#she was one of my first true blorbos that stuck with me

[emotargaryen]

every so often i realize that my url could be seen as a red flag but then im like thats not my problem

[pearwaldorf]

I am finished with S2 of Arcane and I am so very, very well fed. The first season was good, but the second season hit it out of the park.

This probably makes me a terrible person, but I didn't find Jayce all that interesting until really bad things started happening to him 😂. I just don't find plucky young optimistic characters particularly compelling, sorry! But S2 Jayce is delicious. I'm not much of a whump fan normally*, but he's much more entertaining when he's a little (or a lot) fucked up.

(Also this season was just 🙏🏼for all the thirsty bisexuals. I don't understand how everybody got hotter, but I am so not complaining.)

I was also pretty whatever about Jayvik in S1, but S2 makes it much, much more interesting. All the weird fun shit you can do with body manipulation and what have you. I'm glad y'all Jayvik folk got an emotionally satisfying ending.

I really loved what they did with all the fucked-up body and cosmic horror stuff. I wish I had more to say about it other than "Fuck yeah", but oh well.

I remain absolutely delighted by every single female character in this show. (Jinx still sometimes comes across as Target-quality Harley Quinn but I think that's just inevitable at a point.) There are so few shows that treat female characters as this nuanced and interior, which is even more impressive when the cast is this big. And they're all so messy and fucked-up, g o d.

Cait and Mel both remain my blorbos, to absolutely nobody's surprise. I have a lot of feelings about daughters wrestling with the high expectations mothers put on them, especially when it comes to pressure to excel. (I'm an immigrant kid, I never said I was original.)

(Also Cait makes autocracy look good. Cancel me for this if you must, but it's true.)

And that fight with Ambessa at the end? *chefkiss* Love me some battles with badass ladies, especially when two of them team up.

One of the things I've always appreciated about Arcane is the fights feel well-thought out. (They feel respectably difficult considering everybody is, uh, a character in a fighting game.) Mel uses her shield to keep Ambessa's sword from Cait's face, as much as she can. Obviously Cait can't do anything defensive or offensive at this point, but she's still looking for anything to give herself an advantage. So she tears the runes from Ambessa's armor. That's exactly how I would expect her to act given what I know about her**.

Mel. Mellllllllll. My fierce, incredible Mel. I love everything about her arc and would kill many people to get a story about how she navigates being the military and political head of Noxus.

(I was pretty whatever about her and Jayce*** but when he looks at her and says "Nobody could ever stop you from doing what you want to do"? OK fine, you get it.)

I was not expecting a Cait/Vi sex scene but I'm real glad we got one. A++ for having it in a prison cell because they couldn't keep their hands off each other. The gays won real good this season and I am grateful.

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* From a person who has an "attractive man suffering" tag, yes I know it's weird.

** Details matter. The other thing that stuck out to me is how Piano Kid pulls Vi's Formerly Drunkard Enforcer Friend out of the railgun chair. Even though it's time-sensitive, he still takes the time to do it as carefully as he's able.

*** There are many m/f ships I don't get but simply have to trust in the judgement of the female character. I call it "the Delenn factor" after the character in B5.

[sincerely-sofie]

Twig is my response to replaying PMD2 for the nth time and getting upset with how dry the Hero feels in comparison to the other characters! I’m really enjoying how she’s turning out, so I thought I’d share a little bit about my blorbo OC in case anyone reading my silly little comics is interested.

She’s a charmander— the reason for this is less because that’s what an internet quiz told me the personality I wanted for her would be, and more because the thought of “haha what if the leaf lizard’s bestie turned into fire lizard” grabbed me by the throat and would not release me until I declared it to be official.

The flame at the end of her tail is supposed to resemble a maple leaf in autumn as an additional nod to her grass-type buddies.

She nicknamed her partner, a mudkip, Kip. Kip the mudkip. She panicked and now she’s stuck calling him this because he absolutely loves it.

(Kip had a huge crush on her throughout their entire apprenticeship at the guild. She has no inkling that this was ever a thing. Grovyle's unable to believe someone would ever like him in a romantic way and Twig is no different.)

The gal's just a horrible little shambling mess of neuroses exclusively kept intact by the fear of submitting to the mortifying ordeal of being known.

She’s 12-ish by the first chapter of the game and is just barely entering her 20s by the end of the post-game.

While she doesn't realize this thanks to her amnesia, Grovyle grew up way too fast in order to keep her alive, and she felt awful about this in the Dark Future. She tried to be as helpful as possible to take the burden off of his shoulders— or at least as helpful as an eight-year-old could be to a teenage magical gecko. Seven years later, by the start of the game, neither of them had an actual childhood despite both of their efforts to provide that for the other.

As a result of the previous bullet point, despite not being cognizant of the reasoning behind it, Twig has a thing about being a burden. She is convinced she is an awful burden on everyone at all times, and she is constantly scrambling to be sufficiently valuable in order to cancel out this burdensomeness— and she does this without ever even considering the idea that she could be a positive presence. She can only be neutral at best and negative at worst— in her eyes, at least.

(Are there therapists in Treasure Town? Asking for a friend)

Grovyle named her Twig! She had a human name at one point, but she never told it to Grovyle after running away from the hidden bunker of humans she once called home. With all her memories of her past erased, including those of her original name, it’s lost to time.

She's almost completely unable to read at the start of the game, and is only able to recognize a handful of footprint runes: Time, Avoid, Future, Past, Travel, Passage, Gear, Twig, Grovyle, and Celebi. She's weirded out by being able to read the name on Grovyle's wanted poster and ferret out that he’s wanted for stealing time gears without help.

