#oh and Cullen

[not-poignant]

Haihai little ask, which character did you enjoy most writing, who do you relate to most, and who did you find hardest to write? It could include current wips as welll (mallory and mount cos im rlyy curious abt these boys)

Ps Underline is awesome!

I'm so glad you're enjoying Underline the Black!

Tbh I don't have one fixed answer to your question because it changes all the time! The character I enjoy writing the most is usually the one I'm writing right now, so it's definitely Efnisien. (Because like, if I stopped enjoying them the most I'd just write another character! So it used to be Gwyn, but it isn't anymore).

In terms of the hardest character, it's usually the characters I'm not writing the perspectives of, like Ash for example. I haven't written much from Mallory's perspective yet so I don't know much about him! And nothing from Lewis Mount's so I don't know much about him either.

The character's of mine that are hardest that I've written probably include Eran Iliakambar, and early on, Augus until I got the hang of him. I don't generally like writing characters that are very 'hard' to write though? So I don't often write them! I want the process of writing to feel like...fairly enjoyable, so I'm not looking for things to feel really difficult or impossible.

As for the characters I relate the most to over time, that changes a lot too! I relate to Gwyn a lot in The Nascent Diplomat, but less in other stories. And I relate to Efnisien more in Falling Falling Stars, but less in Underline the Black. So I think it's less about the character and more about what they're specifically dealing with!

It's so weird to think that Efnisien won't be my favourite character to write anymore one day, but I used to feel that way about Gwyn too! It's strange the way things can change.

[fuckmeyer]

the choice between Edward & Jacob is not a question of which relationship is healthier or which partner is best suitable for Bella. neither is correct. neither is best. neither produces a happy ending for Bella. at the end of the day this is still a vampire novel. any choice Bella could make would yield, at best, a bittersweet happily ever after.

if she chooses Edward, she gets the terrifying Breaking Dawn ending: a girl who rejected her call to grow up has hung her love & her eternity on an emotionally stunted partner who hates himself marginally less than he loves her. she's a teen mom with a kid she never wanted who perpetuates the generational trauma passed down from her parents. by keeping this child, the Cullens have set the stage for an uprising/cold war against the Volturi who are likely to take revenge in order to maintain power. Bella is living in a tenuous "dream come true" wrapped in a nightmare & doesn't realize it.

choosing Jacob is the true coming-of-age ending that rips the stitches out of a wound that never fully healed. even if we ignore the fact that she ends up with a man who sexually assaulted her (we must bear in mind Jacob's character is influenced by smeyer's racism, but it did happen), they can't have a secure romantic relationship. based on the high imprinting rate of the pack, Jacob will likely find his imprint in his lifetime & will lose himself to the imprintee. he will no longer be her Jacob. he will inevitably abandon her (whether he wants to or not), & she must reconcile with the reality that she will always be inadequate to Jacob's imprint. & say he never manages to escape the vampires? he will presumably not age for a long time, meaning the relationship Bella always feared with Edward (her being an old grandmother while he stays forever young) remains a possibility. this is the story of a girl who slaps a Band Aid on an open wound & calls herself healed while flinching every time she sees the shadow of the knife that cut her.

if she chooses neither (team therapy), her healing requires her to lose or be at least partially disconnected from everyone she cares about. Bella must spend the rest of her life shut out from one world while never fully existing in her human world ever again. she must always keep secrets. she can never go back home. even in the unlikely event that she manages to escape the Volturi, the threat of being hunted by vampires will never leave her. in addition, she must face her worst fears (aging, losing Edward) while always keeping in mind the immortal life that could have been hers, if only.

even the "healthiest" option produces scars that will never quite heal.

Twilight is a horror. Twilight is a vampire novel. Twilight is gothic. Twilight is fiction. neither Edward nor Jacob is a "bad" choice because neither will give Bella her happily ever after. the choice between Edward & Jacob is simply a matter of which horror story you prefer to read.

[tsuutarr]

Tsuutarr Yantober 2024 Masterlist

(Thank you to @ozzgin for the wonderful prompts!!!)

All Yandere x Reader fics are listed below!

Love at first sight -- Virgil (Unicorn)

Fate -- Aizono (Love God)

Secret collection -- Samuel Foster (Childhood "Friend")

Homemade meal -- Mason Cane (Hucow Farmer)

Love letters -- Rome (Ghost)

Unorthodox gift -- Mulsu (Forgotten Water God)

Dear Alice -- White Rabbit (Alice in Wonderland)

Always with you -- Finley (Guardian Angel)

Heart on a platter -- Rome (Ghost)

Love triangle -- Hae Sol and Dal Moon (Light Familiars)

Bloodbath -- Elias Lightrend (Hero/Chosen One)

Lovestruck... literally -- Lovell (Cupid)

On my knees -- Finley (Guardian Angel)

Embrace -- Teddy (Teddy Bear)

Paranoia -- ParanoiAI (Artificial Intelligence)

A piece of me -- Cot (Garden Fairy)

Spiraling -- Samuel Foster (Childhood "Friend")

Control -- Jiu Oh (Crossdressing Childhood Friend)

Under lock and key -- Virgil (Unicorn)

Dissection -- Rome (Ghost)

Love patterns -- Aizono (Love God)

Bandages -- Elias Lightrend (Hero/Chosen One)

Aftercare -- Tynan (Incubus)

I put a spell on you -- Cot (Garden Fairy)

Tainted love -- Lovell (Cupid)

Breaking point -- Tynan (Incubus)

Trap -- Mason Cane (Hucow Farmer)

The fine art of poisoning -- Geoffrey Cullen (Butler)

I come with knives -- Teddy (Teddy Bear)

Bad ending -- Elias Lightrend (Hero/Chosen One)

Till death do us part -- Thomas Frankenstein (Mad Scientist)

[vigilskeep]

so did you guys know that there’s a war table mission if you’ve conscripted the mages where three young mages try to escape from you and injure a soldier on watch, and you get a letter from fiona to cullen “in a shaky hand”, pleading for them

[minthara]

Cullen. Do you need to ask?

