#shmoopy love posting

[zeena-athena]

Hearing about several of my mutuals and/or friends getting married/engaged/stepping into a long term partnership has me so giddy to finally be able to do that with my partner 🥰

Both of us have talked multiple times and very frankly about the future, what we want to do with our lives, what our goals are, etc., and from those conversations, getting to live with them so far, and the support and love we both show each other i know it's gonna be a wonderful future ☺���

frankly speaking, at this point it's just a matter of whose gonna go first I think xD I keep joking we're gonna be one of those couples that proposes at the same time, it's just gonna come down to who goes down on one knee first xD whether it be him or myself, that's yet to be shown.

[bam-monsterhospital]

season 2 of "My Adventures with Superman" is so heckin good.

i spent an embarrassing amount of time and energy starting to write a sleep-deprived mini-essay that was basically just me gushing about this show's version of Brainiac, before all my energy left and i had to go sleep. Long story short, i really enjoy this show ouo

[cassandragemini]

snow day （´㉨｀*）

[jhkfan123]

because i liked a boy | tom blyth

pairing: tom blyth x actress!reader

in which: tom rushes to your house after you get threats and insults online due to speculations of a relationship between the two of you

warnings: mentions and readings of death threats, mentions of slut shaming

wc: 1.1k (sorry it's a little short!)

a/n: IT'S MY POOKIE WOOKIE DOOKIE COOKIE SHMOOPIE TOM'S BIRTHDAY! no but seriously happy birthday tom! bros birthday is approximately ONE week from mine. bro's a little aquarius like me. thank you so much for being the best tom! the age gap grows more everyday 🥰...anyway here is a little cute fic for you guys just for his bday!

in less than 24 hours they were everywhere. in your dm's, in tagged posts, on every platform.

it was only yesterday that you and tom decided to go out in public together. for the first time. and now you realized maybe it should be your last, for a while anyway.

the two of you kept a quiet relationship for about a month, up until yesterday, when you decided going out for coffee might be nice. and sure enough, there were cameras.

first fan accounts found it. then smaller celebrity news accounts found it. then e! news found it. soon variety found it. this had all happened while you were asleep. and when you woke up, it wasn't just the posts that you found. you had dm's. lots of them. each one a little worse than the one before it.

you weren't sure what to do. so you picked up your phone and dialed tom.

the phone rung for what felt like ages. then you finally heard the comforting voice you had been longing for.

"hello?" you heard. you felt a little lighter already.

"hi tom. look, i know you're not really on social media but, i just really need you to come over because i need to talk to you." you breathed heavily getting the sentence out as you now began to panic.

"i'll be there in ten minutes. love you." you heard. he hung up the phone. you sat down on the couch in your apartment. you had an urge to go on your phone, but you knew what awaited you. so you resisted.

about ten minutes later, you heard a knock on the door. right on time.

he only knocked out of politeness, he had a key to your unit. "oh, good you're here." you said. he looked at you with a warm smile.

"i came as fast as possible." he came over to the couch and pressed a kiss to your forehead. he sat down next to you and you embraced his warmth. "now, what's wrong." he said. you leaned into his lap.

"so, remember how we went out for coffee yesterday?" you asked. he nodded quickly. "so obviously there were photos which is fine and we expected that but, once people really started noticing, i started getting...threats." you handed him your phone which was now open to your instagram dm's.

"oh, no." he sighed with sadness. "i'm so sorry. do you mind if i look?" he asked. you nodded again. he took your phone from your hand and began to scroll. you saw the screen and began to read along.

user: who tf are you back tf off you slut

_user_: didn't you just break up with your other boyfriend you whore chill share him with us

user123: if you don't back off i'm going to jump you. mwah

tomblythlover: if you hurt him you die

each one got progressively worse. you saw tom's face shift with each one. he pulled you closer to him as he handed your phone back to you. you felt a single tear stream down your face, which tom immediately noticed.

"hey, hey hey." he wiped your tear with his thumb. "you didn't do anything wrong, ok? ignore every single one. you are not a slut, not a whore, not anything they claim you are. and, there is nothing you can do to stop these people. you just have to ignore it." he pulled you closer and tighter to him. "turn your dm's off. or limit them at least." he suggested. "get off social media. take a walk." he kept listing out ideas.

"you're right. i didn't even think of that, turning my dm's off." you said. you went into your settings and turned it off.

"what would you do without me." he joked, sarcastically. you hit him in his leg, the only place you could reach. you smiled up at him.

"i can't believe people would do this." you spoke. it was unbelievable. how could you say something like that to someone you don't even know?

"i can. people are crazy online. they stay stuff that they wouldn't ever say to your face. that's why i stay off of it." he responded.

"should i like, put a statement out?" you questioned. you often looked up to tom for advice about these things. he was only a year older than you, well, almost two, but he seemed much wiser. you loved the way you could look to him for anything.

"only if you want to, love." he assured you. "but if you think it will help you, then do it. do it for yourself, not for others." he continued.

"maybe i should. i will." you opened your story camera and began to type. you thought about what you wanted to say. then your mind drew a blank. "what should i say?" you asked, staring blankly at your screen.

