#oop just edited it to actually have it in the order i posted them to ao3 cause it was in the updating order before

[justcallme-ange]

Happy 1 Year Little Comforts!! <3

Give or take a couple days - oops ^^;

One of the longest projects I've done to date!! <3 <3 <3 Thank you all so much for the support, as well as all the comments and tags! I love going through them and reading all the lovely messages. They're a great pick-me-up whenever I'm feeling demotivated. So thank you again <3

So for the anniversary I wanted to do a little thing where I point out some details in the comic I'm very proud of XD (Yes I'm tooting my own horn - shhh)

Three Wishes Dream asks Techno to promise him something 3 times. And only on the third one does Techno agree. I tried to frame it as both Techno being cautious about agreeing to things Dream proposes (a la favor) but also as Techno finally agreeing when everything was laid out and there was nothing Dream had left to hide. (It's like a fairytale trial - 3 challenges with the last having a great reward.) Forget-me-(k)not I don't know how prevalent they are now a days, but growing up I was a really forgetful child, and learned somewhere that by tying a knot on your finger when you need to remember something supposedly helps in you actually remembering. Which idk if true, it didn't really work on me, but the knot itself actually stuck, so in this case I used it for 3 things: A reminder that Dream was stuck in prison and needed help, a reminder that Phil needed to get Techno out of prison (eventually), and a reminder that Techno promised Dream he would free him. Scars So all the scars that I drew Dream with all actually have canonical reasons. So in order - the one across his nose was from Techno during their duel, the ones on his neck and chest were from Tommy taking two canon lives, the one on his lips were from Sam after first being detained, and the last on his chin (and arms) are from Quackity. Continuity The armor that Phil is wearing at the end is a reference to another illustration I did of the Doomsday Trio. It's post prison break so maybe it's a sequel? (This is less a detail and more just a personal thing - but my favorite page has to be page 7 - where Dream's image crumbles. It usually takes me at least 2 tries to get the look I want - this was one and done ^^) More behind the scenes - this comic (final version) started with the hug. I said initially the comic was supposed to be 6 pages at most, but I wanted to make the hug work so bad that I literally rewrote the comic. Only the first two pages are part of the original draft. Everything else was new. My brother literally sat with me for days going over each scene and making edits. OTL There were so many iterations - in the end I think there are at least 7 drafts of this comic. Cut Content Bonus: Unlike my other comic where the vision was there from the beginning, Little Comforts had some growing pains, and a few scenes had to be cut for it to work. So here ya go!

This was cut in favor of the shaking scene, some levity was needed to let the scene breathe, plus quoting my brother "It's more Techno".

Also wanted another hug, but editor and I felt that it took away from the pay off in the end.

Alternate version of 'he's a child' - originally it was supposed to go at the end of the comic, as an epilogue. Timing wise it ended up not working, which ended up with an even better gut punch so I'm not too upset. I may still render this....

[pearblossomrain]

personal summary of what might be the most unserious gp i have ever seen aka sao paulo 2024:

(almost needed a whole separate post just for qualis and side note, this sounds a bit like commentary bc i was actually making commentary when watching for my friend)

tldr for qualis; more red flags than an all boys' school, some controversial safety car periods, hamilton out q1, red bulls+sainz out q2, crazy top 5 of norris, russell, tsunoda, ocon and lawson in That Exact Order.

• before the race even STARTED, sainz was starting from the pit lane, albon didn't start the race due to damage from quali, verstappen had a 5 place grid penalty. when you think things are already crazy enough, lance stroll spins out on the formation lap which calls for a second formation lap, and then a third formation lap and aborted start due to lots of confusion (multiple drivers were noted 💀)

(will cut here to save space T-T)

• lights out and away we go....and so does the lead apparently bc russell almost immediately grabbed first from norris?? and he held onto that lead like my grandma holds a grudge; for what seemed like aeons. 😭

• verstappen, hamilton, colapinto and gasly were leaping up the ranks like nobody's business, literally blinked and i missed multiple overtakes from them.

• speaking of verstappen, he goes all the way up from p17 to p6 in like less than 15 laps and there was a super nerve wracking train of tsunoda, ocon, leclerc and verstappen that honestly stressed the hell out of me to watch for all those consecutive laps (i left to get an ice cream and when i came back, even the gaps between had barely changed at all)

• ferrari suddenly decides to pit leclerc incredibly early which i still cannot tell if it was a good idea or not because it started raining heavily and soon everyone except a few of the leading pack went into the pit after a virtual safety car period bc hulkenberg spun out (more on him later trust me), which puts us with a seemingly temporary top 3 of OCON, VERSTAPPEN AND GASLY??? in that order too! 🤡

• first red flag because colapinto collided really heavily into the barriers (man i feel bad for him, this is as close to a home race as it gets for him) and i swear nobody is having a worse day than the williams garage.....my genuine thoughts and prayers to that blue unserious team

• AN ACTUAL BLACK FLAG?!!??? to hulkenberg because apparently when he spun out he had marshals push his car back on track which isn't allowed (but i have to say, unless he made the marshals do it when they didn't want to, it's also a bit on them)....williams racing might have a competitor for most depressed garage after this 😭

• penalties!! so many penalties!! bearman picked up a couple of penalties for collisions and so did piastri which they keep until the end and i'm quite sure there were a couple more but i really could NOT keep up oops. (edit: one more thing! i do feel a little bad for piastri bc he had to sort of give a bit of way for norris at the end when they were stacked tgt only for them to not move up positions at all and with the 10s penalty idk how this will end up being.)

• this red flag period was so unbelievably long (i think all in all it was about 30 min?) that i had time to watch them all go into the pits and get out of their cars, then leave and do some laundry, grab a snack and a drink. 😭 and when i returned, 16 drivers had just requested a restart which in turn led the fia to call for a rolling start

• they finally went back to racing, and so many things happened relatively quickly; norris went wide and russell went past norris to p4, bearman got into the barriers but returns to bring up the rear (NOOO MY SON) and sainz crashed rather badly into the barriers and that was ANOTHER safety car period good god! (they said this is his second time in the barriers which, absolutely Foul, but unfortunately not wrong 😭)

• verstappen (who was honestly having a great day so far from p17 to p2) TOOK A PRETTY BIG LEAD which. oh my god we hadn't seen this in like 100 days or something 😭 and norris goes down to p7?? not sure what happened there tbh i was not looking closely oops again.

• there was a crazy back-and-forth battle going in the midfield bc both vcarbs are in front of perez who, in the commentators' words, "are both fighting for his seat" 💀 and hamilton was also chasing perez (and eventually got the last point) so there was just a lot of scrabbling for points i guess?

• also somewhere in there, i didn't keep track because of so many things happening, alonso spun out and ended up at the back of the pack (i also feel bad for him bc he mentioned back pain and bouncing at the end so sorry grandpa) and yet he did not finish dead last? afterwards he was dead set on finishing the race "for the mechanics", in his own words, which i see as an absolute class act in my opinion. hate him or love him, this makes me have huge respect for him.

• ALPINE. alpine oh my god i (and them. and EVERYONE HONESTLY???) can't believe they held onto a double podium all the way to the end wow i think nobody is happier than that garage and team rn like whole house GLADDD 😭 (p.s. my friend, not sure if she'd like to be tagged, said that the french flag and dutch flag at the podium ceremony were "like y-axis and x-axis" which had me losing it)

• honestly the only thing i am rather sad about is tsunoda finishing p8 after starting p3 but if we are being honest, parts of this race were due to circumstances and perhaps a little bit of additional luck but at least he is in the points and goodbye unlucky streak!! plus it's double vcarb points!

[side notes because this is as long as an entire speech; i did the maths and norris would have to be p1 and verstappen p8 in every single grand prix (not counting the sprint) to win by 1 point and if the maths works out that they're both tied in points, verstappen would still win because he has more grand prix wins even if norris wins all remaining 3 gps]

in conclusion, for a race i predicted would finish at 1:30am my time (it started at 11:30pm here) and hopefully i would get more 5 hours of sleep before work, i will be left with just over 3 hours of sleep now and yet i have ZERO REGRETS BECAUSE HOLY FCK THAT WAS A ROLLERCOASTER. absolutely nothing can top this race for me for the entire season and maybe even last season!!

definitely probably missed quite a few things but this is what i can remember off the top of my head or what was most memorable to me and it is 3am here so pls cut me some slack 🙏

[tubbytarchia]

(edited post after the last ask, oops!)

