#not intended as ship but if you want to tag it.... I guess its fine

[sunnydayaoe]

mephone two and some humanized ocs :]

[factual-fantasy]

26 ASKS!! :DD THANK U VERY MUCH!!🎨

Well that wouldn't be a good thing to do- Its very well known that I don't like fanart of my works..

If you wanna show that you like Bibi, just leave a comment please!

Seriously ya'll, just comments. Reblogs, tags, asks.. what ever form they may take. All I look forward to when posting artwork is reading all the responses. 👍

@solst1ce-sketches

WAAAHGAGAG THANK YOU SO MUCH!! AND HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!! 😭😭💖💖💖😭💖

@luna-purple454

Oh they're both fine! :0 Other than some angst ideas I had for them-- they're both still alive and well XD I just haven't drawn them in a while :/

@minnesotamedic186

I can hardly wait! :DDD (And yes you can XD)

@butterbreadsworld

Sorry, I don't take requests. Thank you though!! :}}

@i-v-y67

Blackmail XDD

@samcat2

I still like transformers! Though I'm not really interested in drawing it atm.. thank you though!! :DD

(Post in question)

XDDD fr tho--

:DD Thank youuu!! :}}}

@kiinther

XDD Blue is too big for that too! Though Seafoam might be able to give her a little peck on the cheek 👀 if either of them would just confess their feelings already <XDD

I know, and I hate all of it. :(

Also thank you so much! :DD

I was thinking that they're kind'a a cross between the two.

They pillage and raid other ships, but they don't normally go for "innocent" ships.. if they attack anyone, its usually other rotten pirates or slave ships maybe? "Bad" ships I guess you could say-

As for the voice claims. If like you explained- you happen upon an OC of mine and think "HE LOOKES LIKE HE SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE THAT OTHER GUY" Then feel free to send it on over to me! :DD

But don't go out of your way to find voice claims for my characters as a gift or a form of fanart. Remember! All I really want is comments. Engagement with my work means everything to me! <:)

@neo-metalscottic (Post in question)

AAAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! :DDD I'm so glad you like him!! :}} And that head injury was kind'a just a pose prompt. Though I might slap some lore on it and make it canon! :00

As for Papyrus.. its complicated.

Papyrus had accepted long ago that Sans and all his friends were gone. And that he was never going to see them again.. It really hurt. And it took him a very long time to accept that fact. But he did. He knows in his soul that his true brother is gone..

That didn't make seeing "Sans" again any less painful though. He probably saw a Sans through the trees in a new Snowdin. Man, I cant imagine how he felt.

The whole multiverse thing was explained to him by Frisk. He knows that's not his Sans. He knows its not him. But gosh. Its been so long since he's seen his brothers smile. What he would give to hear one of his silly puns again. What he would give to hear his voice.. to just.. to hug him one last time..

Frisk would grab Papyrus' hand, "Papyrus.. we need to go.. please, common.."

Seeing the other Papyrus walk into view and begin talking to that Sans.. He recollects himself. Its not him. Sans is gone. He's been gone for a very long time..

With tears streaming down his face, he would find the strength to grip Frisk's hand.. and turn away.

It never gets easier..

@jesterpiecethejester

Sorry, I don't take drawing requests! Plus the crews already pretty full as it is- <XDD

@bunny-coffee

I didn't intend to ever draw Frank and Eddie in a romantic light.. becuase yeah like you said, I just don't really like ships. Or honestly any romantic content that isn't my own OCs. Idk I just don't really enjoy drawing it--

But that's kind'a what I feared about the Welcome Home fandom if I'm being honest. I felt like people were really protective over Eddie and Frank. And if I revealed that I wasn't interested in drawing them as an item, canon or not? I felt like I would get a loooot of backlash.

But hey, I found a loophole. Just don't draw them together and there wont be any drama! :D It sucks though becuase Frank is a big part of Eddies lore and all his flashback shenanigans-

(Also thank you! :DD )

@beryl-shade

Oh! No no, its just made of seafoam! :0 Though whipped cream would make sense because he's a cookie- <XD

I do??

Huh.. I guess I do don't I..

What do I do with that power--

@sparkdrawsstuff

Well the strongest would be Blue Beauty by far- but looking at the smaller cookies? I think Seafoam is probably the strongest. But that's mostly due to him being so big. He's the biggest cookie on the crew and most of his strength just comes from packing more weight to his punch.

Though another toughy on the ship would be Louis. He may not be very big. But boy that crab arm? He has a grip strong enough to break cookies in half. And enough upper body strength to take your pieces and chuck em overboard--- 💀💀💀I wouldn't mess with either of them tbh--

As for the bounty.. that's a good question. :0 I wanna say Seafoam because he's the Captain an all.. but I really like the idea of Cuttlefish having this dark past and a surprisingly huge bounty over her head- 👀👀

@wilmawillow

<XD I think you might have got those two words switched around. I don't take drawing requests! But I've considered going back to some old artwork and redrawing them in my updated style.. 👀👀

@danikoshi

Not really.. :( There have been times in the past where I have asked for drawing ideas/requests when I was feeling low. But now a days I have plenty of ideas to draw so I don't need to do that anymore-

And to be totally honest, when someone says "Hey draw this thing for me." It just makes me go-

@astaherussy

You can find all the lore you need about Papyrus in this ask post! Just scroll down a bit and you'll find all the links and a bonus paragraph <XD

As for the tags. If you wanna see my AU with Jevil and the gang, you can find that under my #deltarune tag. They're also tagged under #Undertale but that will also bring up my Refinedtale AU and other au stuff-- :00

As for the Octonauts question, bro I EAT questions like these! :DD

Its a very interesting prompt. Usually we think of Captain Barnacles as very level headed and calm. He seems like one to bounce back from any situation and keep leading the team no problem. But man. After something like that? That's gotta scare him to his core.

I can see Barnacles being more tense and not wanting any of the crew to stray too far from him or the Octopod. I can imagine that he would give Kwazii a lot of time to recover, a lot more than he actually needs. And maybe even going as far to forbid him from going on certain missions.

But after a little time and maybe a talk with Kwazii. I'm sure both Kwazii and the Captain would recover from the experience and continue on as normal.

(Also thank you! I hope this response was along the lines of what you were hoping for-- :00 )

I pictured it being like really dense soap bubbles. They smell nice and can be picked off his coat or head. But if you jumped on his coat foam you wouldn't sink through. It would be like a big cushion that you could sit on top of. If that makes sense?? <XDD

@danman22ful

Out my OCs? Probably Seafoam 🥺

Out of the game cookies? Uhhhm.. well, I don't really know/remember any of the characters.. But Tea Knight cookie looks really cool! :0 He gives me major Reinhardt vibes :))

Thank you so much!!!! :DDD

@insanityislife101 (I couldn't find the post in question :((( )

Oh fr??? Cool! He was in character after all! :DD

[cacodaemonia]

20 Questions for Writers

Thanks so much for the tag, @lyntergalactic! :D I feel like I've done this before, but it must have been a whole ago. It looks fun! (also, I'm pasting just the questions at the bottom of the post if anyone wants to copy those)

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 247, though I'm not really sure what the ratio is for images versus fics... Okay, apparently, 97 of them are tagged with 'fanart' and have fewer than 100 words, so somewhere around 100 image-only works and 147 fics.

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 1,141,145; which includes a few collabs and fics for which I just contributed an image.

3. What fandoms do you write for? TCW exclusively 😅 Though I've done a handful of images for other things like Arcane, Dune, Trigun, The Expanse, House of the Dragon...

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? A bunch of my works with the most kudos are images, but if we're talking fics, then I think it's just some of my oldest ones...

That’s Not How It Happened (This Is How It Happened) - Fives arc fix-it and my first fic.

Orbital Decay - Codywan that I haven't edited since I posted it, so I can't vouch for the quality.

Modulation - Another one I haven't touched since I posted it, but it's an 'Echo gets rescued much earlier than in canon and he and Fives reunite' fix-it of sorts.

Will You Walk With Me? - Waxer's pov from the start of the war to the (fix-it) end, and it mostly focuses on his and Boil's friendship (Waxer & Boil or Waxer/Boil pre-relationship - take your pick). Even though this certainly isn't the best thing I've written, it's my baby. 🧡

Interference - Umbara fix-it featuring minor canon characters and some necessary OCs in the first chapter, then more major canon characters later.

More stuff below the cut, since this is a long list...

5. Do you respond to comments? Yes!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Probably You're Just Harder to See Than Most, which ends very sadly on its own, but it's part of a larger fix-it including Modulation above, so Fives and Echo get reunited.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Pfff like basically all of them, idk XD;

8. Do you get hate on fics? No, just on one sketch dump, where someone went through 6 chapters of spicy cloneshippy images and then decided they needed to complain about it being gross and immoral 🤣 It was hysterical kjlksahfg

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Oh yes, I'm a certified smut goblin. Not really sure what the question means by 'what kind,' but I guess 'porn with feelings' is probably the AO3 tag that would most accurately describe all of the smut I've written XD

10. Do you write crossovers? Nope.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes! :D

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? Hm, I suppose if we're defining that as like, "what ship have you intensely shipped for the longest amount of time," it would be destiel? I was veeeeeery into that ship for many years.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I've had one wip sitting around for over a year, and for a while I was thinking I wasn't going to get back to it ever. But I made a little vibes playlist for it and had some help brainstorming, so I'm hopeful I can start tackling it again after I get some current stuff drafted.

16. What are your writing strengths? Starting something and working on it until it's finished.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I have a lot of trouble generating ideas on my own.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I think it's fine as long as it's either A. very short and clear from context or B. for some reason, the writer is intending to confuse the reader and obfuscate what was said. I know I've said it before, but I'm not gonna scroll to the bottom of a fic every few paragraphs to find the translations for whole phrases or sentences. If the amount of 'other language' starts making the dialogue difficult to follow, I'm just gonna nope out.

19. First fandom you wrote for? Technically, I wrote one thing for Gundam Wing back in like 2000, but I can't even remember what I did with it or what it was about, exactly. Other than that, TCW.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? flsdlfg that's really difficult... idk man, if it's quality we're talking about rather than sentimentality, I'd say it's a toss-up between these three 😅:

My Heart's Red Muscle - Canon-divergent AU where Waxer is a cyborg.

Kinktober 2022 - Character studies/development through smut, where Waxer and Boil find a list of sexy things to try out, so it's kind of meta. It's from my main Open Skies AU, and I'm weirdly proud of this one XD;

We Could Breathe Underwater - Force-sensitive Waxer and Boil AU

Phew! Okay this took me like three sessions to answer, but it was fun :)

No-pressure tags: anyone who sees this and wants to do it, plus @lizardberries @elismor @bilbosmom-belladonna @valkeakuulas @petrifiedforests @marbled-polecat @writegowrite @sophronist @marbled-polecat @ivalane

20 Questions for Writers

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

3. What fandoms do you write for?

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

5. Do you respond to comments?

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

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

10. Do you write crossovers?

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

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

16. What are your writing strengths?

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

19. First fandom you wrote for?

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

[ghostys-originals]

RKZ Fandom Boundaries/ Consent

Ive seen some creators make these boundary lists as of late and although I’ve accepted that I cannot control what a fandom does, I believe its at least important to vocalize my boundaries so there is no confusion in the future.

This is mainly about Roadkillerz, but can be extended to apply to whatever else I make in the future!

[CW: Brief mentions of nsfw topics, p*dophillia, and other problematic subjects common in fandom, will also briefly mention hate speech]

1. Fan Merch/art/fic/etc

- Although I would prefer if you financially supported me first, I do not mind the creating and selling of fan merch such as art prints, stickers, etc!