"just say that no one is allowed to insult you just because we're dating, and that you need time to figure out what you are going to do next." he said. he thought of solutions with such ease, taking no time to think. ideas flowed like water out of his mouth. when you finished, you showed it to him, and with his approval, you added it to your story.

even though your dm's were turned off, you still hoped that people would stop attacking you in tagged posts, something that you couldn't stop no matter what.

"thank you, tom, for being here. i'd probably be lying in bed crying right now if it wasn't for you." he smiled down at you.

"i'll always put you first. i don't care what i'm doing. never be afraid to call me, even if i'm busy ok? i promise i'll help, any way i can. and please don't take anything they said to heart. you aren't any of those things, the only thing they got right is that you are my girlfriend." that made you laugh. "now, let's go do something to lift your mood." he pulled himself off the couch and soon helped you up as well. "where do you want to go?" he asked. you thought for a moment. you wanted to be somewhere quiet. with tom.

"i think just a walk around the neighborhood would be nice. no photos, no phones, just us?" you suggested.

"that's the best idea i've ever heard." he hugged you close. then he pressed his lips to yours in a soft kiss. he grabbed his keys from the entryway table, grabbed your hand, and walked out the door.

[fennecfics]

Cuphead Show! King Dice & Devil x Reader preferences (romantic):

Heyyyy I’m gonna be posting more x Reader stuff here. Also some words are censored because Tumblr is a meanie and won’t let me swear in my fanfiction-

The gender for (Y/n) is vague, but it does have menstrual cycle preferences mixed in, along with some talk about these two respecting pronouns and that jazz so, yeah.

Hope it’s a fun read, I might post more of these guys.

Being in a (romantic) relationship with The Devil would include:

• It’s actually hard for him to fall in love or even trust others, so it’ll take a while for him to say “I love you”.

• Though the first time he’ll ever say “I love you” (most likely after a few months of you two dating) it is immediately followed by a scrunch of the face and him going. “That was… strange..” 

• He forces you to live in Hell with him, and only lets you visit Earth on special occasions. Family stuff, friends, but other than that YOU’RE STAYING!!

• He’s so dramatic whenever he has to cut his nails. He’ll run away from you, or hide. Once, while trying to find him to cut his nails, you found him on the ceiling.

• Despite hating his nails being cut, he will literally beg you to paint his nails. He won't just do one color though, he likes to change it up a bit. Sometimes he'll ask for grey, gold, red, but he loves the black nail polish!

• Whenever he has to do stuff that he doesn’t want to do, he tries to argue that he’s the devil and because of that, you can’t tell him what to do.

• One of his favorite activities is burning bibles, so...you have to deal with being woken up to the smell of smoke at 3AM.

• He's still not fond with current technology, but he does seem to enjoy Netflix.

• Devil giving you weird pet names: Darlin', succub!tch, shmoopie, baby-cakes, cow-pie, and tortoise-pigeon (Being the main nickname).

• If you ever need to practice your makeup on someone, Devil won't mind. He likes how it makes him look.

• Surprisingly enough, this guy brushes his teeth regularly. He got them pearly whites. That, and he doesn't want to loose his sharp teeth, they're his favorite, apparently they make him look intimidating.

• Devil is a man of art, very therapeutic for him. He loves to paint, sometimes he’ll want you to pose for him. And he's actually quite quick when it comes to painting.

• Both you and Henchmen helping him whenever he basically gets electrocuted by the sweater. The two of you are practically the only people he trusts, with Dice being the third.

• He doesn't care what gender you are, or if you're trans. If you're still you, and if you're not lying about anything, he won't care. Along with that he also doesn’t KNOW anything about that stuff, so you probably gotta help if you want him to understand.

• Even though he's the devil, he would never want you to feel bad about yourself. He loves you unconditionally, he would kill anyone who makes you feel that way, steal their soul, eat it, then spit it back out ‘cause it’s clearly rotten!

• If you go through the menstrual cycle and are having bad cramps, he gets very…awkward. He’s not very affectionate with others so he has no idea how to comfort people. He’ll most likely just have some of his little demons looking after you for a few days.

• He tries to use correct pronouns, he mostly slips up though, and he won't realize. You just have to be there to correct him for him to actually notice.

Random example:

(He's showing you to someone)

"Yeah, she's really adorable, isn't she?"

"It's 'they'.”

"...AHHH!" *frustrated demon noises*

• He’s not frustrated at you or the fact you use different pronouns, he’s frustrated at himself for not doing it right. So don’t worry.

Being in a relationship with King Dice would include:

• Probably says “I love you” way too fast, and by that I mean on the first date. 

• If you wear makeup he’ll experiment with it whenever you’re asleep. (The masculine urge to wear your partner’s makeup)

• One of his favorite parts of your body happens to be your hands. He loves how perfectly they fit into his. Sometimes he’ll preform a type of show using his hand and your hand as the actors.

• If you go sit in the audience him during Roll The Dice. He'll immediately see you in the crowd and blush for the rest of the show.

• When he knows you're in the audience, he'll say this while announcing to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen! ..and (Y/n).." (he'll whisper your name under his breath, but loud enough for the microphone to pick it up.)

• King Dice ALSO giving you some (semi)weird pet names: Darling, fuzzy dice, you adorable gambler, my wild card, little poker, and pumpkin.

• The personification of drama. 