(She learned these by trying to read the plans that Grovyle and Celebi would write in the dirt as they navigated the Dark Future and plotted out their rebellion.)

She jokingly stanned Grovyle before Dusknoir's true colors were revealed as a way to teasingly bug Kip, who didn't think it was funny to stan a criminal, even ironically. After chapter 16 and beyond it is no longer remotely ironic.

After the events of the post-game, Kip gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pursue his childhood dream of being a cartographer. Twig encouraged him to jump on the opportunity, even if it meant them being apart for a time, and he reluctantly set off on a years-long expedition without her. They miss each other dearly, but they have become the ultimate pen pals and they’re keeping their local post offices in business with their individual correspondence alone.

Twig gets a bee in her bonnet one day about evolving and storms off to Luminous Spring to get it done. For some reason— perhaps a lingering distortion of time or space clinging to her— her evolution into a charmeleon is incomplete. She grew a little taller, lost some baby fat, and has a bit of a nubby lil horn, but she hasn’t got the height or coloring of a typical charmeleon. In addition to this, all your scars are meant to vanish along with your old form when you evolve, but one in particular on her right arm remained unchanged. The scar doesn’t bother her, but it does weird her out that it didn’t go away. She doesn’t even remember where she got it, so it’s not like it's special or anything… right? It kind of looks like a handprint. Weird.

She ends up getting a house in a place called Verdant Village just north of Treasure Town and doing odd jobs to keep the money coming in— she doesn’t take many exploration gigs because it’s not the same without Kip— and makes herself a nice life there.

(She has a family consisting of a gallade, gardevoir, and little ralts kid as next-door neighbors. The gardevoir could smell Twig’s rancid shambling-mess-of-neuroses vibes from a mile away and has made it a point to regularly try to get her to open up. Twig will absolutely not open up because she doesn’t know how to go about explaining her problems when they're centered around how she’s a former human originating from an alternate future that no longer exists, and that she spent a while being antagonized by the god of nightmares before he was blasted into the ether by the ruler of space and promptly disappeared, never to be seen again. There’s a lot to unpack there and she honestly would rather throw out the whole suitcase than deal with it.)

She was feeling nostalgic one day and decided to go crawl the mystery dungeon at Mount Travail, where she encounters an amnesiac Darkrai hiding in the bushes to avoid the fighting types prevalent in the area. After very awkwardly attempting to threaten him despite the increasing urge to just turn tail and run, it became clear to Twig that he remembered nothing but his name, and he didn't seem all that intent on world domination anymore. She couldn’t help but be suspicious of him regardless, but disguises her wariness as concern and gives him a place to stay at her house so that she can ensure he doesn't remember who he was and what his goals were before his memory was erased.

Thus begins the "And They Were Roommates" arc of Twig's life, where the plot swings rapidly back and forth between her comically desperate efforts to keep the origin of 82.9% of her mental illnesses from learning anything about his past, feign normalcy to bystanders when she goes to the market with a being of myths and legends trailing after her, and keep The Bad Thoughts from taking over while also trying to figure out how to explain to her friends what she's been up to for the past few months.

Shenanigans ensue. Friendships are tested and strengthened. Long-avoided conversations are had. Twig is, mortifyingly, understood. Healing is found and time keeps marching on.

(Also Darkrai ends up nicknamed Ark for similar reasons to Kip being nicknamed Kip. Thought I'd just sneak that in here.)

[pinkprimrose05]

character asks bc other anon was a coward: blade

HAJFTOVNWHYFAGDYSDNTJ

General opinion/How much I care about them: Ren Blade Yingxing my beloved beloathed depressed miserable angsty bastard aaaaaaa-

This man, oh my god. This edgy mess is somehow the second fastest blorbo to be coined as such in my blorbo-having history, and I think that alone says a lot. But even if not, he has his special little spot for being: 1) my first HSR fave, 2) my current main (the gameplay is ridiculously fun holy shit), and 3) the reason I downloaded the game at all (shoutout to Bronya, of course, but it was mainly Ren).

Also I really like the fact that he's genuinely batshit insane. An unapologetic menace to the galaxies. He can be so unhinged and evil sometimes, and that's a new flavor of fave in my collection. Did I mention the story doesn't try to redeem him at all? Because it's true! Extremely uncommon win on the hyv writers' part there; doubly so because they manage to balance this aspect with the subtle gap moe they love to give to all their stoic characters.

Yes. Ren is simultaneously edginess incarnate and a tired grandpa that sucks with words and doesn't know shit about technology. Oh and he keeps getting roped into Situations by his colleagues- and goes along with them all the time! The dude was literally asked to pose for a movie cover and he just. did that. No questions asked. Nothing.

I care about him a very normal amount. He's so neat and- oh my god I forgot to mention the aesthetic. Black/blue/red/gold is such a banger color scheme. He also has a spider lily motif and that looks very cool! And the pretty ribbon on the back of his coat is a 10/10 design choice. His only problem is that the game keeps forgetting to edit his silly beta design sneakers out of splash art, and that the washed out jeans clash hard with the coat. But otherwise? Perfection. I could (and did) stare at him for hours on end.

A ship I love: Kafblade is one of those pairs that you can read as romantic or platonic with equal efficacy and I love that for it. They're partners in crime! There's a great sense of trust and faith between them! They're each other's guardian and tether and the one who understands them best and they're such an awesome dynamic, good lord.

Honorable mention goes to jingren for the old man yaoi potential to take the relationship in a very (bitter)sweet or very sad way. There's something to be explored here and I wish canon could give it consideration someday.

