#oughh I loved exploring this concept

[mercurymoths]

17 and Sky

17 - The Balancer’s eye by Lord Huron !

Oh mann What a good pick ! My favourite number and one of my favourite songs and Links !!

This is kind of funny because this song is actually on my linked universe playlist in the Hyrule section, but this prompt made me totally rethink it because it fits really well with Sky aswell !

I loved getting to make this little comic, The whole demise curse is such an interesting point for Sky’s character and his relationship with the others, and I love putting my favourite guy through situations :]

Thank you so much for the ask! <3

[starburstminibot]

Hey, anon who asked bout the "how things were before Breakcheck was born"

First of all: I read the tags, don't ever apologise for info dumping, I love the dump and will eat it all. I am thoroughly enjoying this au and would love to read/see more of it

Secondly: It's quite alright for not doing art, as much as I do enjoy your art very much and love to see how you draw these characters, I also very much enjoy reading about it

Thridly: You are so right, the writers dont know shit and you get it alot mlre, and i LOVE how you are writing the issues between the 'Cons and 'Bots. Like there is sooo much they just, didn't explain. Megs being the one to become good and the other cons are left to be the bad guys??? PUH-LEASE

And even if they were to no longer be the bad guys, there is SO MUCH to their relationship that is skimmed over, like, c'mon

Anyhow, eating up your au OP. Breakcheck is best boy and I love seeing this goober and his story on my feed, writen or drawn out

Do not give me permission to yap bc i will not stop and you will regret it I promise /lh

IM SO FERAL??!>{£|! OUGHH IM SO GLAD YOU LIKE IT SO MUCJ BC IM GOING INSANE THINKING ABOUT IT

Also… I’m going to give possibly a hot take and it’s that Earthspark genuinely pisses me off sometimes. Because how dare they introduce such an interesting concept of a post-war setting with a redeemed Megatron and complex Decepticon/Autobot relationships and expect me to care about the Terrans.

I still like the Terrans, i think they are so silly goofy, and I like the idea of new characters to explore. But THE BACKGROUND PLOT IS SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING TO ME. The human alliance that turned out to be anti-cybertron??? Mandroid literally killing bots and experimenting on them?? grimlock getting mind controlled and having ptsd??? The rest of the Decepticons fighting for power and seething in rage of their leader’s betrayal??? Megatron trying to navigate his new life while being repentful of his past actions while also not crumbling under the guilt of his mistakes??? The fact that they are stranded on an alien planet and can’t go home?????? STARCREAM’S ABUSE GETTING RECOGNIZED????

they keep introducing these really interesting plots and then abandoning them for the sake of the Terrans getting more screentime.

I think these things would be easier to juggle if there weren’t so many of them tbh. I would rather just have Twitch and Thrash be these new Cybertronians that can guide the viewer through these complex plots because like us, they weren’t around for the war. They have a fresh untainted perspective on life.

(Dont get me wrong, I love Hashtag, JB, and Nightshade, but sometimes it feels like there isn’t enough screentime to flesh them all out and they end up getting characterized to one singular trait) (if all of them are around, I would rather them have their own focus show without the background plots of Optimus, Megatron, Bumblebee, ect.)

Also they are REALLY trying to hit the family theme over our heads. They keep saying “family this family that” but deadass they talk about being a healthy family more than they actually act like it. Show me how much they love each other instead of putting it in every other line of dialogue.

Ok that is all, I didn’t mean to go on such a rant LMAO. I still like Earthspark, just sometimes it feels like they are trying to be two different shows and they are stuffing more into the plot than they have time to flesh out. (Breakdown, Starscream, and pretty much all the Decepticons deserved better)

[just-a-dinosaur-i-guess]

character ask: teruko and sigma

teruko first!!

first impression:

ohhh you're murderous

impression now:

the gorl!! i think she is so cool and her ability is made very interesting bc of how she uses it :)

favorite moment:

when she kills fukuchi in the anime. the va did SO well and i nearly cried too. also her fight with sigma was fun to watch

idea for a story:

i have this one i've barely expanded on in my wip pile where she panics really bad on a mission, turns into a baby, and the other hunting dogs have to take care of her. also a vague concept exploring her being the captain of the hunting dogs after fukuchi dies + another in my vaguely set-up post doa arc that my fukurotsu fic hinted at where ranpo takes teruko out to solve a case together. fun violence ensues

unpopular opinion:

i think she's smarter and more calculated then people act like she is

favorite relationship:

i don't ship her with anyone, but oughh her dynamic with fukuchi makes me SO curious.. i wanna see more, i wanna know how she got recruited canonically!!!