- With that said, I will discuss what I am personally comfortable with seeing depicted:

1a. Hate Speech

- I do not encourage the promotion of hate speech such as lgbtq+ phobia, racism, sexism, anti semitism, etc using my work/characters as the face for that. Not only does it directly go against my own values, but for RKZ specifically, goes against the intended themes of the series (nazi “punks” are posers)

- On the topic of politics, I dont mind the promotion of, love speech? I guess? I dont know how the groups affected would feel about fandomifying important issues, but if you want to use RKZ characters for political stances that dont fall under hate speech go for it. Pro-lgbtq fan works for example is fair game.

1b. NSFW

- To be super blunt: I do not mind NSFW content as a concept, majority of my characters are of age (18+) unless stated otherwise.

- I, however, will expect some very basic criteria:

One, I do not feel comfortable with ships between family members, adult/children, etc. I dont want to encourage ship discourse since anything can be considered abusive, but as long as its NEITHER of those two things I do not care.

Two, Please be a responsible ADULT (no minors are permitted to publicly post nsfw content of my work) and keep any nsfw art/fanfiction out of the main tags. I understand minors will still seek out content not meant for them, but there are also people (not just minors either) who want to be able to scroll through a tag without seeing something they dont want to. Sex is about consent, and if your work doesnt include at LEAST a warning of some kind that aint good.

Overall just have some common sense, and if you do see people doing these things please dont debate them- just block and move on. I hate it too but getting into flamewars isnt productive and you’ll just be angry and you’ll never change their minds. Bonus thing: love yourself, care for yourself

Ok I think thats the most i’ll put for that? Now for things unrelated to content

2. Staff interactions

2a. I am alright with having a casual back and forth with fans, however I highly discourage developing parasocial relationships. If you wish to be my friend, you HAVE to treat me like a person. I do not respond well to idol-worship or lovebombing. I’ve had many bad experiences with people being super weird with that. I am not saying this to be rude, but I can and will block you if you make me feel uncomfortable, spam my DMs, or do anything else that I believe oversteps my comfort. I prefer to not befriend fans anyway since that promotes power dynamics, plus the before mentioned idol-worship which just makes me feel inhuman, so do not get your hopes up

EDIT: ALSO THIS SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING, But do not attempt to block evade/cyberstalk either. It WILL not end well for you. (if you want to know what counts as cyberstalking, it should be at the point where you dedicate your life to finding out literally everything about a person- casually checking my socials is fine as long as it doesnt absorb your life)

Cyberstalking and block evading are a clear rejection of established boundaries and if you participate in that, then you are just scum. Theres no woke twist you can put on it to justify it. Its wrong no matter how you feel about somebody.

2b. With that said, please do not harass anybody involved with the production of Roadkillerz/Other works including VAs, friends, friend of friends, etc. Please remember that they are humans too and have the right to privacy and healthy relations like anybody else.

2c. Fetish mining/sharing nsfw content/etc: Even though I said I dont mind NSFW content, I still do not consent to receiving sexual messages from strangers that includes but are not limited to sexting/flirting, sending nsfw art/fics, irl photos in a sexual manner, requesting I draw fetish material like Sam wearing a straight jacket (TRUE STORY, BY THE WAY.), etc.

If i think of anything else I’ll add to this but for now I believe this should be enough.

[murumokirby360]

My PC Cooling Upgrades Review - Part 1 [Second Half] (w/ my paper dolls) [Recorded on Jun 9th, 2023]

Hello, June! Here's the continuation of "My PC Cooling Upgrades" Part 1 (featuring my paper dolls). 🙂

If you haven't seen my "First Half", then please [CLICK ME!].

So, without further ado, let's get started!

29th to 31st Image(s) ↑:

• Alright! Moving on to other items 📦📦, now what item should we open? 🤔

32nd & 33rd Image(s) ↑:

• My paper dolls says "Why not both?". Good idea! 😄Tada! Two items had been revealed! And I know the PC fan was misleading & un-advertised to the box, but, we'll get to that in a bit.😉

34th to 36th Image(s) ↑:

• Now, you've already seen this before during my unwrapping parcels, right? So, here's the 4-pin fan splitter connector for my Motherboard. And the reason to buy is because I need more than one PC fan to get the ventilation going & prevent from overheat the hardware components (including the motherboard) 🌡️💨❄️🖥️. I wish I could buy more than three slots (w/ more PC fans), but since my tower case is an old style, I guess this will do (for now). 🙂

37th to 41st Image(s) ↑:

• [37th to 39th Images] Lastly is the 80mm 12V PC fan with w/a blue light strip around closer the transparent fan blades. Sure, an affordable normal PC fan is fine but also boring. So, why not get this? Because the transparent fan is rad & a colorful LED light strip (which depending on what color you choose, so I picked "Blue") was icing on the computer cake (no pun intended). 🥰💙💡

• [40th & 41st Images] Also, I was expecting to be a 4-pin fan connector, but instead, this mini fan has a Molex connector; in both male & female ports. And you know what, I'm okay with that, a single Molex slot should make room for it. And I can't secure the PC fan without a pack of four screw bolts.🙂

42nd to 43rd Image(s) ↑:

• And there you have it, my trio of items for my PC cooling upgrade! Hope these will delivered a solid worth, and my paper dolls agrees! We can't wait to install these goodies! 😁🖥

BTW: I haven't talk about my current PC. Well... It went horrible, on June 7th. Hours after I record the video & posted. 🖥😟 And you noticed, I covered my monitor with a fiber cloth. I'll spare the details when I make "Part 2".

Overall & Asking Price:

• Problem aside, I hope these will make cooldown the heat of the CPU chip & other internal components. Although, I have one last item that I need to purchase. ☝️ But sadly, I need to earn just a little bit. 🤏💵 So I guess I'll cover it, in the coming months once I bought the last item.

• As for the "Asking Price", here are the ff.:

○ Jonsbo CR-1400 from EasyPC (Shopee PH site) - cost ₱ 699 - 755 (Free Shipping Fee in voucher) in Black or White colors available

○ 80mm 12V PC Fan from ogamma-ph (Shopee PH site) - cost ₱ 75 (Shipping Fee ₱46) in Red, Blue, White, and RGB LED light colors in different sizes (There's also selling an actual PCCooler FX-12CM RGB for ₱129)

○ PWM PC Fan Splitter from Meuc Store (Shopee PH site) - cost ₱50 - 75 (Shipping Fee ₱38) depending how many ports you want

SIDE NOTE: I didn't buy anything from Lazada PH, so its a nice for me to change. 😊🛒🌐🇵🇭

Well, that's all for now. And you haven't seen my previous month, then please [CLICK ME!].

Tagged: @lordromulus90, @bryan360, @carmenramcat, @leapant, @rafacaz4lisam2k4, @paektu, @alexander1301

[caspia-writes]

Valentine's Writing Tag (in... June?)

For reasons I still do not entirely understand, I have decided to stay up until almost 6 in the morning answering something from almost four months ago. Because that is a very good and normal use of time. Luckily I don't have anything else to do today, or I'd be screwed at this rate....

I was tagged by @sleepy-night-child for this! I would tag other people, but I don't know who the heck I'm going to tag for this normally, much less almost four months after the fact. If anyone else is similarly bored though, I won't rat you out for saying I tagged you.

Anyway, here are some romantic details for the story Verräter!

1. Which of your characters have some romantic chemistry?

Look, I wouldn’t recognize romantic chemistry if it fell out of the sky and fractured my skull on its way down. But based on my essentially non-existent understanding of this sort of thing…

Helmina and Theodor

Ernst and Lina

Sophie and Hans (???)

2. Which of your characters do you think readers will ship?

Ahh… well. There’s always going to be ships. But romance is still not really my thing, so I’ll take some wild guesses. Since almost all of my characters are already in established relationships (and I’m only getting around to answering this during pride month), I guess I’ll assume we’re mostly doing non-official LGBTQ+ ships now.

Otto and Johannes

Otto and Ernst

Otto and Paul

Theodor and Hans

Ernst and Hans (gotta get that enemies-to-lovers dynamic in somewhere)

Löhlein and Hans

Johannes and Hans

Johannes and Dr. Drittich

And, knowing shippers, literally every other permutation, some of which will probably involve Jaeger somehow. Regrettably. (But seriously, please don’t ship the dachshund….)

3. Which of your characters are slated to be an endgame relationship?

Ernst and Lina, for now. Most of the others are paired off already, and I’m not enough of a romantic to bother with the minor characters’ love lives.

4. Are there any established relationships in your WIPs? If so, how did they meet?

Yep, there are several!

1. Johannes and Magdalena

Johannes finally managed to seize political control of Großsachsen, but the rest of his Party (let’s be honest, it was like 95% Otto) thought he needed a wife to be ‘relatable’ and to have someone to consult for matters requiring a ‘feminine touch’. Magdalena was suggested for being a well-bred woman with the correct political views, and a meeting was arranged at a local coffeehouse.

2. Otto and Josephine

Otto hosts a lot of parties. Like, a lot. Theodor used to attend them, and eventually started bringing his then-girlfriend sometimes. Eventually Otto decided to inquire about this new woman, and then they at least knew the other existed.

3. Theodor and Helmina

Theodor got completely drunk off his ass one fine night. So drunk, in fact, that he ended up knocking on the door to the townhouse his grandmother used to live in and essentially shoving his way in, ignoring that Helmina was quite clearly not his grandmother. And then he proceeded to blather about how terrible his love life was going for the next two hours or so.

Eventually, out of desperation to get the random sobbing drunk out of her home, Helmina “agreed” to go on a date with him on the condition that he went and sobered up somewhere else. For better or worse, Theodor was still just sober enough to scrawl it out in his diary, so Helmina ended up going on that date.

4. Hans and Sophie

Hans went to a bakery intending to purchase some bread. But then he saw pretty girl and, being a testosterone-fueled 20-something, naturally decided he rather liked pretty girl. After several minutes of flirting, he finally bothered asking her name. She… was not initially terribly impressed with him, obviously, and wanted his name to try to ignore him. Unfortunately, Hans is a very, very common Großsächsisch name, so that didn’t help much.

5. What’s your dream love confession scene between your characters?

Not sure how applicable this is for me, but I came up with a scene that I may or may not be semi-planning on using, possibly.

A and B have been lightly dating for some time. Neither side has quite gotten to saying the magic words, but things seem to be going fairly well anyway. A has every intention of saying it, but they just haven’t quite worked up the nerve to spit it out yet. Perhaps there are some moderately elaborate plans, or lots of practicing in the mirror, but anyway A just can’t quite say it yet.

However, B thinks A doesn’t actually like them. Maybe just not romantically, maybe not at all, but at any rate B thinks that A just doesn’t have the heart to break things off and is hoping the relationship will just sort of whither up and die on its own. After thinking a few hours longer, B goes to A and decides to end things, admonishing A for being too cowardly to just tell them if it wasn’t working.

Cue A panicking and finally managing to spit it out. Profusely. While very much trying not to cry, and only almost succeeding, because... what does B mean, B doesn’t think they love them?!

[galacticlamps]

Tagged by @the--highlanders​ ! Thanks!

How many works do you have on AO3?

13

What’s your total AO3 word count?

76,200

(oh what a nice even number - I should try to mess that up as soon as possible, shouldn’t I?)

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Aw man is this intentionally worded to be really hard to answer? I get that it says ‘written’ and not ‘posted’ but then what constitutes a ‘fandom?’ I definitely wrote fics for stuff I was interested in long before I even knew the word ‘fic’ - I did it throughout my childhood, and then in high school, and while I didn’t do it as much in college, it still happened from time to time. So a lot of the books/movies/tv shows/plays/musicals I wrote things for aren’t really fandoms, and frankly, I had to check my old folder just now to even remember some of them existed. I’ll just list the ones that I know for sure had fandoms, since that’s more fun (and embarrassing), right?