A non-romantic relationship that I love: Stellaron Hunter agenda!!! They're so awesome individually and as a group, and the comedy is just lovely. You have Ren wrangling two terribly reckless women because in some way, by some miracle, he happens to be the braincell holder among the three. You have him trailing after Kafka on one of her shopping sprees with a whole bunch of bags and coats, you have him going to an arcade with Silver Wolf because she wanted to show him this brand new game she's been talking about nonstop for four days, and you have him in an impromptu shooting session with them both because they wanted to make silly movie covers and needed an extra actor.

They're one small hilarious family and I adore them so so much, you have no idea. Can't wait until Sam and Elio make an appearance in the story so I get more fuel for shenanigans.

The NOTP: None here sir, as long as the ship is normal it's fine by me.

My biggest headcanon about them: Ren is autistic and you will pry this hc from my cold, dead hands. He's stuck in his own head 80% of the time. He doesn't do conversation at all. Back when he was still Yingxing, he used to spend so much time at the forge when inspiration struck him, to the point of tuning out everything until his friends physically dragged him out to touch grass. He's an autistic nerd through and through, and even several thousand deaths can't take that from him.

An idea for a fanfiction I would like to write/read about them: One idea I've been curious about lately is what would happen in a roleswap scenario, where the Astral Express crew find Ren before the Stellaron Hunters do. He may not make for a great archivist, his state of mind may be less-than-stellar, but it's interesting to imagine the dynamics between him and the crew- and hey, who doesn't love taking sad guys out of situations for a change?

I'm filing this concept for later, just in case. Who knows? The writing ghost visits when I least expect it.

Something that makes me think of them: Everything these days The flute, the sound of wind blowing, red spider lilies, and -to the immense detriment of my composure in public- mentions of the word blade in any context ever. Why gee, thanks for permanently altering my brain chemistry.

[toast-the-unknowing]

4, 5, and 14 🥰

a story idea you haven’t written yet

THERE'S OH SO MANY OF THEM, HELP, THEY HAVE ME OUTNUMBERED AND THEY DON'T LIKE HOW I HAVE TREATED THEM THE LAST MANY MONTHS.

At least, the ones I haven't finished yet outnumber me. In terms of things I haven't written at all, actually, I don't know that I have any? I'm keeping an eye out for new fic ideas because it feels weird to not have any new ideas in the hopper. Just don't tell the WIPs.

first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP

The stranger screams trouble as soon as Adam lays eyes on him.

(Girl, you know that stranger is Ronan.)

where do you get your inspiration?

Lately it's been a little thin on the ground, not gonna lie! But I figure that's a muscle that can be stretched and got back into shape. Or like, when people say a batter has a good eye? I'm wanting to train my inspiration eye again. And an eye is a muscle, right? Nailed it. This metaphor is flawless.

I love getting prompts from other fans. Events and exchanges can be fun, but I really love (and miss, with not having been active in an active fandom in a while) just the natural exchange of ideas? I remember reading a Community fic once where there was a throw away joke about Britta the Vampire Slayer and I left a comment like PLEASE CAN I WRITE THIS I WILL GIVE YOU CREDIT - that kind of thing is the best.

Also, I love an idea that comes from a question. I accidentally mistyped Adam's name once as "Adam Lynch" and initially went "lol like Adam would ever change his name" and then thought...well, I don't know, what would it take for me to find it plausible that he'd change his name? Can I sell that idea to myself?

My other favorite place to get ideas is when there's just one moment of something that gets stuck in your head and won't go away? I think there's three different fics in the LA verse that were inspired by throw away lines from other fics in the LA verse. The Boston verse was inspired by a joke in a true crime podcast. A friend of mine said she dropped her phone while reading on the treadmill and I was like "hm what if Ronan did that." I think it's like, when you're into a fandom and suddenly ~*~every song~*~ is about your blorbo (even when it doesn't actually fit at all)? Weird thoughts that get attached to characters and then turn into fics, I love that shit.

fic writer asks

[multi-fan-dom-madness]

OC: Mei Desyk SFW Alphabet

a little bit of a late entry for OC Sunday, but I am vibrating out of my skin with excitement over this OC, and have been since I created her

so without further ado, here is the SFW alphabet for Mei Desyk, a human woman who lives on Coruscant as a regular ol' mechanic and who happens to fall into a complicated relationship with Sawbones, CMO for the Wolfpack (and wonderful OC of @wizardofrozz to whom I am so grateful for, for letting me love on her blorbo with mine)

NSFW alphabet

A - Affection (how affectionate are they? How do they show affection?) 

Her top two love languages are words of affirmation and physical touch. If she’s not telling you how she feels, she’s giving you a hug or even just a comforting hand on the shoulder. She is cognizant that words and touch aren’t everyone’s thing, though, so she tries to get her affection across in other ways. (Keeping certain foods/drinks stocked, etc.)

B - Best friend (what would they be like as a best friend? How would the friendship start?) 

Mei as a best friend is your #1 ride or die, no questions asked. If you’ve stuck around long enough to be considered trustworthy and also have earned hers, it’ll take an act of the Maker herself to change that. Mei’s current best friend, Selene, she met by accident—in line at the grocery store, some asshole tried to bully Selene and Mei rocked his shit without even knowing this woman. Cue friendship of the century. 

C - Cuddles (do they like to cuddle? How would they cuddle?) 

Loves cuddles; does not like asking for cuddles, particularly when she needs them most. 

D - Domestic (Do they want to settle down? How are they at cooking and cleaning?)

Mei has...complicated feelings about settling down. She can keep a house in order, with only minimal struggle—her dad made sure she could live independently and not have to be dependent on a partner. That doesn’t mean she likes doing those things, and doesn’t want to be stuck doing them for someone else forever. But with the right partner, she could see herself settling down, sure. 

