#since they're gonna be getting some fic time which i'm super excited for

[yansurnummu]

quick thing of my ohmes-raht healer, Ma'jhada and her senche-raht brother, J'dasi :3

[yanmuffins]

Hey there

Im actually gonna talk about your other series

I'm super curious for the yandere Batfam dynamic was they find our reader is a vampire, I kinda like the idea of reversing the typical vampire creepiness and instead of us, is the Batfam that really enjoy feeling the reader drinking their blood and each one figure out a way to convince reader.

For example let's say Cassandra manages to figure out which days your instincts are at the strongest so those days she always makes sure it's her turn to stay in the manor to keep guard and make sure you don't escape while the others are doing vigilante stuff

context.

oooooh vampire! reader ask!!! mild spoilers for future fic, gotham by night.

i'm honestly so excited to see where this story will go. this reader will not only have to deal with batfam issues, but also being introduced to a completely new world of vampires and deal with sire issues on top of daddy issues. she's having a great time (not)!

but tbh, i don't think reader would drink the batfam's blood. she would find the idea of feeding on her family extremely gross, and unnecessary, since there's other methods out there. it could be a last-resort thing, if she was starving and close to frenzy, but even then that would be something she would hate to do, as there is a risk of killing them accidentally.

and one of the main conflicts in this fic is yandere! platonic! batfam just not understanding (obviously, since they've never been exposed to it) the richness and intricacies of vampire culture, practices and social dynamics, leading to them to mishandle reader and her new condition as a vampire pretty badly. not only that, but batfam essentially kidnapping reader from her sire (who had also kidanpped her btw) messes up her self-discovery process as a vampire. oh, and a possible masquerade breach! disastrous.

but i can see the batfamily starving reader on purpose, to get her to drink their blood, saying it's safer for her to get used to drinking from her family so she doesn't feel tempted to attack innocent civilians. and she's yelling that that's not how any of this works, but they won't listen. yup, that's diabolical.

you see, this concept pretty much follows v*mpire t*e m*squ*rad* mechanics. and according to established lore, we have a variety of predator types: one of them being bagger, referring to vampires who prefer to consume blood through blood bags instead of live human bodies. this would be convenient for both reader and batfam, but mostly batfam since they could just arrange reader an endless supply of blood bags with ease.

we also have consensualists, who do not feed against their victim's free will (the lines of consent and free will might still be murky, lest they straight up admit they're a vampire looking for blood and won't you please spare some) and sirens, who seduce their victims! i'm not entirely sure which predator type vampire! reader will be, but i'm leaning heavily towards bagger, meaning she doesn't have a preference for biting necks. but who knows?

to be fair, it's a big adjusment for batfam. you were being weird before you got kidnapped (and embraced), and it takes a while and reader almost going into frenzy (aka vampiric reaction to situations of extreme stress, like starvation) for them to find out, holy shit, she's a fucking vampire now! that's what happened! and they can't just... let you go. the situation is complicated. the person who turned you is still out there, and you're unpredictable, and this wouldn't have happened if they just paid more attention to you! so let them keep you safe (captive) and provided for.

ALTERNATIVELY, deviating a bit from the original concept where reader is taken by her sire and then taken by the batfam straight back into captivity, we could have reader being so neglected and ignored in the family that they just don't notice she's been turned, and she gets time to go through a complete change in personality and confidence, and involve herself with the social and political webs of vampire society that wants to establish itself in gotham. it's not drastically different direction for this concept to go, because either way reader will be thrown in the world of darkness (ha), except here the kidnapping happens after she comes contact into it and in the paragraph above it happens before.

reader escapes them either way, cause she's a vampire ofc, and the batfam didn't have enough time and info to prepare and keep reader sufficiently trapped. they'll keep an eye on her, though.

either way, there's room for yandere madness, dark content, neglectful batfamily drama, sociopolitical vampire drama, vampire! reader being cunty, and all that in both ideas, which aren't that different, really.. i'm not sure! sorry for rambling. it's still a work in progress but i'm very excited for it.

[scraplette]

This is random but I noticed you mention you were a big Rung/Skids shipper and I'm curious about something. I wasn't active in the fandom where MTMTE/LL were coming out and I feel like I missed huge discourse or something, because I'm really confused about why I have always seen Rung/Fort Max and Rung/Whirl and MegaRung everywhere but nobody seems to ship Rung with the guy he was super close with from the beginning and committed suicide thinking about and coughed up crystals over? I know it's not because it's wrong for therapists and patients to date because all of those people were Rung's patients. Do you know why this is?

