#now i don't wanna think abt writing bc it's all i've been doing since i started that fic

[meruz]

hi!! im sure ppl have asked this b4, but i scoured your asks tag for an hour or so looking to see if you answered anything abt it and couldnt find anything, so i was just wondering if youve made any posts on your process for making n selling merch b4? and how you know which franchises you can make merch for w/o getting into trouble w copyright n trademark stuff (hopefully that makes sense, im not sure,,,)

hi! got a bunch of asks abt merch stuff lately im gonna put it under a cut.

preface: i don't know if i'm the best person to ask about all this stuff because I'm doing merch on a strictly hobby basis LOL. I have a fulltime job which takes care of the bulk of my finances, I don't really make big quantities of anything and my main priority at cons is to just make enough money to see my friends in different cities at minimal expense. i pretty much always get a refund when i file my con taxes because my profit after all the deductions is like fucking..nothing.. lmao. So if you ultimately lose money following my advice don't blame me. OK NOW lets get into it

my process for making merch: when I have an event scheduled that I want to make merch for I start by brainstorming a bunch of stuff I wanna make. for mgscon this is what I wrote down in my sketchbook lol

i made a legend to denote which ones are actually just reprints. it gets easier to plan out merch when you already have merch. out of the new merch ideas here i actually only made like 4 of them. and out of the reprints i only reprinted like three. i also came up with like 4-5 other merch ideas after writing out this list that i actually did do. LMAOO UM. my point here is that nothing rly goes as planned.

when i get a merch idea i start with thumbnails what i want it to look like (sometimes this is based off merch ive seen before so its very realized and sometimes its really vague bc im kind of pulling it out of my ass)

then BEFORE i go into making the final art I research how I'm going to make the merch. whether its printing/constructing it myself or looking for a manufacturer. There's a lot of different places that you can get custom merch made, i used to go shopping around at local printing shops but nowadays it's really common to do it all online. For both these jet tags and the washi tape I did some of my own research into manufacturers and also asked friends for their contacts/referrals/recommendations etc. most manufacturers either have their specs/template publicly available or will give them to you when you ask. so once I've locked into a manu and gotten the specs I'll start designing the final art.

then it's sending it off and waiting! easier said than done.

i will say this process is a lot lengthier for some types of merch than others LOL. for prints... I've been doing prints for like a million years and I plan out almost none of it. I draw everything at print resolution so a week before I have a con scheduled I'll simply go through all the files I've accumulated since my last con, squeeze whatever drawings I want into standard print sizes lol (ie. 8.5x11, 11x17, 4x6 etc), and print them at a local shop. takes like a couple hours max.

how you know which franchises you can make merch for w/o getting into trouble w copyright n trademark stuff?

I mean. honestly I don't know. selling fanart is the kind of thing that IP holders kind of just let slide as long as they don't think they're losing a substantial amt of money on it. there ARE a couple franchises people avoid because they've been known to send IP lawyers after fanartists... disney is the big one and they're known for being pretty petty abt it... that's why you don't really see people selling fanart of the disney princesses at cons. ive heard pokemon will also crack down if your project seems to be making a lot of money lol, part of why i think a lot of pokemon fanzines operate on a charity basis. I do feel like the pokemon company has bigger fish to fry than someones artist alley table though so i wouldn't sweat it too much.

it's also generally considered impolite/bad taste to sell fanart of small franchises. webcomics and indie games especially if they only have like 1-2 devs who rely on the income that game makes.

I'm not a lawyer so you shouldn't consider this legal advice BUT I will say... I don't think you should let IP law stop you from selling fanart lol. especially if it's low quantities/not mass produced and you're not making crazy amts of money I think you kind of have a leg to stand on. Besides, most cases it seems like the worst you'll get is a cease and desist.

you Will notice that when people start turning their artist alley endeavors into a real business they'll generally ease up on selling fanart (the case most prominent in my mind is omocat lol). but i love fanart and thats why i will never make money and thats a promise [snake saluting gif]

SORRY IDK IF ANY OF THIS WAS HELPFUL. I've been doing merch and cons for a long time (10+ years lmao, you can find record of this on this very blog) and i think im kind of old fashioned about it. i recognize the artist alley/merch scene is a lot more demanding now than it used to be but start small at local low-risk events, online sales etc and work your way up and remember to have fun and itll be ok i believe this wholeheartedly.

its literally just layers of acrylic like any other dinky charm. I'm sure pretty much any manu that does acrylic charms could do it but this specific charm/template i did order through a group order server. they're pretty well known! heres a link to their twitter

@wheatormeat sorry for taking a full month to answer this... anyways. This is tricky because I've actually been changing up my sticker manu everytime LOL IDK if I've found one I actually love.

these ones i ordered thru an alibaba manu because I was jumping on a friend's group order to save on shipping. it was ok. they arrived a liiiitle late and printed a lil dark but i think thats kind of my fault LOL I use dark colors i always need to lighten things before i get them printed and i think i just didnt lighten these enough. otherwise i rly love the quality!

i realized i never posted these online and also this is not a good picture (the lighting in my living room sucks rn) but i printed these tmnt stickers thru stickerninja they feel really solid but they needed kind of a lot of space for the cutline. but their customer service was very nice and helpful!

these ones i got printed at washimill and i was so impressed with how fine their cutline is... pricing and quality of the sticker itself is alright they feel a lil flimsy? idk. but i do like the printing. i kind of elected to go with them solely because i was already ordering washi tape. A LOT of my manufacturing decisions are made based on how much money i can save on shipping tbh.

and thats my sticker manu reviews dont forget to like comment subscribe idk if i have one im gonna stick with forever or anything im rly indecisive. ideally id like a manu based in the u.s...? because im based in the u.s. and international shipping is pricey. but idk if i keep ordering washi tape maybe ill keep using washimill. who knows...

[starry-sophrosyne]

Started stressing out abt this idea when I read through crashing's and eldette's reblog of my reblog of pen's post (GO READ IT IF YOU HAVEN'T BTW /srs HERES THE LINK.) so I'm gonna make this post for my own sake; and yes, even though it was so long ago, it's never left my mind.

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I'm also gonna put this under a cut, despite my original plan not to, bc I've seen everyone sharing the same ideas about this whole "we might get found out" notion. However, this still is a conception abt/for myself that I sincerely want people to see and understand/to talk abt, even it's not directly related to the "rpf community exposure" itself, so yeah. While this post is definitely unnecessarily long, esp considering how long it's been since the incident that prompted me to write this, I still think it's worth posting; Especially considering the fact that I don't think the "rpf-community-exposure-situation" will get better from here. Either way, thank you guys for understanding and reading. /srs /gen

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I've been pretty scared to reveal my really negative side within this community just bc of how I try to come off as/get perceived - i.e. the reason I use emoticons - so I haven't ever really fully crashed out in a post like I did previously. Even seeing Eldette's and Crashing's reblogs, they definitely put it a lot nicer than I did, which is fair and also credit to how probably they are irl; It's just that I think I'm very different regarding which parts of myself I expose to others, and you guys in particular, especially regarding my anger. I'm not going to edit that post because I think it's the blunt truth in the most unapologetic way possible, which is truthfully the way I am, but I hope that you guys understand that my negativity in those kinds of posts is not the same personality i have when I go about posting my regular things about the guys n stuff :_)

For that matter, I hope y'all don't see me differently or have a warped/changed view on personality/character. What I mean by this is that I'm hoping you all still like me despite seeing the bad parts of me. However, it's also something that's unavoidable, for people to not like you once they get to know the more uglier sides of you; So I guess what I want you guys to do more than genuinely like me is, that regardless of what y'all think now, you guys are all honest with me and yourself. If you don't wanna see "those" posts of mine bc they're a little extreme for you, but you wanna continue interacting with my other posts, that's fine, please do! I don't plan to post those seriously negative posts frequently at all. However, if you really find yourself really uncomfortable by those posts, esp knowing that I might slip up into that sort of personality in the future, please feel free to block me. I've blocked some pc crit blogs that I really wanted to see certain posts of theirs, but I couldn't stand seeing other posts they made, so I made a decision that was better for the both of us in the end, because I knew it wouldn't be worth it to continue interacting with them if that was how I truly felt. Either way, I won't take it personally if you do the same at all, because the truth is, if you don't like me, you just don't. Nothing I'm gonna do to try and change that, because more often than not, it's something that can't be helped. So uhh.. yeah- :,)

TLDR: If me crashing out in posts like this makes you uncomfortable, feel free to stop interacting; I won't be like that often but I do plan to let my true personality show a little more, hope you all still accept me despite what may be a very unnecessary fear of mine :)

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This is a side tangent that was written after the initial post was drafted, it's more relevant to clearing up my identity and the differences between me, my personas and my self-inserts in aus. It's too complicated to be TL:DR'ed, however, so read at your own will; it's not as important for ppl to fully understand either as the previous point, but extremely important to me and my definitions. /gen /srs.

