as he erupts out of the cabin.

What could be happening? There’s no enemy pinging in his senses, no ships nearby or unfamiliar person on the ship. What could have –

Pops.

Pops.

He couldn’t have died, right?

The phoenix burns at his skin and he shifts, blurring into flame and fury as he soars down the hall in smaller, faster form. He has to get too Pops, he has too,  he –

The crowd isn’t by Pops room. The yelling isn’t coming from there. The tears aren’t coming from there.

No – it’s – No-

Its Thatch.

Marco changes direction, wings scorching lines into the Moby Dick’s Adam wood, and races back down the hallway.

Thatch – what could have happened?

In seconds, minutes, moments, all time flashes by the same when he’s made of burning flame – he’s by Thatch’s room and breaking through the crowd.

His first thought is there’s blood.

So, so much blood, red and viscous and splattering along the floors. Marco is used to seeing blood.

Just not in his home.

His second thought, as he follows the blood upwards, is that he knows the body which is coming from.

Thatch is always so careful not to get blood on his white chef’s outfit. Its his mark in battle – red everywhere but the white. Marco had always teased him for it.

Now… Now its covered in red. There is no white in sight.

Only Thatch’s chest, barely moving, up, down, up, down, dark and red.

But he’s breathing.

“Thatch!” Marco cries, and he’s on his knees by Thatch, whoever it was with him in the first place moving aside.

(Ace.

It was Ace.

And Ace was crying.)

Marco is a doctor – the ship’s doctor, the one in charge of Whitebeard, the one who disappeared for a year and came back with the knowledge to keep his beloved family alive – and this is his job.

To save his family.

To save Thatch.

But as he moves aside the bunched shirt to get a look at the stab wound, he knows it’s far too late.

(Its not a term any pirate should ever think. But now, Marco isn’t a pirate. He’s a brother.

And fate holds to much pressure on his shoulders for him to think otherwise.)

“Thatch –“ Ace’s voice is breaking beside them, his arms reaching down and hovering uselessly around Thatch’s body as Marco works to do something, anything to help Thatch last a little long, so too late becomes not late enough. Ace’s arms are covered in blood, Marco belatedly notes. He must have been the first to find Thatch dyi- bleeding. Hurt.

(Maybe, if Marco keeps denying it, the truth will change.)

“Thatch-“ Ace tries again, and it hurts, it really does. “Thatch who did this to you?” The anger in Ace’s voice hurts even more.

Thatch turns his head, only a little bit, glassy eyes flickering to all their siblings past them. “Teach.” He says, blood flicking out of his mouth as he does so. “Bastard. Wanted the fruit.” He coughs then, but his eyes don’t stop watching all of them, drinking his family in one last time.

(Marco knows Whitebeard won’t get here in time to say farewell to his beloved son.)

Ace’s eyes cloud with anger, but a bloody hand slaps at him, grabbing his attention. “A…Ace.” Thatch says, and Marco watches, and wonders which word will be Thatch’s last. “Don’t.”

He doesn’t say what Ace shouldn’t do. His breath is becoming rapid, stuttering, faltering. There are tears in Marco’s eyes.

“I’m… happy…” Thatch stutters out, thoughts of traitors in their family not mattering to him. He’s happy.

Marco isn’t. He isn’t.

Damnit.  

“Love… you… all.” Thatch says, and he smiles, with blood coating each tooth. His hair is a mess. Marco should tease him. He should.

But there’s blood between his fingers as blue flames burst forth, trying to heal, heal, heal, but phoenix fire doesn’t burn family and it doesn’t cauterize – and Marco needs to awaken this right now, like he hasn’t cared before but –

Thatch breathes in, breathes out, and doesn’t breath again.

There’s a smile on his face as his skin grows cold.

And Marco has never heard something more terrible than the screams that come from his own mouth.

(That night, Marco stands watch as eight bells ring throughout the night. Eight bells for the end. Eight bells for a sailor gone home.

Eight bells ringing out, as Thatch drops to the sea in a cannon laden hammock, a brother lost forever.

Marco hates the sound of bells, and hates his hands that cannot save anything but a few mere moments to say goodbye.)

-

There are no bells at Marineford. No, those come after.

Now, there is blood and the sound of canon fire. Now, there is death of a thousand beloved brothers that Marco can’t save with healing hands, and now, there is fire and light clashing in the sky.

Now, Marco watches seastone be slapped upon his wrists, and his brother take a fist through the chest right in front of him.