I keep thinking about what that anonymous said "If Jimmy is the canary then (almost) every other player is the coal miner for being complicit in his suffering and bringing him down in the mine with the expectation that he will die before them, for his life has been chosen to be of less value" because that's the only interpretation of the "coal miner" assignment that makes sense to me. I've been informed/reminded that a canary brought into a coal mine doesn't actually have to die and can still fulfill its function, but the whole "canary curse" idea is reliant on the thought that Jimmy WILL and HAS TO die

And now I'm genuinely curious as to why Tango and Mumbo have ever been assigned coal miner specifically? Because Tango died together with him in Double Life? Whilst the canary may not have to die, Tango didn't necessarily try to stop it and in fact expected Jimmy's death instead and quickly accepted it, even if he did care for Jimmy in DL. Did the canary just fail its function and whole reason it's brought down to the mine to begin with by dropping dead at the same time as the miner instead of giving any forewarning? Assuming everyone else isn't also a miner

In Mumbo's case, because of Mumbo's tendency to die second? So the implication is that he took Jimmy down into the mine but failed to leave in time after the canary's death, whilst everyone else remains above ground? In that sense the canary has also failed its function which contradicts the whole canary curse labelling to begin with

Again I'm genuinely curious lol

Also the "Tango is the coal mine" type of thought too. That one I have absolutely no theories for so I'd love to hear any explanation. I guess the coal mine could be taken as a passive factor, but in my mind all the players are already complicit by being passive (except for BigB. That is the only truly passive guy in the series because he lives in his own world and doesn't take to almost anything anyone else says. Although I wouldn't call him a coal mine? He's like. A fly on the wall somewhere completely detached). Not all of them necessarily wish to take the canary down in the mine but it's something that's continued to be done so they just go along with it, it's just the order of things, and they're unaware that the canary's life can be preserved whilst still fulfilling its function, versus people like Joel and Pearl who have said or done things contradicting the general belief of Jimmy's incompetence and explicitly believing in him/wanting him to not die

[helslastangel]

Blaming my personality on my parents' personal planets

A TRULY random "observation," if you will.

(Not to be taken seriously. If you must be serious, slither off my post before you trip and fall into a sense of humor 🙃)

As a Virgo sun, I (allegedly) aspire to be methodical, organized, and focused.

However, in practice, I am none of those things. People usually think otherwise. Why?

Well.

I'm good at making an art out of imitating life - my parents' normal lives to be exact. Lol.

My default setting is to dance around topics or agree with opposing sides of any conversation until no one knows what I am actually saying or if I am even trying to say anything at all. Libra mercury tings.

Unless, of course, I'm emotionally charged. In which case, may God have mercy on your soul because my dear Cancer Mars won't.

That being said...

My parents' planetary influence on my day to day communication is in the same house that my sun sits in, and that's...well, revealing.

I like to think our guardians help to shape our alternate selves, if nothing else.

Mom

Sun conjunct my Mercury

Sun square my Mars & Ascendant

Mars in my 3H, conjunct my Sun, trine Moon & Lilith

Saturn conjunct my Lilith, trine my Sun & Moon

Lilith in my 3H & opposite my Saturn

My ISFJ mother is one of the most organized and methodical people I know. She actually uses a planner (multiple planners, actually) from January straight to December. You can ask her for a detail from 20 years ago, and she'll go off into another room and come back blowing the dust off some old notebook. Somehow, she's got the answer in there, timestamped and dated.

Meanwhile, my ADHD-riddled ENTP ass could open a refurbished stationary shop with all the unused notebooks and planners I've collected over the years. However, having been infused for 9 months inside and 18 years beside the world's most organized woman, I CAN and often do what my mother does, though only for short periods of time. Long enough to be a means to my own ends, but too short to truly shape my character in any lasting way: e.g., making a good impression in an interview, getting through probation at a new job, attempting to fool professors, and so on.

I-

Dad

Mercury in my 3H & opposite my Saturn

Mars in my 8H, trine my Mercury, & square my Lilith

Saturn in my 12H & square my Saturn

My ENTJ dad is like an anthropomorphic university textbook. Everything he says is laid out in a coherent, well-ordered line. No shortage of words, but all of them are somehow necessary and useful. He can not only think of things to say on the spot in any situation, but he easily makes it sound like he gave it a thousand years of thought before speaking. Always gets to the point (or circles back to it quite quickly).

Mhm, here too, I can imitate my dad's ability to make perfect logical sense. By feigning concise, effective speech for just as long as necessary to swing things in my favor, I also scratch that Virgo sun itch to fit an ideal.

But, really, the only part I embody effortlessly is never being short on words. Everything else is subject to terms and conditions. Me? Get to the point? Naturally? Nyet.

I try to self-edit in real time whenever on the phone or face-to-face with someone who might question my sanity should I default to my Libra mercury + Cancer mars special combo. The one that tries to be amicable and inclusive while tiptoeing over everyone's toes, only to hesitate and end up tripping and falling and landing on all of them.

90% of anything I write has to be picked apart like a roach at a hen party and barely resemble whatever I originally wrote before seeing the light of day. Otherwise, it will read the way I talk - in concentric circles. 🙃 🔁

oop.

Lost my train of thought and found something more interesting to do.

To be continued.

Maybe.

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[midnighthybrid1]

Thought I should actually post these here oop

Hello peeps! Here’re some Hazbin Genderbent Edits I did a while ago, if anyone here follows me on YouTube they might recognize the designs. I have a few more that I’ll be sharing here eventually, and plentyyy of artwork and screenshot edits haha. Y’all boutta get an influx of HH content from me, I apologize ahead of time.

Genderbent Names, in order from Left to Right: Eleanor, Crystal, Richie/Dickie, Charles, Marvell, and Shell.

I may take some inspo from these designs to make OCs away from the source material eventually, just so I can enjoy them in peace haha. I don’t actually really like Hazbin much, unfortunately, but it has a fun concept and unfortunately one of my hyperfixations. Sigh.

If you’d like to check out the shorts I featured these in (which also include some headcanon voice ideas I had for them!) then check out my YouTube here!

I’ll drop the design explanations under the cut, hope you enjoy them!

- Charles: I tried to add some more traditional ‘Prince’ elements to the design with the cummerbund, as well as took some inspiration from images of male dancers I’d found. I gave him a hair bun just so we could keep that Apple Motif in his design. I got rid of his curves (he’s been TWINKIFIED OH NO-) and rounded out some of the jagged edges in his design to better match his personality.

- Richie/Dickie: Based on his lore, I figured he’d be a little more ‘built’ than Charles (which isn’t saying much here, since he’s still pretty skinny). I accidentally made him kind of pirate-ish with his ponytail and shirt, but I think that adventurous look fits him. I shortened the hair down to a ponytail but, to keep that general silhouette’s vibe, made the bow tie it up and made it EXTRA LONG. I imagine Richie is a name he made up as a nickname for Richard (since… since Dick is a nickname for Richard too…) and Adam and Lute would call him Dickie once the whole ‘he is an angel’ reveal happens.

- Crystal: My friend thought of her name and I didn’t realize until after that she’s an accidental Breaking Bad reference. Uh. Oopsies? I literally just took Angel’s normal colors and moved them over to the blue hues on the color wheel haha. Trying to make sure she didn’t look like Devil Dust was a bit of a pain, especially since I also took inspo from Drag King fashion for her, but I am pretty happy with what I came up with. I opened her shirt, but I imagine anything sus would be ‘censored’ by cartoon logic with her shirt, since that’s what I saw a lot of in the drag I looked at for her. I based her body type after Angel’s twin sister Molly, and I imagine if I gender swapped Molly I’d do a similar thing by giving her Angel’s body type.

- Eleanor: I tried to base her outfit a bit off of 1920s/30s dresses and suits with a slight modern twist, similar to Alastor. That’s also how I did her hair, I gave it more of rounded bob look to match some short styles that were popular around then. Since she wouldn’t have antlers, I gave her a visible deer tail instead (I like the headcanon that Al has one, and decided making that more obvious here would be a good idea).

- Marvell: His name comes from Marvelous, similar to how Niffty comes from Nifty. Very fun times. I tried to give him more of a Butler theme to contrast Niffty’s maid theme, which also fit because Viv would 100% give him a bowtie if he were a guy. I also gave him sideburns for the 50’s look… and cause I thought it’d be funny.

- Shell…?: Her name was hard to come up with. I actually don’t like the name Shell, but the next best thing was Shuck and that’s not much better. I didn’t change too much about her, I actually think the skinny skrunkly look fits her better than normal Husky for some reason? I’m not sure why. I replaced the suspenders with a vest because I figured they’d probably cover her up a little more if the character was a girl, and shortened her wings because Male Birds are generally more majestic (maybe I should have changed the wing colors too… hm… thoughts for the future).

[gigglesandfreckles-hp]

commentary/ramblings/director's cut of omtnwf chapters 2-5 below the cut!