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I've decided to label this alternate emotional state of mine (serious & comes out when talking about stuff regarding the pc rpf community, mainly as a whole/regarding the incidents that have and will continue to happen) as Rosyne, but not in relation to the april fools joke I did as "Rosyne". The personality of that "Rosyne" while blogging is more or less the personality of "Rosyne" as a character, rather than myself or my persona that's changed in regards to my self insert. I know that's all super confusing so let's just clarify:

Starry and Rosyne, by themselves, are just me; both part of my identity. Rosyne is my personality when I’m addressing serious stuff. Starry is my personality when I’m posting about anything else, aka my neutral state, and is (therefore) the name I go by on this blog. Starry and Rosyne, as self inserts, are representations of myself within fics/aus. They might have jobs/roles that are entirely inaccurate regarding my actual jobs/roles (or personal interests) irl, but they only have these in order to fit the narrative. Starry and Rosyne, as self inserts, are also two entirely different individuals, as it makes more sense than one person with two different identities. Either way though, they are supposed* to be genuine representations of myself, through and through. Starry and Rosyne, as general personas, however, are the designs of my identities; They still represent me, only giving me the ability to alter my appearance in a way I can't irl. However and more importantly, they also connect my self-inserts in aus to my identity, as they are the base design/reference for the self-inserts' appearances (which change depending on the au). I do have my general persona designs for both Rosyne and Starry, along with several self-inserts designs for diff fic aus, I just haven't posted them yet.

*This is where I've found this issue of some sorts. You see, I feel as if I've started to turn Starry and Rosyne into actual characters rather than my self-inserts within my writings about aus/fics. Especially Rosyne, although to a reasonable fault, as it's hard to characterize the part of you that only talks abt the actual pc rpf community issues. Either way, the writer side of me has become so obsessed with making them narratively-fleshed out that they don't really feel like direct representations of myself anymore; They feel more like ocs whose experiences & preferences are heavily influenced by the ones I have irl, and whose names are related to me, but they're unrealistic to what a direct 1-1 self insert/representation of myself would be.

I still plan to write about them, especially in regards to this post, but not only are "the-things-they've-experienced" not accurate to the things I've actually experienced irl, but they are also a bit more dramatized in general just for the sake of narrative/creative writing. Not to say that"the-things-they've-experienced" aren't influenced by my own personal experiences, of course. After all, aren't all of our ocs reflections of ourselves/our irl journeys/stories? Just expect me to continue anxiety tagging "dont-take-this-too-seriously!-(´ ᗣ ` )՞" in all my upcoming posts/drabbles about my TTOS "personas"-

[riki-riks-chick]

welcome to my blog !

call me kas, im 18 now, and i love writing

i write (smut fluff and angst) for ALL members of enha including riki (but no smut for riki) if you're against the oneshots/posts i do for riki i can't help that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i will take almost any request but i can't do stuff involving foot fetishes, piss kinks, non-con, abuse, self harm, aged-down characters(lower than high school au), pedophilia (why tf would anyone req that?), and a few others that I can't think of rn

i have the right to reject any request bc ur not paying me and I'm not obligated to write for you, but it's rare that I reject requests unless they're something related to the things mentioned above

feel free to inbox whether to say hi or ask me to write or anything else

inbox - open!

requests - closed! text imagines asks only!

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i love enhypen and I've been a stan since predebut

my biases are sunghoon and riki

my bias wrecker is jay and KINDA heeseung

show jake, sunoo, and jungwon love pls req for them more 🤍

i don't have any rules about my blog but likes and reblogs as well as comments are very much appreciated

pls be kind to me and I will be kind in return

if you wanna become a certain anon send me an emoji or a name and I'll add to the list 🤍

update: anyone who messages or inboxes me trying to talk abt the riki content I post, you're getting blocked. Please block me if you don't like my content. i don't have the time or energy to argue.

[cheshitora]

che !! i know i’ve been spotted in your replies a few times but i just wanted to stop by your inbox for a real hello bc YAY new mootie <3 i feel like based on your about page we have some similar interests :3 i’m also a fan of dark stuff n horror !! so I wanna know … what’s your fav horror movie ?! or a few favs bc I know picking one can be intimidating. to me at least. i’m horrible at picking one of anything …

ps i also wanted to say i loooove your radio theme thingy and how your tag system is it’s all so cohesive and i LOVE that shit.

omg hi venus!! you literally have the most beautiful name istg. im so happy that we're moots (i swear i fell IN LOVE with your aesthetic for both acc and then you write for wbk too 🫦)

yes, im such a whore for horror. my favorite tropes are slasher and found footage. theyre just so good. i'll definitely name a few since i also have a hard time choosing just one 😔 (also i made another list for an ask abt my favorite movies ever incase youre interested)

(also, thank you for loving my radio concept 🥺 i think ive stated before idk that as a kid, my biggest dream was to be a radio host. unfortunately it never happened but at least i can live out that dream here)

wow favorite horror movies thats hard but i think i can name a few:

╰┈➤ sleepaway camp

"lemme start with this because this is actually my favorite horror movie of all time. it's super cheesy, i know, but i think that's why i like it so much. i also genuinely love the twist ending and just the whole setting in general at summer camp (because i used to go to summer camp a lot when i was a kid)."

╰┈➤ scream

"how could i not mention scream? i go cuckoo bananas whenever someone wears a ghostface mask irl. it's an iconic slasher film and frankly, i don't get tired of watching it or the sequels (some of them anyway not all)."

╰┈➤ the texas chainsaw massacre

"the original. i've never been to the original house (that's now a bnb) but i've driven past the one from the first remake. i guess i love campy movies but i will say this movie does unsettle me a lot, but i'll watch it nonetheless."

╰┈➤ psycho (and all the sequels)

"every winter, my mom and i watch all 3 psycho movies together as a little tradition. i do have to say that i love psycho more than sleepaway camp. i once had to do an essay for psychology in high school about a character from a movie and i did norman bates. i got an A."

╰┈➤ jeepers creepers 1 & 2

"i was gonna out only part 2 but i changed my mind. i love both of these movies. i wasn't too big on part 3 but i watched it anyway. i typically watch the 2nd movie more than the first one since in my opinion, it's better."

╰┈➤ you're next

"PLEASE I HAD TO PUT THIS ONE ON HERE! the amount of times i rewatch this movie is concerning but i don't care. i love the plot, i love the killers, i love a final girl, i love dwight twilley band. if you haven't seen it, i definitely recommend it."

╰┈➤ butterfly kisses

"i feel like this movie is such a unique take on the found footage trope. since you're not really watching the events of the horror unfold like most other found footage films. instead, you're watching a man find the horror footage and the movie basically begs the question of "how far is an artist or person willing to go in order to achieve their dream?"

╰┈➤ final destination series (minus pt 4)

"just putting it out there, part 4 sucks. part 3 is the best one and my friends hate it whenever i bring it up when we're at an amusement park. i can't wait for the new one to come out. i will be there watching with my collection of movies i fear."

╰┈➤ trick r treat

"my dream is to write an anthology as great as this. i watch this every halloween. is the whole "dont blow pumpkins out before midnight" curse thing true because that haunted me for years. i love the stories in this and i love the way they all connect at the end."

╰┈➤ jennifer's body

"man i was so in love with megan fox as a kid. i didn't know if i should put this or tamara but i think jennifer's body outweighs by a lot. having to explain the deeper meaning of this movie to my brother was a struggle and he still doesn't understand. i once dressed up as jennifer for halloween at school and i was asked to go home because it was too bloody. oops."

[thunder-shadow]

ive got many!!! 1, 4, 5, 8, 17, 21, 27, 28, 37?!

Thank uuu <333333

Do you daydream a lot before you write, or go for it as soon as the ideas strike?