• Has a lot of gossip and info on the other famous people of Inkwell. Will tell you this gossip. You will listen. You have no choice-

• This man may seem like he knows how to do shit on his own, but he actually needs help with most things. Such as you having to help with this man's bow-tie every morning, because he just cannot figure it out for the life of him.

• Perfectionist, such a damn perfectionist. He won't go on with his day without him looking perfectly chipper, and he also spends hours in the shower. Really making sure to run up those water bills.

• A little sensitive about his age. If you ask him about it, he’ll say "that's not important" which is an oddly a creepy answer-

• If you wake up early, you'll find Dice in the bathroom just looking at himself in the mirror with a blank stare. If you actually enter the bathroom, he'll be so terrified that he jumps INTO the shower and closes the curtain to hide himself.

• He's mostly insecure about his pips, or dots. He knows he's getting old, because his color is fading. So...he buys lipstick to cover the faded coloring. But you smudged it once while he was kissing you, and he reacted like he was dying.

• He fiddles with his mustache when he's nervous and yet hates if tell him it makes him look like a villain.

• Much like his boss, if you go through the menstrual cycle he gets ungracefully awkward. But he tries to be very casual about it, despite his awkwardness being obvious as hell.

• ��Oh, it’s that week?” Silent for a second. “Do you need me to get you anything or ..no?”

• Will buy you everything you need. And since stuff like tampons were fairly new in the 1930s and therefore most likely a tad expensive, thankfully he does have the money for it.

• If reminded, will carry some on him for you. If reminded that is, I’m putting emphasis on “IF REMINDED” for a f—king reason! Guy’s on autopilot all day, he’s famous but also has pretty much everything done for him, and so he doesn’t have to think about much.

• If not reminded he will completely forget and therefore freak the hell out if asked if for some.

• Like The Devil, he has no idea what being Non-binary means, or Bisexual, or anything related to that. I’m not saying he’s straight….He’s not, he just doesn’t know there are words for stuff like that other than ‘homosexual’ and a few other words I can’t mention-

• So, he'll mess up a few times when trying to use the correct pronouns, except he'll correct himself very VERY quickly. 

• "He- THEY.. are my partner. I said they, of course I did. I would never say anything other than they.” Silence for a few seconds before then saying in a much more serious tone: “I said they.”

• He cares. He’s just stupid/j

[olderthannetfic]

Don't just go "write YA". 1. most YA is shit that sells itself based on girlbosses or bad sapphic rep, it's basically telling someone "give up on writing anything of quality and make slop for pigs". 2. no one reads YA outside of BookTok and tumblr users who recommend books to you not based on plot or quality but on "WLW WOC rep omg" so this is basically telling someone to give up on writing for a wider audience and just settle for writing for 10-25 year olds whose every post is #whatever-core #winning #booktokchallenge and 3. YA is for romance and shmoopy fluff and overwrought angst, not writing in other genres or writing that isn't about brunette Not Like Other Girls protag #54 angsting about her relatably distant parents and hot poorly written love interest. Some people want to write shit with plot and depth and YA is no place for that.

--

You know, I don't like YA, but I think this is a tad uncharitable.

[bumble-beel]

MY POOKIE BEARS BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY!! WAS CRAMMING WORK AND DIDNT POST

HES SO SHMOOPIE I LOVE HIM

[avelera]

A weird number of Dreamling fics I'm working on / posting lately have knock-down, drag-out arguments between Dream and Hob in them and I just want to say I swear it's not because I've got some vendetta against these two being cute and on the same page together.

I think it's just that I started writing a bunch of these fics in the aftermath of Giving Sanctuary, in which they're both shmoopy and head over heels in love, so writing a bunch of conflict between them was just a necessary palate cleanser and it's just a coincidence that they're all getting posted at the same time XD

[soapified]

weirdly specific soap mactavish headcanons!! for sfw for funsies

fem!reader

hehe my first (and probably last post) sorryy if the format is confusing im still learning 💔💔. mb if things don’t make sense or i didn’t say the correct name/spelling im bad at english lol

IM SORRYRYRYRY 😭😭

ugh i want him so bad

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sfw (wrote too much sorry)

words are his love language so if you play them correctly he WILL melt

loves giving and receiving compliments no matter how big or small

sliding him a few compliments at first will flabbergast this poor guy especially ones about his physique 🤭

his nose would twitch instead of him blushing

uses nicknames like “schnookums” “shmoopy” ironically especially to embarrass you in front of everybody else

sneaks in actual little nicknames for you and tries to be sneaky, ex. “love” “lassie/lass” “sweetheart” “sweet girl”

he thought he was being slick, he wasn’t and doesn’t know that

has earned a few snorts and furrowed eyebrows from the rest of them because of his antics lol

wants you to touch his hair but doesn’t wanna admit it (i am not sure if he has any tbh)

doesn’t have time to go to a barber anymore so he shaves and cuts his own hair

talks about his petite little mohawk and chews your ear off about it

“would you still love me if i shaved it off? not so beautiful anymore? arent i?!” he says, jokingly threatening to shave off the feeble strip of “mohawk” standing up in the middle of his scalp

wears Spider-Man pajamas every time he gets a chance

bought the shirt a smaller size so it’s tighter

enjoys it when you stare at his cute little Spider-Man shirt

listens to old white dad metal music and grossly adores radiohead

doesn’t admit he likes soft voices and black box recorder (our lana del rey coded sad girl king!!1!1)