E - Ending (if they had to break up with their partner, how would they do it?) 

She’s rarely the one doing the ending; but if she has to, it’s in person, it’s informative (because she’s all too often left with questions after being broken up with), and it’s quick. 

F - Fiance(e) (how do they feel about commitment? How quick would they want to get married?) 

Commitment is a stickier question for Mei. She knows she can be...a lot, and that she’s not always the easiest to be with due to her tendencies to act up and to get tunnel vision. So a long-term, committed relationship has to be with someone who can handle her worst and appreciate her best.

G - Gentle (how gentle are they, both physically and emotionally?) 

She tends to be on the gentler side, especially emotionally. Perhaps it’s from being parentified at an early age and now, as an adult, having to watch her only parent slowly disappear under dementia, she really just wants her emotions to be treated as kindly as she handles others’. Physically though? She can handle her own hand-to-hand, if needed. 

H - Hugs (do they like hugs? How often do they do it? What are their hugs like?) 

Like with cuddles, Mei loves hugs. But she doesn’t have many people she is comfortable hugging: her dad, her best friend, and a long-term partner. When she does give hugs, they’re always warm and tight: you know exactly how much she cares every time her arms are around you. 

I - I love you (how fast do they say the L-word?)

She feels love for partners before she says it. Partly because she’s been burned in the past, she’s hesitant to be so open so quickly about her true feelings, so most of the time she waits for the other person to reach that point and initiate that conversation. (Until she meets someone cough Sawbones cough who is worse about feelings than she is, and then she’s first to say it.) 

J - Jealousy (how jealous do they get? What do they do when they’re jealous)

Mei can get pretty jealous, especially early on in relationships where they’ve not had many substantive conversations about what the relationship’s boundaries are, but she oscillates between acting petty about it and just letting it bottle up. But once the relationship is secure and she knows nothing is going to shake it, the things that used to make her jealous slide right off. 

K - Kisses (what are their kisses like? Where do they like to kiss you? Where do they like to be kissed?) 

Mei’s kisses are like fresh, cool water: you want to feel it everywhere. Her favorite spot to be kissed by a partner that isn’t her lips is her forehead. Her favorite spot to kiss partners tends to either be hands or shoulders. 

L - Little ones (how are they around children?)

Despite being an only child, Mei helped babysit some neighborhood kids when she was growing up, so she at least knows how kids work (attention spans, developmental stages, etc.). But now as an adult, who hasn’t interacted with kids much beyond making faces at them in line at the market, she’s a little rusty. However, she’s got a naturally caring streak, and would be great with kids given time. 

M - Morning (How are mornings spent with them?) 

Very much not a morning person, but she gets up early anyway to avoid seeing people at work for as long as possible. She tends to be the first person to the garage, so has become de facto MOD until the actual boss shows up. This also means that, most of the time, her schedule is self-set and there’s very few times where she’s at work past about 3pm (while her coworkers are there until 5 or later). On days off, she sleeps in as much as she can, burrowing into the covers or into the heat of her partner’s body. 

N - Night (How are nights spent with them?)

There was a period of Mei’s life where she spent every single night out, but she’s tired of that. These days, she’ll go out occasionally, but most nights she’s either spending time at her father’s, or at home watching some brainless holodrama while she cleans. If her partner is there, she spends most of the time with or around them; reading, fiddling with her bass guitar, etc. 

O - Open (When would they start revealing things about themselves? Do they say everything all at once or wait a while to reveal things slowly?)

Mei is not very open thanks to some very unfortunate early relationships where she said too much too soon. She’s fine sharing superficial details—how work was, latest gossip at work or with her friends, what she did over the weekend—but the meaningful stuff? The stuff she thinks about when she should be listening to the weekly debrief at work? Nah, you gotta work for that.

P - Patience (how easily angered are they?) 

Mei is...relatively patient. She jumps to conclusions often, which gets her in trouble when she snaps without needing to. But when it comes to actual anger? There’s only a few things that make her upset quickly and without fail. 1) Question her intelligence. This stems from some very bad experiences going to school as an individual with dyscalculia, especially when she expressed interest in mechanics. 2) Tell her how she should feel. Nothing will make her balk quite like saying “you should be grateful for what you have” because it invalidates what she’s actually feeling, and her dad certainly didn’t raise a woman willing to be talked over about her own feelings. 

Q - Quizzes (how much would they remember about you? Do they remember every detail you mention in passing, or do they kind of forget everything?) 

Somewhere in the middle. She’ll remember very obscure shit—if she sees you make a face after trying a new latte, she’ll make sure she never buys it for you and steers you away from that choice later on. But sometimes the bigger details slip through the cracks (birthdays, etc.). Doesn’t mean she doesn’t care; dates especially just have a hard time sticking in her brain.

R - Remember (what is their favorite moment in your relationship?)

She has two: one that’s genuinely sweet, and one that just makes her smile every time she thinks of it. 

Sweet- Well, it’s sweet in a very Sawbones way. She’d sliced her hand while at work, and her boss at the time (who was a raging dickwad) refused to let her go get medical care “because it doesn’t look that bad, and we’re behind schedule as it is.” So she sent a frantic text to Saw to help, that she couldn’t sew the wound up on her own (it was on her dominant hand). And he came, no questions asked. Patched her up in silence, and when he tied off the last stitch, he looked up at her through his eyelashes, and she knew right there that she trusted this man with her life. 

Smile- She bought buttplugs for her and for Sawbones, and they just happened to match (she totally didn’t get matching ones on purpose because she thought it was funny). When she brought them home and presented them to him, he laughed for several minutes on end, full on belly laughing, bent at the waist, couldn’t catch his breath kind of laughter. It’s a fond memory, and one that she thinks of often. 