After Thatch, Marco worked again, worked to learn, to heal.

The phoenix means life. Rebirth.

Healing.

And Marco can do that now – he is the awakened phoenix. He can heal so much more than himself, than what he could with a mere doctor’s hands.

But he can’t do that with this sea-stone –

Another brother he couldn’t save. Another brother who died smiling. Another brother who said I love you, and I was happy, as he died because of wound to the back by a traitor to everything the world held dear.

Marco rings the eight bells twice after Marineford, once his father and once brother, and knows they mean an era ended, not an era began.

A farewell, to his family.

Marco hates bells.

(But then Monkey D. Luffy rings in a new era, and maybe he doesn’t hate the ringing so much anymore. Not when it means a new era in the hands of a king.)

-

eight bells: a naval euphemism for finished, often used at sea burials. It is symbolic of the end of the watch, midnight, and the end of the year.

[atelier-dayz]

Ben'bajur!! Has such a great opening snippet omg? I love it already!! How old is Obi-Wan in that snippet? Is he still an initiate? I admit i don't know all the details of Obi-Wan's backstory but i too would like to know why he was running around in a port while hurt. Also what role will Kal be in this AU? Will he be Obi-Wan's Buir? And where does Obi-Wan need to be rn as you mentioned at the end of the snippet!!

Thanks so much!! <3

Aye some things become clearer if you’ve read Jedi Apprentice (JA) or know his backstory from there, so a semi-brief (LOL) overview:

Obi-wan was born in 57BBY. When JA starts, he is one week shy of 13 years old, putting us at around 44BBY (which is in fact the same year that Battle of Galidraan occurs).

This is no longer canon, but in JA, initiates “age out” of Jedi knight training at 13 if they aren’t chosen to be a knight’s padawan, at which point they get transferred to the Jedi Service Corps. Qui-gon is the only remaining knight available to take Obi on as a padawan, but Qui-gon rejects him (and keeps on rejecting him as the book goes on, and oh boy, could I talk about this for ages, and there’d be much table flipping, but let’s just say Qui is still scarred by his previous padawan Falling and wasn’t open to taking anyone on.) 

Anyways, Obi struggles to find someone to take him as padawan. A week before his birthday, Obi gets goaded into a (training) lightsaber fight with Bruck, a fellow initiate and a bully. They come out of the fight with some pretty rough injuries, but while Obi goes quietly back to his dorm to tend to them on his own, Bruck takes himself to the Healing Halls and claims that Obi had attacked him. 

As a result, Obi gets assigned to AgriCorps on Bandomeer early. So the next day, in a bit of a daze from everything, he goes to the spaceport (unaccompanied!) to catch his transport to Bandomeer and realizes belatedly that he has forgotten the datapad that details his seat assignment and other information for the trip. Because of this, when he’s on the (mining transport) ship headed for Bandomeer, he runs afoul of a Hutt who claims he’s a spy for being on the “wrong side” of the ship and gets beat up/knocked out. Later, skipping over a scene, the second time he wakes up, he wakes up in the medbay. Turns out he has a bad fever and worse wounds than the medics could handle. -- From just the Hutt? Or from the Hutt and from fighting with Bruck? Unclear! So that’s where I drew things from for Ben’bajur.

He doesn’t have the datapad, so he’s wandering around the spaceport looking for his transport when his injuries from his fight with Bruck get the better of him, and he practically passes out from fever (earlier than in the book) on top of Kal, who is a True Mandalorian in this fic (and likely OOC since I will not touch Traviss’s writing) and on a pit stop in Coruscant before planning to meet up with the rest of the TMs. Obi has a vision while he’s out, and it’s Galidraan happening. He wakes up, finds a Mandalorian has been taking care of him and had patched him up. He insists on going with Kal to Galidraan to prevent the whole disaster from happening.

In the end of this whole affair (which will be a whole lot of fun to write 8D), after a minor custody fight, Kal ends up adopting Obi, and Obi is raised as a True Mandalorian. 

As mentioned somewhere in the tag, but I know it’s troublesome to dig, the fic will then cover the fallout of Galidraan not occurring, the TMs vs Death Watch vs NM and that whole political mess, and importantly, events from 32BBY onwards. :D

[laternenfischchen]

@worldtravellingfly @emptysurface @derpylittlenico @ceiaofsilence @minchen0897

fuck it. worm on a string picrew chain. let's fucking go

happy worm creation my friends

tagging @areyoudoingthis @cursed-coat-of-homosexuality @peanutbutterex @tfemteach @piratecaptainscaptainpirates (no pressure 💛)

[feybarn]

Ooooh! Could you please tell what Krayt is about? If you don't mind of course :D I hope you have a wonderful day!