Oh boy, yeah I daydream a lot haha - usually I get an idea and write down the bare info for it (like the ship and maybe one or two scene ideas) and then I just let it marinate for a bit, usually listening to music or reading! Then ideas usually pop in from there XD I'm a daydreamer all the way

4. How do you choose which fics to write?

Usually it's just whichever one I feel needs attention at the moment? Or whatever my brain latches onto haha

Like yesterday I meant to edit the GHE chapter so it could be posted, but instead I wrote the Earthcury one-shot turned multi-chap (which I wanna finish b4 I post it)

It's very wishy-washy is what I'm saying LOL

5. How many wips do you have?  What fandoms/pairings are they for?

All of WIPs are for SolarBalls haha I can only write for one fandom at a time XD

Okay, so obviously I have the GHE fic, the Jupixturnus fic, the Vercury fic, and now the Earthcury fic (those are all multi-chaps); then I have my oneshots, of which I plan to write Vars, Vearth, another UraEarth, a fluffy Jupiturnus one, a Poly Rocky planets one, and I still have a Sol & Nemesis one with snippets, as well as the post-paranoia Luna fic that still needs its chapter two LOL (and then I have a titanearth smut + jupixturnus smut that i'm thinking abt but shhhhhh)

That doesn't even count the random ideas I've just jotted down in my notes app LOL

8. Post an out-of-context spoiler from a wip.

Oh gee, lemme find one I feel like posting!! I don't have any spoilers to be honest, bc i haven't written since i posted the ghe one or i would've used that 😭 so just have a snippet from my latest wip

I actually posted this the other day but deleted it like immediately LOL but here! from my earthcury college AU

‘Okay,’ Earth thought, narrowing his eyes. ‘First midterm is in 7 days. One week. You’ve got this,’ and he pumped his fist, ignoring the weird looks a couple of people threw at him. ‘Just need to study. Actually study for once.’ Then he looked down at the multitude of papers spread out in front of him, his laptop propped open to a chemistry video from a Youtuber he’d found on line, and groaned, letting his face fall onto the table. Across from him, Mars let out a laugh, flipping another page in his book. “Earth, I don’t know what your definition of studying is, but putting your head on the table and giving up is not studying as far I’m aware.” Earth looked up at him through his lashes, sending him as much of an annoyed look as he could muster before groaning again. “Organic Chemistry is going to kill me! Why did I decide to become a biology major?” “I don’t know. Why did I decide to become an Astronomy major?” “Because you’re weirdly obsessed with aliens?” “Wha-” Mars spluttered, putting his book down and looking at Earth. “No!” “Because you weirdly like math?” “No, Earth, because I enjoy astronomy! I like learning about it!” Mars rolled his eyes, taking a sip from his water bottle after a second. “And I know you’re the same way about biology because we’ve been roommates since freshman year!” “Ughh,” Earth whined in response. “Just let me melt into a puddle and evaporate away so I don’t have to take these midterms.” “You could just study for them, you know.” “That was my plan! But that involves studying…” “Oh, wow,” Mars said, throwing him a stare that just dripped with disdain. “Studying involves studying, I really didn’t know that, Earth.” “Fine!” Earth stood up, shoving his stuff haphazardly into his backpack. “I’ll go to the library! And this time, I’m going to actually study!”

17. Do you have a writing routine?

Nope! I literally just sit down and start writing oop

21. Do you prefer writing chaptered fics or one-shots?

I prefer writing one-shots just bc it feels simpler, like a one-and-done LOL but multi-chaps can be fun too!!

27. What area of writing do you feel strongest in?

Being able to write a lot 😓 and body language, I feel quite confident in body language LOL

Also my grammar and language use, despite my copious use of em-dashes, semicolons, and ellipses I otherwise really just innately understand most grammar bc of how much I read when I was younger ‼️

28. What area of writing do you want to improve in?

DIALOGUE 😭😭😭

37. What fic has been the hardest for you to write?

The GHE fic hands down, it just feels so complicated 😭😭 I'm slowly chugging a lot, we're nearing the last few chapters :D

[daz4i]

ok lemme give my thoughts abt the third aeon governing amphoreus

first of all i will get out of the way that. just bc black swan said there are 3, doesn't mean she's necessarily right, there could also be 4

both of these numbers seem likely to me, since the titans on amphoreus are divided into 4 groups of 3; if there is a connection between the two (which. given oronyx's direct connection to fuli. is more than likely) it could go like, these 3 aeons are their own fifth group, OR each of the 4 groups is governed by a different aeon (might get into that as a separate theory later perhaps)

i do wanna go over all the options and talk why they are or aren't likely. yes i mean all aeons (aside from nous and fuli ofc) buckle up this is a long one 🫡

starting with the ones black swan theorized:

hooh the equilibrium: i mean. ig they are technically everywhere aren't they. like they govern over the entire universe, in a way. so that's sort of a given.

one could argue they are connected to talanton? since both of them are about balance, the way oronyx is connected to fuli maybe? (tho ig that could imply nous being connected to janus if we wanna complete the fate titans trio. which is a bit weird)

mythus the enigmata: this one seems to be the most popular theory I've seen so far, and. while i sort of get it, i also don't think it's very likely...?

the main argument i see is that everything abt amphoreus is so weird and at times doesn't make any sense that surely something must be messing with this planet, as well as how the enigmata opposes nous so they might be doing this to mess with their calculations

the reason i think it's unlikely is more of a meta thing than actual lore - we simply didn't have enough build-up to already meet the aeon themselves or see their own work firsthand, imo. our only connection to them so far has been gallagher (+ simulated universe stuff, but that's true about every other aeon too), and even with him it was never really dug into properly, imo. meanwhile we've had A LOT of interactions with followers of both erudition and remembrance (as well as the effects of remembrance, like. light cones. memoria. etc)

ig it kind of makes sense for them to sneak up on us out of nowhere lmao but i do think this would be. too out of nowhere. from a storytelling pov (it also seems like their intentions are mostly good and are about free will for humans and such and i think we lowkey see the opposite of that with the flame chase journey 😭)

long the permanence: dragons 👍 castorice. now pollux too. yeah 👍

also immortality is very much a thing on amphoreus, not just with mydei's curse but tribbie too and we've just found out abt castorice being thousands of years old as well. i don't think cas goes through the whole egg process thingie bc she seems to retain all her memories from her past (like, the way we found out abt her being this old is when it was mentioned in the 3.2 stream how much she's learned throughout her life) while the vidyadhara don't. maybe we just have 2 different dragon species in the game now

ok with all these out of the way. lemme go by a list of all the other aeons, starting with the quickest to cover options and going up

akivili the trailblaze: canonically hasn't been there. also they're dead

oroboros the voracity: as hot as it might be. that seems to be even more out of nowhere than anyone else truly (you can mmmmaybe stretch things and say the dragons and dragon bones are actually leviathans but also why would you)

xipe the harmony: why would they. don't they have enough on their plate already (i can't even find a "one could argue-" statement here. there's just no connection lol. so that'd be bad writing imo. we've also seemed to close the saga with them already and became buddies n all, it'd be weird to bring them back again now)

lan the hunt + yaoshi the abundance: bundling them up bc they're a "no chance" imo for a similar reason, they're too entangled with a different faction in the story, and their themes don't really seem to fit here (like. yeah immorality and technically chasing the flames can count as hunting but this feels like a flimsy connection at best. again you can stretch it but why would you)

qlipoth the preservation: kind of the same reason. already associated with a different big faction in the story, as well as another planet we've been to. they seem to be quite straightforward so there's no reason for them to remain hidden

ig one could argue that maybe amphoreus is hidden bc they successfully managed to build a wall between worlds like they intended?? but. there are so many other explanations and not enough backup otherwise, so.

ix the nihility: if they were here we'd be dead 👍 you can maybe theorize a connection to the black tide or the river of souls...? but both of these affect people (and gods) differently from how we've seen ix does iirc, so.

