#sab q&a

[sabh0]

can we see your angel of darkness dazai...

i never posted it before bc i don't really like it but ehh whatever!!! it's a shitpost from january anyway

[shesnake]

Amita Suman, Jack Wolfe, Kit Young, Danielle Galligan and Freddy Carter photographed by Lewis Tan on the set of Shadow and Bone season 2 (2023).

[luvrbones]

no offense but idk if i’ve ever seen anything hotter than freddy carter in the fucking “i buried him. six feet deep” scene like i stand by the fact that the sexiest thing a man can do is be insane & covered in blood

[gojonanami]

y’all really love to get angry about fictional characters and their sexualities

they don’t exist

just let people do what they want

[simplydifficultme]

that. lip.bite.................... SIR !!!!!

[rainbowskittle]

I so wish I kept wish ASL back in high school but even then (cuz of this show!!) I learned some but not enough to talk with it.. I can kinda tell signs but not enough to know know. Sigh need an app like Duolingo but for ASL.. all the ones I find aren’t free after one or two lessons. Or just aren’t helpful. I used to use lifeprint but I like how Duolingo is laid out more like ‘game’ lessons to help idk.

[eisbee]

Agent H, B, Q, Sigma & Omega inquesty dance loop in the Super Adventure Box 

[lehdenlaulu]

🔥 for either S&B or video game of your choice

Unpopular S&B opinions, eh? 😁

Probably most of them, honestly, since I've not read the books and therefore have no particular attachments to how things are in them.

But while opinions vary in a crossover fandom as big as this, I can't think of many that are more unpopular than being 100% cool with the show throwing Tolya in with the Crows, including the hints at a little something with Inej (and Kaz??). Honestly, I think the whole thing might be a genius move, and as of now, I'm not the least bit worried that it will lead to some convoluted love triangle bullshit.

Even Tolya's implied possible book canon aroaceness doesn't feel like an issue to me. I mean, I'm very much on both of those spectrums myself and I actually did kind of vibe with show Tolya on that level even before learning about that one line in the books that hints at it. I mean... that's Lewis Tan. He could have brought hella smolder to the screen. Instead, Tolya just had the absolute safest, warmest, chillest vibes, and his interest in Inej feels very much based on respect and admiration. It makes sense to pair him with Inej, who comes with plenty of trauma and complication and would not be well-suited for virtually anyone else. Especially since Kaz, her first choice, is clearly not ready to be what she wants him to be yet.

And I mean, personally... I might never have been in love and be generally perfectly content without a romantic/sexual relationship, but if I ever find someone I really click with, I'm not going to be mad about it, am I? Why would he be? I understand that we're not all the same and that some of us would like to see the kind of representation where a character has zero interest in any kind of even remotely romantic or sexual entanglement, but... since it's a spectrum, we are not all the same, so no matter what, no aspec representation will ever be able to represent all of us.

And then there's the part where at least a part of the fandom seems to be mad about this because they view Inej as Kaz's exclusive property. Which... is pretty mind-boggling to me, all things considered, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised. These attitudes die hard. But like... isn't it better if she goes be free for a while, grows and heals and finds herself for a bit, and then eventually returns to Kaz of her free will with a new Crow in tow? Would you rather she stick around out of guilt and duty and wallow in an unhappy, currently unresolvable situation?

I understand very well that book fans are attached to how things are in the books, but this has been a different story from the beginning, hasn't it? And I repeat: Tolya could be the best thing that ever happened to show Kanej. Not a threat but a possibility. I mean it.

[sarcasmismydefaultmode]

tagged by @supervisormeero; ta, love!

rules: summarize your WIPs badly and let people vote on what appeals to them the most!

I'm multi-fandom so this could be interesting and probably random as hell...

That 80-character limit is annoying...

Full list:

'Dedra becomes the rebel Captain Marvel via some 'cognitive recalibration' and Cassian Andor is a fandom-confirmed simp for women who can kick his arse...'

'Dedra doesn't hate being a damsel in distress (she really does) when her knight-in-shining-armour is blue-skinned, sexily intelligent, and scarily ruthless...'

'Battle-hardened mama bear Alina Starkov deals with all the shit, meanwhile Kirigan simps and schemes...'

'The Darkling is dragged, kicking and screaming, back to his humanity while Alina gets a life...for all of five minutes...'

'The story of a found family of Force-users even more chaotic and dramatic than the Skywalkers...'

Most of the writers I know have already done this so anyone else want to give this a try?