“actually- i have sort of a kinship to the song creep 🤓” and his voice would thicken saying this

genuinely teared up to ‘high and dry’

his hands are very rough, his palms are slightly softer but it sometimes hurts holding them

has scars inside both of his palms

was weary of holding your hands at first because he knows how rough his hands are

does the thing where he strokes your hand with his thumb

is a bath man

has those bath trays that connect from end to end on the bathtub rim

has an arsenal of axe body spray on the tray

loves the brand philosophy because of the smell of the shower gels so he treats himself with a bottle after a long task

his one and only alternative is the dove cucumber soap bars

despises loofahs

tries to start with a cold bath but it’s too scared and then immediately starts to crank the faucet to the hot one

sings in the shower (..when he actually showers)

starts out quiet and hums but the longer it takes, the more it becomes a mini concert

sounds terrible when he sings radiohead

once tried to sing the last part of creep, his voice cracked, he knocked over a shampoo bottle on his foot, and started coughing and almost punched a hole in the shower because of the pain

tries to take cold showers and endures it unlike the bath

uses head and shoulders because he thinks his oily scalp is dandruff

doesn’t know that’s what makes his tiny mohawk flat

refuses to admit he has a skin care routine

“a what? well i barely use anything. very little.. yous gotta believe me!!1!1!1”

aftershave, retinol serum, tatcha moisturizer (he somehow accidentally bought it and was fuming because his military pension isn’t built for that)

uses the same bar of soap he uses for his body as a cleanser

also secretly has an amethyst roller (it constantly falls apart and cracked)

he has a king size bed all for himself

has a shit ton of pillows like a cocoon

bed smells like his own like scent but also a sickening amount of sauvage

never let go of his paw patrol blanket that he bought as a joke in like 2019 because it’s very warm and fluffy

surprisingly let’s you take up most of the space if you want and gives you the paw patrol blanket

used to be a mouth breather and snores so loud

throat used to be so dry and he was afraid of drinking orange juice because it stung

he thought his hoarse morning voice was hot (probably is)

doesn’t snore anymore because he got those sony headphones

he swears they’re magical (they’re really just expensive

he cherishes them and is very attached to them

once fell asleep to his usual playlist, woke up to lana del rey’s “cola”

has this one fluffy white persian cat plush toy that he named ‘goyangi’ but pronounces it horribly, also doesn’t know that it means ‘cat’

“go-YANG-gEE 🤓” and pronounced the actual G twice

“my cat is a SHE. 🙄🙄 she’s pretty little creature isnt she?”

when he’s too embarrassed to say it out loud his second name for it is “Hubert”

has had that thing since like 2014

okay that’s it byee 🫶🫶

might make a 2nd one with both sfw and nsfw

[boatheldtogetherwithducttape]

Uuuuhhhhh

I don't need an intro post but meh. I'm doing one anyways

🌑 Just call me Boat ig

🌒 I'm a minor 😃👍

🌓 I'm female but go crazy with the pronouns

🌔 I really just made this account so I could spectate but I guess I'm doing more than spectating rn so yeah

🌕 I just talk about my thoughts or stuff that happens in my life and I do want to post some art but personally I think it's all trash 😃👍

🌖 I like lots of stuff and most of the games I like I have never experienced playing cuz I'm a broke little rat

🌗 My hyperfixations:

- Mouthwashing

- Undertale

- TADC

- Art

- My OCs

- @emceedraws (I love you shmoopie <3)

- My fictional husbands

- Gay people

🌘 DNI PEOPLE WHO DONT PASS THE GENERAL VIBE CHECK

🌑 Yap to me all ya want pooks (about family friendly stuff alr no no-no stuff)

[ashers-selfships]

You know what idgaf about cringe anymore I'm gonna ramble about Onceler x my sona (Bonnie) (I think I posted my sona like a few days ago or so but I only recently came up with a name for them)

I drew Onceler for the first time on a Magma I did with a friend he's so SHMOOPY (also the little nicknames are what they call each other. Grins)

They have so much angst potential and I think that's made obvious in the song lyrics that I associate with them jdjejdjedb, I know I have more but these are the specific ones that have been on my mind lately

Bonnie has much more faith in the Onceler than the Lorax does, and as much as they like to pick on him they really believed in him and loved how passionate and optimistic he was and thought he could do good . So you can imagine how heartbroken they were when he broke his promise and started cutting down trees again oh my days

Also I had a cute little idea where like. Okay so all the thneeds are pink for some fucking reason even though not all the truffula trees are pink but I just write that off as him dyeing them for uniformity, BUT, at some point Onceler gives Bonnie a specially made yellow thneed (because they're Yellow) (also this definitely happens before he breaks his promise and is still hand-knitting the thneeds). Bonnie pretends like they think it's lame because the Lorax is there too but when it's just them and the Onceler, they get all sappy and thank him and hug him because it means a lot to them

And then That Happens thank you Sage

[annerbhp]

Leverage anon, an no worries I was definitely talking about the Leverage you’re talking about. :) and Harrison/Nate&Parker are my favs too!! They work so well together. (But if I have to pick one its Parker) do you have any Parker-centric fanfics you could recommend?