Hello there! Sorry for the late response, I wanted to do this on desktop and just hadn't found the time.

You've sent a really interesting question but, I'm sorry, I'm not sure I have an answer for you. Heck, even at the time the comics were coming out I was always surprised by the lack of content for the ship. There was some discourse about Rung dating paitents but, funnily enough, Skids was never really a part of it. He wasn't really considered by the fandom as one of Rung's paitents so it wasn't an issue. The storyarc we the readers found out that Rung was treating Skids, was also the same arc where Rung quit. You did have some folks producing some excellent content for it(@littlestowl is still hands down my fave writer for this pair and @herzspalter did some hecking good fanart!) but never to the same extent as other ships. Not gonna blame people for that, we all have our preferences! Live and let ship and all that! So, since I had no anwers of my own I decided to counsult THE COUNCI(my friends who like Transformers) for their opinions and they came up with the excellent points. We even gathered DATA(we looked at Ao3 XD) Nothing definitive, of course, because obviously we're just a group of robot fans and can't speak for every TF fan on the net. These are just our thoughts and general vibes. 1) Rung is just so darn shippable. He potentially works well with a lot of characters and was pulled in lots of diff directions. Speaking as the main Rung/Skids shipper of the group I sort of get this(stupid sexy Rung) but even with all the diff ships sailing Rung/Skids still seemed oddly small in comparsion. 2)Another friend brought up a good point, Rung/Skids are a lovely ship but they're very wholesome and nice. Now, there is nothing wrong with that but you can't deny that spicy ships oozing with, as they put it, DRAMA just get folks excited. Lots of the other ships had this in spades. 3) Another friend had a lovely thought to add to this and I agree with it 100%. I'm just going to quote them directly "Which is kinda a shame because they have other kinds of cool drama - Rung basically compromised his position for Skids! Skids revived Rung's memory! The non-goodbye! But not conflict -drama." 4)Perhaps the venn diagram of Skids fan and Rungs fans didn't neccisarily crossover. Looking at the DATA, we can see that the most popular ships for Skids(in order) were SkidsSwerve, SkidsGetaway, and SkidsRung. I'm not sure if the Getaway fics were written pre or post betrayl.

5) Not really important but something I thought was a cool detail. Rung/Skids was really popular in the Japanese side of the fandom. I even own a physical doujin anthology for the pair! I can't remember any names of the top of my head, it's been years, but there were lots of lovely pieces of Rung/Skids fanart on the JP art sites.

I'm always a little sad about Rung/Skids. I always thought here were always lots of hooks throughtout the story that could lead the pair to more. Lots of little quiet personal moments just for the two of them. Like, Skids defending Rung against Getaway's snide comments. Ratchet sending Skids to Rung because he things the little chap is lonely. That final weirdly tense exchange between them will always sit a bit oddly with me. I know at the time there was a theory that Skids might've been into Nuatica at the time but nothing seemed to come of it, so I geuss we'll never know. I think I remember reading that Alex Milne didn't realise that would be their last interaction together, otherise he would've done the panel differently* Thank you for your ask! It was lovely to look back on old fandom memories ^_^ I hope I gave you some insights. As for myself, I'm hoping to get back into fic writing so no doubt I'll be adding to my collection of Rung/Skids drabbles.

*IMPORTANT UPDATE EDIT THING! I couldn't drop the final goodbye between them and the Alex Milne thing(it was nearly a decade ago so I was worried I'd misremembered) so I hunted down the original tweet and I've misremembered!

Sigh, what a shame that the final on-page interaction of my fave ship is forever off key and weird because of Writer/Artist miscomunucation :<

[sparklepocalypse]

Director's Cut: you must know I'm gonna ask about Octo!Henry. I am who I am.

MY BELOVED OCTOHENRY -- rambling about him is a fucking gift, @kiwiana-writes, and I thank you for this.