[sylvcn]

' mhm, te lo juro. viene en la página oficial del museo y todo. ' inventa otro pedazo de información solo para respaldar su mentira anterior, intentando mantener una expresión neutral para no mandar a volar su acto. ' aish, ¿cómo haría trampa? ' se queja. ' tenemos mucho tiempo. no hay prisa para que lo encuentres, puedes tardar lo que quieras. eso sí, ve pensando lo que vas a querer de regalo. ' ( @echoiis )

' ¿qué? ¿en serio? ' pregunta con gracia, intentando asimilar aquel pedazo de información. por algún motivo no le cree nada, pero le entretiene la idea de que se le pueda haber ocurrido una mentira así, entonces le sigue el juego. ' el techo es demasiado grande y no se ve bien a esta distancia, creo que estas haciendo trampa. ' ( @sylvcn )

[sabh0]

You know, I see some shippers say that Dazai totally wants a double suicide with Chuuya, based on that Stormbringer scene, but I can't say I agree.

Do I think Dazai would find it romantic? Yeah. Do I think that Chuuya would die with Dazai, one way or another, depending on the situation? Kinda. But I genuinely don't think Dazai wants to kill himself with Chuuya. I don't think he wants anyone he actually cares for to die at all, actually, hence why he only asks strangers he doesn't care for but find pretty, because death is beautiful to him, but I think Chuuya probably was the first person that Dazai looked at and thought "I don't want him to die", just because Chuuya is so full of passion and life.

Actually, I think he'd even find it ugly, to see or even consider Chuuya lifeless, because he thinks Chuuya is the most beautiful thing with how alive he is.

Am I making sense?

People tend to forget that Dazai didn't always want a double suicide. This idea randomly popped into his head in the first episodes of the 1st season and yeah. So i dont think 16 Dazai would be thinking about a double suicide with Chuuya.

+ i just think that he doesn't even want a double suicide at all. It seems like a way to deter everyone's attention from his actual thoughts, since not once his 'double suicide' talks were taken seriously and are usually shown as something 'comedic'.

But i also don't think Dazai wants Chuuya to die simply because Chuuya was partially a reason Dazai decided not to give up on his own life. In Fifteen, Dazai was interested in the way Chuuya was holding onto the life he barely ever had or could call his. They literally had that whole 'so the suicidal maniac doesn't want to die anymore?' talk.

So i feel like Chuuya makes Dazai want to try living, so there's no reason for him to want to cut Chuuya's own life short in any way.

[shesnake]

Crows cast on the set of Shadow and Bone season 2 (2023).

[luvrbones]

i just wanna see jespers reaction to wylan telling him how he ended up in the barrel

[sarcasmismydefaultmode]

Oh boy, my WIPs folder is the definition of chaos. I mean, technically, there are four separate sub-folders...and sub-folders within sub-folders...

Now, I originally organised it thus several years ago to try and streamline my work and prioritise works with sequels into later 'groups' folders. Now I rarely write for those fandoms so those works likely won't be written but never say never, which is why I keep them around.

So, work titles in my 'Group 1' folder that I am actively working on. These are multi-fandom so for the sake of efficacy, I'll add the fandom to the titles:

Resurgam (MCU)

The Soo Legacy (SWTOR/Star Wars)

Ego Operor Quis Volo (MCU)

The Long Night (MCU/Star Wars crossover)

Morpheus (Star Wars)

Blood Aria (Twilight)

New Dawn (Star Wars)

Strictly Business (Sandman)

His Rebel Heart (Star Wars/Grishaverse crossover)

Hands (Andor)

Project Starbird (Andor)

Written By the Victors (Grishaverse)

I don't know many writers so if anyone wants to partake, feel free!

wip title game

tagged by @astromechs ; thank you!

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

These are all Syril/Dedra, obviously. Some are mostly completed one-shots, others are halfway-completed one-shots, others still are ongoing multichapters. Some are silly; some are serious. Regardless, something's written for all of them!

Latrodectra

Imperial Matrimony

The Two Longest Letters

Focus

An Altered State

Given Your Reputation

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS

Oleander

Burning Without Flame

Kindling

MORE RANDOM FIC

I don't know enough people to tag that many writers! I'll tag: @lighttailoring, @air-mechanical, @dilf-din, @sarcasmismydefaultmode, @livelaughleia... that's everyone I know who posts their writing on here, I think?

[i-can-read-to-him]

The Wesper Fic Club's Author Spotlight is a post series that aims to feature two to three fic authors a month, randomly selected from a pool of names put forth on our server. The authors are then asked to answer three interview questions, select up to five of their fics for us to feature, and finally, recommend three fics by others in the fandom.

(Note: Our spotlighted fics are not limited to Wesper, though they tend to be a central pairing in most of our authors' featured works.)

This week, we are putting a spotlight on Blackpearl's writing!

Socials: @magicandpizza (Tumblr) | Blackpearl (AO3)

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Part One: Author Interview

Q: When did you first start writing? What keeps you going today?