favorite headcanon:

AUTISTIC

sigma's turn <3

first impression:

oh you're pathetic

impression now:

oh you deserve that nice house in the woods and nobody to bother you ever again

favorite moment:

hmm.. i like when we get to see how good of a manager he is. also i like this manga panel

idea for a story:

honestly the only one i have is a tachisig fic where he learns metalworking to make gifts for tachihara . they have sigma's dream house there it's just very sweet

unpopular opinion:

there's a post i saw that says it better then me but i think people use them as a prop for other characters way too much. also the three year old jokes have gotten very tiring at this point

favorite relationship:

sigma's relationship to the rest of the doa intrigues me more then anything we actually see in canon tbh. but i like him and nikolai's dynamic and i'd love to see how they interact how that fyodor's dead

also canonically i don't think i really ship him with anyone

favorite headcanon:

space hyperfixation

[fumifooms]

Hey fumi do you have any fics in the work?

Hi! I always have a ton of wips and prompts on the back burner, but as for whether I have any fics right now that I’m actively working on… Yes! Although I don’t know from what fandom you are from anon (I’m guessing Dungeon Meshi) so I’m just gonna talk about my general fic plans regardless of what they’re for.

Tldr: Currently I’m working on two fics for Harahara Sensei, but after that I want to try and continue some wips I started and left unfinished, besides all the other wips I want to try and get done asap alongside that for a bunch of fandoms.

Currently:

I’m working on two oneshots simultaneously for Harahara Sensei/Timebomb Teacher! I’ve been alternating between which of the two I’m focusing on which uhh certainly is a choice. One is gonna be pretty short like uhh 2k words while the other I’m anticipating to be around ~5k words maybe? Harahara Sensei’s a manga that’s not even been translated into english and my last fic for it got no attention so I’m def not expecting anyone else to rejoice about it but I’m having a great time. I’ve been considering machine translating them and put them on Pixiv though, there are a couple of fics for it on there so if it’s readable to others that’d be fun. Harahara Sensei has been having a grip on my brain again lately I tell you… I listen to my spotify playlist for it and I weep

— Unlike my last Harahara Sensei fic though these are feel good and not ungodly angst! The shorter one is gonna be centered around ice creams/popsicles, themes of empathy and being ice cold with others and mayybe stolen childhood considering canon, with a motif of winning and losing popsicles— You know that thing in japan where if there’s winner written on the popsicle stick you get another popsicle for free at a store. This might sound like a far fetched concept but canon just had a field trip with this I could talk SO MUCH about popsicles in Harahara Sensei and how Yoroizuka loves them omg. The way he tossed a winning stick in a fire- The way it almost mimics the look of a smoke- The way he eats them because he never had the chance to as a kid- So much I could say and so much I could spoil and so much I could theorize and rant about it makes me rabid!!!! Is this a good time to mention Harahara Sensei is about yakuzas — The longer one is about them going out to eat at a restaurant together after vol 2, pretty chill, learning to know each other beyond their usual um, "professional" setting. Unlike the ice cream one it’s less vibey and more straightforward, shooting for dialogue and neat moments. Its name is gonna be Death Tolls and Dinner Rolls which I have such a shit eating grin about, it’s so perfect and hilarious to me it feels like my brain is huge. Here below the summary tidbits for the fics + a canon extra page about Yoroizuka so y’all have a visual idk. Oh I don’t go into it in the pic but there’ll def be a death toll-adjacent convo in the fic and not only dinner rolls, I don’t lie on the label

You know, I noticed lately how the theme of food is pretty prevalent in my fics in general. Like, even before reading Dungeon Meshi! Both of my Harahara Sensei wips here were started before reading it, funny how that works. My first posted fic ever is about baking a cake hah. With Dunmeshi it’s only getting worse here on out I’m afraid. My thing with Harahara Sensei fics so far has been to do a lot of animals metaphors and comparisons because dehumanization is a big and cool theme in it and OUGHH that’s so fun. Rat races… Brb sobbing. Also I’d be making faster progress on my fics if I didn’t overthink everything and insisted on researching how rare benches are in Kabukicho tbh. Please god let them sit down……

Dunmeshi:

Listen if you’re a oomfie you knowwww I have so many marchil wips… But I also have a ton of other dunmeshi wips as well. So real talk for the moment I feel like fic wise I’ve done a explored marchil a good amount, I’d like to work on smth else as a palate cleanser after a month of working on the same fic oughh. But yes I’ve done angsty unrequited during canon marchil, I’ve done bittersweet-ish fluffy post-canon slow burn-ish marchil, if I were to focus on a marchil fic soon I think it’d either be 1) a quick gen/platonic fic set during canon where Chilchuck lends her an ear and comforts her after the dungeon rabbits incident when she gets nightmares, 2) Marcille and Chilchuck on a date post-canon, ice skating and dancing and shenanigans, or 3) either Marcille invites him to a fancy social event at the castle as her plus-one (aka emotional support) maybe already dating maybe on the verge of confessing OR they’re already dating and then Marcille’s mom visits them and it’s very sweet and then maybe a marriage proposal happens too~, in both cases Chilchuck is going through so much stress. I’ve done many flavors so far but what I reallyyy want to do rn is just Chilchuck’s heart on the edge of giving out, going through the five stages of grief over the banquet not having his favorite kind of alcohol and Marcille not letting him be an ornamental plant in the corner of the room and doing the bare minimum. If it doesn’t show I’m most excited for 3)…

BUT. Before I fell down the marchil rabbithole I was working on a couple of laimar ideas, including one where Marcille makes Laios read The Daltian Clan because she’s soo desperate for someone to talk about it with even if Falin didn’t end up getting into it. The plot twist is that Laios DOES get invested, but in all the different ways. Laios is less into the drama and romance and politics (haha have fun being king my guy) that Marcille is into but is more invested in the action/war and he roots for the monster hordes enemies and whatnot. They have diametrically opposed favorite characters and allegiances. He hyperfixates on a minor side character. Shenanigans happen in short and they heatedly discuss the latest chapters that Laios read and stuff. Marcille always end up some mix of enraged at his opinions but overjoyed to have a fellow fan around. It’s supposed to be 3 chaps long, have one chap set during canon pre-relationship, one chap set just after canon with some canon divergence & feelings blooming and then one chap set post canon & canon compliant with established relationship. I don’t have a name I’m satisfied about for it hnng, have some fun wip bits though, this summarizes the vibes well

An effect of writing up most my laimar ideas before Dungeon Meshi ended is that in many of them Marcille goes to prison oop, I do think that’d be a fun possibility to explore though, so at some point I’d like to at least include it in a fic. I even wrote down a laimar idea where it’s them pining with the other being oblivious to it BUT it’s narrated from Chilchuck sensing the romance in the air and seething (no jealousy at ALL just Chilchuck being a hater, being like ugh!! Young people in love. Ugh!!). Here are some other laimar-marchil ideas I find presentable, esp the second one I’m really endeared by it I wanna do a short soft nighttime fic about cherishing your loved one…… I want it to be marchil but dragons are more topical for laimar ugh 😔 I love Marcille being a canonical big spoon

But tbh I want to write gen/no ships fics for dunmeshi a lot. I have plans for Mithrun-centric fics, and I want to write at least one about Cithis as well. Here are a bunch, I thought of the Laios & Falin one lately while rereading that page where Laios tells about when he went to see Falin at the academy and I love it sm rn, I want to weite about Falin jumping into his arms and breaking his back, imagine your brother who you haven’t seen in years unexpectedly shows up at your window while filthy and disheveled. I need to write that, also yay Falin pov :)

Oh it’s gonna sound crazy but I also had a phase of wanting to write about Shuro, and particularly Shuro & Izutsumi as siblings who deal with their home situation in diametrically opposed ways and influence each other positively to be less at the extremes of propriety and allowing your shackles to a family vs rebelling against it. Lotsa lil snippets and maybe even a multi chap fic. Oh also a farcille one where Marcille helps bathe and brush Falin because she sheds feathers a lot post canon, just some domestic fluff. And even this is far from all my dunmeshi prompts so hopefully you see what I mean when I say I have soo many wips at all times. Which brings us to…

After that:

As with most end of the year periods, I’m feeling like I want to finish all the loose ends I actually started. I have a list with my priorities but besides Wild Side which I have the first chapter up for (Camp Camp fic) and there’s also an asaden Chainsaw Man I reallyyy planned on finishing last december for Christmas so… Second time’s the charm? It’s called Hachiko & Hot Chicken and it’s just about them going on a Christmas date in Shibuya. Ahh yes there are also two kimbliza Fullmetal Alchemist ones I started, besides the soapmaking Invader Zim zagr one from years ago that I left mid-writing the last chapter. Other fun ones are an Animal Crossing one centering around the player character & Redd going bug hunting, and a Long Way North one about sleeping on a rocking ship and bunking in together in the dead of night, both from years ago too. Man, my recurring themes truly do be sleeping and eating.

