#pondering fic stuff

[depizan]

anyone from imp int that appears semi regularly in the agent story (watcher two/shara jenn, keeper, etc?) mayhaps?

They're both characters I find really interesting. I'd say it's surprising they haven't put any fic appearances (other than Keeper informing Kyrian over holo that he's being arrested for treason), except that I haven't done that much with Kyrian's career when he's not out in the field actively coloring outside the lines.

Well, I do have a couple of Keeper mini-fics. LIke I said, interesting character. He's not a character type you often get on the "bad" side, being more of an "M" or...what's his name on Stargate SG1...Hammond than the sort of leader you normally see in the Empire. He clearly cares about the people who work under him, even if he's able to send them into deadly danger, exile them to Shadow Town, or worse...when necessary. He's a very effective combination of "good authority figure" and "did what I had to do/made the hard (but necessary) decisions."

If I do go back and fill in more of Kyrian's career, or write any Pheodra fics, he's likely to put in more appearances. Getting a little insight into why he ignored concerns about Kyrian for as long as he did (besides that Kyrian tended to succeed where it really mattered) could be fun. The game writing suggests that Keeper sees something of himself in a light side agent, and I've carried that over to ficverse. Of course, Keeper remained loyal to the Empire, despite its flaws, and gained the hardness and big picture thinking that Kyrian...did not.

Watcher Two is...hm, how to phrase it... She's more unquestioningly Imperial than Keeper, but that's unsurprising considering she was literally designed by the Empire. That she still came out a decent coworker/boss is more surprising. Her soft spots are different from Keeper's, and somewhat more personal, but she lacks his experience (I'm pretty sure he was Imperial military before his Imp Int career. Or is that just my headcanon?) and she rises in the ranks at nearly the worst possible time, given how quickly the Sith wreck everything.

Hm, actually I think the most interesting stuff with her, as far as the game story goes, comes later. Which means that if she were to appear in fic beyond giving mission info or taking a post-mission briefing, it'd probably be if I fic stuff with Pheodra. (Who, to her irritation, inherits Kyrian's designation and mission. She is cypher agent material; it was clear in training that he would never be.)

Then again, Watcher Two is so much more what a member of Imperial Intelligence should be than Kyrian, it could be interesting to give them a chance to interact around that. Especially as it's clear Kyrian did trust her (and Keeper) more than was wise. That means some discussion of methods is possible, or other concerns. Hell, she's observant enough--and close enough to being a coworker, rather than a superior--that she might pick up on his doubts about whether he is cypher agent material. (Okay, he knows he's not, he's just trying to do the job anyway. And dreading the eventual training he's certain he'll fail.)

Which raises the question of what Keeper (and Watcher Two, for that matter) thought of their skilled but squeamish field agent who'd been promoted way too soon. Did Keeper think that field experience would eventually file off his soft edges and make him cypher material? Are there aspects of cypher training that would make his flaws irrelevant? Was Keeper going to quietly demote him back to normal field agent once the crisis was over? Let him continue indefinitely as an untrained, field promoted cypher agent? (I mean, obviously, he had field agent training. But that's not the same thing.)

Was part of Watcher Two's job deciding what would be best to do with Kyrian once the crisis was over?

[antlered-prince]

Do you have any recommendations for good Dream/reader fics? I can’t find any….its so cold out here………./j

i wish i did! but unfortunately he's so hard to find /reader fics for (that aren't nsfw one-shots) that i don't have any (⁠´⁠°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥⁠ω⁠°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥⁠｀⁠)

most of the dream/reader content that i have are old art/attacks or rps 😔

[morgan-n-cheese-91]

How often do you think Obi-Wan borrows a friend's cloak and the loses it?? And then has to do the walk of shame that he lost their cloak?

[theangrypomeranian]

if you don’t like a fic, just click out of it. leaving hateful comments is so unnecessary and demotivating.

[banyanas]

man if i had an actual plot structure to use as scaffolding (because i can’t really do slice of life or things like it) i could write so many N and Uzi words that are just the actual practicalities and obstacles (varying in size and some seen, some unforeseen) of an interspecies relationship

[taravangians-storming-balls]

I dont have nearly as many unique stormlight thoughts like I used to, these days my brain is just two dogs with kaladin and moash written on the collars chasing each other in circles

[inspiteofganon]

I'm not really a "shipper" per se but I will admit that the utter lack of gansheik stuff anywhere is a real surprise to me. You can't hardly even find platonic stuff of them having a dynamic despite all the fuel that the manga gives for tension and potential interactions.

[eff-plays]

It's rly wild that I can't write fic without first combing through the source material just to make sure I don't get the dialogue wrong, while others just see a character they like, don't play the game, and learn about them through fandom osmosis and then write the fic anyway.

I guess it depends on what sort of fic you're writing. I could be worse and actually try to get things right based on Forgotten Realms lore, I suppose, but I can't even imagine writing fic about a thing I don't know at personally, at least on a somewhat casual level.