Oh, good! Well, fic recs....I would have to dig way back. I wonder how many of these fics still even exist somewhere. But here's a list I compiled way back when!

Gen Sync by alicamel  (Leverage, Parker) - sadly gone :(

The Green Light Job by halcyon_shift Eliot's going behind bars, Parker wants snacks, Hardison isn't helping, Sophie smells fear and Nate just wants a drink... Longish fic that feels like you are watching an ep. Fantastic points of view from all the characters, quirky, sarcastic fun, and our team at their absolute best: driving each other completely insane and loving every second of it. Lives on ffnet: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4902124/1/The-Green-Light-Job

We're All Mad Here by entangled_now. (Gen) Short and sweet and totally awesome. (And why am I so hopelessly inlove with Eliot's view of everyone? I just am.)

Falling by ijemanja (Parker, Sophie, gen) Ep-tag for The Second David Job.

How to Win Friends by scarletts_awry (Leverage, Hardison, Nate, Team) I love, love, love the Hardison voice in this fic. Everyone is at their absolute best.

An Unreliable Narrator by halcyon_shift (Gen, Nate) He doesn't think he's better than them... Great Nate POV of the team and his own motivations. Lives on on A03: https://archiveofourown.org/works/321678

'Wargames' Didn't Play Out Like This by aurora_novarum (Gen, Hardison) Hardison gets an unexpected close encounter with Area 52. Just so much fun. Tag to "The Three Days of the Hunter Job"

Honest When It Counts and it's sequel Conversations in a Holding Cell by lears_daughter . These are little Leverage/Lie To Me crossovers that are made of win. Gen. Lives on on A03: https://archiveofourown.org/works/191746

Parker/Hardison Freefall by wishfulaces (Leverage, Hardison/Parker) They got each other’s backs. Oh, man. Wonderful, wonderful Hardison voice and awesome Parker and even a Nate cameo for fun. Love this fic. It really gets Hardison/Parker without losing sight of who they are or succumbing to shmoopiness.

The Underwire Job by brown_betty and emeraldwoman  (Hardison/Parker) Parker decides she wants to have sex with Hardison, so what does she do? Enlists the incredibly reluctant Eliot as her expert. Together they turn it into a job that is absolutely hilarious. Parker is pitch perfect and the Eliot POV is just out of this world wonderful. Hilarious and stupendous all around.

Sometimes by circadienne (Hardison/Parker) Parker dates sometimes. Short, sweet, and the last line just nails it. Great Parker voice.

The Birthday Party Job by asimaiyat (Hardison, tiny smidge Hardison/Parker) Hardison bringing the scattered team back together for a very important event.

Delicate Dancing by weesta_fic (Leverage, Eliot, Sophie, Hardison/Parker) Short little look into the dynamics of all these characters. Sophie observing Eliot with Hardison and Parker. Very fun.

Sacred Union by impertinence  (Leverage, Parker/Hardison, Team) Parker and Hardison pretend to be married for a con. Oh, yes. The cliche of all cliches. But damn is the Parker voice in this just amazing, and the build up of Hardison and Parker, and the team's interference/encouragement/snark are just so well done. I love this fic. It lives on Ao3!: https://archiveofourown.org/works/107310

Understanding and Feeling by emily64cooper  (Leverage, Hardison/Parker) Parker doesn't understand what he's doing or why he's doing it, but she knows him well enough to understand that this is something he feels he has to do, so she makes no move to stop him. Wonderful post-'The Hot Potato Job' ficlet with all the confusion and hesitance and affection that we love about these two.

You, Me & The Weather by piecesofalice  (Leverage, Hardison/Parker) "Stop saying "How lost am I?" -Hawksley Workman, 'No Stillness & No Rain' Short and sweet. Parker and Hardison stuck in the rain hiding from bad guys, with bonus Hardison flashbacks. Really nice.

Hope that helps! And for dead links, I supposed we can try to find them somewhere else. Or simply mourn the passing of great fics into the great beyond. :(

[eemamminy-art]

Author Interview

Tagged by @allaganexarch!! 😊

Long post with many questions below the cut

1. how many works do you have on AO3?

Somehow... I have 50?? Wild to me, but I suppose I have had the account for 10 years so maybe that's not so strange.

2. what's your total AO3 word count?

142,785. I don't know if that's a lot or not, I tend to just write short oneshots because it's all I have patience for lol

3. what fandoms do you write for?

Anything that catches my interest really haha most of my fics at this point are FFXIV but.. so is most of my art, it's kind of had me in a chokehold for the last 6 years

4. what are your top five fics by kudos?

(all of the following are explicit btw, be careful if clicking the links. Just mind warnings and tags thanks :3)

Licking Wounds - FFXIV (Estinien/Aymeric) - 247 kudos I want to chock this up to just the fact that I wrote it in 2018 when there was next to nothing in the ship tag lol. After I wrote it I started writing a lot lot lot more (in longform rp mostly and then moved onto fic) and I feel like everything else I've written afterward is so much better!! It kind of irks me when people have said it's their favorite estimeric fic of mine, because it is far and away my least favorite thing I've written for the ship.