HAHA this is NOT supposed to be there. i guess it makes enough sense...but this is from an earlier version of omtnwf that never had them actually get together at hogwarts at all! it was obviously a very different story altogether but i guess i never edited this part to reflect that oops. i'm going to pretend it reads as dumbledore being cheeky with his "you two were once rather good friends" instead of "multiple members of my staff have seen you half-naked around this school"

okay yes thereeee we go albus. much better.

the first of the seventh year secrets unravelling!!! i've gotten quite a few questions about how the internship being revoked plays into their story and the truth is, it doesn't really...not in the larger sense or beyond what we see here. it serves first and foremost as an early example of the half-truths that were happening toward the end of jily 1.0. and also reinforces the reasons lily turned toward the order. it's another layer of discrimination she was facing at the end of school that she never told james about. it feels more momentous in chapter 2 when it's mentioned because it's the only concrete thing we know she kept from him. in the grand scheme, though...there's not much more to the story there. she just simply didn't tell him. one more straw on the proverbial camel's back that led to their ultimate demise.

i have no idea why i made lily irritated here 😆 james's shock is personally reasonable considering she's been a covert member. c'mon lil cut our boy some SLACK

i actually love this bit of reveal that james was planning to propose. it feels sooo long ago because we've now seen the lead-up and both the immediate and long-term effects of said proposal. we've even seen the proposal! but here's where it all started. happy, naive james...about three months away from one of the worst days of his life.

i have actually warred with this bit for so long. i regret teasing their first encounter with voldy here because i have the perfect place for it as a flashback of it's own in a waaaay later chapter, but i didn't think of that until i'd long posted this chapter...which shows too much of the interaction between jily and voldy to revisit the scene later. ah well.

second only to my james potter sunshine motifs are my lily evans elemental motifs. james consistently notices things about lily and compares them to various facets of the elemental world. this is because i see james as being very grounded within nature due to his being an animagus! i like to imagine he has a keen understanding and perception of the natural world around him. the trees, the grass, the earth, the wind, etc. thus...his admiration of lily frequently takes the form of elemental metaphors!

this 1983 sirius intro is probably my favourite character intro of the fic! he's such a grumpy bastard. but immediately...they can't help it!!! james and lily unite to tease him. i love the natural little slotting back into their old trio dynamic (which is special to me) even in the midst of all the Big Feelings happening between all three of them. also this is embarrassing but this scene, especially the "do you promise to be good?" bit was inspired by that scene in national treasure when abigail first ends up in the van with ben and riley (and the declaration of independence lol) and the banter between the three in the "she won't be any trouble. see? she's curious" exchange just screams jilypad to me in a way i can't quite explain. idk i told y'all i was mad okay?!?!

the fact that this isn't even the only time james uses lily's beltloop for Plot. what can i say!!! i'm a girl of very specific taste!

i literally laboured over this scene wondering it was too soon for them to break the touch barrier and then i had to get a hold of myself because this isn't a regency era fic!!!

he makes me LAUGH. he's so cool and composed but i know and you know, WE ALL KNOW, that he's freaking the freak out on the inside. "the milk will sour" SHUT UP!!!!!!

[psaiouma]

Cupid's Writing Diary - 2/4/25

Entry End of Day February 4th, 2025

As Kiwi inspired us and Bee has started posting these, I wanted to as well! Not that there's much to say, ahaha. [Note: he ended up finding a lot to say LOL]

If you don't want to see these, just block the tag 'Cupid's Writing Diary'. Oh, and they will not be put into the queue like everything else has been.

Wrote roughly 400 words today, which is awesome. I haven't been writing much lately despite how strong of a year I started with. I'm sure this is due to my current distractions but I already wasn't writing before Hello Kitty Island Adventure came out~

I've made the executive decision to stick with one project when it's done. A second project will be picked as a backup in case I need an ADHD switchover distraction, but, again, thanks to HKIA, I do not think that'll be necessary at this time.

I always feel weird saying my fics before they're posted, because I'm worried that'll make them boring when the time comes, but I think talking about the plot for this one won't spoil the fun and magic about it?

So, out of my 29 [yikes] options, I have ultimately decided the one want to work on is a fic I've so lovingly dubbed 'Snautism', a name which is slowly becoming the official title work.

This oneshot project started back in July 2024 when my snake hyperfixation took my life over by storm. And, as all things go since playing Danganronpa in 2020, I immediately had to Saiou it. I'm really excited for the plot of this fic and all of the fun snake facts [about one particular species] I can shove in it. At the end of the day, this one is for fun and just for gushing about my love of snakes/this species. There's also just a morph that I think fits very, VERY well. [Multiple, actually, but one more than the others.] Section 1 is completely done, yay! I'm the type to over-edit and despite editing it 5 times there's still things I'm not satisfied with, but that section is officially ready to go out for beta [not that I'd send it early, it'll all go at the end]. Section 2, however, has been driving me mad SINCE July, honestly. I just cannot make up my mind about the order of events or the feelings of scenes and it's driving me mad. Past me would just write it on passion alone and fix the inconsistencies later smh. Still, I just jumped ahead to a different part today and wrote a good chunk of the first big reveal!! Though I'm worried I'm drawing it out too long that it won't hit as good? Eh, I think I'll leave that one up to the beta as well.

I haven't actually got to talk about what snake it is in the fic, though, and I'm SO excited to do that, because these snakes do something so special that I'm just gidddyyy about how in character I think this is going to be. God I hope the humor in this scene lands ehehe. I've always lived by the rule of 'if it makes you laugh, it'll make others laugh' and thank goodness that hasn't failed me yet!

Well, this was honestly extremely therapeutic! And it made me write so that I had something to talk about lol. Who knows if I'll keep it up. Historically, no I won't. But I'd like to think that it's a good first step. And maybe more people than the same three people I tell everything to knowing might be good for me? Dunno. It's been a long and arduous process picking myself back up from the bootstraps of the hellyear that was 2022, but each lttle bit helps! I can tell I'm a LOT better than I was, and I might even get out more than two Saiou fics this year.

Oop, rambled again. I'm defs a typer/rambler. So thank you for reading if you did. Feel free to send me asks about this project or others! Love talking about writing and reading and Saiou!

[dandylovesturtles]

For the ask game! :)

LMNSTU

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

Usually as I'm writing it (assuming I don't just do it all in one sitting), I'll come back and give it a read over and edit before I start back to work, and then I read over it once more before I post it. that's usually it though. I'm lazy when it comes to editing lol. pretty much all my fics are first drafts.

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

well, I do still want to write the fic about Splinter's son (that he didn't know he had) stumbling into their lives post-movie. I have a post about it on here somewhere.

the fic I MEANT to write after I was done with IMBI (before a different AU plagued my brain, which I've been actively working on) is a fic whose working title is "Mikey and Donnie's Step-by-Step Guide for Saving Your Doomed Family," which is the obligatory peepaw fic. It follows Mikey and Donnie, post-movie, building a cross-dimensional time machine to try and save the bad future Hamatos and bring them to the saved present. It's told from Mikey and Donnie's POVs and has a heavy focus on their relationship, both pre- and post-Krang invasion.

I do still really want to write it, it's just that this other thing completely consumed my creative energy. oops.

N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

uhhh idk. I have lots of ideas all the time that I'll probably never write just because, you know, time and labor lol, but not really any I can think of to put here.

this is the nice thing about fandom kinkmemes (or whatever you would call a SFW kinkmeme), if you have an idea you don't want to write yourself you can just go drop it in a comment and let someone else write it.

I have already answered S

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

uhhhh I think my biggest thing that is Popular In Fandom but I Don't Like is AUs that bring fantastical canons into our reality and like, have the characters going to college or working office jobs or whatever. so "modern AUs," except it bums me out that that's the name we settled on because actual modern times in the setting of a fantasy canon could be really fun! Like, I don't want the "modern AU" Dragon Age to have Hawke working at a coffee shop and taking writing classes at the local uni, I want it to have them fighting darkspawn on top of a skyscraper. or like, you can have the Gaang going to college, but why can't they bend anymore! just let them have it!

FFXV is one of my favorite canons purely because it actually shows some of the thought behind like, what if a world had normal modern technology (they're driving around in modern cars and using smartphones) but also monsters and gods and magic. but so many fantasy settings in fiction are either medieval or do the bullshit where you have the "magic world" hidden from the "normal world". no! boring! I want to know how legislative proceedings are affected when congressmen can challenge each other to wizard duels. expand your mind!

U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

this is list is not in any particular order:

taizi is an amazingly talented writer, there are so many lines in their fics that make me go "wow", and they have such a grasp on character and emotion. they also have some great One Piece fics!

MagicalSpaceDragon is another absolutely incredible writer. their "theseus, and" series is particularly good, but I actually have them in my bookmarks for one of my favorite ROTTMNT fics of all time, "i guess we've really been out of touch (but can it really be so serious)"

and reccing my friend Kiaxet, who is also an amazing writer who mixes hilarity, angst, and heartwarming moments with a deft hand. I'm so excited for the rest of her "Siblingquest 20XX" fic, but all her fics are amazing!

and while they aren't a TMNT writer, I wanna shout out Asidian, who has written several of my favorite FFXV fics (including and especially "Running Behind", which is one of the best MT!Prompto fics, right up there with "poor wayfaring stranger"), and also has some amazing Rise of the Guardians fics (I especially love "Bits and Pieces", which has my favorite trope of "hungry character gets fed", but "Every Boy And Girl" also makes me cry everytime).

thanks for the ask!

[scr33chingloudly]

Posting my different artworks for Indium by dollfromamerica on wattpad in chronological order of drawing them so this one is first!