[brittlebutch]

I have posted the first snippet of this OC fic on my neocities; I'm just kind of vibing with the page colors right now, but in the top corner there's a button you can click to make it plain black on white if that's easier to read!

[kyouka-supremacy]

"#Also rip to the pages that fueled my sskk unrequited love agenda for one years " Oh you're finally done ? Even after you saw the confirmation it was requited I still saw you clinging to it so I'm surprised

Okay I elaborated plenty on my thoughts on unrequited sskk in the last ask but “oh you're finally done with your sskk unrequited love agenda” may as well be the funniest thing anyone has ever said to me. Long story short the anime may have deleted its potential canon basis and the manga may have disproven it in the meantime anyway but I'm taking my unrequited sskk agenda with me to the grave by sheer power of not caring about what canon says

[theangrypomeranian]

me planning on writing fic of my current hyperfixation: 😃

me realizing I have to write it in first person: 😰

[dontwanderoff]

a haunted dale fic moment written i feel ALIVE

[gloopdimension]

what do you think of dedusmulns weird little wormy babies

I LOOOVE DEDUS WEIRD LITTLE WORMY BABIES. theyd be very shy abt it but the rest of waynecrew would be delighted

[junkissed]

oh thaaaat ask... yeah i recall now hehehe i'm weirdly honored that i have a brand.. also i think i sent u an ask or two that i didn't sign off cause i was worried you'd get tired of me shshfbf so i honestly have no idea what i've sent u... anyways i can't stop thinking of brutal mean brat tamer hao suddenly switching it up one day when you brat at him and he goes "oh, i'm not tying you up because i trust you to be well behaved ^_^ you're so good, baby, i love you so much ^_^" and it surprises u so much that you actually do behave ... and maybe also slip into subspace 💤

SCREAMS OH MY GOD... switch!hao but instead of switching roles or positions it's him switching from hard dom to soft dom. like the contrast is so stark from how he is normally that even though it could be the most vanilla missionary in the world, it feels just as intense as the nights where he's got you tied to the bed with a vibrator and nipple clamps on you. they're both extremes but they're so different from each other that they're both equally pleasurable. extremes in a good way yk 🫠 and both times you just get to sit there and let him take care of you, whether it's punishment for being a brat or praise for being oh so well behaved for him

[strawberrycamel]

hguh <- considering making a sideblog for a one piece bending au i have 1) come up with today, 2) want to share art/fic for that i haven't even made yet, 3) keep making more and more notes for to the point my hand is having the very rare yet very annoying occurrence of Cramps, 4) been assailed with so many domestic and gag ideas and a handful of really unoriginal fight scenes, and 5) as i'm typing this i'm realizing none of these are reasons not to make a sideblog and yet i am still paralyzed by the very likely fact that i will not want to bother with this whole idea tomorrow when the coffee has finally filtered fully out of my system and will have to do the proverbial walk of shame that is deleting the sideblog i made less than 24 hours prior

[felixravinstills]

🕸️ trick or treat!! 🕸️

Sorry, it took so long to answer! Happy Halloween!

I associate you more with the OG HG trilogy, so here's an excerpt from a fic of mine, Ave Atque Vale. The excerpt concentrates on Tigris contemplating being a stylist (and also kind of using Cinna to berate herself):

She'd been a stylist in the Games once, complicit in the horror even as she tried to help. Every year, those twenty-four children were raw materials that the stylists used to get their message out there, advance their careers.

It was a coin flip whether one managed to see their tribute as a human or whether they remained a subject— an object. The stylists' little dolls.

There's a violence in art.  

Even when you're just trying to share something with the world, a story or an idea. Sometimes, you get lost in the craft, tweaking certain aspects to focus the eye better or getting rid of certain details to make points clearer. Do that enough and you'll find that you started with the truth and ended up with a lie.

That's why she'd always made sure to talk to her tributes. To turn her art into a collaboration. She wanted her girls to shine. She wanted the Capitol to see these poor kids as she did, individual and unique and of course, deserving of life.

She didn't care where Coriolanus stuck her. She talked to the tributes from Four, Ten, and when she'd almost completely fallen out of favor, Eleven. 

She tried to understand them. She wasn't always successful every year, but Cinna had been a natural. She'd been a mentor to him, but from her perspective, she had not had much to teach him.

She stressed the importance of getting to know your tribute, and she believes that he must have taken her to heart.

He'd captured Katniss Everdeen's essence, exaggerated the best of her, but kept her herself. 

Talking to him before the 75th Games made Tigris feel guilty for her slips into that artist's myopia: the art, the object, the message.

'But Cinna,' Tigris reminds herself almost everyday, 'only had to style one tribute.'

He never had to watch dozens of other tributes die before Katniss. Instead, he is the one who is dead.