Say my name - FFXIV (Estinien/Aymeric) - 204 kudos This was honestly like my attempt 2 at the story I wanted to convey in Licking Wounds, but it's 10000% better please read this one instead 😂 Both this one and the previous one are meant to be the inception of their relationship immediately following the Through Fire and Blood canon short story.

Sleepless Night - FFXIV (Estinien/Aymeric) - 185 kudos I sort of revisited the idea in this one later too (Chipped Porcelain), but I'm still not 100% satisfied with it so I may return to this idea in a third fic one day. I do like it for the fact that it's not set during Heavensward, which was a first for me at the time! I love stormblood and as little of a role as Aymeric and Estinien have in it, I really really liked the tiny mentions of them and wanted to expand on it. They have so few scenes in 4.0 and 5.0 that it leaves a lot of room open for exploration of their relationship at that time!!

Long distance - FFXIV (Estinien/Aymeric) - 151 kudos I don't think on a technical/creative level I enjoy this fic much since I wrote it really quickly without much editing, but I love it in the sense that it was one of the first things I wrote while coming out of this notion that post-HW Estinien and Aymeric are exes/do not like each other/have beef/etc. That's a popular fanon for them based on how they interact in 5.X and 6.0 especially but I can't stand it and it frankly makes me really sad! It clicked for me that they could just have a long distance relationship and that suddenly opened up my eyes to all the potential stories they could have outside of the context of pre-canon or 3.X.

Vigil - FFXIV (Estinien/Aymeric) - 130 kudos This one was kind of a sequel to Licking Wounds actually, or at least I made reference to it in there! Kind of me facing my old writing that I didn't like very much. I feel a little embarrassed rereading this one because it's really shmoopy but that's kind of my style when I create anything so I should probably just embrace that!

5. do you respond to comments?

I try but I feel so weird about it!! 😭 I probably should at least say "thank you" but it feels like not enough when someone sends me some long thoughtful comment, so then I end up letting them sit and be like.. damn I should reply to this... I really appreciate every comment I get, it's just that I am not very confident in my writing and struggle to accept praise for it I think.

6. what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

No one ever said it would be this hard, I think is probably the angstiest one! I love angst but I love it in the sense that it amplifies the relief of having a happy ending follow it. This fic though I wrote during a really bad time in my life, and after I had felt kind of betrayed by a video game character who had been giving me some comfort back then 😂 I had lost my parents in 2013 and 2014 and found a great outlet for my grief in Fallout 4, particularly with Shaun and with Piper, and it felt like a gut punch that despite romancing her Piper was NOT on board with reuniting our little family lol. In hindsight uh no kidding she wasn't, but at the time I was like wow how could she do this to me!! 😭 So I wrote this little tiny ficlet on a fucking napkin on my break at work on Christmas Eve that year, since I was already sad anyway I thought, let's just wallow in this shall we? And then I transcribed it after I got home later.

7. what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I usually write happy endings so it's hard to decide. I think Benevolence probably stands out the most to me though, because it's a happy ending for Zenos which is something I crave every hour, every day, every week, since I played Endwalker 😂

8. do you get hate on fics?

Not to my face, though I've come across some subtweets about my lesbian au stuff quite a few times. I did get a weird anon hate on ao3 the other day though that sounded like a high schooler wrote it 😂 I just turned off anon comments though because I don't need people wasting my time to tell me they didn't like something I wrote

9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?

On occasion.. <:') it's always really romantic though, I love stuff that really focuses on emotional bonds and senses and just the intimacy of it all. I do find that people tend to like my works better when I dip into more raunchy stuff, but it's really rare that I have any desire to write smut like that.

10. do you write crossovers? what's the craziest one you've written?

So... okay idk if this counts, but my ex-gf and my ex-bestfriend and I had this LJ community where it was like a multi-universe rp but the rp was like, these random characters all writing on the same forum and being insufferable to one another 😂 it was so stupid but it was a lot of fun at the time!

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge, but I've had my art stolen quite a lot of times.

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! Or at least, it's been asked of me! I don't know if they did it in the end or not. I think it was for some of my estimeric fics? I was asked on twitter if it would be okay to translate it into chinese, since there is evidently a decent community for the ship with chinese fans!!

13. have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not exactly, though my partner gives me a lot of ideas for things to write or draw, and I've been helping my friend brainstorm a lot for a series they are working on!

14. what's your all-time favourite ship?

As if I could pick just one!! 😩 Well I think in recent years it's been obvious I adore Estinien/Aymeric, Fordola/Lyse, and Zenos/WoL (specifically meteor but other wols are also good sometimes, depends on the wol though). They all make me really happy.. I do a little finger touch and have a little giggle when I see them.. 🥺

15. what's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I think if I were to finish it, I would go back and redo it entirely, but I had a wip that I'd just barely started about Aymeric meeting Thordan face to face for the first time. I don't really want to go into much detail beyond that, but I really loved the concept and have wanted to go back and work on it for years, but I think I built it up too much in my head about how perfect I wanted it to be. But maybe someday!!!!

16. what are your writing strengths?

Characterization and specifically internal monolog/descriptions from character POV.

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

Dialog, especially when it comes to the fantasy ye olde english type of dialog, too much repetition and too much simple language. Run on sentences, like uh all of this post lmao.