The scene referenced is from chapter 1: The Black Market

More yapping and details below the cut! (Plus an edit to add the link I forgot)

Okay so all the pictures from the piece are details I really wanted to mention

For the first image: that is a Soundwave drawing which is meant to have been done by Lola! She purposely omitted his guns because he’s less scary that way and the no hands is because frag hands

The second image is just something I found funny as Navia is just struggling through math so I obviously had to give her a bunch of math text books with dumb names.

The third image is from the bookshelf behind Maria, but it’s super blurry since I blurred it a little oops. Basically it’s an actual book (I haven’t ever read it though) but under the black tape is the word Scrap which I thought it would be funny to have a “Bad word! -Starscream” under it and dollfromamerica didn’t object soooo

But yeah I really had fun making this one, especially since it was the first piece I made using cool lighting instead of warm lighting! And a lot of the character designs I do for the transformers themselves are from g1 which is why it’s tagged :D

Edit: I forgot to add the link to the fic….

[m1ckeyb3rry]

Ok this is a monster of an ask oops

RAGGHH KARASU COMEBACK BUT WHERE WAS OUR LOCKER ROOM SCENE I AENT THAT IN MID EPISODE AND HADNT REACHED IT YET BUT WTFFFFFFFFFF NOOOOOOOOOOOOO but now that you mention it the cousin vibes are so real LMAOAOAO I was not expecting that duo lowkey

YEAHHHHH CAT FAMILY LMAOAOA it’s so cute I wonder what their dad’s name is??? But WAHOO WE BROKE FREE OF THE NAMELESS CHIGIRI SISTER ALLEGATIONS

ok gonna merge everything here because I think I scrolled past four consecutive posts that were just our convo LMAOO

Ok but aikus name still has me rolling atp idek what to think maybe it’s a weird schrodingers cat thing except it’s schrodingers aiku im still treating it like his first name is Oliver though….when I read it I thought they purposely flipped the order because he’s half Swedish (?? Forgot lowk) so they followed the western naming convention but I also forgot his dad was the white one…I know a good handful of people who end up taking their moms maiden name for practicality if they live in Japan though so maybe??? Whatever I’m not changing my preconceptions LMAOAOA

Also you associating me with Karasu >>>> MY LIFES WORK IS COMPLETE I’m laughing though because it’s the way that even I had to double take like wait was this me…..

YESS ok we both know the vision it definitely exists but yeah the hair and personality would fit the pirate scene really well #swashbucklingau

LMAOAOAPA I just remember thinking it was so ridiculous how it had a chokehold on so many people like wdym countries as people….also I’ve said this before but the amount of research you do is insane PARENT BLOG POSTS LMFAOOOSOSJSOA that’s some dedication right there and yeah I think the American hs experience is pretty universally understood (ig?? At least on the surface via media) so it’s usually not a problem

REAL it’s literally insane to me also heavy on that Nagi’s biggest opps are nagireo shippers who always defend reo from him and talk about how toxic and bad nagi is and how reo deserves better bro if you think that why do you ship them??? I will never understand the majority of the fandom but anyways

DHSHSSISHHS THE FACT THAT PEOPLE THOIGHT YOU COULDNT SEE JUST BECAUSE YOU SAID YOU DONT READ IM CRYINGGGG seriously what did they think like hello just from a technical platform standpoint that doesn’t really make sense either oh my god

EXACTLYYY like I’ll see the vision and that’s what makes me lore dive into them but if the lore is not loreing it usually doesn’t last very long but REVERSE SITUATION EITH AIKU IS SO REAL literally me like Im knee deep in his character and lore and story but I will not swerve with those visuals im begging someone to pass him a razor i CANNOTTTTT

LMAOOO the brother slander is so funny it really makes the banter within the story feel authentic and not forced though!! Im laughing rin being like “my brother called me a nuisance and abandoned me and said I was shit” and readers brother is like “oh”

WAIT A MINUTE NOW THAT WE HAVE HER NAME ISNT THEIR SHIP NAME JUST YUKI^2 LMFAOOOOO this is amazing

OOOOOOHHH LMFAO OPP KAISER REAL I’m also loving the world five side characters I’m ngl I straight up forgot about Pablo reading your list here and I’m like “PABLO WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE???” LMFAO Adam Blake too lowkey but anyways

OOOOOOOOH WAIG I NEED TO PULL OUT GOOGLE FOR THIS also just to confirm these are all real horse breeds yes..? I’m ngl I was gf contemplating if you made these up for the Pegasi breeds or if you’re basing them off real ones but based off your latter description about the wings I’m assuming they’re real SHDHSHDJD ok edit: considering I found actual pics on google im going with real but omg yukis Pegasus fits him sm….also wait palominos are gorgeous wtf getting thrown back into a horse era with these searches also KARASUUU had to look up a chart of horse face markings wait the star is so cute too omg wait ok ik you said horse wings match their cost but imagine Karasu’s pegasus had that purple fade out gradient on its wings like his hair OR had that iridescent crow feather quality…anyways

MAMA Y PAPA GOODBYEEEE LMFAOOOO but yeahhh makes sense i saw a lot of insane discourse in passing in the aot fandom….waiting for the day educated people speak up in fandoms and knock some sense into whatever’s going on

IM. MAD. LIVID. FURIOUSSSSS NOOOOOO OUR GLORIOUS KARASU SCENE YOU CANT DO THIS TO USSSSSSSSSS MANIFESTING WE STILL MAYBE GET ONE POST GAME LOVKER ROOM SESSION??? PLEASEEE IM BEGGING WHY DID SAE GET ALL THE SHIRTLESS SCENES UUUEGHSJSHD

REALLLL honestly that’s kinda how i view it LMAO from what I pick up it still feels rough but I’m also laughing like lmao “dummy poopoohead” vibes I think it really captures his Osakan-(??) ness (???) because they’re known to be rowdier and louder and less uptight than most prefectures but as a result they’re actually usually friendlier so their words feel a little more like banter insults than actual “you fucking suck shit stain on the planet” but I still take it as him fitting into the loser agenda LMAOO

LANSOAO IM CRYING it probably doesn’t help we don’t see him much in the manga or even the main show rn either sooo I can’t blame you LOL

SHSHS honestly it might be an activity for your break then I remember when I first played it took a…good amount of time to get through the beginning stuff LOL but LFMAOAOAOAO WRIOTHESLEY REAL I actually love his character he’s so funny sometimes too your taste is great

I SAW THST WHILE SCROLLING ALL HAIL MIRA MEMES LMFOAOAOAAO the hair is actually fantastic idk what you’re talking about

Yess fr!!!! He looked good in this ep too!! But PLEADEE I almost forgot about that….very curious to see how the end of the nel gets executed though

ALMOSTT….NOO KARASU DISAPPEARANCE…but yuki moments….omg you’re so real they will 100% put yuki on the cover (am I delusional for hoping we get a Karasu one) sigh more Karasu scenes please 8bit

LMAOAA ok but here’s the thing did I ever leave….more like I took a slightly casual hiatus but I never STOPPED liking him technically I think the whole post manshine match thing maybe made me a little bored but epinagi fixes that but I REMEMBER LMAOOO ok but jeirin doing that challenge was insane I can’t go that long without mentioning Karasu but WTF nagi haters are actually a different breed (ofilliteratewhosaidthat??)

LMDFO it was too funny thank you dub va but YESSS NAGIS VA!!! He’s one of the ones I think matches pretty well dub wise like I see the vision

LFMSOFUWISJSUS SUBWAY SURFERS IM CRYING WHY DOES IT SLAP TJOUGH??? But REAL lowkey I think he’d play every mobile game available too I bet he’s got like 1 TB of storage on his phone just for gaming

ok next response:

REAL it’s ok you’re out of the writers block slump it’s only a matter of time!!!

ALSO FR I love the switch up from the teacher from being mad to concerned also I think you did a good job implying that it was because the teacher was like omfg are you eating enough?? And not omg muscle man awooga LMAO I’m crying at your concern though it’s completely valid I’m just losing it that sounds like a wp comment

YESS they also REALLY laid it on thick with the gambling in his most recent profile and now also his bet with sae in the u20 match makes more sense too so I loved the little details you threw in about that!! MANUC PIXIE AIKU PLEASEEE I’m imagining aiku in a tinkerbell costume I can’t it’s giving fairy godmother aiku but SO REAL you should just be in charge of the character dynamics department for bllk atp

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY SHDHSJSB THIS DUO SOLOS this is how it should’ve been in canon…I wish these deeper complexities were more visible in the real story but alas they’ve gotta do some marketing

PALSPDAK STOP FR??? I was thinking about that and I was like wow this is a really unique name Mira came up with this time I wonder how she chose it LMAOAOOOAOAO ok that makes more sense but once again the research and dedication goes hard x2

Realizing I replied to the gambling paragraph in an earlier one but YEAH gambler aiku fr LMFAO

YESS PACING WAS GREAT!! ATP maybe im a Mira glazer but actually your pacing is like perfect for me…i think the speed you develop your stories at is right in the middle of the Goldilocks zone im typically kinda picky with the stuff i read and bad pacing and timing is kinda a big turn off so but also i forgot to consider how Nagi’s the youngest out of all of them that adds a whole other layer to the entire dynamic on the u20 team