Obviously Doctor Who, classic and modern, Torchwood, Sherlock Holmes (ironically more of these seem to be about the books, but yes, I will admit, some for that tv show too), Les Mis, a couple different Marvel comics & movies, Good Omens, hell, I even found a Night Vale fic in there just now.

And I know there are other older things not even in that folder, some of which never made it to a computer at all, so if I had to ballpark a number I’d probably say around 25ish but really, who knows?

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Across the Gap

On the Spot

Expectations

Shards of Memories & Fragments of Glass

Itemized

(this was fun, I’d never noticed Ao3 even had a stats page until now lol)

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I try to! Sometimes I take a long time to do so but for the most part, I usually get around to it. The rare exception would be if I first saw the comment when I was super busy/distracted and then felt like way too much time passed before I noticed it again, that it might be awkward if I said something at that point.

I do genuinely enjoy hearing what people think, but I’m also weirdly terrified of making anyone feel like they have to reply to my comments. I know that’s probably a little strange, but it’s actually a large part of why I made this Ao3 account in the first place - my original one, from high school, is followed by some long-time friends of mine who aren’t interested in this fandom, some of whom are involved in art & writing professionally. The thought of anyone like that reading something I wrote out of friendliness or even just curiosity and potentially having to pretend they liked it for the same reasons stressed me tf out, so I like having this virtually anonymous one because I can relax knowing that anyone who reads or interacts with something I wrote has probably done so only because they wanted to, rather than feeling obligated, and there’s no pressure on them to be nice to me about it if anything I write or post annoys them - so I really hope nobody who does just know me as an anonymous blog has ever worried about offending me by not replying to something, trust me, I’m perfectly happy with it!

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I don’t think I’ve really written any angsty endings? I guess the answer would have to be Reckless just because it involves the characters arguing about sad/weighty things and there isn’t really any solution to those issues - but even then I think I ended it with a kind of acceptance that stops it from really qualifying as angst? I also set it in the the same universe as other fics, so maybe that doesn’t even count as an ending? Am I that bad at ending things on angst? Lol

Do you write crossovers? If so what’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Obviously none of the fics I’ve posted are crossovers but I’m trying to think now if any of my WIP’s are - I’ve definitely poached setting/premise ideas from other media, but in terms of actual crossovers . . . I’ve got a few cross-era or cross-Doctor, a few involving Torchwood, but that’s already the same universe, so the only thing that’d qualify as a true crossover would be some vague pieces of a fic where Jamie, Zoe, and Two end up on the Enterprise, since I think the 60s series of Star Trek and Dr Who feel kind of compatible, don’t they? In fact, aren’t there like officially licensed crossover comics or something? Or did I make that up? Idk, and the ideas are very loose, so it’s not much of a WIP either

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Nope, never

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I’ve never written smut, but I’m wondering if it’s possible that could change soon. There’s a longish multi-chapter fic I’ve been working on for a frankly embarrassing amount of time, and the plot does call for a sex scene at one point towards the end, but I can’t seem to make up my mind on how - uh, I guess the word is explicit? - it should get. I know I could easily do a fade to black/implication thing, but it’s kind of a source of contention and anxiety for the characters, so to skip over writing the actual scene and just revisit them afterwards rings of “and they slept together and now everything’s fine!” which feels kinda cheap to me - in this context, anyway - and not the right payoff for a long fic that’s otherwise more of an interpersonal drama/slightly a period piece, if I had to place it in a genre. I feel like my aversion to actually writing the scene might just be prudishness I should get over, or maybe just self-doubt, because I know I’d rather have a well-written, funny, character-development-supporting sex scene than nothing at all, but since I’ve never had any interest in writing a scene like that before, I don’t know if I can do it well, and I also don’t want to ruin a fic I’m otherwise proud of by doing it badly... ugh I have to figure this out

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I seriously doubt it

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope

What’s your all time favorite ship?

I mean, it’s gotta be Two & Jamie. I’ve shipped things before with varying levels of investment, but I’ve never been able to use the term ‘otp’ in a literal sense until I came across them, and now it’s already basically gone out of fashion, go figure!

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I’m not sure if I have one? My WIP doc is huge, but I don’t actually intend to get around to finishing everything in it, so I’d like to think that anything I’ve currently singled out to complete can actually get done.

That said, I do have a few AU’s that I don’t really plan to finish, but it might be cool if I could. Two of them are for all the main + some supporting characters of the Second Doctor’s era - one’s a modern day school teachers AU, and the other is a typical fantasy/fairy tale AU. Another is just Two/Jamie, based on Doctor Faustus (specifically the Marlowe play version) but right now there are two different versions of the ending coexisting in my head. I’ve written parts of scenes & some gen. backstory for all of those ideas, but I don’t know if I’ll ever try to finish them, or what form a finished product would even take - a series of one-shots set in the same universe? one long multi-chapter fic with some kind of overarching plot? And the amount of context/worldbuilding a big AU like these would require might not make them very appealing fics for people to read, so maybe it is better if I just keep them to myself, since in my head I already know what’s going on in those worlds lol.

What are your writing strengths?

I honestly don’t know. I haven’t had a creative writing class since middle school, and since then I’ve only ever shown creative writing to others in a fandom context, so it’s been a while since I’ve discussed it or gotten critical feedback. I suppose when I work in other arts or even academic writing contexts, people usually say I’m kind of insightful or at least detail oriented, which might just be another way of saying I overthink things, but I like to imagine I’m decent at finding little points of interest to expand upon.

What are your writing weaknesses?

If you’ve read this far I feel like you must know what I’m about to say: I do not know how to be concise.

Usually when I’m writing a fic, I put down the dialogue first on its own, leaving out the action of the scene and whatever plot/context led there, even if I’ve already figured all of that out. But then when I go to add those things in, they’re always longer than I wanted them to be. I don’t mind writing something long, but I don’t want my fics to be a slog to get through either, and there can be a point at which the stuff I’ve added for context overwhelms the stuff that I wanted the fic to be about in the first place, so it becomes a structural/proportion issue too. I haven’t completely given up on any fics because of this yet, but there’s one I’ve been struggling with for a couple months now - probably because I’m even second-guessing myself on which scenes need to be written out and which can just be referenced like a recap. Hopefully I figure that one out soon.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

((this is karma isn’t it? i posted a fic last week with two words of gaelic in it and was worried about that and now this is karma))

In general, I don’t want to do it. I feel like you’ve gotta have a really good grasp of a language to write dialogue & speech patterns for someone who’s a native speaker, and since I’m far from fluent in any language the characters I write for are, I wouldn’t feel confident writing any significant amount of dialogue in, say, Gaelic.

As a sidenote, though, I kinda love it when other people do it, particularly for Jamie. Irish (Gaeilge) and Scottish (Gàidhlig) are both languages I’ve wanted to learn for a long time, because my family’s fresh out of living speakers of either & I think that’s a shame, but I started with Irish and at the moment I’m still very much learning it. As different as they are, it still helps me understand parts of lyrics or texts that I come across in Gàidhlig fairly frequently, so when it comes up in a fic I get to feel like I’m being responsible and practicing, and it’s great when I can actually understand what’s being said.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

I’m gonna go with Harry Potter even though that’s probably not a perfectly accurate answer - it’s almost certainly the first thing that has a fandom that I ever wrote for, but it was in a notebook when I was a kid and never something that I even typed on a computer, much less posted online or shared with other members of a fandom. But even then, I’m sure it wasn’t the first pre-existing fictional universe I ever set an original story in, because I did that a lot when I was a kid, it’s just hard to remember those clearly or on any kind of timeline.

What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

I’m very partial to Across the Gap, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that ranked first on the kudos thing above - but I’ve also got a soft spot for So Merrily We’ll Sing. It’s so self-indulgent it feels silly saying ‘it was so easy to write!’ but I guess having a fic that’s already just 100% headcaonons and fluff tied together by a song you really love does prevent it from being much of a labor (I also managed to refrain from making that one unnecessarily long, so that’s another win there)

tagging @terryfphanatics and anyone else who wants to do it - sorry I’m bad at remembering whose tumblr goes with whose Ao3 account, but I really would be interested to read this if anyone else feels like answering them!

[asexualdindjarin]

Thank you for the tag @maderilien :)

How many works do you have on AO3?

12, plus one I orphaned earlier this year that is still on ao3

What’s your total AO3 word count?

40796

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

4, Mando/Star Wars, Les Miserables, A Song of Ice and Fire, and one joke crack fic from the early days of Vikings.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

All Dincobb!

Oh, It's You

the night's just the night

I like what you say

serve god, love me and mend

going to georgia

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Almost always!! Comments make me so happy even if it's just an emoji tbh

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I'm not really much of an angst gremlin tbh. My Joncon attempted character study I haven't thought about in years but I think it's quite angsty given the canon - your unrequited love dies and you're left to take care of his son. One of my dincobb fics ends with Din leaving Mos Pelgo and he didn't come back because I ended the fic? Although another is currently at the same point but he will return

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

No to both of the above

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I have attempted to with little success. I have one smut posted (I like what you say), which is centred on asexuality. I get very self-conscious about smut, just because I don't think I have a good idea of what is sexy

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Both are no, I don't think anyone would really want to

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nope

What’s your all time favourite ship?

This is almost impossible. exR still grabs me by the throat every so often

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I have a fic that I started intending to be about Din having weird dar'manda helmet feelings, but its currently up for adoption in the dincobb server if anyone wants it lol

What are your writing strengths?

I haven't really thought about it tbh. The most common thing I get is that my fic is cute and soft so that's something I guess? All of my fics feel slightly silly to me, which I personally enjoy but I don't know if others do.

What are your writing weaknesses?

I'm tryna keep it brief and not too negative. I think I struggle a lot with description, I have aphantasia and a shitty imagination lol. I also don't think my characterisations is particularly good or consistent but whatevs

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I think it's fine - I love reading fics with extensive dialogue in Mando'a. I've written some stuff in Mando'a but nothing I've posted. I think providing a translation, at least in the end notes, is most helpful.

I'm a graduate student in a subject where dead language fluency is considered essential (oops) so it is a little annoying reading a paper at 3am in a hurry and someone's written something crucial to their argument without any translation. Like I could look this up but be a bro and help me plz. For this reason, I would always try to include translations

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

The first fic I wrote was an Ouran High School Host Club and Power Rangers fusion fic when I was 10 and I wish I was lying. My mum found it and showed it to people (she thought it was a sign of my creative genius or something 💀)

What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

My favourite fic I've written is the nights just the night because asexual Din Djarin is my one true love

No pressure tagging: @kaijuscientists @chamomileteainabuttercup @staranon95

[simana-x]

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This is your motivation to write that fic. Always fun to take prompts when they’re in the form of games you remember from elementary school birthday parties.

You may have seen some bingo cards floating around in the fanfic community. People make a card featuring 24 prompts, and other people will submit a request for one of these prompts to be filled, as well as choosing which character(s) will prominently feature, and occasionally other details as well, depending on the cardholder’s preference. The cardholder then writes the fic and marks it off on the card.

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We all know that some of us are here to get DARK. So, why not make a bingo game focusing on Bad Things?

At this page you will find a list of tropes and scenarios. Currently, there are over four hundred listed. Most are whump-focused, some are more angst, and a few are centered around the ‘comfort’ part of hurt/comfort. Some are fairly general, some are very specific. Some are fairly lighthearted, and some take you right into the heart of Sadism Land.

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[bastardsunlight]

WIP snippet game, tagged by @original-jade

Post a snippet of something you're working on

“Look at ‘em,” Raynor grunted, lifting his mug of beer and gesturing toward the oddly mirrored pair across Hyperion’s cantina. “I mean… really look at ‘em.”