18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I think it would be cool!! I speak like the most simplest amount of a second language so I don't think I'd be able to do it for a long time unless I had a lot of help, but I like the concept of it! I wanted for a long time to draw a short original lesbian comic and put out versions in both english and polish, but at this point the idea I had for it is a little too simple and my inspiration for it is a little too dim, but maybe one day I will attempt it!

19. first fandom you wrote for?

Probably either Inuyasha or Ranma 1/2, when I was like.. 12 or something 😂 If we're counting just what's on my ao3 though, my first fics were for Deus Ex (set somewhere between human revolution and the first game) though I have since orphaned them because I'm no longer comfortable with them.

20. favourite fic you've written?

I don't think I can narrow it down to just one!!

A port in a storm is without a doubt my favorite character study of Estinien pre-canon. It's in my lesbian au so it's not exactly how he would be, he's perhaps even more averse to other people in this universe, but it's I think a great example of his kind of frightened cat with their hackles raised demeanor. Plus it portrays really well the dynamic I love between Estinien and Aymeric, and also butch and femme identities.

Bewitched is another favorite, because it's another sort of character study but this time for Zenos. I really really liked the idea of Garleans being culturally conditioned to fear magic due to their inability to use it, and I liked exploring that in this fic, of making the warrior of light be terrifying and thus exceptional and noteworthy to Zenos, just for the fact that he's a healer.

Just Listen is probably the longest fic I've written both in terms of actual length and in terms of time I spent actively writing it. It was my way of working out my unhappiness with how the relationship between Aymeric and Estinien changed in canon while still trying to keep it relatively canon-compliant! It also was my way of showing just how complicated and messy they are, but unlike other fics I've read about the same sort of topic, I opted for love to triumph over all. If FFXIV has taught me anything, it's that even the worst and most hopeless of times and lowest of lows in relationships can still find happiness in the end with enough love and determination. 💛💛💛

Thanks for reading all this rambling if you did!!! I don't usually like to talk about or even acknowledge my fic so this was a good exercise in doing that. :3

Tagging: @4th-make-quail @notapaladin @salmonking @lesbxdyke @mariyekos @grahatini @randomsquirrel @sherribon @ladyramora and anyone who saw this and thought "hey, this looks like a lot of fun!" :3

[shurinnenation4ever]

Oh my, Shupookie-Chan…. Do you remember this moment? Heh.. probably not… you were sleeping so soundly in your beautiful juicy catour sleeping bag while we were in my room…. Oh how i look back at these selfies I took of us in longing…. I love you so deerly, shookie bear…. How I love you so….. what light thru yonder window breaks? Thats the question i ask myself on da daily when you arnt around…..

Sighs.. I miss you shmoopy poopy… maybe soon you can watch me play guilty gear strive and maybe we can cuddle…. What would you think of that, Koneko-chan? Perhaps we could play some omori too… would you be….. da trauma to my escapism?

I got a little suprise for you when we meet again…. Its not much, but I know youll be so happy you’ll go “ KYAAAAAAAA RINNE YOURE SO PERF!!!!!!!!” And not be mad I posted this totes adorbz pic of us… miss u 4eva

- 🎲 Rinne ✌️😎

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Fanatics 99.3

Gaz fights four aliens in the competition’s first battle.

For anyone who didn’t see my update post, I’ve decided to change my schedule. Instead of updating every other Saturday, Fanatics will now update every Saturday!

*Links to previous and next chapters in reblog*

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Greatest in the Galaxy Part 3

“Hold him.”

Zim, Tak, and Pepito grab Dib, holding him still as Gaz leaves their sky box.

“You got this, Gaz,” Squee cheers from where he’s sitting at a table while Shmoopy looks over his legs.

“She can’t fight!” Dib exclaims, sick with worry.

“No, Dib, you’re mistaken,” Pepito argues, “Gaz fights all the time.”

“Y-yeah, but...but...”

“She has to fight, Dib,” Zim demands, “it’s for the competition.” “Yeah, so stop being such a baby!” Tak snaps.

Gaz ignores all of them as she heads down to the stadium grounds, her war hammer resting on her shoulder.

She emerges from the dimly lit corridors into the bright lights of the arena, surrounded by the cheering of the audience. She stares around, smiling with excitement.

“Look at her,” Kio says from their balcony, everyone else watching beside her. “She’s already loving this.” Dib grips the railing, whimpering uneasily.

Gaz and her four opponents- Tav of Irk, Olap of Swif’el, Wirez of Techon-3, and Peccs of Mus’ular- approach the middle of the ring and stand in a circle, glaring at each other.

“This is an all-out, anything-goes, free-for-all! Players are encouraged to not completely annihilate their opponents- this is a friendly competition after all- but don’t expect anyone to jump in if things start getting out of hand.” “Do people often get killed in these battles?” Squee asks as he limps over.

“Not often,” Zim replies, “but it’s not uncommon.” “How are your legs?” Pepito asks.

“I’ll be alright,” Squee smiles.

“Begin!”

Gaz flinches as everyone looks at her. Peccs swings his large fists; spider legs extend from Tav’s PAK and begin firing lasers; Olap rushes for her, claws unsheathing from his top paws; Wirez grabs a laser gun from his belt and fires.