So, two decisions happened in pretty rapid succession at the end of last September -- first, I decided that I was going to participate in Kinktober, and second, that I was absolutely not going to waste the opportunity to use the "tentacles, consentacles" tag double-whammy on Ao3. From there, I very quickly connected with a friend on Discord who, as it turns out, knows a fuckton about octopi. With their assistance, I went down my first research rabbit hole about things like:

How octopi reproduce

Which species of octopi do not yeet their octopeens (hectocotyli) at their mates and flee the scene so they don't get eaten

Of these very few species that aren't prone to flinging their dicks like wiggly, suckered javelins, which were the prettiest/flashiest

And then a deep dive into the prettiest species of non-tentacock-lobbing octopi to narrow it down to one: the blue-ringed octopus (AKA the spiciest boi).

I had a couple assumptions right out of the gate: Alex would be just as clueless in this fic as he is in canon, for one. This allowed me to have Henry drop some really obvious hints that he's Not From Around Here while Alex is still just so awestruck by how pretty his new friend is that he completely sails past the hints. For two, once he figured it out, Alex was going to have his crisis about attraction to men and men with tentacles (or at least Hentacles?) faster than Usain Bolt can run the 100m dash. This second piece was a bit of a necessity since I was cranking out a new smut fic every day during that month, so there was no time for additional world building or angsting about Alex's new partner not having legs at the time.

While writing the smut, I read a lot of Actual Scientific Research on octopi in general and specifically on blue-ringed octopi to make sure I wasn't totally making shit up. In the process, I learned so many fun facts about the blue-ringed octopus, including:

Male/male mating is not uncommon -- several sources suggest that male blue-ringed octopi have no preference for the sex of their mating partners.

Their skin is soft and very slick; it's coated in a slippery substance that protects them from bacteria and also allows them to slip into narrow spaces easily. 😏

The blue rings only really show up boldly when they're aroused (horny, excited, or scared). Otherwise, depending on the subspecies of blue-ringed octopus, the rings are either faintly visible or look sort of brownish.

You really don't want to touch blue-ringed octopi IRL unless you're super into being poisoned to death. (This translated into Henry being really into spicy human foods. 🤣)

Sperm packets (spermatophores) are an Actual Thing that's common across a lot of invertebrates, including octopi and squids -- Alex saying “You didn’t mention that your cum had texture,” is because he wasn't expecting there to be any sort of structure to Henry's octojizz.

I also flagrantly ignored the thing where once a male blue-ringed octopus has successfully mated, he dies, because again -- octoHenry is my beloved.

I'll stop here, but I could literally talk about octoHenry for hours! I'm so excited to start working on the sequel this fall. 🥰🐙

Want to learn more about my methods for one of my fics? Ask me stuff in the fic director's cut meme!

[anonymousreader4d7]

4. And 13. For the art ask game :3

Oh! OH! *bouncing excitedly* Okay!

Okay, so 4 is "A piece you wish got more love". For that, I'd probably say either my Team TIES MCC art, my og Boatem Grian piece (because his feathers, guys, his feathers and wings and the whole pose???), or my Gambler Skizz design...

The Team TIES didn't get quite as finished as I'd originally wanted, and there are little details I'd change now, but... I still absolutely adore it. It's... Definitely one of my favorite pieces I've done in... Quite a while.

The Boatem Series Grian I did was... So much fun, and is still one of my favorite pieces I've done of Grian (and it's, like, over 2 years old). The Mumbo and Pearl from that same series are also stunning pieces, some of my favorite works too - the Pearl has by far gotten the most attention. (Also, that Boatem Scar is the origin of my design idea for his leg braces!!!)

As for Gambler Skizz... I really enjoyed doing it, adding the little card/gambling motifs in and adjusting his basic suit to make it a little more... Flashy. He's a little inspired by Aventurine's design from Honkai Star Rail, who's one of my favorite HSR characters, so that was a lot of fun! And... Skizz always deserves more love.

(and as a bonus non-Hermits piece - my Abyss Dragon Ajax designs, both the one for Amanveth's (@friendly-neighbourhood-archon's) After Everything fic and my own design that's more Foul Legacy based... Both were so much fun to draw!!!)

As for number 13 "Talk about a wip you like"... I'm gonna talk about 2 here. One is my Full Hermits Napping Piece, which I started around the time S9 was ending. I'm probably going to make some edits now, after everything that's happened since planning it out (Skizz & Joel's joining and Iskall & Stress's resigning both) but I'm... I'm so so so pleased with how it's going so far, I love the concept, I... It's delightful. I've posted a few little snippets of the WIP so far, but the concept is a giant Hermit cuddle-puddle/slumber party (originally as a between seasons kind of thing, but... That ship has kinda sailed, XD) and I'm enjoying drawing all the sleepy hermits all flopped over and against each other. It's great. It's taking so long though, because I'm not great at keeping motivation (too many ideas, too little time) and also it's... It's in my full style, not the chibi-esque, so it's detailed and complicated and tedious. But so so fun.