TRUE sigh more Karasu moments when…but that sae insult is going down in history fr gold

YEAHH I TRMEMBER YHAT LMAOOO im crying it’s the oaeu effect but aikus aura alone already has wingman effects wait i can imagine kaiser losing his mind with nagi LMAAO as he should

If you ever make more canon au one shots you know ill gladly eat them up THIS WAS FIRE

- Karasu anon

LMAOAOA I’M SORRY THIS TOOK ME A SEC TO RESPOND TO…fall break is over alas so my week of freedom is done and my week of finals has begun BUT literally 1.5 weeks until i’m free for the winter!! this is also about when the pomegranate ink comeback happened hehe so we’ll see what’s in store (but definitely lots of chronically online time to make up for all that i lost studying and shit 😭)

HAHAHA APPARENTLY THE LOCKER ROOM SCENE IS AT THE END OF THE GAME!! so we still have hope…still made they gave us sm sae time but WHATEVER karasu manga comeback means we’re still winning!! PLEASE karasu and charles were literally giving the cousins that are forced to sit together at the family table during a reunion and they lowkey have nothing in common but they’re still gang?? like karasu genuinely could’ve babysat charles (given that he’d be like 13/14 when charles would be 10/11) but yet they somehow feel like bros 😭 ngl i was slandering charles with jeirin before that chapter came out because he was a v random character that didn’t feel necessary to the story but NOW?? oh i’m a charles glazer…like that’s me and karasu’s son #real

FINALLYYYY SHE’S NAMED SOBBING FR wait maybe now she should pull up in some fic or another…pursuit perhaps 🤔 or maybe smth new since her reader and bff (who is implied to be tullia for those in the know) were like a little trio in fwtkac ft. occasionally unnamed yukimiya gf appearances so i could lowkey combine unnamed yukimiya gf and koyuki chigiri into one person and then have reader w karasu and tullia with otoya 😯 rip yayoyuki BUT to be fair shoyoi (barou + yayoi karasu) is lowkey better

LMAOO yeah i thought it was smth along those lines too!! kinda like how we don’t call kaiser “kaiser michael” 🤔 and it would make sense for him to keep his mom’s maiden name because like imagine his name is smth like…karlsson JFHDHSJE OLIVER KARLSSON I’M CRYING anyways yeah he’ll always be an oliver to me i’m ignoring kaneshiro on this one anyways i’m basically him atp and i say it’s fact

HELPP WE’RE ALWAYS CHATTING ABT KARASU OFC I ASSOCIATE HIM W YOU actually wait this reminds me of when THREE different people sent me this edit of nagi because everyone thinks of me when they see him now (good as they should) and the craziest part was i already had it saved 😭😭😭 insane levels of nagi glazing going on here but someone has to do it 🙂‍↕️

pirate au in the miraverse when…i need to write for chigiri ngl i really do like him but ONLY my version of him which makes it tough to genuinely consider myself a fan 😓 same w reo and also geto from jjk but alas 😩 too many favs not enough time 🌝

THE CONCEPT OF IT IS INSANE wasn’t it like crazy problematic too?? JFDJDHSN trust i will ALWAYS be researching please it’s like my favorite thing i always put my heart and soul into it 😭 even more light hearted fics i try to give a little thought to!! like for otoya’s bfb i actually looked up pictures of bakeries and their window displays so that i could describe the bakery accurately…i think it helps that i travel a lot though?? like it gives me ideas and general senses for WHAT to research/what cultural differences are generally prevalent if that makes sense 🤔 even in like the one kaiser fic where he’s an angel i used the story of castel st angelo as inspiration because i’ve visited it!! and then a lot of the settings are also places i’ve seen myself so i knew what i wanted to reference (like the church the two meet in is the capelle medicee in florence and the place where reader dies is st peter’s basilica!! i even used the inscription on the dome of the basilica in the fic but with the words changed slightly) and i do think that makes it easier than having the entire internet at my fingertips but not knowing what to search up

sometimes it feels like they just ship nagireo because it’s the most heavily implied and reo likes nagi not because they actually like nagi OR the dynamic that nagireo has?? which like tbh me too BUT that’s why i don’t ship it 😭 people need to bring back rare pairs like it’s okay to ship reo with someone you think he’d be better with even if they don’t interact much ☝🏻 i’ve seen shidou and reo a lot…saw a rin and reo edit yesterday and people were CRAZY in the comments it was so funny everyone was hating and i was like “it’s really just not that deep if they like it they like it honestly i bet that would be a funny dynamic”

LMAOO i think it’s more like it must just not cross their minds that i can see them?? especially on wattpad with the nature of the commenting function and how stories are found/interacted with it can feel removed from the author as compared to ao3 where it feels like you’re talking directly TO the writer when you comment

EXACTLYYYY I LOVE AIKU SM NOW like his character?? his vibes?? PEAK but the visuals?? COULD BE peak if he just fucking SHAVEDDDD UGH AIKU PLEASE some people say they could fix him meaning they could stop him cheating…look i have no delusions more desires to stop a man from being unfaithful BUT i definitely COULD fix aiku (have a one night stand w him and shave his facial hair while he’s sleeping #communityservice)

LISTEN BROTHER SLANDER IS ALWAYS NECESSARY i love my little bro but making fun of him in fics is just too entertaining 😭 please that’s exactly how it would go…like “my brother told me i was defective and should quit on my dreams and die in my room 😐” “oh 😯”

YUKI SQUARED HELP I LOVE THAT okay so basically proof they’re canon yup yup

JFHDHDS YES THE WORLD FIVE (minus dada silva because i cannot see him racing) PULL UP mostly because i didn’t want it to just be kids?? like this way there’s experienced jockeys in the running too ☝🏻 and ofccc kaiser is the BIGGEST opp in this omg he’s like actually evil it’s hilarious

the pegasi are all real colors yes!! they’re based on thoroughbreds (the breed) since i took inspiration from thoroughbred racing for pegasi racing (my horse i used to have was a thoroughbred that used to race so i know a lot abt the industry KFDJDJ) so all of them are colors that thoroughbreds can theoretically be (that’s why they’re all relatively normal colors…palominos are rare for thoroughbreds and same with flaxen chestnuts [reader’s pegasi’s coloring] but it’s still possible so i let it slide) for like realism’s sake LMAOO and all of the wings are based on bird wings!! otoya’s would probably have wings like a dove whereas yuki’s would probably have wings like a grackle and karasu’s would be like a crow’s (ofc)

aiku and i are the mother and father of blue lock CANONNN FKFJSJS tbh i think there’s more sane people than not in most fandoms but the issue is the crazy ones are like a vocal minority so it seems like there’s more of them than there actually are??

WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE TRUST WE WILL GET THE FULL GLORIOUS HD 2400PX ULTRA ZOOM ON HIS ABS AND ARM MUSCLES the 8bit animators do love giving us insane shirtless shots so i think we’ll be good

karasu osakan king love to see it LMAO actually i think that’s kinda common where like the “rough” people in a country are usually the kindest whereas the more “polite” groups tend to be more scathing LFJDJS i bet with karasu his insults also just feel meaningless because he’s always saying them so it’s like okay wtvr he doesn’t actually mean it 😭 loser agenda will forever be strong with him i fear!!

WRIOTHESLEY’S NAME IS SO FUCKING DUMB BUT HE’S SOOO FINE him and alhaitham are literally genshin karasu and nagi tbh it’s not a surprise i like them DKFJDJ but yeah my genshin adventures will likely be winter break activities

HAPPY TO PROVIDE MEMES ALWAYS wait speaking of which i finally collected enough text memes to make another meme post KFJDJD i love posting those instead of writing #productive

if there’s a volume in between the barou cover one and the third selection we might get a karasu cover?? since he was so key to the recent match…idt there’s enough chapters for that unless they really draw out world five match or maybe also give us reo’s pov in second selection with shidou?? we’ll def get a yuki cover for third selection though idt anyone else would make sense (wait also when we finally get to NEL imagine a chris prince cover i think i’d cry from joy)

LMAOOO NAGI HIATUS it’s okay he’s lowkey been kinda irrelevant in the manga too recently i’m just obsessed with him so no hiatuses for me…pls that challenge was insane i was like no way i already have to pretend like idk anything abt anime in my day to day life like that challenge is just me irl why would i force myself to do it online too 😭