Gaz jumps backwards, narrowly dodging all of the attacks.

“Oh! Just like last round, the returning players are ganging up on the newbie! How long will Gaz be able to hold out?”

Gaz races around the arena, dodging laser fire from Tav and Wirez and keeping out of range of Peccs and Olap. The onslaught is barely giving her time to think let alone retaliate.

“This isn’t fair!” Dib exclaims, “they can’t gang up on her! She’s just a sweet, little girl!”

“She’s neither of those things,” Squee argues.

“Knock it off with the older brother complex, Dib,” Pepito groans, “this is Gaz we’re talking about. If there’s one thing she can do, it’s fight dirty.”

Gaz takes a sudden left and Peccs skids to a stop. But as he starts to turn after her, lasers hits his back.

“Whoops,” Wirez grunts, lowering his gun.

“Watch it, Techon,” Peccs snarls, “or I’ll crush you.”

“You stay out of my way, Mus’ules!” Wirez snaps backs.

“What’d you say to me, vermin,” the giant growls and stomps up to the smaller alien. Wirez starts firing at him, but Peccs walks into the lasers like they’re just rain. Wirez presses a button on his belt, activating a jetpack that carries him out of the range of Peccs long arms.

With those two occupied, Gaz just has to worry about Tav and Olap. The two stay focused on her. Olap’s speed and agility is tough to keep up with as he matches all of Gaz’s movements.

He crouches on all six limbs and lunges for her like a missile. Gaz barely has time to bring up her war hammer to block, and he tackles her to the ground.

“Gaz!” Dib cries.

Olap lies on top of her, pinning her to the ground with his bottom four arms while his top two are held back by her hammer’s handle. Olap snarls at her, his face only inches from her. Then suddenly, she opens her mouth and bites his nose.

“Oh!” her friends exclaim.

Olap cries out in pain as her teeth digs in his flesh and tries to scurry back. Gaz lets him go, spits out yellow blood, and swings her hammer. She smashes him square in the chest and sends him tumbling across the arena.

Wiping her mouth, Gaz stands up and glares at Tav. He glares back and starts firing his lasers again. She runs for him, sidestepping each laser, and throws her hammer. It spins through the air right for him. He stops firing so he can use his spider legs to block the heavy weapon. As it falls, he sees Gaz right in front of him, fist raised.

She swings at him. With not enough time to block, Tav falls to his knees to dodge and her arm flies over his head.

His spider legs lunge at her. Gaz quickly kicks up her hammer and uses it to block and knocks the appendages off course, but they still slice the sides of her arms. She winces but doesn’t back off.

She swings her leg, kicking Tav in the chest and sending him flying back. His spider legs quickly catch him, digging into the ground, and throw him back. Gaz lifts her hammer, ready to swing, as Tav’s spider legs lunge at her.

The appendages slice across her chest as her hammer smashes into him and sends him crashing into the wall.

Gaz pants, leaning against her hammer as blood drips from her fresh wounds. She doesn’t have long to relax, however, as a large shadow looms over her. She looks back as Peccs swings down at her. She narrowly dodges by leaping out of the way.

“Nice job taking down that Irken,” he says, “and the Swif too. Now it’s just you and me.”

Gaz looks over to where Wirez is lying unconscious on the ground. At some point, Peccs managed to jump up to him flying in the sky and send him crashing back down.

She snarls and swings her hammer into Peccs’ chest. It’s a dead-hit, but he doesn’t even flinch.

“Heh, nice try,” he chuckles, “but we Mus’ules are practically indestructible.”

“Huh,” Gaz grunts, slowly backing away.

“Don’t worry, I won’t break you,” he says, “well, maybe just a little.”

“You talk too much,” Gaz groans.

He swings at her and she skips backwards to dodge. She’s a lot slower and clumsier than before, his large fists almost grazing her. She keeps moving until she backs into the wall.

“End of the line, little one!” Peccs exclaims and swings at her. Gaz leaps to the right to dodge and he smashes the wall.

Before he has a chance to move, Gaz skids around to his back and jabs the end of her hammer’s handle into the back of his knees, causing him to lose his balance and fall against the hall. Then she scrambles onto his back and pulls back her hammer.

“Don’t worry, I won’t break you,” she says.

She smashes her hammer into the back of Peccs’ head, slamming his face into the wall. He twitches before going limp.

Gaz slips off Peccs’ back and takes a look around the arena. Tav, Olap, and Wirez are also lying around, unconscious.

“We have a winner! The last one standing is Gaz of Earth!”

“Yeah!” her team cheers on their balcony, waving and jumping up and down. Soon, the rest of the audience joins in.

“That’s the second win in a row for Earth, putting them officially in first place with ten points!”

Gaz grins and victoriously holds her hammer high.

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AO3 Wrapped 13, 14, 25, and 46! :)

thanks for the ask!! i got #13 already :)

14 - Your personal favorite fic you posted this year - absolutely no surprise, "Sharing the Same Roots". A love story to Appalachia and rural queers and my own gender stuff.

25 - Least popular fic by hits you posted this year - "in between, it's you and me." which was one of my fics for the Dincobb Summer bingo, featuring shmoopy old men tubing on a river and camping.

46 - A playlist of all the songs you used lyrics from to title fics this year.

thank you!!