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[ruffboijuliaburnsides]

for the ask request: burgundy and emerald, definitely

excuse how dare y'all <3 <3 <3 i love you too Gryph <3

[eleanorfenyx]

For the ask game:

What is the perfect environment for you to write in?

Do you prefer to write AUs, canon divergence, or canon-compliant fic?

Is there a trope you haven’t written yet but really want to?

What is your most underrated fic?

What is a line/scene you’re really proud of? Give us the DVD commentary for that scene.

What’s your favorite minor character you’ve written?

♥ Thank you for sending something back! Also in order of asking (and with the numbers of the asks fixed as promised lol):

(here's the link to the askgame for anyone curious)

5: Perfect environment to write in? - I wish I could say it's something nice and healthy-sounding like at my desk with a cup of hot chocolate yada yada yada but it is, unfortunately, in the dark in the middle of the night writing furiously on my phone to get my insomnia to be quiet and let me sleep. There's just something about that perfect storm of circumstances that leads me to bang out thousands of words at a time, thumbs flying, even if I'm super stuck every time I open my laptop when I could get so much more done so much faster if my brain would cooperate. So weird!

9: AU's vs. canon divergence vs. canon-compliant? - I've written all three and I really love them all in different ways at different times, but I think my favorite right now is AU's. I've been doing ones inspired by other media as well as just straight AU's (i.e. my Pacific Rim 3zun-centric AU vs. my ensemble/multiship 90's Strip Mall AU) and they're both super fun. I really really love getting to the point where I feel like I know characters well enough that I feel like I can pluck them up out of their source material and redesign their world to something new. Plus I get a really big kick out of people commenting that my characterization still feels realistic to them even when the circumstances are so different from canon.

12: A trope I haven't written but want to? - I think I'd really like to do something with identity porn/mistaken identity/shenanigans. I'm a big fan of miscommunication (done well, not just to draw things out unnecessarily [I have noped out of so many dramas for committing this crime against my sensibilities]) and I think that identity shenanigans can play into that really well. I read a lot of them and I think they're really fun, so I think I'd enjoy doing that sometime. Either that or mind-reading stuff like Cherry Magic AU's and the like, that also seems like such a good time.

16: My most underrated fic? - Hmm it's a bit of a tough choice. I think right now I feel like my ongoing 3zun-centric Pacific Rim AU 'Soldier, Poet, King' isn't getting nearly as much attention as I'd thought it might when I first started writing it. Pacific Rim AU's used to be everywhere back in the day and people ate that shit up like it was candy, and I suppose I'd expected that same excitement to still be around because why wouldn't people be excited about giant love-powered robots fighting aliens? I also started writing it while there was still a lot of really active buzz about Xiran Jay Zhao's fantastic 'Iron Widow', so the timing felt right and I'm really proud of what I've done for it so far, but alack alas it (feels like it) is going largely ignored. (Even accounting for the fact that 3zun is a much less popular ship than Wangxian, it still feels weirdly quiet)

18: A line/scene that I'm proud of and some commentary for it? - Two years ago almost to the day, I wrote/posted some of my first fic for CQL. It's a relatively short re-imagining of the Jingshi scene in episode 43, when Wei Wuxian is realizing that if he has no one else he still has Lan Wangji, and he comes in out of the cold to sit with his zhiji. They have a brief conversation about the time Lan Wangji spent waiting for Wei Wuxian and mourning him, and have this brief exchange:

“What if I had never come back?” [Wei Ying] whispers and the quiet heartbreak that shatters through Lan Zhan’s stoic facade steals his breath straight out of his lungs.

“I would have hoped for another lifetime together to be kinder to us.”

I'm still really proud of this even though it's so simple and I've written just shy of 800k other words, according to my AO3 stats. I think it really sums up Lan Wangji and his love for Wei Wuxian. If given no other choice but to wait then that's what he'll do, and he would have done it hoping that he and Wei Wuxian would be given another chance one day, because one lifetime just was not going to be enough. Like it would have hurt and he would have been in mourning until the moment of their unknown second chance arrived - and probably after too - but he would have seen no choice but to wait and hope. I feel like I hit the core of Lan Wangji's characterization (in the ways I want to write him, anyway) so it still colors everything I do with him in it.