NAGI’S DUB IS SO PEAK!! and yeah he just gives me the vibes that he just downloads whatever games he gets ads for so he doesn’t have to wait for the ad to finish playing LMAOOO he’s kind of an ipad kid actually but it’s okay because he’s cute and we love him

i’m hoping i don’t lose motivation by the time i get to write again 😭 it’s also been almost two months since i posted any xreader content so i’ve actually genuinely been slacking…tbf i would’ve had the sae one shot done already without the polar detour so that’s kinda on me LMAOOO but anyways yeah i really just need to get rid of these requests and have them out of the way so i have less things to worry abt 😩 probably going to leave requests to be event-only things for a while i think just so a) they’re more special and b) i don’t have quite as much on my plate

i’m a wattpad veteran ik exactly how their minds work 😓 i think her immediately asking if he’s alright and stuff did make it obvious it was a wellness check but you never know with people these days 😭

aiku really subscribes to that “99% of gamblers quit before they win big” mentality LFJDJS LMAO WAIT HE CANONICALLY BETS ON HORSE RACES RIGHT??? i’m going to make him an npc in the pegasi au solely so he can gamble HAHAHAHA omg tinker bell aiku this is a new level to the oaeu it’s lowkey funny because he has the green and everything too 😭 but i do think it’s a common trope especially in non canon duos where the “traumatized” character is magically fixed by the power of love and the other character just being super perfect?? and especially with a pair like nagi and aiku it would’ve been super super easy to fall into that where aiku is so perfect and mature and wise that he manages to make nagi into a well adjusted human who has normal motivations and plays soccer and whatnot but i wanted to show that while nagi may have been better off with aiku than in canon he still would have issues no matter what because aiku is also just another guy not an actual substitute for parental love and guidance ykwim (since imo that’s the root of all of nagi’s issues)

sometimes the fan service and marketing get to the best of us 😓 i do think it’s easier in prose form vs manga/anime to show that depth though?? like in polar we got to hear nagi’s every thought and although a lot of their dynamic WAS revealed through their physical interactions and whatnot having those thoughts was definitely helpful in developing the complexity of their relationship!! although with visual storytelling there’s a lot of subtleties with body language that can be utilized as substitutes for internal narration so it’s definitely POSSIBLE just tricky and sometimes hard to do when the animation isn’t top notch

FHDJJSSN CAN YOU IMAGINE I FR CAME UP WITH THAT it would truly be insane work…but nope it’s an actual place i’m too lazy to be THAT original especially since i doubt anyone’s looking up what school they went to in order to see if it’s real 😭

KDFHDHS NOT THE MIRA GLAZING PLS 😭 i appreciate it though!! pacing is def smth tricky to balance and everyone also has different preferences for what they prefer but i think as long as you’re confident in your work and write well pacing does come pretty naturally?? at least for me i just try to think of the main scenes i NEED to happen in the story (so like with polar i NEEDED aiku to meet nagi, nagi to go to aiku’s school and play soccer with him, aiku and nagi’s friendship to be shown, aiku and nagi to join the u20s, nagi to clash with sae and shidou, and nagi to finally take initiative at the end and be the one to win the game against bllk) and then let the connections between those main beats to flow naturally as i write based on the established characterizations from canon and what i need for the plot to make sense (for example the scene with the teacher, the entire tryout scene, the scene where aiku throws out nagi’s jellies, the beef with sendou, the sae/nagi dynamic, and the advice + connection with shidou, and pretty much everything else were all improv that came to me as i worked) which i think makes the pacing feel more natural maybe

wait also speaking of mira glazing someone commented on the instrument (in their bookmarks) that they could write an essay on the symbolic connection it has to a german arthouse film i was like damn i feel like this is lowkey a peak compliment

NAGI’S LITERALLY THE BABY OF THE U20S there’s another scene i was going to add where aiku makes nagi hang out with hayate so he can make more friends and they just go to hayate’s house and hayate gardens while nagi plays games and they don’t talk at all because they’re both introverts and then as nagi leaves he’s like “i guess if they’re like hayate then friends aren’t THAT bad” i ended up not including it because again it was already so much longer than necessary 😭 but that just has such sibling vibes to me especially and shows how it wasn’t JUST aiku who adopted nagi ykwim?? like the others cared abt him too (minus sendou kinda but even he respected nagi after he stood up to him)

LMAOAOA AIKU JUST HAS A RIZZFUL AURA his wingman energy is so strong he doesn’t even need to try it just happens unintentionally 😭 PLEASE kaiser and nagi would be hilarious to me i can imagine kaiser trying to tease nagi or crush him or wtvr and nagi’s just like :x because bro does not gaffff also as we see in manshine city vs bm motivated nagi is in fact clear of both isagi and kaiser so assuming nagi stays motivated while in germany he’s def pissing kaiser off so bad just by genuinely being talented at the sport 😓 also though i don’t really see nagi trying to compete with kaiser to take over the team the way isagi did?? so like kaiser would be like “this is my team they serve me and you’ll never be on my level 😈🌹💙⛓️” and nagi’s like “okay 😐🐥” and then he gets put in anyways because he’s actually really good HAHAHA wait also they wouldn’t have the mikage translators so nagi would fr have to learn german to play on bm?? and aiku’s a quarter german so imagine nagi comes home on break and accidentally starts speaking german to aiku because polar aiku canonically has a swedish accent (hehe i looked up what swedish accents sound like on reddit and used the responses from swedes to describe how aiku talks!! another non canon thing that made sense to me because aiku was born in sweden so why not??) and aiku is like WHY TF DO YOU SOUND LIKE MY GRANDPA 😨😨😨⁉️⁉️⁉️

HAHAHA I DO LOVE THESE SILLY LITTLE CANON AU MOMENTS like i said i can’t think of anything rn but maybe someday i’ll have an idea…perhaps something nagi and rin focused because they’re my other favorite underrated nagi duo (albeit much less underrated than nagiaiku) 🤔

[qoldenskies]

Taking a break from homework to ask 11, 12, and 30 from that ask game you reblogged (I’m super super interested in the way other people go about writing their fics lolol 🙏)

YIPPEEEEE

11. Do you write scenes in order, or do you jump around?

truthfully it kind of depends! whenever i write i tend to have The Scene in mind and if i get impatient i'll usually write it, but i try to avoid doing it because i notice it messes with flow (but flow and pacing is something im just very conscious of, even though i observe that because im writing it my brain is reading it faster/skimming so its partially a me problem LOL)

in caged lungs im skipping around only because im trying to go with a draft format instead of editing as i go, since its so long itll help when i see everything connected, and there's a few scenes i plan on changing/rewriting completely when i get it all out. technically everything ive posted up to this point is a first draft, and its a habit i hope to break !!

12. Do you outline your fics? If yes, how detailed are your outlines?  How far do you stray from them?

i doooo yes, its mostly just a list of things/interactions i know i want. for cvd i have plans for up to chapter 9/10 or so, and just a bunch of scripts/concepts for later. with canary continuity i have a description for each scene on the google doc and i just add the content in as i go, with my actual notepad (thing i discovered i had on my laptop and have been using liberally) i mostly have quotes and passages i want to put in the story

and also for cc in particular im keeping really close track of the motifs and how i want to work them back around. already thinking about the healing part of the arc and implanting scenes/chekhovs guns that are going to loop back around WAY down the line is very funny... i actually do some of this for cvd too, i love to write intentionally like that.... i am weirdly pretentious and earnest about my turtle fanfiction. people have no idea what im going to do with that lamp and i bide my time. also the clocks. and the laundry room. and the ocean (actually that one's fine its just a parallel). and the rooftop. and the cameras oh my god the cameras. i plan on committing so many horrors

really just things i know i WANT to be consistent with is the biggest thing i keep track of (although sometimes things will just pop up AS i'm writing and i roll with the punches, like the security system being a metaphor in coming undone, and also all of the very intentional trust fall parallels and the way it conveniently worked with the chapter names. fun fact for metaphors, i REALLY planned to expand on the chess thing between leo and donnie but it messed with the pacing so im keeping it for cvd.... ive got some ideas)

OH EXCEPT FOR THAT SEP AU IVE VAGUELY TALKED ABOUT. i have EVERY SINGLE chapter plotted out, its 52 chapters long. i am NOT GOING TO WORRY ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW its a far in the future thing. but its also the only au i have that isnt like,,, specifically canon divergent, so i wanted to pay close attention to how i set things up. 4 later (currently the working name for it is where we went wrong, after the song by the hush sound, and honestly im tempted to keep it because it makes the acronym wwww which is beautifully ironic because they take NOTHING BUT LS ITS JUST ONE AFTER ANOTHER OH MY GOD)

30. How much do you edit your fics?  Do you edit as you write or wait until you finish the first draft?

OH I KIND OF ALREADY ANSWERED THIS ABOVE OOPS. im trying to break out of the habit but i mostly just grammar correct through google docs and then throw out the first draft haphazardly, and it can kinda come off polished anyway because i tend to edit as i go. sometimes it means i'll fix mistakes in fics like a month after releasing them, impatience is my Weakness

wow i yap a lot LMFAO the yapperrrr

[lingy910y]

Weekly Tag Wednesday

thanks @mybrainismelted, @mmmichyyy, @deedala & @energievie for tagging me! these questions are slowly getting more personal and controversial LOL

1. If you could switch bodies with anybody for only one hour who would it be and what would you do?

Anyone. This is way too deep but I rly want to switch bodies with someone because from as young as I could remember, I'm scared of solipsism being true. I don't understand why I'm the one controlling this body - why am I the main character to me? Since I'm only aware of my own consciousness I want to make sure that other people are real people. But I guess I'll switch with one of my friends because I don't trust strangers with my body lol

2. What's your most trivial / dumbest hot take?

People complain too much about ads, they aren't that bad. I just ignore them

3. If you had to teach a college course what would it be in?

Literature analysis

4. Season 12 of shameless is suddenly happen and youve been put in charge! what plot point(s) are you gonna make happen?

No pls <3 I mean I already answered in the gallavich questionaire what I want their specific future to be, and if they have a spin off I want them to adapt @/arrowflier's Meet the Neighbors fic with @/sam-loves-seb's post-canon whumptober fics added in, but for a whole other season? I feel like the writing will actually be demolished with not enough content to base off of, so why not do specials like Christmas, Halloween, game night, maybe even weirder ones like................body swap :3

5. Who would be your godly parent? (can be any mythology).

Athena

6. What’s something you love about yourself?

My imagination?