As for the second one - RMAU-Verse Trueforms Imp and Skizz. This one is a lot closer to done, but... little edits/additional details need to be made. Impulse needs more work than Skizz, but... They look cool, even if not quite what's in my head yet... I do really like them though, and I'm looking forward to eventually finishing them...

...okay, 2 more I thought of just now - my week 2 of Imp&SkizzTober piece, which is a hug/preening/trust piece that... I can't wait for that to turn out, it feels so soft and getting Skizz's wings just right was... An endeavor but they look great now, and Impulse's wings somehow turned out perfect in the rough sketch and... I'm just excited by how soft it makes me feel. And bonus 2 is my RMAU-Verse Grian and Mumbo in Watcher regalia... They look super cool, and they're actually mainly complete (it's the other little side drawings that need completing, but my brain is currently more Imp and Skizz obsessed so... It's kinda on the back burner) and I'm really pleased with how the outfits and wings and... Watcher-y bits all turned out. Especially for also starting it like... I think 2 years ago???

Anyways!!! Thanks so much for asking, I had waaayyyyyyy too much fun rambling about all of this and got super excited to see this ask! Thanks again for asking, I hope you liked the responses (and it wasn't too much, XD)!!!

[punmster]

Sorry if this ends up overwhelming you and if it does, feel free to ignore them. I’m just bored and curious. 👉👈😅

Which character do you think had the most potential in the Harry Potter series and do you plan on implementing any of your ideas into them?

If DSMSG Draco was locked in a room with Umbridge, Lockhart, and Voldemort and had a gun with two bullets, who would he choose to shoot?(totally not stolen from The Office)

I think you may or may have not mentioned this earlier and feel free to ignore this question if it’s a spoiler, but when does Harry begin having feelings for Draco/act on them?

no worries, i wanted a distraction from my work anyway lol

In terms of potential, I'm not quite sure. My first thought was Draco (Duh) mostly because I wish so badly that they kept the scene in the final movie where he threw his wand to Harry. That alone would probably do so much for his character, and I am very likely going to do something with it in the fic. Plus the whole really weird hug with Voldy thing, kinda seems like Voldy is trying to have a relationship with him that parallels Harry and Dumbledore's. Anyway, Draco's SO uncomfortable all the time in 7th, it makes me very excited to get to it :) I also think Narcissa is pretty interesting since she kinda parallels Lily, and the fact she lied to the Dark Lord TO HIS FACE and protected Harry...I know I make Narcissa out to be just a very overbearing mother (and bad cook) but I hope to make Draco see the other sides to her later on, when he gets his head out of his ass. For now, she's sort of just comic relief, but there are some things set up in the very first years that will come back in the later years.

(also i REALLY need to add neville in some more--thematically he's super important, but he just doesn't get that much screen time yet. I'll have to think more about how to integrate him, but definitely he will appear more in 3rd w/ other characters. Other characters I plan to include are Cedric, Luna, maybe Cho? Marietta, probably, for the whole traitor thing in the 5th book, and ofc Pansy and Zabini, though those two are the flattest in the books so I'm gonna have to make up a lot of stuff lol. gotta add in sirius obvs [he's actually my favorite, which was why he was not-malfoy's fave in the old version], and remus [also we gotta discuss the werewolf in the room, with the whole snape prank thing...])

Draco would probably blackmail Lockhart into taking the gun and shooting Umbridge twice. He isn't stupid enough to try to kill Voldemort with a gun (are the horcruxes around in this hypothetical?also Voldy lived in like. WWII? Although he's ignorant of love magic stuff, he is probably deeply aware of the dangers of Muggle weapons, which maybe relates to his desire to conquer them) but Draco would love Umbridge dead, and he'd want more blackmail on Lockhart lol. The man's main fear is losing his reputation so that's probably a better punishment than death. If it's sixth year Draco he might just shoot himself though

I have mentioned that Draco doesn't want to date as a minor or date minors even if physically the same age due to the weird age gap/time question thing (a really big issue in isekai/transmigration imo, and the bit of this fic that makes me want to just make it platonic--seriously. I read one where this grown man DATED A SEVEN YEAR OLD B/C HE WAS IN A CHILD'S BODY??) but Harry will obviously not be thinking about that since for all he knows, they're both normal kids. You can probably safely assume he starts thinking of romance at the same time as in the books, though obviously his friendship w/ Draco and the whole "it's the nineties and I think I'm gay?!" thing would make him not as proactive about it for a while

[negative-speedforce]

Hm...