20: Favorite minor character I've written? - MO. XUANYU. But particularly my Mo Xuanyu from my time-travel fix-it universe that was begun in my first ever longfic and has now spiralled outward into a much bigger universe than I'd originally thought it would. So basically Mo Xuanyu in this universe had the chance to grow up in Koi Tower from a young age, but a Koi Tower in which Jin Zixuan is the Sect Leader and Jin Guangshan is already dead. So he gets a very large, loving family who supports him and loves him for his oddities and his gender fuckery - that is 100% my self-projection - based solely on the fact that he was known in canon for wearing makeup. Like I took that and RAN with it, and now in my universe he's essentially a full-time feminine cross-dresser, though he identifies as both masculine and feminine and isn't too fussed about picking one or the other. He's everything I wish my gender fuckery could be, and I love him and want all good things for him, so I'm very attached to him. The very close runner up is my Lan Jingyi, both in that universe and in a more canon-compliant setting, so I feel like it's no wonder I got it in my head that they should be together in my fix-it universe lol.

[naomiknight-17]

Scarlet Gryphon requested "Tim Loaf" and I am completely sure this is exactly what they meant

I am raising money to fix my broken oven, click here to see how you can get a doodle!

[greenmaneheart]

Jovial ~

A little icon of my mascot :D

[thegildedacorn]

November 2024 Rough Trade - Terminus (Sign-ups End on November 15)

[wolfythewitch]

Hestia commission for @scarlet-gryphon!

[shimaen]

The rescue mission is going on track

Merry Chrisler to my giftee @scarlet-gryphon !!

#MESecretSanta23 #moshang

[wangxianficrecs]

Follower Recs

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Hello, here to rec a fic! I really enjoy Scarlet_Gryphon's writing style and this one has my greatest weakness, time travel! @ladyunderthemolehill

The Echoes of that News Ring Loud

by Scarlet_Gryphon (@scarlet-gryphon)

T, 111k, Nie Brothers

Summary: Nie Mingjue never wanted to say goodbye. Nie Huaisang never got to say goodbye. One desperate choice leads to a thousand new ones. (Or, the Nie brothers save the cultivation world [and themselves] through time travel, unlikely allies, and adopting far too many martial siblings.)

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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

[houseoflibra]

Saint Seiya: Dark Wing Chapter 31: The Surplice's Memories

Page 1

Eulalia: - Scarlet Needle Antares Kick!!

Page 2

Page 3

Minos: - Ghwah!!

Page 4

Minos: - (What…?) - (My consciousness…) - (…as Minos, the Celestial Noble Star Gryphon…) - (My soul is becoming unstable…?!)

Page 5

Page 6

Minos: - (At this rate,) - (it won't be just my cosmo that will disappear. My soul will too…!) - Damn you… damn you!!

Page 7

Minos: - (No!) - (I refuse to accept it!)

Eulalia: - (Is that…) - (…the Gryphon Surplice?)

Page 8

Eulalia: - What an ominous cosmo…!

Minos: - My cosmo as a specter… I can still fight, - even if all I have left is my soul! - Yes, I have the perfect solution… - I captured Pandora and Necromancer before coming here.

Page 9

Minos: - I will be fine if I take their cosmo!

Pages 10 + 11

Eulalia: - No, wait!!

Minos: - Hahahah! Yes! - Those two are indeed ready, - just waiting for me, aren't they?

Page 12

Minos: - (Oh, Lady Pandora!) - (And you, Necromancer!)

Page 13

Minos: - (Give me your cosmo!!)

Yoruhime: - Celestial Noble Star Gryphon, - so you were shamefully defeated by the Scorpio Gold Saint, weren't you?

Page 14

Minos: - Defeated?! - If I will take your cosmo and go back to that vessel, this time I won't!

Yoruhime: - This time…?

Page 15

Minos: - Whaaa?!

Charlotte: - (Sigh…) - As warriors of the gods, - our strong beliefs and loyalty afford us great cosmo.

Page 16

Charlotte: - You were defeated by a Saint, - reduced to a mere soul, - and fled so shamelessly that you possessed that surplice. - Is that really what one of the Three Judges, close aids to Lord Hades, is supposed to look like?

Minos: - Damn you… - You lowly Necromancer - dare to address me, your superior, in such a manner?!

Charlotte: - Mort Resurrection!!

Page 17

Page 18

Minos: - What?! You were able to clear my cosmo threads - with a cosmo like yours?!

Charlotte: - You are currently nothing more than an ancient soul possessing a surplice... - You are like a vengeful spirit who possesses nothing - of the noble will of the Gryphon or any loyalty to Lord Hades!

Page 19

Charlotte: - You are not my enemy!!

Minos: - Grrr!!

Yoruhime: - You miserable soul, - risen in a twisted resurrection by an abhorrent power!