[maharellasa]

SOLAS HAS A FUCKING SHRINE TO THE INQUISITOR IN HIS HOUSE?! 😭

[lyanachaan]

unarmored.

[flowersbane]

so on this 6 week anniversary since completing inquisition for the first time & romancing solas, i have finished my second playthru, this time romancing culllen.

& you should’ve seen the look on my face when i realized that my inquisitor wouldn’t finish the game alone. &, like, having my inquisitor’s love interest be openly worried for her life before doom? saying he doesn’t want to lose her? not breaking up with her??? i am soooooo not okay.

i haven’t played trespasser yet so… haha… totally not looking forward to comparing the heartache to whatever content this inquisitor gets with cullen. haha… ha… ha…

i am so angry with that egg lmaooooo

[uniiiquehecrt]

Voice actors are NOT the same as actors.

It takes a specific kind of skill-set and training to be able to warp and meld the voice. It takes a certain kind of talent and dedication to hone that talent into the ability to meld the voice and invoke emotion with one's voice alone. Actors are used to using their voice secondarily to their body language and their facial expressions. It's all mirrored back on camera. They do have nuance. But it's a different kind of nuance and a different kind of training to produce that nuance.

Voice actors might get their likeness transposed on their character's design, and maybe their mannerisms might seep into the character's animation. But when it's all said and done: their presence is in their voice. They are bringing a character to life, showing that emotion in their voice, trying to keep a specific accent, drawl, pitch, tone in that voice and keep it consistent for their recording sessions.

The voice actor is like a classically trained musician who can play first chair in a competitive, world-renown orchestra. The actor (who fills the voice actor's role) is like a moot who played violin in beginner and intermediate high school orchestra and thinks they can get into Juilliard with that 2-4 years of experience.

This doesn't mean that the HS orchestra moot can't play. They can even be really good at it. Maybe they won competitions and sat first chair. But they are not in the same league as the person who's been training their whole lives and lives and breathes to hone their craft using the instrument and all of the training they've ever acquired to perfect it. They are not meant for the same roles. They are not in the same caliber. You do not hire the HS equivalent when you want to play complex music in a competitive orchestra.

Actors are not the same as voice actors.

And furthermore, actors - especially big name actors - taking the roles of animated characters for big budget films or TV pilots makes no sense anyways when - at least in the case of TV pilots - there's not a point to hiring a big budget actors anyways. That money could be used elsewhere (like paying your animators), and the talent that is brought onto the screen for X character could then be hired on to voice said character no recasting required.

I wouldn't say voice acting as a profession is in danger exactly, but it's certainly being disrespected and overlooked for celebrity clout, and this has ALWAYS been an issue. Shoot, even Robin Williams knew that much - which is why he tried so hard not to be used as a marketing chess piece for Aladdin and got royally pissed off when it happened anyways. People shouldn't go to any movie (but especially not animated films) because "oh famous actor is in it". People should go because it's a good movie and the voice acting is good.

People who honest to god think that voice actors are replaceable because "oh well anyone can voice act" or "I like xyz celebrity so naturally it'll be good" ... Honestly I just wish you'd reassess your priorities because you're missing the point and are part of the problem.

Voice Actors ≠ Actors.

[hooned]

vampires the way no vampire has ever vampired 🧛‍♂️🦇🥀

[vultures-and-scavengers]

i wish we could get a conversation between cullen and the iron bull regarding them leaving everything they've known for the inquisition. obviously the qun and the templars are different, but they're both people walking away from a very restrictive system centered on religion and now trying to figure out who they are without that system that they have killed and done terrible things in the name of.

[fuckmeyer]

if smeyer wasn't a coward vamp!Bella would have immediately eaten her daughter Rensesmem whole-hog like Saturn Devouring His Son

[ndostairlyrium]

they painted the minis, time to play with them u-u

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

my greatest achievement in DA2 is maxing out Carver's friendship

and all it took was begrudgingly kissing a little templar ass in act 1 because Carver didn't want to plan a prison break if my Hawke got his ass arrested for being stupid.

[umbracirrus]

The urge to romance a new character vs the natural instinct to get with the same character you have fallen in love with yet again

[yuriinadress]

Bernard Dowd and Tim's 7 Evil Exes but they're not anyone Tim's actually dated (because lbr, anyone's who's dated Tim would not go through the trouble of fighting his boyfriend for him)

INSTEAD it's Bernard and Tim's 7 POTENTIAL Evil Exes: people that had a crush on Tim but either never got the chance to tell him and/or Tim was too oblivious to realize

Potential candidates include:

Danny Temple

Lonnie Machin

Greta Hayes

Sebastian Ives

Conner Kent

Buzz

Norris

Karl Ranck

Miguel Barragan (Bunker) (I think he had a small crush on Tim? I can't remember, it's been a while since I've read n52)

Cullen Row

That one guy that dragged Tim out clubbing in France (I don't know his name but I know he exists)

Literally any boy that Tim went to school with apparently (guy was a dude magnet jfc)

This all mostly inspired by many of @aliteralchicken 's posts about Tim's many MANY suitors