aha the elation: my bestie. a lot in zagreus and their followers reminds me of them. and they always seem to know more than everyone else. hell, sparkle referenced amphoreus in the cosmodyssey event, so aha's followers definitely know about its existence, and that means aha probably does too

they ascended to aeonhood after climbing the imaginary tree, and i think this tree might at least be mentioned in this arc at some point, with anaxa's animations and cerces being a tree who creates stuft etc, as well as all the connections to hi3

however i don't think it's them. i think these^ are enough reasons that if it *was* them i'd be okay with it, but. i feel like we're not at the peak of our relationship with them yet. i think it'll come whenever we see what sampo's currently trying to save belobog from, maybe even after that, so. it's not impossible but i do think it's too early and not the right place

idrila the beauty: my other bestie. given how they mysteriously disappeared and can't be found, it's not that out of the question to perhaps assume they stumbled into a world others just can't find. not to mention, idrila is strongly connected to mirrors, and amphoreus can only be seen through mirrors too. there's also all the similarities to mnestia. i once again don't think it's likely but i can see myself feeling satisfied if it does end up being them (also the thing i said abt a lack of build-up with mythus is kind of the opposite here. we've seen so much of argenti in random places before coming to amphoreus that it could be leading to something. i don't think it is, but it would be cool if it was. also i miss my man 😔)

ena the order: four words. eye in the sky

the aquila imagery in the very first trailer dropped abt amphoreus looked so much like their eye that it was weird. there's a sense of inevitability to the whole flame chase journey that one could phrase it as them being puppeteered. given that sunday will likely join us at some point in this arc, he could be another connection to them and help figure out that they're even there at all as well as help get rid of them

that being said. like xipe, i think we kind of tied a nice bow on the story with them and there's no need to dig them back up again. anyway. since i mentioned inevitability-

terminus the finality: if amphoreus is indeed stuck in some time loop like many are theorizing, this could be a great opportunity to introduce finality and how it works in a more closed off environment than, yknow, the whole universe. the whole concept of prophecies being so important in amphoreus fits right in, too. i'm surprised i haven't seen this theory yet. maybe i'm just in the wrong circles idk

there's also all the recent stellaron hunters push in both tb's memories and external promotional material (+them even getting gameplay buffs soon) that i wouldn't be surprised if they end up coming here fr, somehow, and these are all hints to that. (like other options i don't think it's very likely, it also feels a bit too early, but i would still feel satisfied if it was them)

tayzzyronth the propagation: again a meta reason - we've had. so much information about them. they're practically always there in the underlying story told through of all the trailblaze continuance missions, only recently breached into the main one a little bit with fugue coming back thanks to ruan mei who researches them.

i don't know if it's quite time for them to take center stage, either - i think they'll be more of a final boss like nanook is setting up the be wayyyyy later in the future - but this could be another way to drip feed us more information to connect all these strings together.

also technically they're dead too, sorta. but! iirc black swan specifically says there are *paths* reigning over amphoreus, not necessarily the aeons themselves. for all we know the black tide spreading itself nonstop is another byproduct of propagation. or, since amphoreus may be a memory or reflection of events that already took place, if tayzzyronth was ever there when they were alive(/whole) we could just see memories of that.

finally, nanook the destruction: i'm gonna be so fr guys. i am extremely biased towards this take. it's been my theory since day 1, i'm almost certain it's gonna be them

first of all, golden blood - nanook and the titans and chrysos heirs all bleed gold. now, you can argue that in the titans + heirs' case it's a reference to actual greek mythology, but then why does nanook have it too? it's an odd choice. if they didn't plan this arc in advance (which i'm doubtful of. like. at least outlining it, as in knowing they'll reach a world inspired by ancient greece eventually) they could have just not made their blood any different, or find a different unique thing to put in there since it's not like they're adapting mythology 1 to 1 anyway. surely, this element appearing in both cases has to mean something

in addition to that, nanook, or at least the destruction, has been present in every planet we've been to - there's been a stellaron in each one, and i wouldn't be surprised if amphoreus has one as well (in the form of the black tide, which works very similarly to how the stellaron corrupts, even the enemies themselves taking very similar forms just in a different aesthetic). dan heng even points this out in the game's story itself at the start of 3.1

this following paragraph is gonna touch a little but on leaks so please skip the next one if you don't want to read those; currently there are rumors about constance becoming playable in... 3.8, iirc? she's one of uh. duke inferno's kids. sorta. i'm not quite 100% on how this whole thing works. but, she was also the only one of them who appeared in the story so far - talking to black swan right before her phone call with boothill. so she's clearly gonna become relevant soon, if these leaks are to be believed, and the destruction being involved in the current arc could set up her entrance, especially with her taunting black swan personally, who is obviously relevant to this arc as well, as she kickstarted it in the first place. she interacts with her through a memory, so this implies some remembrance stuff going on too perhaps, which is another connection to amphoreus. tldr: what if she shows up and becomes relevant this arc and. well. since she is a follower of the destruction, this implies another connection between amphoreus and nanook?

the only reason i can think for why it ISN'T nanook is that it genuinely feels too obvious 😭 but tbf so is the phainon flame reaver thing and it looks like that's gonna be confirmed soon too lmao.

so. now that i coverer all the paths. let me get into what i mentioned in the beginning, the whole 3/4 thing;

"why do you think there are actually 4 paths here" why not. much love to black swan but she doesn't know everything, given how she doesn't even know who the third aeon is, she could also just be oblivious to the presence of a fourth one

the reason i'm even bringing up this option at all is more for a fun thought concept than an actual concrete theory, like idk how much i believe that is the case, but i think it would align nicely if it is: a different aeon each governing a different group of the titans

if i had to guess, i'd say fuli is the one connected to the titans of fate (janus, talanton, oronyx), given their direct connection to oronyx (as well as mirrors serving as kind of doors in hsr's universe, that can connect them to janus too, but that's me stretching it :P)

nous is probably the one watching over the titans of creation (kephale, cerces, mnestia). i mean, kephale means "head" and nous is a giant head. reason and erudition are very closely connected, the grove literally having the whole nousporists thing, along with irl anaxagoras being the first person known to bring up the irl concept of nous, while hsr anaxagoras has cerces in him, so there's this connection there

then, if the third aeon is indeed nanook, then clearly they're related to the titans of calamity (nikador, thanatos, zagreus). i mean all of their domains can be considered destruction in their own way, especially so with nikador

but then, who's the one connected to the titans of foundation (georios, phagousa, aquila)? well... if i had to say, ena seems to be somewhat connected to aquila? with the whole eye imagery, as well as maintaining a status quo and not letting humans make decisions that supposedly aren't good for them

but it can just as well be many of the others, too 🤔 say, idrila, for example. the whole concept of beauty is that it's everywhere. these titans created everything physical about the world itself, and so created beauty itself. or fucking uh idk, oroboros?? since the leviathans existed before, like, everything, and so symbolically their being gave materials to create the world itself "they breath made the sky, their blood gave the sea, their flesh is the ground" type of concept lol. you can probably make shit up to fit with any of the aeons if you try hard enough (it does seem to be somewhat chronological tho, i'd say. like. the titans were created in a very clear order. and while it's a bit more vague with the aeons, we do know that fuli was created before nous who was created before nanook, so i'd guess the options here could be the aeons who ascended between fuli and nous. good luck figuring that one out i am simply too tired to touch hsr's timeline 😩)

but then again, it could be that there really are just 3 paths, and they're not connected to different groups of titans, or they can also just cover these groups and not the fourth one, etc. who knows!

that's all i have for you now!!! as we get more information i might update this post via edits or reblogs ✨️ if you think there's relevant information i missed or a different angle to look at here, feel free - in fact, please do - to leave it in a reblog/reply!!! thank you for reading 😌✨️ hope you have a lovely day

[merakiui]

HELP ME YOURE CHILL you did accept my request actually . like right after I sent that !

I was sitting there for awhile after like 🧍‍♂️ oh wow I hope mera didn't take that the wrong way and thought I was just trying to get her to accept my request 😭 bc it was damn near immediate. tbh I thought you wouldn't answer that at all so that eases my brain a little. I am in your friends list tho! Lurking! I truly hope you enjoy my maxed jade 💜💜 he's my pride and joy :D! Even if you don't know which one he is lol

Speaking of actually!!! That twst Halloween thing... the leaks were deleted bc the poster got scared iirc (understandably so. as if work got back to aniplex/disney theyd probably make the game harder to datamine which is a Pain),, but they're still being kinda circulated around in private dms n stuff. So you'd have a hard time finding them if you Dod look for them really. I saw them and I do agree with the other anon though :-)!! I think you'll like it (also,, considering we're still slowly getting through the cast?? I don't think jade would be the ssr just bc he's already had one 💔 ohh but I do also hope for another event jade soon. my silly little creature I miss him!!!)