Page 20

Yoruhime: - By my hand, - may you rest in peace - once more.

Page 21

Minos: - This cosmo… - Is it soothing me and showing me compassion?…

Page 22

Yoruhime: - You will eventually be awakened again by a strong will. - Until then, - slumber peacefully among dreams of the night.

Minos: - (This cosmo feels like) - (a quiet and gentle night…)

Page 23

Minos: - (Forgive me… Lady Pandora.) - (I will go back to sleep now.)

Page 24

Charlotte: - In the end, he had a gentle cosmo, didn't he?

Yoruhime: - It appears that this surplice was used - to summon the most violent and cruel memories of the Celestial Noble Star Gryphon.

Charlotte: - The surplice… - …has memories?

Page 25

Yoruhime: - Perhaps surplices and cloths alike - harbor the memories and souls of those who wear them? - Maybe… - they can even transcend space-time or dimensions.

Charlotte: - Yeah… - maybe.

Yoruhime: - But it's still too early to relax, - Charlie.

Page 26

Yoruhime: - The cosmo barrier around the school is getting stronger.

Charlotte: - Huh?! - Then that means... - ...the Gryphon wasn't behind these incidents after all…

Yoruhime: - *nod*

?: - Well done, well done!

Page 27

Seirim: - Pandora, I didn't expect you to have - a cosmo technique like that!

Yoruhime: - So you're the one who used the Gryphon's surplice - to cause these incidents?

Seirim: - Yup! - (That was me!)

Page 28

Seirim: - I am a Clown of Lord Demiurgos, - one of the Four Horsemen, the "King of Diamonds", Seirim. - I am the one who was entrusted with conducting this "story", - the "Witch".

Page 29

Yoruhime: - (She called herself a Clown of Demiurgos…) - (They're completely unknown to specters and saints alike.) - (They're a formidable enemy…!)

Charlotte: - If I defeat you, - this barrier will be lifted, right?

Page 30

Seirim: - Ohh! - Despite appearances, you're unexpectedly aggressive, huh? - *giggle giggle* - Ok, sure! - I'll let you fight me, - little Charlotte!

Page 31

Yoruhime: - (Charlie hasn't been awake for very long,) - (and her cosmo was also considerably depleted breaking free of Gryphon's threads…) - (Shoichiro and the others aren't responding either.) - (Something must have happened to them.)

Page 32

Yoruhime: - (Harpy was supposed to lead the battle but she's out too.)

Zhu: - Yaaah!! - Jeez! - It's still standing?!

Yoruhime: - (And Sphinx) - (is also being kept out by the barrier.) - (The female Gold Saint was fighting against Gryphon…)

Page 33

Yoruhime: - (As for the other Gold Saint,) - (we should assume that he was also dealt with somehow.) - (And this was all…) - (…this Witch's doing!)

Page 34

Seirim: - *giggle giggle*

To be continued…

[valevod]

I had a megaman obsession 3 years ago and decided to redraw my ocs as i was lookin thru my old sketchbooks. The one on the left is called smth like Sound Woman,also has an artistic name (Scarlet Parrbot), a DJ who despite having to be loud during work is a little awkward and quiet. On the right is smth like Tool Man or idk, a park ranger bot filled with pockets for tools. He's nasty and egocentric, ready to correct you at any time.

And some even older ocs i recently redesigned. They are all around 7 years old !

Korbin is the demon fella, Eljin is the birdman guy, Fannie is the gryphon and Azazel is the angel guy :)

[halffizzbin]

@abbylee-here @scarlet-gryphon AMAZING NEWS, found the Baby again today and did not rest until I got the angle on her big front eyes. BEHOLD:

(Formally identifying her is turning out to be rough because the females in the Habronattus genus all look the same, and people selling them as pets give them random names that don’t refer to their species at all lol but my best guess is Habronattus hirsutus)

[mintywolf]

A Long Road Home - Page 40 Author Notes

Page 40

She culled the Karens. ;)

Also alas Imogen can’t use Mage Hand to get things off high shelves at work because some customer would complain. Probably Esther Hayes.