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“I am,” said Matt Horner, the ship’s captain and soon-to-be admiral of the Dominion fleet. The promotion was in the offing, though it had not been officially sanctioned. Emperor Valerian Mengsk had formed a sort of parliamentary rulership as best he could in the few years they’d had since the final conflict with Amon and the ascension of the queen of blades. It wasn’t haphazard, per se—very little of what Valerian Mengsk did could have been considered so; it was not his way—but it was hurriedly formed. The details of moving motions to the floor and through the delegates was still in its infancy. All the same, he had assured Horner that it was forthcoming.

“I told ya,” said Jim Raynor, tossing back another mouthful of beer and sighing noisily, pleased with himself.

“And they’re so much alike—mirror images, Jim, not just brothers but…”

“The same man from a different world,” said the old rebel, waxing momentarily poetic. Matt spared him a look and then sighed, shoulders sagging. About a week ago—that was, assuming time worked here like it did in the Koprulu sector, which was up for debate, given that Tychus Findlay and Sarah Kerrigan were regular fixtures here—Raynor had radioed Hyperion for backup and Matt had answered the call, as always. Before parting, however, the commander had mentioned something about a “genuine, bona-fide Valerian Mengsk lookalike from a thousand and ten years ago”. The one thousand years was explained by the young man’s—he was a king, as it turned out, of a place called Stormwind—armor, which was finely-crafted, but could not have been considered modern in any way. Matt remembered likening it to the knights of old bedtime stories… VERY old bedtime stories. The ten years was because Anduin Wrynn had just reached his twentieth year of life, give or take, and Valerian Mengsk was about thirty (again, give or take; childhood seclusion had blurred a few years here and there and his father had hidden the birth records which Valerian still had not found).

As they chatted, one man in red, the other in blue, they looked, from a distance, as if they were identical, mirror images of each other; that was the only descriptor either Matt or Jim could conjure. It was eerie. Fortunately, closer inspection would reveal that Valerian’s eyes were the slate gray of Stormwind castle’s stones and that Anduin had eyes like the summer sky over Augustgrad. Anduin’s features were also a bit softer, with an upturned nose and nearly cherubic face. Valerian’s cheekbones and jaw had hardened into the rugged nobility of his father, though Matt would have sworn on any holy book someone handed him that he was much, much more attractive than Arcturus had been.

Unaware of their observance, or perhaps simply ignoring it in favor of such a rare meeting of minds, Anduin was complimenting the Emperor of the Dominion of Man on the décor of his ship—or trying. He was being kind at least and this prompted Valerian to interject.

“Truthfully, it was stolen from my father, but Raynor opted to keep much of the… opulence; he told me he… got a kick out of it.” Valerian’s smile lit up his face and prompted the young king of Stormwind to join him in smiling. “I would prefer something a little more spartan,” said Valerian after a few moments, “perhaps not austere, but certainly less…” He searched for the word.

“Gilded?”

They both stopped, locked eyes, and laughed, Valerian laying a hand on his companion’s shoulder. “Yes,” he said between chuckles, “less gilded by half; this is much too ornate for my tastes.”

“The cantina suits its occupants, at least,” observed Anduin after the laughter had subsided. “That is what it is called, yes? A ‘cantina’? Strange word—I haven’t heard its like in Stormwind.”

“Yes,” said Valerian, “it is a cantina and the one place that’s been… customized.”

The area was hung with trophies and placards, pictures, dart boards, and memorabilia. It looked much like a hole-in-the wall dive bar on a backwater planet like Mar Sara. Valerian winced at the thought of that lost fringe colony and the others the Protoss fleet had glassed—its sister planet, Chau Sara leapt immediately to mind—and he forced himself to put those events of a decade and change previous out of his mind.

“I admit,” said Anduin, “I was surprised when Commander Raynor invited me aboard this… contraption—forgive me, it is not entirely unlike our dirigibles and other flying machines, but dissimilar enough that I admit I do not have a name for it, either, aside from Hyperion.”

“It’s a Dominion Battlecruiser, the largest vessel terrans have ever built or used for war aside from the ancient Supercarriers which brought our people to the Koprulu sector,” said Valerian easily, only mildly unsettled by how quickly he was willing to divulge such information to a young man who, until about twenty minutes ago, had been a complete stranger. He has a face I can trust, mused the Emperor wryly. That was something else he intended to address, of course; it was simply too odd to ignore.

Anduin glanced out one of the portholes and tried to imagine what the vastness of space might look like. They were in what Matt had termed “low orbit”, because when they were here, in this place some called The Nexus, he wasn’t certain just how high the “ceiling” went. He did not want to risk his ship on a gamble. Turning his attention back to Valerian, he then spoke the question the Emperor had been stewing on for quite a while.

“We are very alike,” he said, his gentle lilt the only real difference between his voice and that of Valerian Mengsk, “I wonder why that is… don’t you?”

“I do,” said Valerian, nodding. “I confess, it… unsettled me at first, when Mat—that is, Captain Horner first told me of these… dreams he has been having.”

“So he also has the dreams,” mused Anduin. Raynor had admitted almost immediately that he had strange dreams which brought him to this place, in a conversation with Anduin wherein he seemed to be doing his best to avoid the scrutiny of a fearsome-looking woman-thing with wings like sword edges and hair like bony serpents. Anduin had not known at the time that her name was Sarah Kerrigan, but he had been astute enough to guess that there was some history between them, not all of it good. Not all of it bad, either, he reminded himself.

“Yes,” confirmed Valerian, “in fact, before I arrived, he had just been telling me about them—I must have fallen asleep thinking about it, or…” He trailed off, trying his best to make it seem as if the stoppage was not abrupt. What sort of conversation between an Emperor and a Battlecruiser captain might lead so quickly into slumber? He flushed, but the low light of the cantina protected him.

“And so you awoke here, on Hyperion,” concluded Anduin. It was Valerian’s flagship; the emperor had said as much. It made sense he would be sleeping on it.

[gottawriteanegoortwo]

Marmien - Confrontation

This won’t make much sense without reading the first part. Click here to read ‘Confession’ to catch up!

It isn’t like Damien to not talk to his sister, and she’s worried. Celine takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery of Damien’s sudden withdrawal, even if it means talking to the friend who harboured a misguided crush on her.

Word Count: 1,550

(shout out to my friend @jvnusanders because their reblog reminded me that I actually started this months ago on a scrap of paper in work and completely forgot about it!)

Disclaimer: There is no appearance by Damien in this. But since it’s regarding that ship, I’ve tagged it as such.

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A week came and went. Celine had not heard a peep from her brother. Their Wednesday afternoon catch-up even resulted in Celine discovering that Damien had ‘accidentally’ scheduled meetings until late that night and would have to cancel. He was not the kind to clam up and ignore people for childish reasons, especially his sister. Something happened, and Celine knew something needed to be done, even if she got no response from him. A quick interrogation revealed that William hadn’t seen the Mayor in over two weeks, so he was clueless about any potential problems. Celine herself had met Damien three days before he withdrew, and he was in good spirits with no obvious problems. Before she started trying to question Damien’s secretary, there was one other person to ask…

-

“Ah, Celine! Marvellous timing. I was just about to have someone fetch you.” Mark’s outstretched arms emphasised his dramatic greeting. A quick hug was shared before she found herself being dragged into the spacious living room. It wasn’t what she wanted - something about Mark’s new home made her feel rather uncomfortable for reasons she couldn’t quite explain - but she decided to ignore the feeling in favour of trying to find out how to help her brother.

“I don’t intend to take up much time, Mark. I wanted to check if you -”

“So I’ve had this problem nagging at me all week and I haven’t the foggiest notion of how to fix it.” Celine had to repress a heavy sigh at the interruption by Mark. It was a miracle he was allowed to continue without a scolding on basic manners. “I took your advice and decided to take time to understand myself and what I want for myself. I even asked a fine young gentleman I rather admire out for dinner the following night. Trouble is, he rejected me so harshly and has refused to talk to me since. I’m afraid I’m at a loss on how to have a second chance with him.” As Mark explained his woes, Celine slowly massaged her temple with two fingers.

“You said this was a week ago.”

“Correct.”

“The day after you spoke to me.”

“Also correct.”

Celine sunk her head into her hands. She was no detective, but even a fool could piece this together. “Mark… Did you invite Damien to dinner that night?” Her simple question cracked the bravado clean in two, and Mark slumped forward. A hand brushed through his hair as he tried to regain some sort of composure.

“I… I didn’t think through my actions. Of course it was a terrible idea, in hindsight. I honestly did want his company, but he -”

“Let me guess. Your big mouth mentioned that you had spoken to me the night before?” Mark gave a guilty nod at her conclusion. “And now he won’t talk to any of us because he feels like a spare. Fantastic.”

--

“None of you?”

“No, genius. He has refused to talk to both myself and William all week. In case you haven’t realised, the three of us are involved in this mess, and you weren’t the only one confiding in Damien about me. Then, when you realise I’m not available and you might not be interested in women at all, you suddenly gain interest in the man who looks very much like me. I’d bet your head was so far up your own ass you didn’t stop to think how horrible that would be for Damien. I had just reached a stage where Damien felt comfortable talking about his sexuality and the idea of dating, and you’ve gone and ruined all that with your impulsive selfishness!”

“My selfishness?” Mark barked, clearly offended. “I was acting on your advice! You told me to talk to another man and see how it went.”

“I never said to chat up Damien the next day, you fool!” Even if her temper was short, she at least could refrain from cursing like a sailor to keep some sort of focus on the matter at hand. “I know Damien better than anyone else, and all your short-sighted ‘me first’ mentality has achieved is cementing his own fear of being used because of it. I would bet good money that he is now convinced that you only wanted to talk to him because he was the next best thing to satisfying your obsession with me.”

“You don’t get it. If he had stayed longer, then he would have seen that I was trying to express my interest in him!”

“Oh, so it’s his fault. Is that what you’re trying to tell me?”

“I’m not saying that. I’m trying to tell you that if he were to have dinner with me, all this could be brushed aside as a big misunderstanding.” Mark’s words hung in the air for several agonisingly long seconds. Celine rose to her feet, face devoid of any warmth or friendliness.

“You better be joking, Mark. For your sake, this better be some twisted joke. My brother is not some pawn for you to experiment your sexuality with. He is not some ‘spare’ because I’m not interested, for God’s sake!” She snatched up her shawl instead of following her idea of slapping Mark on Damien’s behalf. “If you know what’s best, you’ll stay away from him.”

“Then what do I do if I think I do like him, Celine? You can’t possibly expect me to avoid him forever while unsure if I missed a wonderful opportunity or not.” It was Mark’s turn to pull himself off the couch to stand his ground.

“You keep away from him. You’re only interested in him because you’re trying to reflect your feelings for me somewhere else. I’m not letting you break his heart and make him too wary to ever consider a relationship. He’s sacrificed his personal life enough for this city and I’m not letting you take away his only chance at happiness.”

“Ugh, you’re being ridiculous. His ‘only’ chance. What are you, six? I do care about him, and I want to prove that by inviting him out to talk! What is so hard to understand about this? Your brother is a very attractive young man and I would be honoured to spend an evening in his company!” That was something he didn’t intend to admit, but out it slipped. He crossed the room to the fireplace to pick up a photograph. It was the four of them not long after Damien won the election. “And it’s not because he looks like you, before you remind me yet again. You aren’t identical, and that’s what I notice. For instance, your smiles are different… I never realised how I loved seeing him laugh until he stormed out last week. It brightened the room, Celine. Did you know that? I used to find myself at a loss for words when we were left alone. He’s so intelligent and charming, and when he smiled at me like I was the most important thing in the world… How did I not recognise these feelings sooner?”