7. Describe your day in 5 emojis:

🏐🙋‍♀️🎨🤝😫

8. What shameless character do you think you could beat in a fight?

Freddie, fuck them kids ig

edit: oop forgot to clarify it’s AO3 bookmarks. and yeah y’all are right 😔

10. Do you have a pet(s). if so how did they get their name?

No

11. Show us a meme (or picture) that captures your essence

12. Whats your typical coffee / tea / beverage order?

I don't order beverages

13. Use a song to describe the last 5 years of your life?

tagging @michellemisfit, @heymrspatel, @softmick, @juliakayyy, @jademickian, @vintagelacerosette, @lupeloto, @sleepyfacetoughguy, @tanktopgallavich, @iansw0rld & @krystallouwho :D

[addictedtostorytelling]

fic announcement

hi, friends!

i'm pleased to report i've finished writing and editing "an opposite of echoes," the next installment of what i refer to as the accidentsverse.

for those interested, more info after the "keep reading."

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what is this story about?

the accidentsverse is my canon-divergent gsr au series set during s8 of the original show, in which, instead of skipping town after her abduction by the miniature killer, sara remains in vegas, she and grissom marry��and, oh yeah, they have an "oops" baby (conceived on their honeymoon).

there are two installments of the series so far, which you can find here, if you're interested.

"an opposite of echoes" takes place chronologically after the events of "happy accidents" and concurrent to the events of "and i'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete."

(specifically, chapter 15 of "an opposite of echoes" will depict the same events as "and i'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete," just from a different perspective. the order in which you read both stories shouldn't matter.)

this story covers a three-day period not long after grissom and sara find out she's pregnant in december 2007 and is the first accidentsverse piece written from sara's pov. it is a gsr romance with a heaping helping of team graveyard friendship on the side.

the working title for this story was "operation: give that girl a fuckin' baby (and also some intimate friendships because she deserves them, goddammit)."

clocking in at 25 chapters and 180k words, the story is fully completed and ready to be posted.

here's the blurb:

she knows, even in her unknowing, motherhood will be something different—having someone wholly dependent on her for everything will be an entirely new prospect, a new kind of bond. how much can she actually learn about this person—about her child—before they’re born, just from carrying them inside her? how much of that knowledge remains after the birth? what does it count for? more pressingly: when do you fall in love?

what will the posting schedule be?

because the story is fully completed, i will be able to post on a regular schedule.

the first chapter will be published to ao3 on monday 8/14.

i will update the story every monday until it's complete.

are there any warnings?

though mostly fluffy, this story is ultimately rated m for sex, language, references to gore, and adult themes. it discusses pregnancy and pregnancy symptoms (including morning sickness) in detail—so if you're emetophobic, be apprised. it also includes references to sara's childhood and family history of abuse.

that said, i promise: the vibes are generally very happy (and even, in places, comedic) and all ends well.

it's a total lovefest, both romantic and familial.

should you have further questions about content or potential triggers, drop me a line (on or off anon), and i can give you any heads-up you might need.

if you want/need to blacklist the story and discussion about it, i'll be tagging everything as #aoe.

what's next?

for those of you reading my fic "something in you i believe in" (my canon-compliant s5 wip), my next writing project will be to write chapter 13 of that story, working toward its eventual completion.

as far as the accidentsverse goes, while i haven't decided on what exactly i'll do next, there will eventually be future installments in the series.

anything else to know?

i'm really excited to share "an opposite of echoes" with you. i had a blast writing this fic, and i hope you'll have a blast reading it, if you choose to.

if y'all have any not-too-spoilery questions to ask before the story goes live on monday, please feel welcome to send 'em my way. i love talking shop!

cheers!

[quotidian-oblivion]

Wow taking a small break between asks made me forget which ones I sent soooo oops

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

XDD

OKAY NOW THIS. THIS I CAN GO ON ABOUT.

@sardonic-sprite and @tristicorde and @tireddruid can attest to this because I went to them when rambling about writing devices and how to get a fic or story right and Joan is a beta for my Merlin fics.

For oneshots, most of my oneshots are usually an idea that I get spontaneously and I rush to my documents to write it down but then it accidentally becomes a fic so I just format it then later edit it.

But multichapters, series and some certain oneshots (like the one I'm writing rn) are special. And yes, I do enjoy prepping a story.

I'm gonna take three examples: Let Them Be Brothers series, a wip slave!Merlin fic, and a 40k angsty oneshot which is also a wip.

Let Them Be Brothers (and Mafia Files)

This was my first series and I was basically experimenting as I went with it. I have a much clearer idea about how to go about planning a series now.

In this one, I first write the fic. It's 23 chapters officially. And while writing it, I basically started out with a chunk of text going on for pages without paragraphs and my personal notes to myself in bold and underlined sprinkled throughout it. Then, I divided the entire chunk into chapters, creating a story. Then I read my notes all over again and added bits of foreshadowing or corrected a detail here and there as I read.

Then I got to writing. And while writing, I just made some more minor changes and if I spotted a plothole, I would try and clear that up. Then while editing, I went back and read the entire fic and fixed up some mistakes and grammar. Then I read it again. Then I read it a third time. The first time, I read it carefully word by word to catch as many mistakes as possible. The second time, I read it as I would normally read a story, so I read with more speed, as if I was sitting in the reader's seat. The third time, I just read my favorite parts to squeal at it and enjoy it as a creator of an official story.

I hadn't planned a series for it, but while thinking about possibilities, I decided, "why not make it a series?" So I wrote down a few fic plans in my notes. The prep that was involved here was basically just a lot of reading and going back and forth and fixing or adding details. That's it.

By the time I finished posting the series, I was so done with reading it over and over again that i vowed never to read it again because I was now sick of it XD I love that other people enjoy it! It's why I read it so much to the point where I was just done and tired with the fics. So I'm incredibly happy that people are liking the whole series so much :) But I really did put a lot of planning and thought into it and I love planning and thought!

wip slave!Merlin fic

I recently got into slave!Merlin fics and then I realized that I could go really dark with this trope and decided to write out all the darkest voices and demons inside me. I just want to test the furthest of my limits with this fic.

Now, I'm writing this multichap the same way I do any multichap, but for this one, I decided to actually put use of what my English teacher taught me in class and actively plan out things rather than just write it.

So what I'm doing is first, I just wrote the basic summary so I wouldn't forget the concept of the fic. Then, I started creating chapter outlines. I'm on chapter 4 right now, but the thing is, ideas don't come in chronological order. At least not for me. I have currently eleven full/long scenes completely outlines at the bottom of the document under a section titled 'Excerpts'. What I'm doing with this one is that I'm writing down any and all ideas I'd like to have in the fic under that section, then as I write my chapter outline notes in chronological order, I add foreshadowing or parallels or teasers or build-ups to those scenes. All the while, I also add build-ups and teasers for the final ending of the fic too (which I've already written down how and when it's going to happen in the 'Excerpts' section). I don't think much in this stage, I'm just doing.

What's going to happen next, is that while I'm outlining it, I build it up and create fillers and things for a particular scene I want to have first. Then I copy-paste that scene, then move on to build up the next scene. Then what I'm going to do after I've finished completely outlining the fic, is that I'm going to read through my notes and add some extra bits of foreshadowing or detail, or teasers, or parallels, or build-ups, or information or- you get the point.

After that, I start writing. This stage is very simple and easy for me, because my outlines look like this:

(that's an outline I made while writing mmb)

So I basically just copy every sentence except to replace it with grammar or a better sentence structure XD

While writing, again, if I find any plotholes or some details missing or any of the like, I fix it up immediately. I also make notes for myself in between the outline or in between writing [like this] so any details I need to put in the later scenes, I will remember to put it. The pic above is a relatively clean version because usually my outlines are littered with notes. I look at those notes then adjust accordingly :)

And then after that, I'm gonna do what I did for ltbb and edit it by reading it over and over. Except this time, I'm gonna get my beta Joan to read over it so I don't have to make myself sick and done by over-reading it XD And then I post!!

40k angsty oneshot wip

This one's currently fully written, but it's just going through the beta stages right now. This one's special because I'm putting a LOT of work into it. I have three beta readers for this one. Sprite taking a look over the foreshadowing bits I used. Trist helping me with descriptions. Joan being a general beta reader. Immense, immense thank you to ALL of them btw!!