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Okok time to end this post dayum. I warn that I’m a pretty slow writer, both in general averaging at like 15 words per minute if I’m generous, and in the broader life schedule. I am unreliable af and I have no clue when my next fic is coming out at any given moment. Many of my readers have spent months or years waiting for the next chapter… Which is why I tend to stick to oneshots heh. If I focus well enough on writing, maybe my Harahara Sensei oneshots will only take me one week each hmm. Too many ideas too little time Honestly though I’d also like to focus on tumblr posts some soon, I got some asks and big posts I’d like to finish up~ Oh but I have to admit lately I’ve been focusing more on fanart and just original art as well. Sorry for the novel but ty for the ask~

[bluejayblueskies]

9, 15, and 18 for the fic writer’s ask game :3

fanfic writer ask game!

9 - What’s your favorite line(s) or scene(s) that you have written?

Oughh I'm so bad at remembering these things >.< I'm sure I have quite a few in my older fics, but I can't recall them, so here's a few from my more recent stuff!

from my upcoming big bang fic (cw: suicide):

John lets Arthur slit his own throat, and he says, “I’m so sorry, Arthur. I love you. I’m sorry.” It’s the first time John tells Arthur he loves him. Arthur is never going to remember it.

from whiskey, the entire sex scene in chapter eight! i think it's one of the best sex scenes i've written, and i'm still quite fond of how it affects everything that comes after it.

from cicatrix (i don't care that this fic isn't very popular because i love it and it's still one of my favorite malevolent AU concepts that i've explored):

Arthur's daemon had been a seahorse named Nimh, held in a sturdy glass container that Arthur kept secured to his chest. The water had soaked through Arthur’s shirt as the container shattered and the shape within it distorted and stretched, and he’d blacked out before he could finish witnessing the corruption of his soul. Now, his daemon is a black dog with bright yellow eyes and sharp teeth who goes by the name John. Arthur’s not sure what it means for him, that the physical manifestation of his soul has not only changed its shape but the entire fabric of its being. It’s not like there’s any precedent for it. What does one do when one’s soul has been replaced with that of an eldritch god beyond our comprehension? One simply … carries on, Arthur supposes.

15 - Are there words, phrases, mannerisms or scenes you tend to use a lot?

Answered here!

18 - Recommend someone else fic! (And tag them if they have a tumblr!)

i have two!

The Next Level | azriona | Yuri on Ice, Explicit, 370k words

The skating season continues (as skating seasons are wont to do), while Victor and Yuuri negotiate the shifts in their relationship, their careers, and their home rink. Sometimes, things even go as planned.

If you're even vaguely familiar with Yuri on Ice, go read this fic! It's season two in my heart, and I think it's truly my favorite Yuri on Ice fic.

Remora | zuzeca (@lyresnake) | Malevolent, Mature, 11k words

While traveling the Dreaming Oceans, Arthur acquires a strange passenger.

This is a delightful Malevolent AU with sea creature John and Arthur and some very fun worldbuilding! The prose is beautiful as well--I highly recommend it!

[wackpedion]

Saw an ask you reblogged and I'm using it as an excuse to just dump a pinch of my spookys brain rot onto you >:]

Okay. Idk how much you know already so brief summary: Spookys jumpscare mansion is a horror game that focuses on the protgaonist: a history enthusiast going to a Mansion to uncover its history of the mysterious place, and is told to make it through 1000 rooms by a ghost girl named Spooky. that's the core game its really simple, it's mostly just silly (esp the endings, mainly the good ending is just kinda silly) it starts getting somthing really truly *serious* during the karamari hospital and Dollhouse dlcs I'd say, oughh I love this games story, but the stories of those is, a long ramble on their own

The initial concept that lead to the game becoming what it is starts at specimen 1! The cardboard cutouts! And they're... well, cardboard cutouts that jump out and scare you. The entire point of them is basically a joke/jab on jumpscares as a whole because they're adorable and made of cardboard: Cheap and not Actually Scary (except the occasions where it DOES throw a scary face at you) you're just startled by a loud noise jumping out at you. Otherwise they help hand you notes through the game from others who explored the mansion before you too. I am fond of specimen 1 they're just little guys (and they've killed 4 people via heart attack)

Otherwise yeah you go through a bunch of rooms and get chased by various monsters a lot, on the main game its 13 "specimens", other stuff offers us more entities n whatnot though

And I WAS originally gonna infodump about more of the specimens, but then that got absurdly long fast even when I was trying to be picky with who I talked about 😭 so, I'll refrain for now because I want the information I give to not be overwhelming so it can be processed pfft, so, enjoy that bite of information about spookys I looove this silly game

YAYAYAYY THANK U I think I watched a video about spookys long ago but can't be sure.... It sounds so silly esp specimen 1 <333 what r the endings ?