In Ye Olden Times when the theory of humors in disease was still prevalent (debunked with the advent of germ theory in the 1850s but the practices based on it remained in common use until the late 19th century* ) the first treatment given to a patient would be to rid them of “excess” humors by bloodletting and inducing vomiting, doubtless rendering an already miserable person even moreso. Leeches, fire cupping, or a lancet were used for the former, and mustardseed or antimonials (made with the toxic metal antimony :[ ) were used for the latter. Mustardseed was also used to make poultices for sore throats and respiratory ailments. Licorice was used for sore throats and itchy skin. Baths from epsom salts or oatmeal were (and are) used to relieve the itchiness from rash-causing diseases like the one the town is currently experiencing.** Quinine was actually mostly used for malaria so one person is confused about what’s going around. Belladonna (aka deadly nightshade), although toxic, actually had some effectiveness as a preventative for scarlet fever if taken early after exposure. And laudanum, as I have mentioned before, was used for everything. So there’s some context for all the assorted shopping lists bombarding Imogen over the first three panels.

(* which I mention because Exandria’s technological level as of C3 seems to be early Industrial Era, although my Gelvaan aesthetic also has some 1880s and 1930s elements. And magical healing seems to be reserved for the privileged, given the high cost of healing potions, how many strings the relatively-anonymous Bells Hells had to pull to get help for Laudna, and the number of people who seem genuinely surprised when FCG offers them healing out of kindness. Most people probably rely on home remedies.)

** which hasn’t been made obvious yet but it will on the next page. You can see some suggestion of the eponymous scarlet on Imogen’s neck in the bottom left panel though.

So a long time and several fandoms ago a friend used to give me a hard time about my over-reliance on melodramatic Victorian novel disease as a plot device (specifically, targeting the heroine — or her best beloved — with it) so I imposed a rule on myself that I could only deploy it once per fandom (with the assumption that I’d have a different audience every time) and it had to drive the story forward. And friends, the time has come.

But I mean, come on. I couldn’t hang that gun on the wall and not have it go off and hit one of them.

This fandom’s enthusiasm for sickfics and whump in general has relaxed my stance a bit though. Before coming here I didn’t realize it was an entire genre and moreover, one that seems to target Imogen almost exclusively. If I had I might have leaned towards the alternative I also considered where Imogen tries futilely to convince an angry mob that obviously Laudna didn’t curse the town with a plague if she has it too. But then they’d be on the run before she had a chance to recover (you know, like after she got resurrected no I’m not still salty about it*** ) which isn’t a very satisfying chapter end. But fear not, this is all reciprocated in a later chapter.

A common thread I’ve noticed in sick Imogen fics though is that Laudna always seems to be much more calm and reassuring about it than she should be, haha. Imogen is the only thing in the world she genuinely cares about and she’s already half convinced that she’s always just a few missteps away from losing her forever. She’d be panicking.

(*** this is a lie. Also you know what else I’m still mad about? That she didn’t get that lil gryphon toy!! She clearly wanted it, she went in looking for a toy because she was feeling vulnerable and childlike and wanted the comfort of something simple intended to make a child happy. (Which is even more clear now since she was in the same regressive emotional state then as she has been recently after Ashton ate the lava shard, which she coped with by making another doll.) Fearne bought it and totally forgot about it. :( We could have had another meat-named doll character this entire time!!!

[naomiknight-17]

@scarlet-gryphon requested Leon Biscuits

And I am sure that this is exactly what they meant. Also I got a bit carried away

I like cats and I like cookies, what can I say

[greenmaneheart]

New mascot!~

Her name is Jovial. She's cheerful and optimistic, hence the name.

She also has an adoptive sister, named Stellar. They’re pretty close.

I'll be posting Stella's ref very soon.

[auburnlaughter]

tagged by @adhdavinci (thank you!). I happened to be on my computer when I got tagged, so excellent timing (I have a bunch of these types of games that I was tagged in way back that I wanted to do and I just haven't gotten around to them because whenever I remember them, I'm busy).

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

Poul gasped, then let out a shaky breath.

Okay, eight people. Let's see. @supernovasilence @post-and-out @aparticularbandit @sourb0i @anachronismstellar @somefishycat @scarlet-gryphon @kalira

No pressure on the tagging of course. It's just if you'd find it fun

[artistsfuneral]

@scarlet-gryphon said: "Jaskier had about five minutes before Geralt returned, and he still couldn't explain the presence of the duck."

Technically the witcher had seen him in far more precarious situations, far less clothed and much more hungover than he currently found himself to be. But- but there never had been a duck before. Partially because Jaskier couldn't figure out, not even now when the damned thing was sitting on his chest, why on earth anyone would ever want a duck in the bedroom at all, partially because he was aware of Geralt's distinct fear of dislike for birds. A dislike the witcher would have to overcome one way or another, given the fact that Jaskier was bound to the bed by his hands and therefore unable to ban the feathered voyeur himself. It certainly would be an interesting morning...

Send me the first sentence to a fic and I will write the next... 5ish?