Captain Phasma or Sandman's Lucifer? (battle of the Gwendoline Christies lol)

Book of Boba Fett or the Obi-Wan show?

Fix-it fics of existing canon or outright AUs?

Eobarry or Barrisco?

Only one bed trope or fake relationship trope?

(your ocs) Pippa or Pyrrha?

(your ocs) Cassandra or Kayla?

(my ocs) Nikoletta or Indigo?

HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME CHOOSE I AM GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE'S #1 SIMP AND I LOVE ALL GWENDOLINE CHRISTIES

Okay but first of all are we counting Phasma in the novels or just her appearances in the movies? Because in the movies, her characterization is kinda lacking and she's kinda just... there? (so I'd probably go with Lucifer) but in the novels, she's a much more dynamic character, and if we're counting that, I'm going Phasma. She's my wife.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, by far. BoBF was kinda eh to me, I wasn't a huge fan. The pacing was weird and I got bored of it really fast, there were some good moments, but mostly, it was boring. Obi-Wan Kenobi, on the other hand? Well, first of all, it features Miss Reva Sevander, aka what Kylo Ren WISHES he was in terms of complexity and moral ambiguity. Then, it also has those badass Obi-Wan and Vader scenes, and overall, it's just superior in quality.

I'll take fix-it fics of existing canon. I don't normally like AUs that much, unless they're REALLY canon-aligned (for example: hanahaki disease AU, soulmate AU, wingfic). Otherwise, it's usually a turnoff for me.

Are we talking OTP or BroTP? Because you're pitting those two against each other. Barry and Cisco are the buddies of all time, I don't really see them as romantic but their dynamic as friends is impeccable. Eobarry, on the other hand? It's toxic, it's messy, I love them, I hate them, I wouldn't want them within thirty feet of each other if they were real people- but unfortunately for them, they're not, and I'm going to watch their drama burn down and roast marshmallows over the ashes.

There's some nuance in that, in how it's portrayed. Both of them can be either super cliche or exciting enough to keep me on the edge of my seat. When done well, however, I'll take Only One Bed.

Pippa and Pyrrha are such different characters and I like them for such different reasons, it's difficult to decide which of them I like better overall. Pippa's so pure-hearted, she's down bad for a supervillain, she's lost so much and is still so happy and upbeat, while Pyrrha's the definition of a scrunkly wet cat poor little meow meow. I literally can't decide, since they're basically polar opposites, it's difficult to compare them on any axis.

KAYLA KAYLA KAYLA RAWR RAWR GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR okay now I'm normal. But seriously, I am so mentally unwell about Kayla, she's such a dynamic, ambiguous character, and she occupies WAY too much of my brainspace. I also love Cassandra so much, but since she's more of a side character, I don't really get into her headspace much.

I'm so sorry Indigo, I love you, but I'm gonna have to go with Nikoletta. Morally gray women own my heart, and the Queen of Belle Reve herself definitely fits the bill. Plus, her being so touch-starved, and her relationship with Abner both live in my head rent free (also her and Cassandra would totally get along ngl)

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hi fleet!! for fic writer asks, 💫🎀💋💌

oh gosh! I'm not actually playing this ask game, I just reblogged one of Cookie @snickerdoodlles 's answers lol--but since you ask, anon, I will answer! Gonna take these mildly out of order.

💌 share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

I've been having a lot of thoughts lately about Vegas getting off to super mundane things re: Pete. The moment his body has the energy, this man is getting hard at the drop of a hat, you know? He's discovering kinks he didn't realize could be kinks. One morning he's in the closet rifling through Pete's checkered tops, all mixed in amongst his own silks and velvets—finds himself thinking about the ways they've blended, the mesh of their lives draping together to form one whole here in this home that belongs to both of them—and suddenly he's half-mast like a fucking teenager. Pete isn't even home. (It'd be embarrassing except it's Pete, and it would be weirder not to get chubbed up watching him gargle his mouthwash before bed. His cheeks are ballooned out and he's making funny shapes with his eyebrows and everything. Vegas wants to be the spit in his mouth.) Anyway. I've been funneling my feelings about Vegas's mundane obsessive obscene interests into my unusual dirty talk WIP, because the underlying desire in all of this is "can I weave my way into all the private quiet little pieces of you, can I be a part of you and you a part of me?" It's been a blast to write!