A: I honestly don’t remember when I started writing, but I was very young. I have vague memories of writing some little stories inspired by Beatrix Potter, and at one point I was convinced I was going to write the fifth Harry Potter book. I don’t recall anything else about that one apart from the title - Harry Potter and the Silver Snitch. What was the plot? Who knows.  My first serious fandom was Pirates of the Caribbean, followed by Spooks and BBC Sherlock. I had some of those fanfics published on AO3, but they’ve long since been orphaned. I then didn’t write anything for years and years until I fell into the Six of Crows fandom. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Q: Have you had a chance to interact with the SAB cast? Tell us about your experience(s)?

A: I’ve been lucky enough to meet Jack Wolfe a few times by stage-dooring at Next to Normal, once at the Donmar and three times at Wyndhams. He’s such a genuine, down-to-earth person who really loves his fans. And his eyelashes? Rude. I also met Kit Young after his show Influence. It was about two days after the cancellation announcement and we had a chat about that, as well as what had drawn him to doing a magic show. He was very kind and generous with his time. I’m attending Into The Fold 2 next year - it’ll be my first ever convention so I’m excited for that and the opportunity to meet some more of the cast!

Q: What’s something you wish you could write, but don’t think you ever will?

A: I really wish I was one of those authors who could craft incredible and intricate plot lines, but I never have been and I don’t think I ever will be. I’d love to be able to write a heist or something complicated like that, but all my attempts are half-hearted at best. I should probably just stick to what I do best: fluff and smut.

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Part Two: Selected Works

Don't Do Sadness

Mature | 3.1K (Complete) | Wesper 5+1, Wylan Van Eck and his trauma, Violence, Extremely dubious consent (not Wesper)

Blackpearl says: Mind the tags on this one. I really wanted to explore Wylan’s trauma at different ages and how he might cope with it, and also take a step away from the usual stuff I write. I’m very pleased with how this one turned out.

Sky Full of Stars

Explicit | 10.2K (Complete) | Wesper   Famous/celebrity AU, Wylan is a musician, Jesper is an actor, mixed media fic

Blackpearl says: This was an idea I had percolating for a while, and I wanted to play around with writing different kinds of media. I feel this one is a bit under-appreciated but that’s fine, I had fun writing it.

We Keep This Dream Together

Mature | 33.1K (Complete) | Wesper  Coffee shop/university AU, Loosely based on the UK education system, Wesper-centric featuring background Helnik and Kanej, Found Family

Blackpearl says: Who doesn’t love a coffee shop AU? This was very self-indulgent, but I had so much fun with it I’m working on a sequel!

Folding 

Teen | 2.6K (Complete) | Wesper  Jesper’s gambling addiction, Post-canon, Hurt/comfort

Blackpearl says: I don’t think Jesper’s gambling addiction gets addressed enough, and I wanted to explore what it might look like post-canon. 

Tie Me Up

Explicit | 1.7K (Complete) | Wesper Shameless smut, Light bondage, Light dom/sub, bottom!Wylan, top!Jesper

Blackpearl says: It wouldn’t be me without a smut fic, and this is one of my favourites. Featuring slightly subby Jesper and slightly mean Wylan and a tie that neither of them will ever look at the same again.

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Part Three: Author's Recs

i’d marry you with paper rings by MaudeAlise

Teen | 11.3K (Complete) | Wesper, Helnik, Kanej Fluff, Established Relationship, Post-Canon, Marriage Proposal

Blackpearl says: Just 11k words of Wylan and Jesper being stupidly in love and wanting to marry each other. This fic makes me grin like an idiot every time I love it. Also just a general shout out to everything that MaudeAlise writes. I’m obsessed with them. 

Obvious Lovebirds by perculiarjuliar 

Teen | 11.6K (Complete) | Wesper, Helnik, minor Kanej POV Multiple, Fluff, Heartbeats, Holding Hands, Hickeys, Kissing

Blackpearl says: Six different outsider perspectives of Wylan and Jesper’s relationship. I love fics like this, and this author did such a great job of getting into the heads of the different characters. 

Keep You Safe by @aphroditestummyrolls

Mature | 42.3K (Complete) | Wesper, Helnik, Kanej, Crows & Colm Post-Canon, Book & Show, Canon Divergence, Protective Crows

Blackpearl says: Six months post-canon in an alternate universe where Jesper took the jurda parem, and Matthias lives. Colm Fahey comes looking for his son. This fic is so so so good and made me feel so many things. I love the deep dive in Jesper and Colm’s relationship, as well as Jesper and Wylan’s. Just perfect.

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[simplydifficultme]

Uhm what now ?? Actually Q&A ???