- :3 anon

Oh I did wanna add to my ask abt the leaks that we don't have the full cast yet?? So tbh it's still mostly up to guessing who's even getting ssrs, etc 💔

Aaa I'm hoping for a Floyd ssr this year personally since he doesn't have one yet . but there's no telling if he's even there this year :-( !!gosh I hope so. Especially looking at that little freak in the preview with the two heads and rolling pins?? Tho tbh?? Could just as much be like. Trey! He's missing an ssr too and he bakes!! Lots it could be aaaaa I'm so excited :D!!!

- :3 again

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OH what unintentional timing!!! Σ(°ロ°) I'm happy I friended you!!! It would've chewed my intestines if I didn't and you were still waiting for me to add you back. T^T but it's a relief that's not the case!! Thank you very much for the max Jade!!!! I will use his power to charge into battle (gathering guest room supplies LOL). May my tako be of use to you!!! <3

I had to physically withhold from searching out the leaks, as difficult to find as they may be. I genuinely opened my writing notebook and started scribbling just so I could prevent the temptation from creeping up on me. >_< feeling like Rollo when he sees ankle for the first time....... </3 AAAAAAA I AM TOO CURIOUS. OTL

👀 oooo now I'm even more excited if you also think I will enjoy it!!! Knowing me and how easy I am to please, I already love it and I don't know anything yet. ^^;;; my heart may not be able to handle how amazing the event is sure to be!!!! AAAAAAAAA >0<

💔 not another SSR Halloween eel..... one can dream. I'm continuing to cling to the hope for Coral Sea event with SSR Jade. Aaaaa but I'm also hoping Floyb gets the SSR for this event!!! Or any of Savanaclaw because they've yet to have a Halloween SSR. :D I've been turning all kinds of characters over in my head trying to determine who might get the SSR (or SSRs if it's more than one). So many thoughts.......

Although I do hope at least one of the eels is part of the cast for the event!!!! Or Azul....... on second thought, they should just put all of the fish in the event (shameless favoritism). (ᵕ—ᴗ—)

[xstarlightxstarbrightx]

Kaeya headcanons

i'm speedrunning this before work while my breakfast is cooking so BEAR WITH ME, i have SO MANY thoughts on my bbgrl

current list of h/c's: - ice skater kaeya, i will die on this hill. will have a post abt that one day b/c there's so much to it that i want to scream abt and Thoughts (tm) to be had (like him getting flustered??? OUGH i need to restrain myself) - speaking of flustered, he's really good at keeping his cool (pun fully intended, fight me) and he typically is the one who CAUSES the flustering. smooth af and KNOWS it - he likes to cause chaos and mayhem. a bit of a gremlin. mischievous man. perhaps a tad prankster in his bones. playful teasing bastard and has a lot of fun w/ it.

- cold hands. nothing more. - when push comes to shove, Kaeya's the guy w/ the plan. like genuinely he's incredibly strategic and has the main plan, and like two or three back up plans. it's not even like an anxiety thing he just wants to be prepared, and he makes them up pretty last minute. - he's kind of an assassin-style character, y'know? not as much of a main fighter as he is a sneaky backstabber. roguish and charming but can and will yeet u type deal right??? - LOYAL to a GODDAMN FAULT. i TRULY believe this man's loyalty is unshakeable. like he'd do anything for the people he cherishes the most. and if he perceives u as a threat??? a threat to the things he cares about?????? ur on the list now and there's no escape. - incredibly perceptive! like he's really good at getting information from people already, but i feel like that just makes it a lot easier for him to notice when Something Is Up. it's hard to catch him unawares. - kaeya's great and i love him but he doesn't love himself and i'm sorry this man definitely feels like he's got really bad self esteem. Like he KNOWS he can get shit done, but he has a hard time believing that anyone likes him and probably has trust issues b/c of it. - i also feel like he doesn't like the spotlight? like specifically Kaeya; if he needs to put on a persona for the spotlight, it doesn't phase him bc he's good at hiding behind a persona. but the moment Actual Kaeya gets spotlight he's like a bit of a mess and nervous and would just rather people enjoy themselves. essentially just doesn't want the spotlight. - abandonment issues. i don't need to explain this one. - kaeya puts on the air of an anti-hero but he's a quiet paragon himself. literally helps people out of habit and while he jokes abt it he doesn't actually expect anything in return and literally forgets he helped ppl bc it's just so engrained in his brain. - epitome of "sorry i had feelings, i'll replace em w/ jokes right away" - not the best cook tbh? like he can make some GOOD snacks (chicken mushroom skewers, a fried egg, simple stuff like that) but ask him to cook actual meals and he's at a loss for food prep and has no idea how to time everything in the dish. - emotionally available but only for other ppl. cannot and will not express his own emotions bc of aforementioned anxieties; but u wanna talk to him abt shit? he's all ears and will comfort u like a bbgrl. - this is less of a h/c but actually canon, and that's just that Kaeya's lonely. i genuinely think he wants to be around ppl but he feels like they wouldn't like the real him :(( - on that note, i WILL say that, despite his playfulness, this man is a romantic at heart??? like he probably LOVES poetry and writing and music, and the only reason he makes light of it is b/c he thinks it's funny and also to make people underestimate him. he would probably die for the opera performances in Fontaine tbh. OKAY,,, i've gotta hurry up and wrap this post bc i have work soon but please here thank u this is my bbgrl kaeya i love him so much. he has been in my main party since day one and like i'm beyond attached to this lil shit, like PLEASE HIS VOICELINES ARE SO GOOD. i will talk more abt my kaelumi h/c's and explain how things go in my "canon", b/c i'm trying to go in order of how all the poly met each other. WHICH means that Zhongli's next!!! b/c ofc i'm going to scream abt him, my friend's playing his archon quest and letting me watch it again and i'm taking so many notes its not even FUNNY.

[infernothechaosgod]

Hi Inferno I hope you’re doing good!!! I’ve been thinking about Michael a lot lately and I just wanted to get some insight from you (if you’re okay with revealing!!) BUT I’ve been wondering about Michael’s personality- from what I’ve seen on your blog, he feels a lot more cheeky and mischievous. He also feels like a chara who has ulterior motives (but maybe I’m thinking too much on that TToTT) I was just wondering what your inspo was to write him this way? I think it’s a cool spin on his chara, it definitely gives him a lot more life and feels fleshed out!! I’m so excited to see more of him later down the line, he feels like such a cheeky guy!!

Hii straw! This ask got me so happy oh my god you have no idea, michael is honestly my fav one write soley on the basis he's just so fun to psychoanalize and also on how much there is to explore with him as a character omg

Michaels whole deal is that he really NEEDS to be the "good guy" all the time in this very unrealistic "pure" ideal way (thats honestly unreachable) but at the same time just like oswald he's very mischievous and enjoys causing chaos but that alone goes against his idea of "good" even if its really not that serious so he supresses alot of those feelings...untill he finds someone "bad" it would be ok to let them out on of course

He can be very mischievous and as if honestly not more sassy than oswald but only in certain circumstances, that being when he's around someone who he can percive or mental gymnastic into a "bad guy" then all the gloves are off, what are his circumstances for someone being bad? That uh...depends, but mainly think haze code if you catch my drift

The thing is he puts this belief above his own judgment or feelings as painful as it can be for him sometimes, he can find a "good guy" annoying as all hell but will hold in any sass talk in

Also on the ulterior motives things YES he does have them! all the time too! I litellary thought abt making the song "ulterior motives" his theme but ultimatley went against it bc it would be too self aware for him and also it more so applies to his personal relationships rather than him as a whole, but while he is in like the biggest denial about it ever like im not kidding this is where writing him gets kinda hard starts but he has ulterior motives for most of his actions and relationships

he just tries fitting this perfect ideal pure so so much and has been for so long, yet under all those attempts and repression there is still him a harshly flawed, aware and painfully wishing to get out character that tries slipping through every possible acceptable break and loophole he can find

I tried explaining his character as much as I can here without going into his backstory because he is definitley the character who's past effects him (as well as oswald) the most, most of what i've just written goes back and roots from it, also now I feel is the good time to mention hes not in any way evil or bad just really flawed and bc of being in denial about it while pretending to be this ideal good guy sm he's holding himself away from growing and becoming accualy a better person like he wants to be

Also the inspo for writing him that way comes from many many diffrent directions like epic mickey, meta commentary, how over the years mickey got watered down more and more for sake of merchandising despite coming from era of experiments, the unreiable narration and honestly much more i tbh don't think I can list off some of things I have In mind

but the one and biggest inspo i have to list off is simply Hollywood

also just wanna throw ou there the "good guys and bad guys" world view really harshly applies to any authority figures even most minor ones for multiple reasons one of witch i can't reveal because its connected to his backstory too much

He is sm fun to write especialy since YOURE not suppoust to agree with him that often, also the other thing is he gets to accualy properly fuck up now without narrative coddling him up and concequences of his actions dancing off to the sunset

[rollercoasterwords]

Fanfic writer asks — 4, 5, and/or 20!

hi!!