💫 what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback?

Truly any comment makes me very happy, but the comments that reflect moments of connection stick with me for a long time. When someone expresses how they related to an element of the story (e.g. "Death scares me, but this story didn't") or mentions rereading--I recognize what that means, and I feel so grateful to have intersected with another person's heart even in passing. Likewise, analysis and commentary are such expressions of connection and love for a work, with the bonus that I get to go feral in the response! If you come to me with parallels or symbolism, I will kiss you very tenderly on the mouth (and probably drop some BTS deets).

🎀give yourself a compliment about your own writing.

Ai...okay, I'll try. 😅 Most of my stories are about the whole "learning to live, learning to exist as people" thing, which means they're ultimately an exercise in catharsis. I think I make that catharsis feel earned and worthwhile.

💋when you leave comments on a fic, do you want to hear back from the writer?

I have no expectations there. I love the connections I've made through comment conversations, but there are so many reasons a writer might not respond to comments (and honestly, writers don't owe a reason at all). Why lay unnecessary extra pressure on someone's shoulders? she says, absolutely pressuring herself about taking too long to answer the comments on her own fics...

Thanks for the ask, anon! I wasn't playing the ask game, but I did have fun answering these. :)

[bucketofbugz]

For the fic writer asks: 💫 🤲 💌 and remember to drink some water today :)

I was in the middle of drinking some water when I got this so GFTYGUHIJK

💫 "what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback" I think anything that's specific to what the person had just read. Like picking out specific parts of the chapter/chapters and commenting on them specifically is something I have a huge soft spot for JHSFJHEF But I also love when people pick up on smaller details in the chapter or draw connections to different chapters, or when people make theories. Idk, I like just listening to feedback in general honestly.

🤲 "What do YOU get out of writing?" An outlet for my ideas, getting to be part of something that wouldn't have existed otherwise, getting other people excited in my ideas. I've always loved writing, and I think I just like being able to develop stories and universes and think about what happens IN those universes. When I start writing, things always end up unfolding and coming together and I just love getting to see that. Plus, writing gives me something to do in my spare time.

💌 "share something about an up-and-coming WIP that has you excited" Can I share Two things :eyes: Both are technically for the same universe, just one is a CHAPTER and one is a whole new thing. So of course starting with the smaller one, which I KNOW is taking forever but I promise it's coming. The next FTSL chapter is one that I'm excited for: it takes place at the exact same time as the chapter after it, and it has a bunch of characters in one chapter together. Also it includes a character who I've been really excited about returning :] Also it includes Raph and Mona being silly. Something I am always excited about <3 NOW ONTO THE OTHER ONE The otsl future comic! Which, yes, I have decided I AM making. I'm super super excited about this you have NO idea. I played around a LOT with OTSL's Casey Jr. since the normal headcanons I have for him wouldn't really apply given the circumstances of the au, and I just find him really cool. I'm super excited to show that stuff off, and to provide additional mini-comics to tease the movie rewrite and book after it sprinkled in. I'm ALSO super excited to show off Leo's leadership skills and my future Mikey & Donnie designs. I Love them. They're silly. There's gonna be a lot of stuff hidden for the people who actually read the fics which I'm excited about also <3

I know I strayed from the prompt a bit but I don't care I wanted to talk

[splishsplashyouropinionistrash]

hey everyone, I'm still alive! and! I have a writing update!

I haven't done any writing.

okok that's not totally true, I've done bits and pieces since I published 'i still talk to you' (link here, I had fun with that one) but I'm nowhere close to having anything ready to publish. Still, I figured I'd give y'all a (totally sober, for once) update on where I'm at in the stories I've promised.

So, okay, the big one first: TMHYHM. I've got about 3k of chapter 9 done, so we're about halfway through it. I'm starting school again in a few days (senior year, woohoo) and I always seem to write better at school, so we're keeping our fingers crossed that it'll get done in the next few weeks. About ten days from now is the one year anniversary of me 1: starting my AO3 account and 2: publishing chapter one of TMHYHM which is.... both exciting and a little sad? Genuinely didn't expect this story to take so long, but here we are.