“Because you were raised to look for it in a woman’s gaze?” Celine suggested, calming herself enough to follow after him. “Did you tell him any of this?”

“Of course not. Admitting I liked men to him was hard enough. I was going to, had he stayed… But you’re right. He probably wouldn’t believe me now.” The frame was returned to its rightful spot with care. “If I can be honest, I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried telling myself that it’s something that will blow over, or that it will take little to at least have us on speaking terms again. It won’t be that simple, will it?”

“This isn’t one of your plays, Mark. It’s going to take time for Damien to trust you again. Life is there for the taking, but you need to give it time before doing anything. Promise me that you won’t do anything reckless?” Celine gave Mark a hopeful look, and he was reminded why he believed he loved her. Maybe, in a way, he still did; but he needed to accept it wasn’t the same as what was bubbling in his heart for the soft-spoken politician. “I’m going to try and talk to him this weekend. I’ll let him talk about everything that happened. If you mean what you’ve said, and you genuinely care about him without any fake pretence, then you will not make any attempts to woo him next time you meet him.” It wasn’t an ideal solution for Mark, but he had to accept it. Celine did know better, and he knew better than to cross her. Before he could respond, she wrapped her shawl around her and made her way to the front door.

“Celine, wait!” Mark scrambled after her, not wanting to see her go without saying goodbye. “Thank you. For not simply slapping me and leaving, I mean. I’ll be more cautious if I’m granted a second chance.”

“What can I say? Damien brings out the patience in me.” Also her protective streak, which was quick to follow. “He is my little brother, Mark. If you screw up that second chance, I’ll personally see to it that you spend New Year’s in a wheelchair. Have a good day.”

[just-random-obsessions]

Funny Moments In Thor The Dark World

Find Thor 1 here

Find Avengers 1 here

This is the second part of me watching all three thor movies and the avengers movie and comparing the humor pre-ragnarok to the humor in the 3rd Thor movie. And, as before, I’m writing this on my computer where the I and U keys don’t work so sorry for any spelling mistakes.

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Official-and-unstable-satan and fandomsfanfiction weren’t tagged sry

Anyone who wants to be added/removed to the tag list please let me know! and if I missed someone please also let me know. Sorry this post is so long

~ “Hello Mother. Have I made you proud?”

~ “Please don’t make things worse” “Define worse”

~ “I really don’t see what all the fuss is about”

~ “Just like you”

~ *That smile!!!!*

~ “I’ve got this completely under control!” “Is that why everything’s on fire?”

~ *About the Scary MonsterTM: “All yours”

~ *Thor says hi to the Big Scary MonsterTM*

~ “I accept your surrender”

~ “Anyone else?” *All the people simultaneously: NOPE*

~ “Perhaps next time we should START with the big one”

~ *Odin obviously shipping Thor and Jane* (idk I got a kick out of this)

~ *Jane awkwardly avoiding her date*

~ *Date: hi*

~ *Him awkwardly talking about his ex*

~ “And the fact that she kept sleeping with other men” “NO!”

~ *Darcy being mistaken for a waitress*

~ *Darcy mouthing “Cute” to Jane about Richard*

~ *Darcy embarrassing Jane by talking about Thor*

~ “Is there a point to all of this cause there REALLY needs to be a point to all of this”

~ “That’s what I said!”

~ “That’s what I did!”

~ “He’s not interested” “I’m interested” (Am I the only one who feels like his awkwardness was actually kinda cute?)

~ “He’s my intern.” “You have an intern?”

~ *Intern is fucking adorable like Richard*

~ “I have totally mastered driving in London!” *Has not mastered it at all*

~ *Selvig running around Stonehenge naked*

~ *Darcy keeps calling Ian ‘Intern’*

~ *Darcy calls Jane cause she didn’t wanna shout*

~ God I fucking love Darcy she’s so criminally underrated

~ “I am not getting stabbed in the name of science”

~ “It’s okay, we’re Americans!” “Is that supposed to make them like us?”

~ “We’re scientists-well I am” “Thanks”

~ “That doesn’t seem right”

~ “I wanna throw something! Jane give me your shoe!”

~ *Jane ignores Darcy*

~ “Give me your shoe”

~ “Were those the car keys?”

~ *Ian’s face when he realizes he threw the car keys to another planet*

~ *If you have to bury so many people then you’re doing something wrong you hot dumb fuck* (I mean that’s basically what Heimdall said right?)

~ “Typical” *after being left behind while Jane goes to talk to her boyfriend*

~ *Jane! Love of my life and most talented and beautiful person in the world oh how I love yo-SLAP*

~ “As excuses go, its not terrible”

~ “I know” “You do?” “Do what?”

~ *Darcy interrupts the KissTM*

~ “Um I’m pretty sure we are getting arrested”

~ “How’s space?” “Space is fine”

~ “He’s my intern… My intern’s intern”

~ “Holy shit!” (after Jane went up in the Bifrost)

~ *Heimdall calmly dodges the car*

~ “We have to do that again”

~ “Hello”

~ “What’s that?”

~ “It’s a soul forge” *No I’m pretty sure that’s a quantum field generator*

~ *Jane being ready to fight Odin for comparing her to a goat*

~ “You told your dad about me?”

~ “It must be so inconvenient, them asking about me day and night”

~ “Please meet my mother” *Jane shies away from Thor*

~ Loki casually tossing the thingamajig in the air like the cute little shit he is

~ Lord, he’s so damn pretty

~ *Kurse being like: Lol I ain’t touchin’ that boy with a ten foot pole*

~ “It’s as if they resent being in prison”

~ “There’s no pleasing some creatures”

~ *Loki calmly reading a book while all Hel breaks loose*

~ “You have my word that no harm will come to yo-” nvm bitch die

~ *THAT look between Sif and Jane*

~ *Frigga immediately seeing through Odin’s bs lies*

~ *Heimdall: I have defeated the big space ship!! The bigger one behind him: Bitch you thought*

~ “WITCH!!!!” *Now I know who Loki gets his amazing aforementioned smile from*

~ *Selvig using shoes to explain complicated science*

~ *Selvig then using pencils*

~ “Any questions?” “Yeah, can I have my shoe back?”

~ “What’s SHIELD?” “It’s a secret”

~ *Darcy’s cute af face when she sees that Selvig is in the mental hospital*

~ “Are you sure you wouldn’t just rather punch your way out?”

~ *Loki shapeshifting into the guard*

~ “Mmm Brother, you look ravishing”

~ “Costumes a bit much”

~ “So tight!”

~ “I can FEEL the righteousness surging!!”

~ “HEY wanna have a rousing discussion about truth?”

~ “Honor?”

~ “Patriotism?”

~ “GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

~ “At last. A little common sens-”Bitch are you really fucking kidding me? (What do you mean that’s not what he said?)

~ “I thought you liked tricks”

~ “I’m Loki, you may have heard of-” SLAP

~ “That was for New York”

~ “I like her”

~ *Loki gazing lovingly at Jane in the background*

~ “Betray him, and I’ll kill you.” “It’s good to see you too Sif”

~ “If you even think about betraying him-” “You’ll kill me? Evidently there will be a line”

~ “I thought you said you knew how to fly this thing.” “I said how hard can it be?”

~ “Whatever your doing brother I suggest you do it faster.” “Shut up Loki

~ “You must’ve missed something.” “I didn’t, I’m pressing every button on this thing”

~ “Well don’t hit it. Just press it, gently.” “I aM pReSsInG iT gEnTlY AND ITS NOT WORKING!!!”

~ *Thor starts slamming buttons and it starts working*

~ *Volstagg: Oh fighting is much fun- OH SHIT IM FALLING!! HELP!!!*

~ “I think you missed a column.” “Shut up”

~ “Why don’t you let me take over? I’m clearly the best pilot”

~ *Bitch I’m the one who can actually fly*

~ “Oh dear. Is she dead?”

~ *Thor knocks over a column* “Not a word”

~ “Now they’re following us”

~ “Now they’re firing at us”

~ “Yes thank you for the commentary Loki, it’s not at all distracting”

~ “Well done, you just decapitated your grandfather”

~ *Seriously, whoever wrote the escape scene is a genius!!!*

~ *Loki yelling at Thor about how thIs was a bad idea you dumb fuck- wait wtf are you doing AAAAHHHHH!!!!1*

~ “You lied to me. I’m impressed”

~ *That smile again snfnejaihfeqrqrsbdsalxdjewonjfeq*

~ “For Asgard!” YEET

~ “Nothing personal boys!”

~ “If it were easy, everyone would do it”

~ “Are you mad?” “Possibly”

~ “TADAAA”

~ “Oh yeah, my father. Eric Selvig”

~ “And these” “yeah… those”

~ “How did you find me?” “You were naked on television”

~ “I don’t get paid enough. I don’t get paid at all”

~ “What’s happening? Birds? Birds are happening?”

~ “All right are you ready?” “I am”

~ *phone rings* “It’s not me”

~ “Why are there so many shoes in here?”

~ “I’ll just text her”

~ “So who’s Richard?”

~ *Thor hanging his hammer on a coat hanger*

~ “Where are your pants?” “Oh he says it helps him think”

~ “Loki is dead” “Oh thank God!”

~ “Better get my pants”

~ “Do you even know what these things do?” “No” “…Neither do I”

~ “Ooh get the guy with the sword!”

~ “Oops”

~ *Ian’s high-pitched scream*

~ *Does car insurance cover My Car Was Sucked Into Another Planet Due To A Cosmic Event That Only Occurs Once Every 5000 Years or no?*

~ *Thor and Malekith fighting between worlds and poor little Mjolnir trying to keep up*

~ *The two of them against windows*

~ *AAAHHH*

~ *Awww! Look at the cute little Jotunheim monster! He’s so adorable I wanna pet him so much!’

~ *Darcy and Ian kissing after he saved her life*

~ “Darcy?” “Jane!” “Ian?” “Selvig.”

~ “Myuh Myuh!!”

~ *Thor ends up on the subway*

~ *The girl taking 50 photos*

~ *Thor and the woman colliding into eachother*

~ “I’ve come to accept your surrender”

~ *Malekith gets crushed by his own ship. Now that’s some lovely karma right there*

~ *Darcy and Ian go back to kissing*

~ “He kinda committed treason on our way out” oops

~ Jotunheim Puppy chasing birds

Wow I’m so sorry this was so long. But guess what? It’s gonna get even longer. Sorry, again.

So one of the differences between the first and second Thor movies is that Thor 2 has humor in the climax whereas Thor 1 doesn’t. This is because of the differences with who is the villain. In Thor 1, Thor is having to fight his brother. To quote Avengers, they “played together and fought together” for several millennia. Of course there’s not going to be any humor in it cause there shouldn’t be. The climax at the end of the movie isn’t supposed to be some epic battle between the forces of Good TM and Bad TM. It’s supposed to be tragic that he’s having to fight his own brother because Loki lost his mind due to so many factors. The last joke in the film is “You’re an amazon liar brother, always have been” “It’s good to have you back”. There’s nothing else till the end credit scene. That’s because Kenneth Branagh knew that this was supposed to be viewed at as being sad a hopeless, not some awesome upbeat battle.

Thor 2 on the other hand, is exactly that. Thor has known Malekith for.. what? 2 days? Maybe 3? His relationship and dynamic with Malekith is different than with his brother. To Thor, this is just another enemy attacking Asgard. And I’m not sure whether this was intentional or not (because I remember reading somewhere how Allen Taylor had a bitch of a time in the editing process so I think the movie came out different than he intended) but the lack of any personal relationship will Malekith means the film can make really funny jokes and still have it fit with the film. If anything, I might even argue that the humor helped the film to maintain a very nice positive vibe. Idk I can’t think of the right words to explain it but the jokes actually fit the film very well.