S - Security (how protective are they? How would they protect you? How would they like to be protected?) 

Very protective, and becomes more so as her jealousy wanes. To her, there’s a difference. Jealousy feels hot and uncomfortable; protectiveness is cold and justified. Most of her partners have been folks she feels like she needs to protect, whether because she was the physically larger, more emotionally intelligent, more streetwise individual, or because she was their domme and that was her role. When she protects people, Mei has perfected the ice cold glare that says, Fuck around and find out, I dare you. She’s not afraid to swing at strangers. When she’s being protected, she wants essentially the same level of hotheadedness and devotedness. Sawbones literally fist-fighting an entire group because one of them grabbed her ass? She’d combust on the spot.

T - Try (how much effort would they put into dates, anniversaries, gifts, everyday tasks?) 

It depends on the partner. With most previous partners, she puts in about as much effort as she expects back, which is a decent amount. Maybe 60% effort? But when it comes to Sawbones, I think she puts in more effort at the beginning than he does, and she’s okay with that because she knows it’s a process for him. 

U - Ugly (what would be some bad habits of theirs?) 

She can become very dominated by her emotions, especially her desires, and it shuts off her rational brain. To the point that she can and has hurt the people she’s in relationships with because she pushes too far. In a word, “selfish” is how she describes this habit. 

V - Vanity (how concerned are they with their looks?) 

Moderate amount. It’s never bothered her if her friends get more attention at certain bars or anything, because her dad also raised her to put more self-worth in her abilities than her body. But when in a relationship, she does care (and likes to hear about) how much her partner finds her attractive. 

W - Whole (would they feel incomplete without you?)

Nah, she knows her worth.

X - Xtra (a random headcanon for them) 

When she focuses on something really hard, her tongue sticks out between her teeth and lips.

Y - Yuck (what are some things they wouldn’t like, either in general or in a partner?)

She’s not the neatest person, but she does like to keep an orderly house, so someone super disorganized or who doesn’t clean up after themselves is a no-go for her. (Please don’t perceive the pile of scrap metal she swears she’ll use someday.) She also cannot stand mouth-breathers (during the day; sleeping she’s like a rock and doesn’t care) or open-mouth chewers. 

Z - Zzz (what is a sleep habit of theirs?)

She sleeps on her front, one leg hiked up, and she’s a relatively deep sleeper. Takes a fair bit of effort to wake her up. This means that when she moves around in the night (which happens—she’s been known to crowd onto her partner’s side of the bed seeking cuddles in her sleep), her partner has a hard time getting her to move away or get up.

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[total-drama-brainrot]

i'm not entirely sure who the first merge boot would be: my options are cody owen and sierra (mostly the first two since i don't doubt cody would use any chance to get sierra eliminated). but, yeah i'll probably just keep owen.

see, i don't think duncan's "alliance" would pan out quite as well here considering the lack of teams, but hm. duncan and gwen in the serengeti (duncan - alejandro, tyler, courtney, gwen - heather, lindsay, herself?, heather/courtney? idk the voting here was weird - duncan) (i like to imagine them both stuck on one half of a cage while feral zeke is in the other because let's not have the guy steal the money in the finale, let's just bring him to rehab) and courtney on easter island is a tantalizing possibility. i could also swap duncan and courtney in that last paragraph without changing too much though.

there is definitely something to be said for keeping the "dives in front of the girl when the plane explodes" moment but i could keep that without heather having to be eliminated and just have chef do it instead. also, she just got un-bald do we really want her to do it again.

i think i might say tyler gets eliminated and then i'm gonna make it consists of alejandro and lindsay arguing about him and heather :/-ing. i don't know what this is how we will end it would consist of. maybe lindsay finally realizing the true extent of what alejandro did?

"you left bridgette stuck to a pole / robbed leshawna of her fabulous soul / made even courtney lose control?! (okay this lyric no longer fits as well but.)"

I. I can't believe I forgot about Cody. He's One Of My Blorbos From My Shows and I forgot about him completely. Throw that twink out pre-merge, have him eliminate himself just to get away from Sierra or something.

You're right about the Aleduncan alliance not having the same basis as canon since they never shared a team. The whole 'love triangle' situation is more than enough plot for Duncan anyway, so you could scrap the whole idea, and nothing of note would really change.

Duncan and Courtney are, as painful as it is to admit, pretty interchangeable as far as plot is concerned. Gwen is far too passive and reactive to function as a conflict generator/plot device (she was the reactive protagonist in Island, and the 'damsel love interest' in Action before her elimination; any conflict involving her is always generated by outside forces and Gwen just kind of reacts to it) so she'd have to be the first of the three to be eliminated, simply because there's not much reason to keep her around. She won't generate anything new for their subplot. But both Duncan and Courtney are proactive problem starters, so swapping their elimination order is fairly easy to do.

But this AU isn't about them, despite how much I've discussed them.

Having Tyler be the one eliminated in Drumheller makes more sense to me, simply because having him in the finale for the tiebreaker doesn't have as much tension as having Heather there would.

Think about it; you've got Tyler facing off against Alejandro in the tiebreaker (assuming Lindsay's the one who wins the cross-country challenge), he's just gonna throw the whole thing, right? He's either completely under Alejandro's thumb, or he's having his doubts thanks to his talk with Lindsay in Drumheller; either way he's throwing the tiebreaker to give the people he loves (both Alejandro and Lindsay) a chance at the million, because he's Tyler. He's chivalrous to a fault, and just earnest enough to care more about the people in his life than the money he could win.