A lovely commenter pointed out that I must put a lot into each chapter, and I honestly hadn't really thought much about it but they're right. I'm not gonna ramble about it for much longer, but every chapter takes a lot of time and energy. There was the re-read I did to write down the main plot points I wanted to hit every chapter, and then scouring the internet for quotes to put in once I decided I wanted to go that direction, and then I re-read each individual chapter twice; the first time to get more specific with what happens each chapter, finding places to put extra scenes etc. and a second time to figure out a chapter title. Actually writing the chapters is a lot too. I put a lot of myself and my experience into my interpretation of Andrew, and I feel like it fleshes him out more, but it also makes these chapters so much more mentally draining to write. Anyway, all that to say: happy early birthday to TMHYHM and thank you all for your patience.

Okay anyway, some of you may remember that I started teasing a hospital/amnesia fic (here, here, and here) a month ago during the AO3 outage, and I've almost got three chapters finished (halfway done !) I decided a few months ago that I wasn't going to post multi-part fics until after they're finished from now on, so as soon as I finish the whole thing it'll be up. I took a break from it for a little while, but when I came back and read through it today I genuinely cried a little? I'm evil guys why do I write these things??

Third: the minyard triplets. I'm going to be so honest here, I have not made any progress since last time I updated yall. Looking back at the story, I'm honestly kinda starting to hate it? I don't know, I still like parts of it but it just doesn't feel anywhere close to being my best work. I'll keep working on it and hopefully finish it soon, but I don't know when it'll be done. I had thought about turning it into a series, but I'm just not sure how attainable that is anymore.

Also, you may or may not have read my last fic, but if you did: I'm working on an alternate ending!!! I can't say much (cause spoilers) but I'm working very hard on it so keep an eye out for that one. Not sure if it'll be a separate fic or just a second chapter, but it's coming.

ok uhhhhhh.... i think that's it? TLDR: I don't have a lot of answers for y'all, but I'm working on things.

Oh, also? I'm writing a book. So fics might go on the backburner for a little bit lol. Let me know if that's something you'd like to hear more about though, I'm super excited.

Thank you for all your love and support <3

[tonberry-yoda]

What do u think of each of your anons and which is most likely going to stick around till the end (in your opinion)

OMG I LOVE THIS QUESTION!

So, for the record, I wanted to start of with two things: 1.) I really need to clean out my anons because a lot of them aren't around anymore/appeared once and never came back so I should maybe clean it soon but idk and 2.) I love all of my anons so so so so much so this answer is gonna be full of so much love omg

Alright, let's get it!

♡ anon

So, there's a really funny story behind heart anon. I had two for the longest time and didn't even know it. Soon, I found out who both of the accounts were and it was all figured out. The second heart anon has not been on tumblr for a very long time, so I have not heard from them, but am wishing them the best. But the first heart anon just uses their account on here now and I love them so so so so much and they might be the one to stick around till the end because they were such a big part of me starting tumblr <3

🌻 anon

Another account I know! She is so so so so so sweet, but always so busy so she is rarely here on tumblr, but when she is, she is nothing but supportive!

🚁 anon

I LOVE HELICOPTER ANON SO MUCH OMFG! They come on here with nothing but love and enthusiasm and if not for them, I wouldn't have my papa croc series which is one that I love so much! I love how excited they are and overall love when I see them on here! I have a feeling that they'll be here till the end <3

🌸 anon

They were one of my number one supporters and always so sweet. I know their account as well, but they haven't been on here in a super long time, so I hope they're well <3

🗡️ anon

I think this anon requested one time, but never came back lol. I don't know anything about this anon fdkjljkldf

spain anon

They were here a lot when I was writing for Helluva Boss/Hazbin, but did fade out because they were very young and I was not comfortable with writing for younger readers. They were nothing but sweet though, but that's just not what I want my audience to be, especially since I am an adult and turned 19 recently

🦝 anon

Pretty much the same situation as spain anon. They were a younger reader of mine, but when I said that I didn't want to write for young kids, they vanished

💐 anon

Literally same situation as sword anon LMFAO

👾 anon

Such a lovely anon oh my goodness. They don't come here as often due to how busy they are, but they have been a big supporter of mine and my work so I love when I see them! I feel like they'll be here till the end fr <3

ladder anon

They aren't on here often to send just little asks, but here to request and when they do OMFG they have some of the best requests and ask for characters I don't often write for but love to write! they are super sweet and I love having them here to write for!