However, then we move on to Ragnarok. With Ragnarok, Thor is fighting his sister. While (just like Malekith) he has only known her for two days, that still doesn’t take away the fact that he is having to fight his sibling. And I’m not a film director but if I had the option of approaching this situation and taking it the Thor 1 route or the the Thor 2 route, I’d go with Thor 1. Because it’s actually incredibly tragic that Hela has been driven to insanity like Loki (though ok a different level) due to Odin’s shitty parenting. She is the horrible way she is because Odin made her that way. And that could’ve been an AMAZINGLY complex story with the audience feeling so much sympathy for Hela like we did with Loki in Thor 1, but the narrative just falls flat for two reasons. 1) Taika admitted he didn’t want the film to be emotionally complex so 2) The humor in the climax completely detracts from the seriousness of the situation.

Also, some side notes: Yes, this is edited from the original. I accidentally deleted everything and then had to go back and add everything back in. So I also had to re-tag people too. And I also added a bit more explanation at the end. I meant to do so when I originally posted but it never got done till now. Sry. Also sry that it’s so long

[chubeveryone]

Actually I love myself and my body deeply and dearly. Your blog is literally in all of the tags of chubby people trying to find positive representation. Its gross to fetishize us. Not just think we are attractive, I think fat people are beautiful and hot. But just like I think it’s fucked up for people to fetishize me because im black, it’s also fucked up to fetishize me for being fat. I love my body but blogs like yours are making literally every tag for chubby people impossible to navigate.

I think you’re being a real self-important asshole here but you do bring up some interesting stuff and I wanna discuss.

First of all, tags! I really actually do try to keep my art out of main tags for characters/ships/etc. What I usually do is like idk 6-10 kink specific tags (chubby [character], chubby kink, weight gain, etc) or miscellaneous tags first. Then I’ll go and tag characters, fandoms, ships etc mostly for blog organization but also? I DO actually want people to find my art, if they’re looking for it. I’m not sure how Tumblr works now, but it used to be that those first 5 tags were the only ones where the post in question would actually show. Everything after was only searchable on op’s blog.

Things got more complicated when they implemented search, so if what you mean is that you’re using the search function, that’s just going to literally show you EVERYTHING. There is no filter for that so you’re kind of taking your chances at that point I hate to break it to you.

But I don’t actually WANT to shove kink in people’s faces in particular, like I’m all for responsible tagging. The thing is that I thought I was kind of doing that already lol. I don’t try to use main tags, I provide nice handy blockable tags up front, and I kind of figured that was fine. If what you say is true and my posts ARE showing in like body posi tags for some fucking reason, I would like to know how to avoid that lol.

But also, It’s been a few uhhh years since I’ve even posted art here, so I don’t know how that could even be possible, actually. I guess it depends on what the tags are, because I’m afraid that if the tags you’re looking in are things like “chubby [character]” like YEAH it’s overrun with kink shit because that’s literally the tag we use! Idk colloquially, chubby![x] is usually what’s used for fat kink shorthand in fandom spaces. Perhaps that’s an oversight on our part and there’s something better we could be using but? I just don’t know.

Anyway the thing is that this is literally not FOR you. I know Tumblr is just sort of like that, as a platform, where you can’t really have your own private space, but I don’t WANT you here.

And It’s not SUPPOSED to be representation. I’m not like a network exec approving shit for millions to see on tv, this is like fully erotica that I am posting on my own blog for fun!! I’m not pretending it’s anything else.

It’s interesting because you said something like it’s fucked up for people to fetishize ME for being fat, like. Yeah, it is, but we’re not actually talking about you. We’re talking about, in this case, DRAWINGS of like fictional characters and celebrities, mostly. I’m NOT fetishizing you (or all fat people at once).

You might be surprised to know that a LOT of fat people, in real life, enthusiastically participate in this kink, and enjoy it very much! Real fat people with agency who choose this because it’s fun and they like it! Myself included! There’s nothing inherently wrong with a fat person being gluttonous on purpose, or gaining weight on purpose, or fattening up a consenting partner on purpose. Yes, obviously, you can make the argument that the artist chose this path for these particular characters and you’re correct lol. But, again, it’s not MEANT to be representation for all fat people. I’m not putting a stereotypical slobby fat character in a movie. It’s kink porn for adults who like that sort of thing, who experience sex and romance in a very particular way, who hopefully understand that what’s being depicted is not intended to degrade fat people as a whole, or, in my case, even the character being depicted! I don’t think of it as degradation at all.

I get why you think it’s gross and it makes you upset and you don’t want to see it but like take responsibility for your own shit and block me instead of lurking around here and sending me anon hate using a bunch of Purity Buzzwords like you think you’re gonna scare the kink out of me (you’re not)

[anime-alyssa]

princess alderaan - pt 2

one | two | three | four

tag-list: @ihavefailedyouanakin , @bitch-imma-head-out , @ravngers , @xxsirensong , @benskywsolo , @theroyalbrownbarbie

also on ao3.

“Just…don’t do anything stupid” “I’ll try but I can’t guarantee anything”

——

Leia had not stopped bragging to you for weeks about how she was right and how she knew you and Poe would be good together. She told you about how she threatened demotion, Chewie told you about how he threatened to rip his arm out of his socket (Poe didn't understand Wookiese, so you had to translate that for him, with laughter), and despite at least those threats (you also knew he definitely got more from other people, like Rey at least) he stuck around. He stole kisses from you in the corner of the Command Center, behind his X-Wing, and outside of your quarters.

You took late-night walks with him through the jungle almost every night. He told you about his life - his parents, his 'rebellious' phase after his mother passed and his job as a Spice Runner before going into the Resistance. You told him about growing up with Ben, the trouble the two of you would get into that drove your mother absolutely mad, and then living with your dad as a teenager on the Falcon and smuggling together.

Despite how the Resistance felt about your brother (the ones who knew what happened to him, that is), Poe let you talk about him endlessly. Which you were thankful for, because your mother got depressed whenever you talked about Ben or brought him up and you didn't think anyone else would care. But Poe did. He laughed at your antics and when you told him the story of when you two almost crashed the Falcon trying to get it to just lift off, resulting in two weeks worth of chores on the ship from your father as punishment. He really got a kick out of that one.

"I was 10 and he was 14 - he should have known better but how was I supposed to know better?" you said in your defense.

"Best pilot in the galaxy, huh?" he replied to you with a smirk, wrapping his arms around your waist in the moonlight. Poe didn't give you a chance to fight back because his lips were on yours in a matter of seconds. Every time you kissed, you felt butterflies in your stomach and felt sparks on your lips. He was a pain in the ass but he absolutely swept you off your feet, and you weren't complaining. His hand always found its way to your hair, gently knotting itself there as yours found the back of his neck, attempts to bring you two closer than before. You ended up flush against each others bodies - as flush as you could get with clothes on.

You and Poe had discussed taking things slow. You had never really dated before - who would even dare try to go near you with Han Solo and a Wookie for body guards in your teens - and Poe was just really trying to not screw things up. You only just got past the touching each other territory and exploring each others bodies in the darkened room of his quarters, and while he may seem like the type who would want to immediately move things to third base, he was ever so gentle with you and refused to do anything to you that you weren't comfortable with.

He made you incredibly happy, anybody with eyes could see that. And you did the same to him.

Currently, the two of you were laying on his bed, you in one of his shirts and him in just his boxers, dreading getting up for the morning. His arms were around your waist and his head was buried into your neck, sound asleep. You woke before him most mornings like these, knowing that you had to get back to your quarters with your mother to change and get ready. However, he didn't make it easy for you. The second you moved he would hold you tighter, grumbling about how you didn't have to leave so early.

"Only one of us can be late for the meeting, and it's not going to be me." you whispered to him after he finishing complaining. He let out a tired laugh as he rolled onto his back, bringing you on top of him. You softly kissed him, using this as your means for escape. He complained as you threw on your pants and your own shirt instead of his, getting ready to depart his quarters.

"One of these days, you're not going to need to leave to get ready." he said tiredly to you, slowly trudging himself out of bed to say goodbye until later. He wrapped his bare arms around you and kissed you again. "I'll see you later, babe."

"Counting on it. Don't be late!" you said, scolding him as you walked out the door. You heard him huff with laughter as you shut it behind you, making your way over to your quarters and walking in quietly, in an attempt to not disturb your mother if she was still sleeping.

"Why don't you just leave clothes at Dameron's quarters? You already sleep there almost every night." your mother asked you as you walked in. Of course, you couldn't get lucky and have her be sleeping. That would just be the kind of luck that you knew you didn't have.

"I don't sleep there that often." you mumbled, going into your bedroom to use your refresher and get ready. Leia scoffed, walking out the door and leaving you to get ready. Deep down, you knew she was right. You should just leave some stuff at his place, but your inner anxiety told you that doing that would be to much of a commitment between you two. You knew that you liked Poe a lot, but you hadn't even told each other that you loved each other.

Did you love him? Probably. But did he love you? You didn't know. A relationship was uncharted territory for the two of you. You knew that you had never felt feelings this strong for anyone else in your life.

Those were things you would have to figure out at another time. For now, you needed to finish getting ready to go to a meeting with your mother and the rest of the base. You slipped into some fresh clothes quickly, brushing your hair out as you went and putting it in a low, lazy braid before walking out the door. You realized you were probably going to be late as you walked out the door, knowing that you'd probably hear it from Poe as you arrived. Sure enough, he shot a smirk your way as you went and stood by him.

"Only one of us can be late, huh?" he said to you. You shushed him as Leia looked at you narrowly, beginning the meeting.

"As many of you know, not only are we low on supplies but our spy in the First Order has recently contacted us. They claim to have some information on the rumored return of Emperor Palpatine. I know we haven't heard any of this ourselves through our radios, but we need to take any crumb we can get on this matter." Leia said to the group. You sighed next to Poe, almost forgetting about the Palpatine rumors all together. He placed a hand on your back and spoke up to the group.

"General, I volunteer myself for this mission. Let me, Finn and Rey get the supplies and the information. As long as we have the drop points and coordinates, we will be fine." Poe said to her.

"And what ship do you intend to use for that?" she asked him. You felt Poe stiffen next to you, and you immediately knew that he was going to ask. Chewie made a low growl from behind you, signaling that he knew too.

"With General Solo's permission... the Falcon." he said slowly. Chewbacca put a paw on your shoulder and Finn looked at you from next to Rey and Rose, as did your mother. Sighing, you spoke up.

"Only if I'm allowed on the mission and Chewbacca and I fly." you proposed. Chewbacca growled out that it was a fair deal, Poe sighing next to you now.

"General Solo can go on the mission with you, and she pilots, Chewbacca co-pilots. Rey stays with me for training. You'll use R2 to save the transmission data, so he'll go as well." Leia said back to you. You nodded, as did Poe and Finn. Chewbacca roared that he would go get the ship ready for take off as the meeting concluded. You were just about to follow Chewbacca when your mother snatched your arm. "Be careful. And you - just.... don't do anything stupid." she said to you, directing her last statement to Poe.

"I'll try, but I can't guarantee anything." Poe said back to her. She slapped his arm and looked back at you.

"He meant to say yes." you said as you lead Poe away from her, Finn following behind.

"General, are you sure you're okay with coming?" Finn asked you.

"Yes, Finn. If I wasn't, I wouldn't have volunteered to come in the first place. Plus, I'm not letting Poe ruining my father's ship again." you said, walking onto the Falcon.

"I mess up the hyperdrive one time..." he mumbled as you made your way to the pilots seat. Poe slid into the seat behind you and Finn on the opposite behind Chewie. R2 beeped in encouragement from behind all of you, locking himself down as to not move. You plugged the coordinates in and with shaky hands, began to take off. You lifted off from the planet quickly, seeing the ground get smaller below you until eventually, you were in the stars and could see the planet below you.