4. Share a headcanon about (character name) in (story title)!

left it open not sure if i'm mean 2 do this for one of my own stories or just any story...suppose i will take this opportunity 2 weigh in on the reg birthday debate & say that i see him as a capricorn. could perhaps be convinced of virgo as well...but that boy is not a cancer sorry

5. Is there a tiny detail in one of your fics that you feel goes tragically unnoticed?

not sure if it's something that's been noticed/brought up before but i don't think it has...i love a full circle/mirrored ending moment so in atydsp the very first line is him being awake + the very last line is him falling asleep <3

20. Is there anything about any one of your fics that you have been dying to discuss but haven’t had the chance to?

oooh idk...honestly zar has been getting quite a few voicenotes recently abt different parts of wfrau so there has been quite a bit i've wanted to discuss lol but some of it is just stuff abt the lily interlude + epilogue that i can't talk abt without spoiling...

i guess one thing i've wanted 2 discuss/one thing that's been interesting to see is (again) the way people have responded 2 the whole james/lily/regulus ambiguity...like i know that much of this fandom revolves around shipping etc but sometimes i've just wanted 2 be like it's not happening!!!!!!!! how can i make it more obvious!!!! but then again that's just part of putting ur writing out there in the world like someone can read something & interpret it completely differently than how u expected regardless of what u do...remember one person commented talking abt how they loved the polyamorous rep w james in wfrau & i was baffled bc in my mind i was writing him as aromantic...also was interesting seeing people expecting jegulily bc i thought i'd done a pretty good job writing reg + lily as platonic lol. also has just been interesting in a broader sense to see the different ways people think abt + interpret sex vs romance...like the idea that james enjoys sex but doesn't find it romantic isn't all that crazy to me bc sex & romance don't necessarily go hand in hand in my own life like. sometimes u just hook up for fun u don't have 2 be in love...but for some people those things r very tied together & it's difficult to conceptualize a guy who just wants to sleep w his friends! so that's been interesting 2 discuss...like the whole expectation that where there's sex romance must follow etc...

one other thing i've been wanting to discuss is like. r&s as they currently stand lol sent a whole long voicenote abt this the other day so have already gotten some of it out of my system but. it's interesting again seeing the amount of feedback from people who really wanted them 2 reconcile + have a happy ending at the point where things currently stand/the conclusion of the main story--or who are holding out for a happily ever after, etc. like to be fair their story has changed a lot as i've written it & i didn't know when i started the fic that the main story would end as it has. that being said ever since the obliviation became a key part of the story i've known that r&s simply would not be getting back together after voldemort's defeat...like sirius genuinely does not love remus anymore bc how could he! he doesn't remember him! they're practically strangers! & remus doesn't wanna give sirius another chance bc why would he! after all the hurt he already went through! knowing that the person in front of him now is essentially the guy who killed the person he loved & took his place! or perhaps more accurately is equivalent to the reanimated corpse of the person he loved...came back wrong narrative etc...u get the point (hopefully). anyway it just seemed clear to me that reconciliation would not be in the cards for them & it felt like brushing past that or trying to patch things up would detract from the emotional impact i was going for...perhaps even diminish the depth of the feelings they did, at one point, have for each other--like, it's only because they cared about each other so much that things are so unfix-able now. of course i do have my interlude + epilogue left 2 play around w but also bc i am mean + contrary + like making people sad every comment of someone being like "please make them happy :((" makes me want to not do that lol

& last thing is just a fun detail abt james that i'm not sure if anyone's noticed...putting it under a cut in case anyone wants 2 put the pieces together themself but a fun little detail abt his death:

james's recurring nightmare abt a bright light + his boggart being that bright light was him seeing his own death <3 bc he lost his ability to see color the 'avada kedavra' didn't look green to him; it was just bright light. & that was the last thing he ever saw! fun <3

fic writer ask game

[lamortwrites]

Sorry I just saw your tags bloodborne au????? Tell me more!! (if you want of course)

bloodborne au................

so the genesis of the idea came from laubritter posting abt Gort using the threaded cane, at which point I went whoa wouldn't a bloodborne style gort boss fight be so cool...and then @todderwodders poked my brain with a hot poker and then I saw this art and went WHOA dead threesome...and then I bounced some ideas off of @lifegoesohno and a three act structure and a sequel fell out of my head...and then I noodled about with some scenes bc I didn't wanna commit to A Long Fic bc I don't even know if I could finish one...and then I info dumped at Nic for a while and he's been very nice about it all and now I. might be writing a long fic or two

most of the pre canon bloodborne lore ended up lining up really nicely with characters from the baldur's gate series hah, there's still a couple things I haven't fully nailed down but I have like 90% of the outline done and I think this is the most excited I've been to work on something in. a VERY long time haha, like I have barely thought about bg3 canon in. probably a month at least lol

I have an inspo tag for it and have posted a couple of extracts on the writing blog but I'm. mostly just hoping I can keep up enough momentum to do something with it! it's been a long time since I wrote anything more than a oneshot with any degree of success haha

[3416]

what 1634 fics do you want to see. im not gonna write them im just curious

hello anon......... there are far too many i want to see in this world (literally any at all tbh) but conceptually i have rambled in private about a couple that i really want so buckle up... here are some cliche concepts but idc:

okay my ultimate dream fic is like a 50k fic canon compliant to this point like a decade into the future where auston's been forced to retire a few years earlier bc of a career ending knee injury and never wins the cup and basically. retreats back to az and has to cope with that and gets a Lot of distance from the team/hockey media yada yada. mitch keeps playing hockey but the leafs never win the cup and mitch never feels as fulfilled as he thinks he should be. he never has kids (could go into things here....)... separates w steph.... is on the verge of retiring himself...... the catalyst for him showing up in arizona could be a lot of random things (abt to sign divorce papers... announcing his own retirement soon... also had a whole concept of one of their dads passing away but.) but cue the reunion with someone who you built your whole younger self and younger dreams around and having to relearn the person they've become now. mitch escaping the only place he's ever really called home to really try to feel fully comfortable with himself for the first time vs auston seeing the merging of his old life and his new reality................. i mean. that's the dream. idk. post hockey life crisis with people you can't help but love forever tbh. i have rambled about variations of this one for hours before.

i'm also dying for an auston pornstar fic with a clueless like. business bro mitch or smth. everyone has done the cam boy mitch stuff thanks to his streaming but what about auston... what about these pictures... it's giving casting couch....... i don't really care about the plot necessarily... could go w mitch and auston sleeping together n then befriending each other but NOT sleeping together again for a while. could just straight up do pwp, idk, but auston's whole sleaze ball vibe sometimes.. and the mustache..... we deserve pornstar auston.

also desperate for some magical realism au where one of them makes a deal with the devil to get the team a stanley cup but it goes HORRIBLY awry bc things are never what they seem when you're making deals like that. don't have the details ironed out enough in my head to give a real plan here without sounding stupid but i want the angst and pain and realizing their priorities might not be The Ultimate Hockey Goal like they've always thought.

i've also thought about a lot about a more pwp fic where mitch and auston have this calculated shared ritual of like. getting the new guys on the team/new lineys off to ~help the chemistry~. the whole oh it's just bros thing, but mitch and auston tackling it as a team, one whispering in the ear.. one sinking to his knees... a biiit skeezy bc some of these guys would never in a million years wanna sleep with guys but they pose it like it's gonna help the team and it's just smth they do... don't you wanna feel powerful and see cocky number one goal scorer in the league am34 on his knees for you, random newcomer (haha) 4th liner???

also. thought about another magical realism fic where auston and mitch are at mitch's lakehouse high as fuck and accidentally have a wishbaby bc they're TRYING to manifest success for the team and wish on a star with the wrong wording.... also had a batshit au planned vaguely based on the hangover for mitch's bachelor party which COULD involve vgk crossover since i would set it in vegas for the vibes but.

also had an f1 fic idea where mitch was a driver and auston was one his mechanics. there was way more to this one, but realistically i'd take anything with that as a concept. mitch's life being in auston's hands to some degree and auston taking it Very seriously. also mitch treating his wins like its this shared thing and. auston is just one of tens of people who work on his car but thats his fucking GUY!! imagining mitch getting on the podium n trying to jump at the barriers to get to auston and his whole team.......... pls. also had bunts as one of the guys who changes the wheels and picturing the team letting bunts run the some of the socials. they would be fucking off in that garage BIG TIME filming themselves doing stupid silly shit in all the downtime. also. thinking abt the element of having a Secret relationship or situationship in a setting SO public like f1...... could prob turn that one into a multimedia au somehow, ANYWYA---

i've thought abt so many more too lol. this is what i let myself sit here and spew for the hour but. i'm always down to talk about more or if other ppl have ideas and need to flesh them out. i love to yap abt these men.