So, ah, guess what, there are actually two WIP files that are titled Krayt (no one will ever accuse me of having an organization system that makes sense, which is how I can make messes like that). The first one is a Current of Fate outtake (I’m considering creating a story within that series where each chapter just covers random things that get missed in both PiaR and SiaD) that actually tells the story of the first time Obi-Wan met the Greater Krayt dragon post O66 and how they became friends.

The second story with that title is about someone (yes, Obi-Wan) being ritually sacrificed.

(Like I sad, very different stories with that same title).

Here is a snippet from the first of those WIP:

The desert, Obi-Wan had learned quickly, had no care for the careless. It did not matter who or what one was—or had once been—the endless sands and burning suns were the same.

One either learned and survived or failed and died.

Obi-Wan had learned. And thus far at least, he’d survived.

He was still undecided on whether that was a good thing.

The first year on Tatooine had been… difficult. If not because there had been such radical need to learn and adjust, then because Obi-Wan had not been in the mental state necessary to want to.

Survival had been easy enough when it had involved protecting himself from blasters and lightsabers. That had been, in many ways, a well-cultivated instinct Obi-Wan couldn’t turn off even if he wanted to.

But in the wake of so much loss and grief, Obi-Wan’s instinct for survival had… waned. Though in the end, it had not waned quite enough.

And here Obi-Wan was, a mad wizard haunting the wastes. 

Just as his past haunted him.

He found what distractions he could. He’d set up what security he could around the Lars’s homestead, he had found and befriended a bantha herd, he had started on a… memoir of sorts, a recollection of his own past, of what the Jedi had once been—and what in his secret hearts of hearts, he hoped that one day they might be able to become again—but it wasn’t enough. It was never enough.

Nothing ever kept him quite distracted enough.

Which is when he found himself wandering through the desert like an idiot offworlder. And yes, he was too often an idiot, and yes he was an offworlder. But he wasn’t that idiot offworlder.

Except when he was.

[onepiecehcs]

(Hopefully this time i didn't misunderstand) So about those languages in One Piece Please share all your hcs because i, too, love the topic! And would love to read aboit it and discuss and share ideas and- (I mean. Only if you want to share them, of course. Sorry for barging in and bothering you tho ^^°)

Alright I checked my notes on this and remembered that I made language hc’s for the The Whole Gang. So this is essentially just me going on a tangent. Also, I didn’t go and make up some languages, this is taking the thought “what if stuff like French existed in the One Piece universe” and running with it.

Robin knows how to say “I apologize on behalf of my crew” in sixteen languages.

Luffys crew ends up picking up Portuguese, since he’s constantly forgetting words in English. None of them are completely fluent, but whenever Ace or Sabo swings on by for a visit they sometimes get lessons, since they’ve got the patience to sit down and teach it, unlike Luffy. (As Luffys brothers they of course speak it fluently.)

Both Ace and Sabo are multilingual.

- Sabo grew up with English and Portuguese, and because of his privileged education he has some French in that mix too. He’s not as good at it though, since he ran away from home very young.

- And since Ace is very dear to me we are politely ignoring that one time he got a burning fist through the tits, which means that the Wb crew are introduced to the Strawhats and Sabo.

- And boy is that a spectacle.

Law is German.

- He and Robin sometimes have lengthy discussions in the language, but it doesn’t get too wordy on Robins side since she’s much better at French and Italian.

- Her German skills get considerably better during the alliance.

Vivi teaches Nami Arabic, and Nami teaches her wife Swedish.

- Namis first language is swedish, but since she grew up traveling a lot she has trained away her accent. But she will probably slip back into it when stressed or mad.

- Luffy thinks it sounds hilarious. (He’s right, it does.)

The inhabitants of Zou have their own native language that is solely spoken there. When they speak English, their accent is some kind of mix between Spanish and. Something else, no one can really tell.

Franky is the only one on the Strawhat crew whose first language is English.

- He also speaks Fishman. Tom taught both him and Iceburg, but both of them have horrendous accents.

Robins Russian accent is only clearly heard if you know it’s there.