"Prepare to make the jump. Strap in, boys. Lock down, R2." you said to them. Chewbacca gave you a roar of acknowledgment as you pulled down the lever to jump into hyperspace. The Falcon soared into it, leaving you a moment to catch your breath. Chewbacca called you out for your nervousness, and in this moment you were thankful neither could understand him. "I am not! Be quiet you." you scolded back to him. Poe and Finn looked between the two of you curiously - but said nothing to try and guess what was going on. "When we arrive, Finn and Chewie will get the supplies onto the ship while Poe opens up the top hatch to get the information from the spy loaded onto R2. I'll stay over here so incase we need to make a quick getaway, we can." you told them. Everyone seemed to agree, which made you feel better as you jumped out of hyperspace.

The second you did though, your heart dropped.

"Shit - cloak the ship now!" you cursed upon seeing a few TIE fighters in the area. Chewbacca roared as he did so and you sped up, buzzing past them. "Okay, we may need to make this quicker than we thought." you said to them.

"Chewie, go with Finn to the back and get ready for the supplies, I'll take over!" Poe said to him. Chewbacca looked at you for approval and when you nodded, he did as Poe said. "This isn't going to be easy, babe." he said to you.

"I know it isn't." you told him back, going in for your landing and lowering the ramp, also opening the top hatch in the process. "Get that information!" you told him. He nodded as he stood up, running with R2 following him to get the information from the spy. You were on edge, nerves kicking in as you just had a feeling that this wasn't going to go well, like Poe said. "Hurry up!" you shouted back to them. Chewbacca and Finn were back on the Falcon, ramp now sealed and waiting on Poe.

"It's almost there!" Poe shouted back. In the distance, you could hear TIE fighters closing in. "Got it! Close the hatch and punch it!" He shouted. Chewbacca closed the hatch as you hauled ass away from the location, TIEs now following you from behind.

"Finn get on that gun!" you shouted.

"Copy that, General!" he shouted back, running to the gun. Moments later he started to shoot as Poe made his way back to the cockpit, sitting behind you and Chewbacca.

"They're tracking us, you can't make the jump without them following." Poe said to you.

"No kidding?!" you practically shouted back.

"I can get them off our trail, but you might not like it..." he said to you. Chewbacca protested immediately as you took a quick moment to think. "Trust me." he said. Reluctantly, you gave up your seat in the pilot's chair and Poe took over.

"R2, lock down!" you shouted back to the astromech. He beeped in response as you heard him do so, strapping yourself in, nervous for what was to come.

"Strap in everyone, the only way to get them off our trail is to lightspeed skip!" Poe said.

"What?!" you nearly shouted at him. Before you could protest he already had made the first jump. You were thrown back in your seat as they escaped the first jump, flying through god-knows-where.

"They're still on us, Poe!" Finn shouted from the gunner.

"I know! Just trust me, we'll be fine!" Poe shouted back to him. He got ready to make another jump, but not before the ship ran alongside a cliff.

"Poe!" you yelled to him. You were ignored as you entered yet another world, TIEs still following you even as you made it out. You were fuming at him right now. Even if he was correct about this being the only way to get the TIEs off their tale, he was practically ruining the Falcon. You were thrown back into your seat as you made one last jump, through some sort of creature, and you were back in your normal system.

"They're gone." Finn said, running back up from the guns. You sighed with relief, desperate to get home. Poe turned to you with a small smirk after he landed the ship on the ground.

"Told you we'd be fine." he said to you.

"Yeah, at what cost to my father's ship?" you said to him, getting up and running outside to see the damage. Your heart sunk when you saw the outside of the ship was on fire, thankfully already being put out by some droids. In the corner of your eye you saw your mother and Rey, sad look on both their faces.

"Baby..." he said, reaching out to you. You turned on your heel and made way for your mother, tears in your eyes. He stayed behind and watched you go this time.

[jungle321jungle]

Run A Rig: Part Two

He wanted the title, and the Captain wanted to be anything but idle.

The Siren wanted the sea, and the liar wanted all to be free.

They wanted their brother back, but each journey is more perilous than the last.

The Serpent’s Song is a ship for many, and at the same time a ship for none. Because when everyone runs a rig, nothing true can be done.

Tagging: @hells-missing-a-goat @angels-and-dreams @ollyollyoxinfree @gattonero17 @chumo-cookie

Ao3 - Masterlist

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Part Two

“The naive one trusts you to the depths of the sea and back.”

Logan’s eyes narrowed at the siren as he sat in the lamplight, “He has no reason not to.”

The siren’s eyes shone with mirth as he leaned forward pulling against his chains, “Not yet.”

“I’ve come to make an offer.”

“Oh? The Captain has fallen for asking the lowly me for advice.”

“I don’t intend to ask ye for advice.”

“Then what do you want?”

“I simply ask that ye keep yer mouth shut to me crew about any and all things. Not a song nor a word, and if ye do I might reconsider selling ye.”

“If you don’t sell me... what will you do?”

“Keep ye. My foes would fall easy with a beast such as ye on my side.”

The Siren gave him a look of disbelief, “You want me to be one of your stupid crew?”

“I’m still not sure what I want right now,” Logan admitted leaning back in his chair with a sigh. “So in the meantime I suppose I’ll play the role of Captain. And that means building me legacy... Far beyond what me picaroon of a father ever could. And a siren for an officer would be a good way to do that.”

The siren was silent for a moment and Logan could feel the way his purple eyes watched him searching for answers that Logan truthfully didn’t have. 

“And what if I chose to run?” He asked finally. “I join your crew then promptly jump ship?”

“Then I’d capture you and kill ye.”

“You think you could?” The siren challenged. 

“I’m more capable than I look,” Logan replied leaning forward in his seat. “If needed I will pierce that tail of yours and ye would never swim again. So tell me beast... Do ye have a name?”

The siren gave him a glare, “...Virgil.”

“Virgil,” Logan repeated, trying it out. “I’ll give ye some time to think over me offer. But we will be at the nearest port within week’s end.” He stood from his seat and picked up the lantern moving toward the door. “If ye choose to be silent until I return we can continue this conversation. Goodnight Virgil.”

~~~~

“Now yer looking like a Captain.”

Logan had to agree as he admired his new coat. It was long and a deep black, with blue details. And his hat on his head matched, it seemed all the coin he had paid had been worth it. 

“Now that ye look like Captain yer gonna need to act like it,” Dee commented. 

“Ye are the only one who seems to think I don’t act like one.”

Dee gave a shrug as he sat on Logan’s bed, “Perhaps it’s because I know ye best... To me yer always Logan first. And Captain second.”

“Break that habit,” Logan advised. “Would ye gather the crew? I’m going to fetch our pet.”

“Is it time to sell the beast?r” A deckhand asked as Logan approached pulling Virgil by the chains as he did. 

“Switch forms beast,” said another. “You’ll go for more looking like the monster ye are.”

Virgil barred his teeth, but he didn’t say a word. 

“Now now,” Logan chided with a smile. “Be nice, we’ve had a change of plans... we will not sell the Siren. Instead we will use him. I have already begun to tame him. And he will be the downfall of anyone who dares to face us.”

“Ye want to trust it?” Dee asked in surprise. 

“I never said trust,” Logan corrected taking in the surprised faces of his crew. “I said use. I have no trust in him, which is why he is still chained. Also he will be contained in my Cabin so I can watch him. But he knows not to charm any here, unless he wishes for a taste of the cat.”

The elicited a murmur from the crew and Logan couldn’t help but smile. “We leave come morning. But until then I suggest a party on the newcomer’s behalf. For the Serpent's Song has become the first! And the only ship, to tame a Siren!”

“So this is what you humans always drink,” Virgil remarked scrunching his nose at the rum he had tasted. “It’s disgusting.”

“It’s not for taste,” Logan replied. 

“You don’t drink?” He guessed. 

Logan shrugged, “Someone has to keep an eye on ye.”

He rolled those purple eyes of his before he stared down at the liquid in his mug. “Somehow I severely doubt that’s the reason.” 

Logan looked away from him to where him men were making fools of themselves about the deck, “Let me ask something of ye Siren.”

“What is it you want, human?”

Logan’s eyes didn’t leave the crowd, “Which of them desires to kill me?”

“Humans have many desires.”

Logan gave a hum, “That many?”

“Aye.”

~~~~

As a child Logan had wanted many things. 

At his youngest he had simply yearned for the day the father his mother had always spoken of would return from the sea for them.

When his mother had found out that his father had married another, he had still wanted to meet him and the younger brother he supposedly had. 

When his mother’s drinking had lost them the little they had he had wanted to give his father a piece of his mind. 

When his mother had moved them into the brothel he wanted to be anywhere but hiding in that closet. So he’d escape to his mind, and he’d wish to stand by his father’s side on the Serpent’s Song. 

When the ship had come he had wanted so bad to speak to its Captain he had snuck on the ship. He had shouted and kicked at the deckhand who grabbed his arm until he got what he wanted and had been brought before the Captain.  

Then when he had stood there watching the Captain smile at a boy younger than him, and he wanted that so bad he had shouted his mother’s name. 

And when the Captain- his father had sent his wife and his young son away before he had regarded Logan with a hard expression. Logan had wanted him to embrace him, to smile at him, to call him his son. 

So when his father had told him he could only remain on the ship as a nobody, as present to the boy who was his brother, he wanted it so badly that his child mind hadn’t considered the consequences. 

And as the years passed and Logan found himself ignored while Dee got everything. Dee would get their father’s attention, Dee would get their father’s love, and all Logan received was being treated like property. In those moments of inequality there was only one thing he wanted: to be by his mother’s side. Because at least she had loved him. 

But he as much as he wanted that, he knew he couldn’t have it. The Captain had given him as a present to Dee, and if Logan did not follow orders he knew where it would land him. And if he left, he knew he wouldn't live long enough to see his mother again. 

“So did ye have a specific destination in mind?” Dee asked as they sat pouring the maps. “I know ye simply want to show off our little siren, but-”

“I am older than you,” Virgil cut in. “And I’m also bigger than you with my tail.”

Dee ignored him, “But are there any beats ye wish to hit? Do ye want to go home or something?”

Logan blinked in surprise, “Home?”

“Ye were a stowaway,” Dee shrugged but Logan could tell there was more to it. “But did ye have family?”

“A mother,” Logan nodded slowly. “But I doubt she’d be happy to see I’ve become a pirate... she's not exactly the biggest fan.”

“Was her ship attacked, or something?”

Logan shook his head, “No, she was just wronged by one. She’s one of many who have been.”

Dee gave a shrug, “Okay so not there then. Where?”

Logan paused before he pointed to a town on the map. “Tilia, the Merchant City.”

“That’s a major trading town. It’s full of soldiers,” Dee said in surprise. “We can’t get in there.”

“Virgil,” Logan asked after a moment. “How loud can you sing?”

The siren gave a smile, “Cover your ears and lets see.”