[mr-aftons-rotting-pussy]

can u pinpoint inspo? whether heavy or not wt is so weird and vast i kinda just wanna know where this.... how did it get like this..... and or / where did it rlly start ? simple stuff like what character did u make first or really expand on if canon ? r there any characters you just specifically attach to and... may there be a running theme..... raises eyebrow...

also LMAO this is rlly fast but i have like nothin else 2 do :3>

YAYAYYAYAY<3333 oh boy!!! Wt takes insp form A LOT of my interests I couldnt rlly pinpoint one specific thing it's based off of... Sum of my biggest insp that comes 2 mind rn tho r:

Wristcutrers: a love story, every my chemical romance track, German industrial metal in particular but also I'm a HUGE metalhead<3, repo: the genetic opera, speculative biology(my wifee<33), blood. gore gay sex. lol., sonic......... LOL, AND LUK. ten million mot etchings I profess my love for openly<33 I'm v honest abt my interests if anything,,,,,

Where is started ermmmm!!!! Actually wt is a huge mix of. A lot of different aus I've had for manyyyyyy many years. Wt is itsoen thing but kinda doubles as my Canon if u get what I mean. A lot of stuff abt the aus it's made of sadly got deleted w my og blog but u can still find oalylists n shit on Spotify n whatever. Wt started formally I think like a year ago?? Couple years ago???? I was still in my mcrhead era ik this meansnothing to you but u know. Iwbskbdjdb basically I just wanted to make an au that actually had like, a storyline..... Most of my aus r centered around v specific concepts. So I took a lot of those from my other aus n put them into my Canon of sorts n I men..... Here we r lol<33 :3c

Wt was always a shadow and infinite centered thing. I rlly started working on wt the way we see it now in my infinadow era so it was always abt them form the start<33 I'm kess into the ship like I used to be but I still DEEPLY care abt the characters n their relationship to each other even if it's not as romantic as I use dto be abt it u know :) nowadays it's wayyyt more infinite focused(as I've stated bc of the above reasons but also like. I've been hyperfixated on him for going on five years now..... He's my one and only<333) he's the official main character now but shadow is still an integral part of it 2 me,,

Kind of the same answer for the specific character attachment one INFINITEEEEEE INFINITEEEEE he's beenthe center of all my aus since like. Going on what?? Five or so years now??????? It's wild.... Lol. Anyways!! Shadow. Infinite. Wave. Fang, n silver n my special guys.... I have such a specific attachment 2 them it's weird. I don't explain it. I luv them..... They're The characters I think abt when I have new weird shit on my mind... U get it. Lol.

ALSO LOL???? KNAO???????? perhaps there's. Arunning theme....<- guy obsessed w themes n narratives l. Blood guts n gay sex r integral to my creative works, and I mean that.... If it's not bloody at least a little sexual or homierotuc n have graphic violence I did not make it. Skbsjsbdh. I guess....... Idk......... It's kinda hard 2 explain but I put. A lot of myself into my works. It's personal to an extent I also rlly like highly fictionalized stuff caus edit silly to explore real shit in a heightened sense n whatnot but like. Like. Idk. Lol. There's a lot of identity stuff in wt, I have a specific fixation in clones n robots(if u can't tell) n a lot of that comes from me n my weird queer n mental ill ess shit dibdjdh n a plethora of other things u know. I write for myself in an extremely literally sense first n worry abt mass appeal later(or never.. kamo)

[henriiiii-1001old]

coming back/moving blogs

hey, been a while, hasn't it? i hope you're all doing well! this is my official coming-back-to-tumblr post, but it's a little different than i had originally planned.

i've decided it would be in my best interests to move blogs after a bit of thinking. i feel like coming back here would just feel too awkward for both me and you guys, especially with my now deleted drama post. i just wanna move on from all this bullshit, especially since i've had do deal with a lot of other shit, including college.

it's still @/evrydaygets-darkr, just moved to a different account. i still like the name, so i'm keeping it for now. this account will still be up for archival purposes, but it will never be active again. i hope you understand. (EDIT: changed to @henriiiii-1001 bc of shit that happened w ak recently. see this for more info and this for my official statement on it)

as a general life update, i'm done with my first semester of college!! it's been kinda fun so far! i've made a couple friends here and there, and classes (except for math) were super cool!!! i loved most of my professors, and i am honestly excited for the upcoming semester! ive been artblocked to hell and back though, so i don't have much in terms of new art or writing, but i've been trying my best to get out of it. i also gained a new hyperfixation, which is project sekai: colorful stage (abbreviated as pjsk), so i'll probably be posting abt that quite a bit (btw my fav group is wxs and my fav character is tsukasa :3 ), specifically abt stats and achievements w like song completions, maybe some pulls too!

im also gonna put a few updates on aus and oc stories rq:

for my tmc aus: the big ones i'm working on are getting new masterposts and infodumps for the new blog. i would rb posts from this blog to the new one, but due to some personal stuff i don't feel very comfortable doing that. i havent been able to cook much lore-wise for any of them, but i'll probably get back into the swing of things once i start interacting w you guys again. - for specifically father's duty: i'll hopefully have chapter 3 done soon. it's actually been almost done for a while now, i just need to think of the ending. thank you to those who've stuck with me this far <3 (EDIT: all my tmc aus are discontinued. read above for more info)

for murder files: i'm gonna change up the pacing a bit because i feel like i was going a bit too fast with it. i wanna take my time with it and make it feel as real as possible. it might take me a bit to get fully set up bc im probably gonna have to plan a few steps ahead, which i've barely done. i just need time to plan everything out and draw some shit

i will try to post as often as i can to get back into using tumblr like a true tumblrina (even though i see theyve made some more disgusting changes so yay </3 ), though it'll probably take some getting used to.

i really missed you guys. i'll see you on the flipside.

-henry/thatcher

[mrpenguinpants]

YOU POSTED A THING! Ignore how long it took me to write this up, I've been,,, honestly? I've not been doing things, I've also not been doing this, but-

So the two plots stolen from Genshin is the Chenyu Vale story quest, and I've forgotten the second one, oops- I thiiiink it's kinda like the Mondstadt festival (the one where u have to pick that fuckin flower and it didn't matter abracafuckyou /lh)

LOOKING AT MY THINGS THERE WERE MORE okay hold on-

So the concept of the campaign is every character is a fallen god who's forgotten their divine life, and they regain a shred of their memory and now must find a way to ascend due to the fact that only Whole Mortals can reincarnate/be reborn, but if you die as a mortal-body divine-soul That's It (yadda yadda, non-dnd approved type shit; there are actually multiple ways they could go about it but I have no idea what they'll do beyond revive the sun) - One player didn't do that, but it's fine, he is instead POSESSED by a goddess, it's chill, and I adore his backstory and he's the only one with a backstory tightly interwoven with the world's lore and local area the campaign takes place in he is THE ONLY MAN WHO MATTERS T O M E (/j)

The Genshin Quests that I have plots for bc I stole them are as follows; Natzissenkreuz Ordo, Chenyu Vale, and the Windblume Festival. I won't get into it rn so you don't have to tag this ask as spoilers (unless... thinking emoji) BUT oooOOOOooOoOOo you wanna hear abt my dnd So Bad sdfsdfsdfg (I just wanna talk abt it SO BAD bc we're on a month hiatus bc one player's in the middle of bumfuck nowhere for a while)

I ALSO HAVE A ONESHOT PLANNED FOLLOWING/INSPIRED BY THIS YEAR'S SUMMER EVENT IN GENSHIN! I'm planning on running it at two tables (different groups) and potentially even a third when I get to sorting it out, ASK ME ABOUT IT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE asdfgh

DND ASIDE- I recently found out one of my irls plays Genshin and I've been talking to him about it and honestly??? very nice, very fun (very demure /j) asdfgh I got into genshin to play w/ some other irls but now I am the last,,, genshin player standing,,,, and we're gonna help eachother farm when Natlan comes out bc I love running domains >:3 I'm a lil domain fiend

-Lucky

Ignore the fact that I'm responding backwards. But the pressure did work 👀 now I just need it to happen again because I blinked, and a month rolled around. I thought it was at most a week but no, my sense of time is fucked.