What i did here is that i wrote it like a normal multichap, but I didn't split it into chapters. I purposefully just kept it as a really long oneshot because chapters were uneven and it broke the flow of the fic and didn't pack that punch I needed it to. So after writing it all, I read it word by word and then I inserted the tiniest details of foreshadowing, juxtaposition, characterisation, dialogue etc. Joan can attest to that as well. And then I also asked Joan to give it another read so I can see what things readers can catch on their re-reads (or first reads even) and then highlight some aspects to make them more noticeable or make some other aspects subtle. We're currently going through that right now. I'm also handing over the fic to the other betas too (either in screenshots of certain snippets or as an entire fic) so they can provide their input as well.

So yeah, i'm really polishing this fic and am really proud of us for doing all this and making it the very best 😂✨

And yeah! That's my prep for stories! I really put a lot of work into mine and love every minute of it <33

[geometricalien]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤

awww thank you for including me. this has just been sitting in my box for the past couple of days but HERE I AM- in no particular order:

This doesn't really have a name... It's just called Merman AU

and it's not a 'fanfic' it's half a collection of headcannons for this AU and half snippets from this idea that I posted on tumblr at @haikyuu-aus-cuz-i-cant-write (oops look who has actually written now jfdksalf) basically this is a cross between the little mermaid and the monkey's paw. I really liked this but it was wayyy too big of an idea for me to write and you can see that I stopped after writing Suga's wish which is reallly funny considering this whole idea spawned from wanting a mermaid/human bokuaka AU and i was not near to getting to the meat of the story at all

Things That Hold Us Together: Steel Bolts and Tender Hearts

yes i just recently posted this, yes i've had this in my folders for like 3 years. this one... this was spawned from an old friend - who i don't speak with anymore - offhand comment that a fanart looked like akashi was an android. four hours after they said that i had half of this fic, and they said it was the best writing i ever shared with them. they encouraged me to expand it but i kept hitting a wall and then we had a falling out and through out the years ive been coming back to this trying to add and edit and i decided to reclaim it as my own and publish it. the idea is that it's an introduction to a lighthearted sitcom/romcom between decommissioned war android akashi and engineer who fixed him up furihata

Language Barriers

i cyclically get star trek brainrot and this time it had a dash of akafuri, i really like how i described things in this one since furihata doesn't think in words but emotions and images instead, idk it was a good writing exercise

Horror wip

ive been hemming and hawing at it for literal months now because i have one central driving image behind my eyelids that i want to get to. its just been... harder than usual to get to it. i've rewritten like 3 times trying to get it write. i've currently landed on 2nd person narration with some thrown in spices of 1st person to signify that we are in the being- akashi's- point of view haunting furihata (the you) and its giving me an opportunity to make the reader feel akashi's destroying love from the front seat. my other goal with this is to write some surrealistic imagery soooo yeP

I Will Follow You Down Through The Gates of Hell

i cant not include this. this damn fic/series/idea has been brewing in the back of my mind for so damn long if it was a human child it could hold a fucking conversation. the imagery. the themes. the depth of emotion- AND WE ARE BARELY GETTING INTO THE WAR!? ITS BEEN 50K+ WORDS AND ITS JUST GETTING STARTED (or ending, if you wanna look at it that way) idk its... its been so long since i wrote part 1 that that fic doesn't feel like "mine" anymore? idk but it always makes me smile seeing an email saying that someone else liked the fics too.

[sunstone-smiles]

29 for the ask game!

29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic. (If you don’t have either, just share a random fic idea you have that you don’t plan on getting to.)

Fan Fic Writer Ask Game!

I’m so glad someone asked this because I’ve been wanting to share some “behind the scenes” things! I am a hoarder when it comes to things I cut or edit. My problem is that I don’t keep it very organized (oops-). But, I remember some major cuts that I’ve made before, such as this alternate beginning of “The Bubbly Blue Lion Tickle Fight”! (I actually completely forgot until today that I wrote this section instead of just having it as a concept on my idea page, but I’m glad I saved it!) I also put why it was cut at the end of the post!

Alternate beginning (draft) of “The Bubbly Blue Lion Tickle Fight.” (An edited version for better readability. The cuts even have cuts, Lol.)

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The tides of war are ever changing, yet little by little the Faerghus army keeps clawing to their goal. Some turmoils have occurred, but they learned. The key to their success so far has been their continued teamwork, trusting faith into allies and bonding with them.

On days when the army is not battling for life or death though, their recharging. They give themselves a chance to relax in order to recharge for the next battles ahead. All except for one person who needs it the most, the King of Faerghus itself, Dimitri.

Lurking outside near their own private quarters, Shez watches Dimitri in the distance, using his strength to organize weaponry and materials instead of resting. At this point, Shez can’t even count how many times they, or even the rest of the Blue Lion army has told him to take it easy. Yet everything they do, he seems to be doing the exact opposite.

“Whatcha doing out here? Bird watching?” Sylvain comes up to Shez in casual attire. Similar to him, Shez is also in casual attire to be more easily relaxed. 

“Heh, more like lion watching,” Shez responds and tilts their head in the direction of Dimitri.

“Ugh, he’s working again? I mean, that’s kind of him but not what everyone had in mind when we’re trying to ‘relax.’”

“I told him this morning too and yet here he is. It doesn’t seem like any excuse we use will stop him. But he’s putting too much work on himself. He’s pretty stubborn about it too.”

Sylvain shrugs. “You’re telling me? He was like this when we were kids too, never taking a break when everyone practically begged him to do so. We had to make him take a break because he always puts too much work on himself.”

“Maybe we just have to knock that stubborn attitude out of him then,” Shez jokes. “Anything you used to do when you were kids?”

“Beats me.” Sylvain pauses. “Actually…” a smirk of someone formulating a plan appears on his face. “Maybe there is a way.”

“Hm? What do you mean?”

Sylvain signals Shez to come closer so he can whisper it in their ear. Shez’s face lights up when they hear what Sylvain has to say. “Really?” Shez’s eyes go wide.

Once the red-haired noble is finished, Shez turns back to Dimitri with the similar mischievous glint in their eye. “Oh, this I have to see.”

Sylvain and Shez nod at each other. The two formulate a plan. Soon, they take off toward Dimitri.

“Take care now,” Dimitri waves goodbye to the people he was helping. He turns around to leave, nearly running into Sylvain who was right behind him. 

“Ah, Sylvain! What are you doing here?”

“I could ask the same thing of you, your majesty.”

Dimitri lets out a sheepish chuckle. “Yes, I know. You’re about to give me an earful about why I should be resting.” Dimitri is in casual clothing as well, in a black undershirt.

“Well yes, but…” Sylvain pauses as he watches Shez sneak up on Dimitri. The King completely doesn’t notice Shez. Sylvain still has to distract him though. “Actually, I came to tell you a joke.”

“A joke? Now why would you…Ah, I see now,” Dimitri crosses his arms. He recognizes that mischievous look in Sylvain’s eyes. Dimitri glares back at him. “Sylvain, what is it that you’re really here for—AHACK!”

Dimitri suddenly lets out an uncharacteristic shriek when his sides are suddenly squeezed. He whips around to see his attacker, only to be met with a Shez that’s drowning in their own laughter.

“Pffft! Hahahaha! What was that?!”

“Shez!” Dimitri exclaims, his face becoming slightly flushed. “Don’t sneak up on me like that!”

“I have to see that again!”

“Shez wait—AH!” Dimitri shrieks again, soon letting out a stream of giggles when Shez keeps wiggling fingers at his sides to tickle him. He tries to curl up his middle and hold his giggles in (as this silliness may be unbefitting of a king), but he can’t help but start to giggle. He tries to cover his mouth with his shoulder also when he crumbles down. “Shehehez! Hahaha!”

“Sylvain told me you were ticklish, so I just had to see it for myself!”

“Don’t forget what else I said! We usually got a reaction out of him…here!”

Sylvain lunges at him and joins in the game, scribbling now into Dimitri’s ribs.

“No! Sylvahahain! Shehehez!” Dimitri breaks into giggles and squeezes his arms to his sides, trying to squirm away from both of their attacks. Big, rich and full laughter begins to spill out of Dimitri and a glowing smile on his face. He tries to wriggle away, soon crumbling down to the ground. Shez and Sylvain follow him down, scribbling into his torso while he wriggles around, trying to push his friends away, but unable to do so due to them teaming up against him. His usual strength weakened due to the tickles.

“Your Majesty!” a protective voice suddenly rushes over to the scene. The three lift their heads up, noticing Dedue rushing towards them. Shez and Sylvain temporarily stop their attack, noticing Dedue rushing over, with Ingrid and Felix following close behind…

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Why this was cut: I ultimately decided that I wanted Shez and Dimitri to start with an individual conversation like in my Golden Deer one, which is why most of it was changed in the product that was posted!

There is a Part 2 to another (major) cut for this fic if anyone is interested in that 👀