Logan nodded, “We've got many leagues to cover before we arrive in the City. We can test it out a few times first.”

~~~~

Logan glanced back at his crew to see them all watching apprehensively, and he could only hope their makeshift ways to block their ears would work. 

He looked down into the water to where he could see Virgil’s scaled form swimming beside the ship. He gave the creature a nod and with that Virgil swam ahead in the fog to where the merchant ship could be seen. 

Beside him the chain and rope which had been connected to Virgil began to fall into the water. He nervously readjusted the cloths he had used to cover his ears before he replaced his Captain’s hat. 

And after a moment he heard it. 

He couldn’t make out the words or anything, but he could hear a faint melody. It was soft and so far away, like a memory edging at his mind, but it didn’t go further than that as they approached the merchant ship. 

By the time they had arrived beside the ship he could already see men jumping from the ship to the waters below. Logan gave a smile as he motioned for his men to board the ship. 

“That went perfectly!” Dee praised as he ran his hand through the loot. “Wait until we get to the City. It will be the motherload!”

“Can I truly not eat him?” Virgil frowned at their prisoner. 

“Did ye not eat enough?” Logan asked in surprise. 

Virgil gave a shrug, “Your human food or fish are fine and all, but nothing is better than the taste of human flesh.”

“And that is precisely why ye are still chained.”

“Please,” The merchant begged from where he had been bound and left on the floor. Tears gathered behind his cracked glasses, and his expensive clothes were torn. “Please,” he whimpered again and Logan gave a sigh. 

“Sniveling isn’t needed. I won’t kill ye. In fact I want ye help.”

“Anything,” he nodded quickly. 

“We’re bound for the Merchant City,” Logan told him plainly. And yer going to help us get in.”

The merchant’s mouth opened and closed in surprise but finally he nodded, “O-okay...”

“Perfect. Ah where are me manners? I am captain of the Serpent's Song, Logan. This here is me first mate, Dante. And me Siren, Virgil.”

“It was you singing...”

Virgil gave a shrug, “Aye, I’m kind of forced to be here too. But at least I got a good meal today. Do you have a name merchant?”

The man gave a sniff to stifle his tears, “Patton.”

Logan nodded, “When we approach ye will board a small boat with a few of me crew and Virgil. Ye will take them to the center of the port without altering anyone. Understand?”

“Yes.”

“Yer missing something there,” Dee tossed in. “It’s aye Captain.” 

“...Yes Captain.”

Logan gave a nod as he considered the merchant before he moved forward and drew his dagger. He saw as the man tensed but he paid it no mind as he cut the man’s rope bonds. “I trust I won’t need to replace them?”

He nodded quickly, “You won’t.”

“Well that was mildly entertaining,” Virgil drawled. “Now what?”

“I suppose I should divide the loot for me men,” Logan mused. “Before they begin to steal from it.”

“How much do I get?”

“Do ye sirens even have a need for money?” Dee asked him. 

Logan watched as Virgil gave Dee a once over, “I’m living with you humans now... and I like pretty things.”

~~~~

Part One - Part Two - Part Three

[ryqoshay]

So I just finished reading all of How to Handle a Nico and I absolutely fucking loved it, do you have any NicoMaki fanfic recommendations of your own?

I must offer my apologies for the delay in response. I did not forget you, Anon, despite answering two questions that came in after this one. However, I wanted to wait until I knew I had a good amount of time I could dedicate to making a proper list of recommendations worthy of my time in the LL/NicoMaki fandom, which is typically sometime during my weekend.

Also, please bear in mind that this list is not all-inclusive. NicoMaki has one of, if not the most extensive list of fanworks out of the various LL ships. If someone reading this list is a fan of, or the author of a given work not included, please do not take it personally, this is merely a sampling of my favorites. There are genres and tags that I tend to avoid for various reasons, and there are many perfectly good works with the NicoMaki ship tag that I haven’t read simply because they are not the primary focus. And due to current events, as well as those of last year, there is a sizable backlog of NicoMaki focused fics that I hope to get around to reading sometime soon.

And as I expect this to get long, I will put the list itself under a cut.

First and foremost, I must shamelessly shill an author whose first forays into NicoMaki fanfic are based on HtHaN. It’s been almost a year since the first one went up and I remain in awe that I was able to pay forward the inspiration given to me by other authors. For this list I will only be including said works based on HtHaN, though VNVdarkangel has written some other NicoMakis I haven’t read yet.  - Always there - Nico wakes up in the middle of the night. Some post-canon fluffy angst.  - On tracks to the heart - Takes place during the scene transition in Homecoming.  - Meet ‘n’ greet - Nico has a meet ‘n’ greet event and Maki shows up  - Part-time idol composer - Nico hires Riko to compose some idol music for Egao. Minor YohaRiko to keep up the casual connections between HtHaN and HL.  - Next steps... - A long, multi-chapter work that takes place after the numbered chapters of HtHaN. This work tells the story of NicoMaki as they take advantage of the research mentioned way back in Telling Mama. Yay science babies!  - Out of focus - Maki can’t focus on anything but Nico  - The door to dreams - Riko finds the piano from How to Celebrate a Maki and Maki finds Riko. More minor YohaRiko from HL.  - Idol trainer - A non-NicoMaki, RinPana honorable mention tied to HtHaN

Next, I must link a few things from jstonedd, whose works I can point to as being among those that helped cement NicoMaki as a my favorite ship.  - Buy Your Love - By the gods, I’ve honestly lost track of how many times I’ve reread this fic. It is also responsible for my headcanon that Tsubasa teaches Honoka how to skate, which I thusly include in Nico on Ice.  - Soldier Wars - If memory serves, this work earns its M rating less for lewd stuff and more for action movie depictions of violence, like an R rated Charlie’s Angels or something.  - After School Troublemakers - Earns its tag of Fluff and Crack.  - Babies Maybe - More Fluff and Crack I only skimmed the first few chapters of Otonokizaka Private Academy and it didn’t seem very NicoMaki focused or really much my cup of tea. But I’ve heard others like it, and it was finally completed a few years back, so there’s that.

One author with whom I’ve interacted moreso than any other - maybe not VNVdarkangel as of late, but... - is the creator of one of my favorite Fantasy AUs, which is often a genre I don’t read much as it so often leans on Harry Potter, of which I’m quite unfamiliar. Of course I say I often avoid Fantasy AUs despite now writing two... Anyway, we have a few differing headcanons and I must say it’s fun to have a civil discussion about them - as opposed to others that become heated and dissolve into ad hominum attacks like the one marked by Comment Deleted tombstones in the comments of HtHaN. Anyway, that train of thought derailed, so here are some of lonelypond’s works. Worth mentioning that most works take place in the U.S. instead of Japan, something that confused me for a few chapters when I first started reading, but have come to enjoy it, especially when places are mentioned that I know.  - Casual Lunacy - The aforementioned Fantasy AU as well as my introduction to this wonderful writer. Pulls in a quirky character from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, an adorable anime I’ve been meaning to finish. Maki is a werewolf. And I really need to reread this one at some point.  - PhotoJazz - Maki is a photographer and Nico is an actress.  - AU Yeah August - A collection of short 1 Shots. I haven’t read all of them, e.g. the Harry Potter one, but those I have were adorable, e.g. Summer Camp, Fake Dating and FWB.  - Christmas Confections - A collection of amazing Christmas themed works that rank among my favorite gifts each year since I first started reading them. I’d link them each individually, but they’re all amazing so just read them all; you won’t be disappointed. Maki and Christmas just go together and lonelypond writes them well.  - Can’t Get Started - To quote the summary “Nishikino Maki is trying to make it in the piranha fishbowl of movies, music and Hollywood. Yazawa Nico already has. And they keep crashing into each other.” Literally. It’s quite amusing. I’ve heard good things from other readers about the 1Kiss series but have only skimmed a few; they are high on my To Read list. The Idol House series came out during my troubled 2019, so it also remains on my To Read list. The Moonlight series seems to focus on NozoEli, which is fine, but for better or worse lowers it position on my To Read list. It’s lonelypond, so I do intend to read it eventually, but there are more NicoMaki focused fics that I’d like to get to first.

Next up is Lucia Hunter, a case where I must separate author from work. To this day I remain uncertain as to the details of the issues between this author and the denizens of Sukutomo, but the animosity exists nonetheless. Still, the listed works below were part of my gateway drugs into the wonderful world of NicoMaki fanfics.  - The Diamond Princess’s Melancholy - How NicoMaki came together.  - Love marginal - My favorite portrayal of KotoHonoUmi. NicoMaki is a side pairing here, and remain so through the rest of the works, but they’re still worth reading, imho.  - Shiranai Love*Oshiete Love - RinPana focus but NicoMaki still plays their role.  - Garden of Glass - de de deee de de deee Obviously NozoEli focused.

My first encounter with Rinforzando was a T rated cute and fluffy fic but they’ve done some pretty good NSFW works as well.  - Ten Years - Always enjoy a good adult NicoMaki fic. - Limbo - NSFW FWB NicoMaki - Caprice - NSFW 2nd Person post-canon NicoMaki. I’m not typically a fan of 2nd Person perspective, but this one was worth it.  - Cheers for Loving You - NicoMaki Secret Santa.

Hidekins is another author that has written a lot of NicoMaki I’ve enjoyed, but on a quick scan through the AO3 entries, few are jogging my memory with title and description alone. Perhaps I’ve read more here on tumblr? Perhaps I’ll come back and add more if I remember them better later.  - NicoMakisses - A set of five cute short NicoMaki stories about kisses.

Saberin writes a lot of 3rd year stuff, and that’s fine, but the NicoMaki collection is worth checking out.  - Prickly Love - As of writing this list, there are 10 chapters of cuteness

whoneedsapublisher writes a lot and I enjoy the style. Thus, when I see NicoMaki pop up on the account, I try to read.  - Couples Therapy - One of my favorite Maki headcanons is included here. Not explicit but earns its M rating and thus is NSFW.  - Subtle - Not particularly crazy about the Nico-taller-than-Maki, but that’s a minor complaint compared to the rest of this wonderful work.  - At Least Six Confessions - Presequel to the above work. Poor Nico had her work cut out for her with a romantically dense Maki.  - Keep Your Promises - Ten years later...  - Happy New Year - Sometimes stalemates must be broken by someone.  - Hidden Depth - Nico’s voice changes. And Maki likes it  - Pretending to Pretend - Not explicit, but earns its M rating so NSFW. One of my favorite examples of the Fake Dating trope.  - Merry Christmas Maki - I can’t think of a better present.  - No Lies Allowed - Truth of Dare, NicoMaki style.  - All Dressed Up - Based on a wonderful pic by noelclover  - Santa’s Stand-in - Guess who still believes...  - Switcheroo - Always love the idea of the girls trying to behave like the others. Makes me want to rewatch that episode.  - Tick, Tock - Some introspective Maki  - Insensitive - NicoMaki dating issues  - Tomatoes - Maki’s favorite food I’ve heard good things about Dazzling Warrior Nightshade, so it’s on my To Read List, but I must admit I can be picky about my Magical Girls stuff. Madoka set an... interesting bar for the genre for me and in most cases I’d prefer to watch it as an anime or read it as a manga/doujin. Still, the idea of Nico being a magic girl amuses me greatly, thus why the fic remains on my radar.

And here are some other random works I’ve enjoyed over the years.  - Smile, Nico Nico! - In which Nico drags Maki to the dentist  - Billiards - NSFW 2nd Person. Yes, I know I just said I’m not typically a fan, but this one was also good.  - Piano For Beginners - NSFW AU where Maki is assigned to teach Nico how to play the piano so as to be convincing for a film.  - critical rules for not-dating - NSFW FWB AU that I need to finish reading someday but was happy enough with what I’ve read that I’d still recommend it.  - 24 visits - Visits as in Nico the idol visiting Maki the doctor in the hospital.  - 24 dates - A NSFW followup to 24 visits

So yeah, that’s a fairly decent list to get one started in their AO3 NicoMaki delving. As mentioned above, this is not all-inclusive and there are a ton of NicoMaki works out there. I haven’t visited FFN in years, so there may still be some authors that post there exclusively and have written some amazing stuff, but I cannot recommend what I haven’t read, or at least skimmed. I also have some tumblr works bookmarked... somewhere, so if I find them I might compare them to this list and maybe add those missed.

Here’s hoping something here piques your interest and makes you fall a little more for the wonderful NicoMaki.