Heather, on the other hand, is here to win. She and Lindsay still have their unsteady 'alliance'- I think there's something poetic about the two of them actually taking each other to the finale this time, since that's exactly what Heather promised in Island, even if she never intended to upkeep it- fuelled by their shared goal of getting Alejandro eliminated. The tiebreaker is her final shot at achieving this goal; the penultimate conflict between herself and Alejandro that the whole season has been leading up to.

Having her eliminated in Drumheller takes all of that plot momentum and throws it out of the window. All of that build up for a face off against the 'villains', gone. In the least satisfactory way possible.

And then you could either have Lindsay and Alejandro duke it out in the actual final challenge, OR you could have Heather beat him and have Lindsay and Heather play a game of 'Who can backstab the other first?'- because there's no trust between the two of them, and Lindsay (as guileless as she is) is wise to Heather's tricks. I personally think, from a narrative standpoint, that having Alejandro and Lindsay as the finalists is the better idea; the whole AU revolves around their conflict, after all.

Meanwhile, Tyler's in the peanut gallery stands, (probably) charred and wheelchair bound, conflicted over which finalist he should be supporting. Does he remain loyal to Alejandro, despite the doubt creeping in? Or does he, now free from the other's rose-tinted influence, wisen up to the fact that he's been played and support his ex instead? Do any of the ex-contestants manage to convince him that Alejandro sabotaged his relationship with Lindsay as a ploy to win the competition?

(For 'This Is How We Will End It', you could just replace Courtney with Tyler, since he's essentially just done with Tyler what he did to Courtney in canon- that is, "lose control" by catching feelings. That could be how Lindsay realises that Alejandro holds no real affections for Tyler, he just sees the jock's feelings towards him as a boon in the competition. And she'd be furious, because he sabotaged her relationship and stole her boyfriend, yet he doesn't even really love Tyler at all?)

[residentdormouse]

Hello! This is your chance to answer this ask with whatever you'd like to talk about right now! Whether that be a story you're working on, something you're excited or worried about, your current book/movie/binge-watch, or a cool bit of trivia you think the world should know.

AHHH Thank you!! 🥰🥺😭 This is incredibly nice, and I can't help but feel like I may have an underwhelming response.

I have found myself in a bit of a creative slump since finishing ‘Diving’. As with any good hyperfix, I never expected to get so caught up in the Stand and its characters (it's all from Glen, let's be honest), and now I'm in year two of being solidly focused on this. One of my longest fixes to date (maybe second to GoT - for Tyrion - but that also had new content coming out regularly to help extend).

Honestly, I expected to get to the end of ‘Diving’ and be ready to move on to the next thing. Hell, I was scared I was going to lose focus and not even finish it, as much as I told myself I would not do that. Usually, my fixes last a year, and while I don’t put my blorbos in a wet box on the side of the road, they usually fall into the background and pop in on occasion, while another fix takes the forefront. But these guys are not leaving my head. Canon and OC alike. They don’t want to leave, and to be fair, I love them and don’t want to see them go. So I don't know if that means another sequel, spin off, a bunch of one shots.... I truly don't know.

With the Stand still taking the wheel (again blaming Glen), I had started into a cross. Picking up at the end of ‘Diving’ and heading to a new world (True Blood) but I'm struggling on the idea still. I have a few pages typed up, and one sketch*. But it's hard to find motivation. And again, being up front, I don’t know if it's even worth it. I know, I know. Write for me. But it is incredibly frustrating to work in a vacuum, and it's hard to push myself when I know there's little chance of anybody reading it and getting enjoyment from it. Truth be told, I almost stopped writing Spiral until an out of the blue amazing comment from @anths-girl gave me the motivation to go on. I am eternally grateful to her, and she has no idea of the positive effect that had on me.

And that’s where I’m at. Until motivation hits me right, I've just been reworking Spiral chapter by chapter (damn the typos... What was I doing?!? You’re being sloppy, girl. Just sloppy.) I also started sketching out a few of my favorite scenes from it, although I feel my skill level is nowhere near where I'd like it to be. Unfortunately, all of this, it's just not scratching the itch the way writing it the first time did.

So here I am. Stuck in limbo. All I can really do is hope inspiration strikes me soon, and in the meantime, I'll keep putzing about in an attempt to find something that strikes me during the process.

But that truly is a shitty ramble in response to a very lovely offer to have the floor to speak openly. So, while it is in no way finished, I guess I can share the sketch I’ve been working on for that cross over I mentioned. I’m still not happy with it, but I feel bad just coming to this with my nonsense, and offering up nothing but sad words.

*True Blood/Stand/OC nonsense below the cut

I need to get the features adjusted, especially on Sam, but it's getting there. Slowly. So slowly...

[bigfan-fanfic]

Top 10 DC Characters?

In no particular order...

Bruce Wayne - Love him, rich and hot and generally nice, though his head gets stuck in his ass soooooo much. I have so much to say about him and to analyze. But like, if he needs a sugar baby who won't ask questions, I'm right here babe.