- But once in a blue moon she loses her temper, and all the flowing grammar and beautiful pronunciation goes completely out the window.

One of the only instances you can see Luffy cut himself off in the middle of a sentence is when he can’t find the right word for something.

Zoro cannot for the life of him comprehend French.

- Whenever he hears Sanji speaking it he just sorta short circuits.

- “How does a human being make those sounds without choking on their own tongue??”

Thanks to Mihawk Zoro can call someone an imbecile in Spanish, and like, three (3) colours.

- He’s still learning, it’s a work in progress.

Chopper and Ace speak Canadian French, both at different levels of coherency.

- Ace is older, and grew up with Garp teaching him, while Chopper is 15 and focused more on medical studies than language.

- (Don’t ask me to explain my train of thought with that one, I just like the thought of Rouge speaking French ok.)

- Chopper needs some practise, so whenever Ace stops by they speak it as much as possible. Sanji looks on in confusion.

Both Kidd and Killer are Scottish, and Luffy did a double take the first time he met Kidd because he didn’t hear what the fuck he said a first.

Sabo is freakishly good at imitating accents, the Strawhats think it’s the funniest thing.

- Like one of them will say something in their accent, and Sabo can without fail mirror it back.

Whitebeard has an English accent. (I think @chromiwrites can go into more detail, if you wanna know more)

- He does his absolute best to learn as many of his sons languages as he can, so he’s basically a walking dictionary by the time he’s 60.

Marco probably knows Latin.

- His siblings hear him talking something that none of them really know, so it’s definitely a dead language.

The ASL trio know ASL. The fluency differs, but they can all hold a decent conversation.

- Ace, Luffy and Sabo learning about the existence of American Sign Language: !!!

- Robin and Law probably know a bit too.

[crispyjenkins]

Hello hi i've been scrolling up and down your blog and saw that battle droid art you reblogged with the tags of someone asking you about your headcanons for them and uuuuh yes hi i am interested in any and all hcs you are willing to share please :D

ah i’m sorry, i thought i responded! i answered the basics in this post, but did you have anything specific you wanted to ask about?? 

[missmungoe]

Ayeee! Happy Birthday to one of my favorite authors, who also has made my day several times in the last few weeks alone! I wish you the very very best and hope life treats you well. Also, i hope you had a nice cake (or something similar at least) today, because...yk, birthday cake. Again, happy birthday! See you in the next review! ("How ever long i may take to write it" - i say in shame for leaving you waiting so long)

Ahhhh thank you, friend!! Also, speaking of making someone’s day (read: month), you basically made my whole April with your comments. So yeah, you’ve already made a huge difference to this year of my life

And my husband is baking me a cake in the shape of a pirate ship. I’m not saying I married my soulmate or anything, except that’s totally what I’m saying.

[ruleofexception]

Tagged by @maverae <3

rules: put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up, then tag ten other people

Masterpiece Theatre III - Marianas Trench

All Gone (No Escape) - Gustavo Santaolalla

Tide - Bearings

Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride - Jesse Bloch & Coby Watts

Gales of Song - Belle

Dynamo - Puppet

England's Dreaming (Acoustic) - Boston Manor

Ghost in My Home - Point North

Save Me - ROY KNOX x Tim Beeren

The Show That Never Ends - LongestSoloEver & OR3O

It's been a hot minute since I was tagged in this, so I'll try tagging @reaperthegenius, @akaivampire, @itspotatobee, @minchen0897, and @jhalya!

[laternenfischchen]

Trope Ranking

i was tagged by @derpylittlenico​ who gives me joy and random things to do!

fun little thing, thank you for tagging me nico!

feel free to ignore this one, too but not tagging people always looks so sad:

@chershare​ @killergirlfuria​ @minchen0897​

Here’s the link!

https://tiermaker.com/create/fan-fiction-tropes-302768

[brothers-all]

"I'm too sober for this" - Cody.

 Combined with other asks to make it into one short story: 

“I’m not here to make friends” - Wolffe. (Which frankly sounds likehe does make a lot of friends, even if he doesn’t want to.)“I’d kill for a coffee…literally.” Rex ‘n Cody :D“I haven’t slept in ages.” CODY. (Cody, my man, get some sleep.)“STOP INTERRUPTING ME!“ - Kix.

Also, this one can kinda take place after Just Wanted a Drink so... 

“…I’m too soberfor this,” Cody sighed, rubbing his eyes and just, regretting getting up in themorning today.