I'm so bad at names, and I barely do the story in any game I play unless I'm forced to (I missed an event in ZZZ because I wasn't on the third chapter yet ;-;). So I don't remember if I've done, seen, or even heard of the Chenyu Vale story, but I do know Mondstadt, at least.

I love it when my friends actually get invested enough with my imagination/ideas that they actually tie things into the ever-working narrative ;u; sometimes I feel like people don't do it because (they don't fucking care lol) they don't want to overstep on something that's made up by you. I understand, but man, it feels so uplifting when it happens. Keep that man alive. Are you planning on revealing parts of their divine life as the campaign goes on? I remember watching this youtube short about DND where they basically say that each player is given a blank sheet, and as they progress through the story they learn more things about their characters based on outside reactions.

I only know Windblume Festival but if it's a required quest/event quest, then I've most likely played the others. But yess, feel absolutely free to dump all your DND lore since I know you can't say it to your players unless you reveal too much. I'll tag spoilers in case you want to get more specific with the genshin quests because I do not remember any of them.

Here is your spotlight Lucky, lay it on me. What is this summer event-inspired oneshot?

I was talking to an old anon on another blog and it kinda makes me sad how the genshin community died out. Not in the sense that there's no fandom there, but that old players have either quit or lost interest. It makes me wonder if I even like genshin or if I write it because it's what I've been doing for so long.

[teddybeartoji]

you made me wanna rewatch (can't play) both of tlou games,,

i really loved the vibes of both games mainly, since you can only follow as the story unfolds - i have to admit that while your favorite is the second, mine was the first. i am weak to selfish people, i love selfishness, not necessarily as a default but more as a proof of pure individuality and i am obsessed with the ideas associated with individualism

so when joel made that choice against everything? against the entire world? against himself?? hell, even against ellie herself???? went a bit insane with that

i read the whole thing u just wrote, have to admit it has been a long while since i watched, so there's stuff i didn't get at first because i needed time to remember the names... anyways if i do go through and watch it i'll have to read your commentary again

side note but i love people that really like something and can talk about it in extended detail, i find it fascinating and there's always a new element i can learn

i also have to admit i didn't like abby because well.. an antagonist to the previous protagonists... and since i am the type to side with the protagonist no matter what.. (i actually some bojack analysis videos this afternoon and ig that's the only media for now that challenged that)

well anyways i do remember still siding with her, admiring how strong she was - and when she got close with lev?? say less good lord (i get attached to characters who are trans/have trans implications in media VERY quickly, esp when i watched tlou2 at a time where i was heavily struggling w gender (still am but repressing so it's not as bad))

overall the writing is truly impeccable, i love me some good characterization

i remember watching videos criticizing tlou2, especially its pacing - i think i agreed back then even though to me it wasn't a problem at all while i was watching. as a last info, i'll just say i havent gotten around to watch the series adaptation... i am very scared it'll disappoint and i just loved the games too much it doesn't feel necessary (even though i am the type to want to go through ALL of a media's content usually otherwise it stresses me out)

saw you were having some trouble sleeping, know that you are not alone 🥲 i feel like i'm going insane

~ ☀️

HIII SUNNYYY HIIIIII:333 I OFTEN WATCH GAMES TOO BTWW!!!!! i actually tend to always watch a playthrough as i play a game lmao,, like i'll watch it as far as i've played bc i love to see how somebody else solves the puzzles and the encounters and stuff!!!!!!!!!!

i do still really love the first one too don't get my wrong!!! i think it's fucking revolutionary like it's an incredible fucking game!!!!!!! the choice that joel makes... insane really. i absolutely love it. it does kill me just a little just knowing how much the choice he makes will bear down on ellie........

AHHH I KNOWW I KINDA JUST SPITBALLED i thought abt giving more context to some of the thoughts but i figured then it really would get a little bit too confusing with all the information lmao BUTTT I'M SO HAPPY YOU STILL DECIDED TO READ IT!!!!!! I MEANS SO MUCH ACTUALLY WAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! ILYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i definitely understand why people would be upset with abby, i think that's very very normal and i mean.. i was very upset too lmao but i've just seen so many ppl blatantly hating on her and for what she's done and i think that's the stupidest thing ever honestly. like even if you're mad and sad about joel... you should still be able to look at the whole thing from her perspective right??

like imagine if we never saw ellie's and joel's side; ofc the vaccine is one thing - joel took away even the mere POSSIBILITY of a vaccine and no matter how much ppl wanna bash on the idea of developing one, i think that hope really is something that dies last okay. i don't think the fireflies are wrong about believing in that. idk how much i personally would've been willing to do for the cause but yeah i really don't blame them. so when a mf comes in with the immune kid, only to then kill the ONE person who'd be able to make the vaccine and like a million other fireflies alongside with him..... yeah i mean that just makes him sound like a psycho doesn't it lmao

i think it is enough of a reason to go after him AND AGAIN I DO LOVE JOEL I'M BASHING HIM (lol) BUT I'M JUST TRYING TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE THING FROM BOTH SIDES YK? so i really do hate when ppl don't even TRY to see it from her angle...

TLOU2 IS SOOOOOO WELL-WRITTEENNNN!!!!!!!! like so fucking well!!!!!! it hurts so much and it just keeps punching you in the face but that doesn't make it bad yk? i feel like it's all very very realistic. it's fucked up, but that's just how the world is.

AND LEVV!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOOOOVEEE HIMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! genuinely love the fact that they have a lesbian and a trans character as the main characters (and abby with her physique bc that's just not smth you see all the time either)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i absolutely fucking adored how they handled his storyline. with how abby handled it when the other seraphites called him by his deadname and all that. and when yara told the entire story and then the whole thing with the mom... ahh that really broke my heart he really is my son i love him sm:((((((

i would definitely disagree with the pacing thing actually!!!!! to me it really fit the way the story was progressing yk?? like obviously the start is slow bc ellie and dina are only getting into the city and they have nothing to worry abt other than the few infected as they're looting and tooting around. and then right after they do meet them it all starts getting faster and that too just felt very fitting. bc it was all chaotic!!!!!!!!!!!!! i felt like that kept me on my toes even more!!!!

mmm the show.... it had some cool moments. i did really like how they did the bloater scene buuuut overall it was a bit meh actually. i think for me it was too just bc i'm such a big fan of the games. like my hopes might've been too high. and i just hated that they changed so much; like the fact that they don't have spores in that??? that's such a cool detail so idk why they decided to leave it out. i do think that the actors were good though!!!!

but uh i won't be watching the second season. 1. they casted a bunch of zionists as the main ppl so yeah fuck that shit 2. they casted a little like 5'3 skinny actress as abby😐😐like be so fucking serious rn. i think her being jacked as shit is a very important part,, i think it's good to have that kind of a rep but ohh no they just casted the little twig. it's a hard no from me.

OMFG THIS TURNED INTO ANOTHER WORDVOMIT AGAIN HGSAFAGHSHAGSA DAMN ANYWAYY I HOPE I ANSWERED EVERYTHING I FEEL LIKE I'M ON A ROLL SO IT'S A BIT HARD TO ACTUALLY FOCUS LMAO BUT WAAHHH IT'S SO GOOD TO HAVE PPL TO TALK ABT TLOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MWAH MWAH MWAHH ILYY!!!!!!!