Silver St. Cloud - So, Silver St. Cloud was a blorbo of mine for a while when I first found out about her. She's an environmentalist and socialite, I believe, but what makes her relevant is that she dated Bruce Wayne for a while, and she, totally on her own, FIGURES OUT that he's Batman. Like, this is something that only people on par with Barbara Gordon and Tim Drake have figured out on their own. And she remarkably understands the logical drawbacks of being with a vigilante and she fuckin books it. She breaks up with Bruce, and doesn't reveal his secret. And Bruce like, for a while, rethinks his whole life because this one lady figured him out, down to the core, and said no, I don't want to be involved. I love her, and I want to see more of herrrrrrr. (In my own fanfic before tumblr, I made her the new owner of STAR Labs and responsible for releasing an ionizing wave that would be harmless to people but turns any Kryptonite on Earth into Kryptonium, a more-stable isotope that is non-lethal to Kryptonians and only weaken them)

Clark Kent - People tend to forget just how incredibly intelligent Clark is, and the fact that so many stories deal with "what would happen if Superman was EVIL?" just convinces me that so many people don't get him. Like, yeah, he's powerful, and he's moral, but every day he chooses to be a good person and not overstep and like, that's something so incredible. He's like, a god, but was raised human, and likes being human. He's Clark before he's Superman or even Kal-El.

Dick Grayson - He's hot, yes, but his true superpower is people-skills. He's so friendly and kind, just by nature, that he ends up having people willing to fight for him wherever he goes.

Barbara Gordon - Barbara is amazing, whether as Batgirl or as Oracle. I feel like often she gets placed to the side, but really she ends up being like, the perfect mission control for the whole League, imo. Though she gets treated like shit by the narrative very often.

Barry Allen - THE hot scientist with a heart of gold (usually). I like Barry a lot, and it seems like people tend to forget that he's actually super intelligent.

Alan Scott - Gay, an icon, and another Green Lantern not affiliated with the corps! Although he's got a weakness to the color green.

Pamela Isley - The particular awesomeness of Poison Ivy is that she's one of the most sympathetic of the extremists of Batman's rogue's gallery, so it makes sense why she's the one that so often appears as a hero - I like her character as an anti-hero much more than Harley Quinn

Siegfried - I know nothing about him other than he was a Wonder Woman love interest and he's incredibly, amazingly hot. I love him.

Kyle Rayner - He's the Green Lantern done right - he becomes the Lantern on his own, and is the first one imo to do the whole Willpower thing correctly - he's not completely fearless, he just has the willpower to move past his own fear. I like his ability to more creatively use the Lantern ring because he's an artist with an imagination and not yet another boring space cop. But then, of course, he ends up being part of the boring-ass space cop group.

[blorbologist]

26 and 37

26. You must swap one nat 1 die roll with one nat 20 die roll. They must both be from the main campaigns, but can be cross-campaign. Which are they, and why?

Ooooof, how dare you make me have to do research for this? :vvv

See, I'm torn between making them both of similar magnitude or pulling a cheap shot and taking a nat 20 that didn't matter much to swap for a nat 1 that did matter.

Okay, let's take two important ones and make them both WORSE, because I'm a bastard

For the 1 -> 20, hmmm let's say Caleb trying to persuade Essek to pretty please let him invite mages that want to kill them both onto this expedition. Gives Liam his bisexual maelstrom early, and it would so badly fuck with their dynamics. Would Caleb backshift into bad coping mechanisms? Would Essek call him out? Would Trent or Astrid or Wulf try to kill either of them? What the fuck! Just about one of the few times I think a high roll would actually be worse for everyone involved. Another that came to mind was Kaylie's initial confrontation with Scanlan. (A good one to turn into a 20 would be the Sunken Tomb 'Sam immediately jokes it's instant death and SIKE IT IS', because it would change SO MUCH of the campaign.)

For the 20 -> 1 :) well since you got me in an angsty mood :) True Love's Nat 20 made into True Love's Nat 1. Even if the roll had succeeded over-all thanks to the other contributions, I can't see Percy coming back if he didn't hear Vex specifically. We'd have Molly in Campaign 1. Vex might do something reckless and Briarwoods-esque to bring him back (winks loudly at Nova). Completely derail everything. (Of course, there's any number of villain Nat 20s turning into Nat 1s would likely be huge net positives, but I don't feel like researching any more than I already have :V)

37. You have to take a 16 hour road trip with one NPC from each campaign (all at once, ie, three other people). The NPCs cannot shorten the road trip in any way and the road trip must be via driving but you can do it in two 8 hour days and share a motel room if you'd like. Who do you pick?

... I read this as PC at first FUCK ME. Including the two I'd written for PCs + why I didnt pick my fav under the cut as a lil bonus.

a) Essek. Okay, hear me out: yes he is a war criminal, but he's also dealt with trying to get grant money and as someone procrastinating on two deadlines rn? mood. I'd poke his brain for hours about blasphemous magic if I could. Also, soup is cheap for when we're done for the day and an easy meal. I think he'd either be a perfectionist backseat driver or a panicky one and either way the research talk is worth it to me ok. I'll survive.

b) Vesper - never said specials were excluded, and she IS in her 30s by this point in the timeline! We have no clue about her personality, but I think, given her family, she's likely very smart and good conversation. Has money to throw at any problems we run into. Also allows me to get De Blorbo lore without wanting to throttle her dad. If she doesn't count because she's a Baby in the oneshot she's in, I guess Cass? Look I adore her but I worry she's never driven a day in her life + trauma + is a noble would make her a pain in the ass to be stuck in a car with, BUT I love her enough I'd take it in stride For Her.

c) Imahara Joe. Look! He's a vibe! If anything goes wrong he can fix it! He can keep conversation going! I have huge Mythbusters nostalgia!

a) Caleb! I think we could talk about our respective cats for hours, or I'd hope we could, and talk magic-science, and Keen Mind would make keeping rest stops/the time/maps/etc. in mind a breeze. And if he isn't up to talk he would just! be quiet! and read a book! which is good for my stress brain! And if both of us are overstimmed that's a 50% vote on getting people to turn the music fucking down so we can relax.

b) Fjord, actually? He's captn' Tusktooth, he knows how to organize a voyage and what goes into sharing cramped quarters with other people for hours on end and how to keep distracted and not kill eachother. Plus, Star Razor is a convenient flashlight if ever. His music selection would also likely be fun to sing as a whole car together - shanties or good roadtrip songs.

c) oufff this one's hard.