“Ah, it’searly… even for them,” Rex stood by his side, dark circles under his eyes as heyawned.

“Fives, no-!”

“Do it!” “Do not do it!”

“Tell him!”“I will notbe patching your sh-!”

“I wanna seewhat he does.”“I swear to-!”

“Oh, he’sdoing it!”“Stop interruptingme!” 

They heard Kix screaming, glaring at Hardcase, Jesse, Bull and Jewels as Fiveslaughed, walking up to the third commanding officer on this planet.

“Wolffe!” theARC called in a greeting, smiling.

“What do youwant? I’m not here to make friends,” Wolffe had his usual from on his face ashe turned to look at the incoming brother.

“I was just wonderingwhere all the pups are?” there was a yell in the background as the Commander’seyes grew wide.

“What?!” thequestion was quick and hard. A lot of nearby people heard the comment andshared an amused look, while trying not to laugh.

“It’s just,well, A Wolf Pack, would have pups and-,” Fives didn’t get to finish as hestarted running for his life, Wolffe hot on his tail.

Cody and Rexshared a look, before the Captain sighed and moved to intercept the ARC, stickingout his leg and making the younger man trip. It sent him rolling onto theground, almost to where Kix was standing, eye twitching.

“Wolffe,”Cody threw in causally, stepping in front of the other Commander, whose eyeswere locked on the ARC, who was getting his ear chewed out by the medic.

“Care forsome breakfast?”

“Yeah, Icould kill for a coffee…literally,” Rex’s eyes moved to Fives, who gave out anervous laugh, before getting smacked over the head by Kix.

“…Gotanything stronger?” Wolffe muttered, turning his attention to the other commandingofficers.

“I do.General Kenobi’s private stash,” Cody shrugged. “I could use it. Haven’t sleptin ages and it might knock me out.”

“Are you surethey won’t burn this place to the ground?”

“If they do,you can have them.”

The rest ofthe boys felt chills up their spines and slowly backed away from the trio.Wollfe’s wild grin did little to put them at ease.

“Deal,” theman in gray nodded, before turning back to the ARC. “You’ll be my first victim,got it?” the only answer was a shaky nod.

“Seems likesince last time, you really put the scare into him.”

“Eh, ithappens. I blame the eye.”

“Yeah, sure,it’s the eye…”

“Damn Cody,you really are moody when you’re not drinking.”

“The 501stdoes that to you, yeah.”

“Welcome tomy life…”

The threewalked away, chatting away, while the rest of the men weren’t sure if they shouldfear for their lives now more than ever, or be stunned those three actually getalong so well.

[maryenette-writes]

COMMENTS ON PERFECT FAMILY 

@4evahevah

My heart it's uuuugggghhhh

Then my job has been done!

@aj-shook

I DIDNT ASK FIR THIS PAIN MARY

YOU DIDN’T BUT SOMEBODY DID

@audreythetealovingcat

Excuse me while I get some tissues for these tears, nice writing btw

I have a box of tissues right here :D (and thank you!)

@minchen0897

Thanks for tagging me! This story is pretty awesome and emotional, i like it! :D

No problem! I’m glad you liked it!

@coffee-randomness

I didn't ask for such a heart ache but it is very welcomed when it comes to your writing, so thank you for the pain

You are very much welcome Cami ^^

@sad-horchata

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL.... I..I am in tears

Thank you! *hands you box of tissues*

[blackkatmagic]

Kat. I remain in awe of you. Because if i see that right that's 4 fic updates in 8 days. That's. Amazing. Awe-inspiring. I bow to you. (I also keep cheering you on re: chapter count. You can do it!!)

(Also...i sincerely hope everyone is patient with you. Otherwise the impatient someone might have to rethink reality vs expectations. I would kindly offer to meet me in the next parking lot for a chat - and i do mean a chat - but alas, current world-wide situation hinders that.)

Minchen, I love you. 💗

[whirlybirdwhat]

Oh boy i have EMOTIONS about Merry and Sunny and Ships in One Piece and will hopefully remember that i sent this ask in the morning to think up some headcanons and sprinkle them into your askbox or onto a post and tag you fasdajdjgudicic. For now im a bit too tired for coherent thoughts tho, my apologies

AH HECK YEAH SEND ME THOSE THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS PLEASE!!! sleep first get ur thoughts together take care of yourself then please destroy me with merry and sunny thoughts in the morning fshhsjshq