(I'm Not saying Percy because so help me I'd want to throttle him within the hour. Beau would bully me I think. Both are also so hot and my favs I think I'd die and be incapable of driving. Laudna would also make Noises with her Existing and I think I'd lose my marbles, sorry babe :c)

[nomadicrusalka]

okay lets see...

7, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 30 for ask game!

Haha that's so many!! Lmao here we go

7. Which battle was your favorite

Mannnn that's a hard question I think one that really got stuck in my mind (other than the VotE in first part naruto, classic) was the Kakashi vs Obito battle in shippuden? I just love how they intertwined the battle sequences with their childhood memories and all these little moments where they made the same moves,,, the freaking hand signs moment hhhnnnnggg so perfect that changed me

11. how would you wear your headband

I thinkkk I would wear it like Naruto and Sasuke? I'm a basic bitch but that just seems like the most practical and comfortable way to keep the hair out of my face

13. what ninjas would you want as your teammates

Hm,,, it would be good to have Sakura on my team because of the healing lol maybe Hinata as well because she's a sweetheart? Or Shino because he's just cute and wouldn't bring in the trouble like Naruto and Sasuke dfdsjsd

14. which opening is your favorite

I actually don't have any TOT mostly because I'm purely a manga reader and then I just really didn't want to bother with watching the whole anime other than listening/watching to the popular amvs on youtube that changed my music tastes forever lmao

16. how long have you been into naruto

I've always been a Naruto fan,,, I have those blurry memories of watching it on tv on I think,,, jetix channel lmao and then I properly came back to it in primary school and was reading the manga while the chapters were coming out! =D so yeah just my whole life I can't get rid of it TT_TT

18. favorite character

I want to say Naruto I really do,,, he's such a ball of sunshine and he's my biggest blorbo, but-- I'm gonna stop myself from doing that and say Sasori instead. There's something about the pathetic old men that gets to me,,, Madara is a close second for that very reason it's just that Sasori was the first one

19. least favorite character

For my whole primary school years I hated Sakura with passion (probably because she was the epitome of girly things) but I grew out of that now and while she's definitely not a favourite of mine I see her pluses and what she brought to the naruto series and really enjoy doing art of her! I don't really think I have any other character from naruto that I would actively dislike or count as "least favourite" tho in my whole naruto career haha I just feel meh/neutral for most of them tbh

20. do you own any naruto merch

I don't anymore! I once upon a time wanted to do an Itachi cosplay tho so I bought a long black wig (which I still have but can't count as merch lol) and his necklace but I lost it a long time ago ):

30. otp

,,,dang I don't know dfjs?? Like I have a lot of pairings in naruto that I enjoy but not one true otp?? I think I'm just a huge fan of most Naruto/anyone pairings haha (Naruto/Sasuke and canon Naruto/Hinata being on the lowest spectrums of that,,,) I really like Naruto/Gaara because of their deeper connections and similarities but I also enjoy Naruto/Ino (but also a huge fan of Sakura/Ino for her,,,) because their personalities create fun opportunities and issues to read about and explore both in modern AUs and canon world! =D

That was a long one haha Thank you so much for all the questions!!

The naruto ask games that the questions are from <3

[rulerofthedistortionworld]

hey yeah can I get a number 4,a number 7,a 12 with cheese,a 15 with bacon and extra dip and a bag full of 26 please? thanks

We’re outta bacon sorry

(also this got a little out of hand so I’ll use a read more)

4. Past labels you’ve used?

Now I’m not sure if this meant sexual identities or pronouns so I’ll answer for both

Pronouns: just she/her, I only came into my gender identity last August

Sexuality: straight and cis ofc, and I identified as bi for a while before realizing I’m pan (people don’t start bi/pan discourse, I’ve seen so many rancid takes)

7. What made you pick your name?

So Winter came from old warrior cats rps actually. I was like 11 when I started on this site and had to make up ocs to use. Winterbreeze was the first one (warriors fans know that isn’t a possible name but shut up it was pretty) and since it was a habit to call people by the prefix of the first oc in their username (since most people would have A Lot and just have a couple of them listed)

So I got shortnamed to Winter and it stuck perhaps too well

12. Favorite flag(s) visually?

Tbh I love my own flags a lot (though I like the pan flag more when it’s a bit desaturated) and aroflux is so pretty (reminds me of apples :))

Sapphic flag so fucking pretty hehe flowers and the queerplatonic also very pretty bc rosy maple moth colors :)

Demiboy has really pretty shades of blue too! Same with the achilean/mlm flag :0 And genderqueer and intersex! Okay I’ll stop there-

26. Some characters you headcanon as LGBT+?

Oh so many-

Since the darkest dungeon hyperfixation be strong, I’ll use them

(I could also use my dd ocs but those little blorbos can stay in my head unless y’all want them <3)

First off, you can drag lesbian vestal from my cold dead hands, she deserves a gf

I read like one (1) fic where Dismas was trans and I’m in love with the hc

(In a similar vein, my gf has a trans occultist oc and god she’s so smart shout out to that gay little hippie of an occultist)

Oh yeah and the one genderfluid abom fic, that’s so true, it’s what they deserve

All clowns are gay and that includes our little jester boy here

I love reymas and I am against Wife Erasure so bi Reynauld is so very true

And I’ll leave off with saying that my friend and gf call my personal estate (the one with all my little blorbos) the sapphic estate bc half of the ships are wlw lol