Pepaw Salazar Simp Anon

Came in my inbox one time to make a silly joke and I haven't seen them since, but I am sending them so much love because they make me laugh so hard

rat anon

I think rat anon is another one that'll be here for a while! They come to ask for smooches and I write mini fics for them! They always make me smile and always somehow help me out of a writer's block <3

🍥 anon

honestly, I don't really remember this... I think they asked to be an anon once and then I haven't seen them for a while

🐉 anon

Hasn't been here long, but I love when they come in my inbox! They have a lot of the same opinions as I do and we get in pretty cool discussions! They are nothing but sweet and even after we disagreed with some things, they understood and were very kind! I hope they stay for a while because I love having them here!

☁️ anon

I know that they want my requests open LMFAO but other than that, they are super sweet and have been nothing but kind! I hope to see them when requests open and more in the future

🌈 anon

I feel like they're gonna be here for a while. They are so so so so kind and sweet and make sure to ask how I'm doing and I really appreciate them for that! I am more than happy to have them here and they never fail to make me smile

👽 anon

very sweet when they are here! they haven't shown up a lot since they joined, but I love to have them!

🦔 anon

Oh, this is definitely an anon that is staying I hope. They are so so so sweet and I love chatting with them. I know their account, so we DM each other every once and a while and simp over Miguel LMFAOO I love having them here and I hope they are one that stays!

💤 anon

Same as alien anon

✨ anon

Very new and I haven't seen a lot of them, but they are sweet!

If you're one of my older anons and you don't wanna be cleaned out, lmk! I love all of my anons and hope to see more of you around <3

[timandlucy]

hi suz! gosh, i've gone and done it again, it's been a while since i last messaged i'm sorry! the last week or so has just gone by in a blur.

what have you been up to since i last checked in? are you feeling any better? tell me all the things!

thank you SO MUCH for sharing your linstead fic, i can't wait to read it soon!

honestly dreaming about surprise songs is one of the most fun things about going to the eras tour lol my show isn't until the end of 2024 and i'm ready thinking up surprise songs that i'd want to hear. since she'll be resetting surprise songs and i'm assuming we'll have rep tv by the time your shows are, i am keeping my fingers crossed that she sings a rep track for you! the folklore and evermore sets are probably my favorite during the tour because they're so incredibly stunning, especially visually. the projections during august, the moss piano for champagne problems, the choreo of willow...everything about those sets are perfect and were probably my favorites of the eras tour. the rep set also really goes off so i know you'll have a great time then. the whole concert is amazing! that would be a super cute look for tour, the lover heart around the eye is *chef's kiss*

please let me know if you pick up any of the books i mentioned! i'd love to hear your thoughts! are you reading anything currently?

i'm definitely into the holiday spirit! it's been busy around here lately, but i've been watching 1-2, sometimes 3, christmas movies a night this week which has been really fun. i rewatched scott wolf and kristin chenoweth's hallmark movie the other day and it really is one of my favorites. it always makes me cry! i'll probably watch it again before the end of the year lol

sending love, good vibes and lots of holiday cheer! - secret sleuth 🧡 🔎

Omg don't even worry! I totally get it. I was so insanely busy with work and everything, it's a miracle I even get to open tumblr anymore these days.

What have I been up to? Hm, I'm still coughing really bad like 3 weeks later, so I think I might have possibly had the C-word. Work has also been busy, since I work at a bookstore and holiday season... retail hell and so on. Working at a store doesn't really make me appreciate the holidays any more. People can be so horrible and I've barely been keeping it together.

I'm crossing my fingers for King of my Heart for Vienna concert because the friend that I'm going with (and that got me a ticket as a gift), that's her favorite song, so I really want that. I've given it a lot of thought obviously, but The Lakes would be amazing, since it's one of my faves, but also DBATC because it took me forever to not mess up the lyrics and I would proudly scream it, and I just love it so much. Ahh I am so happy you liked the folklore and evermore sets, that makes me even more excited. In a way, I'm super happy we got the movie, because that means I won't be worried about every detail, and I'll be able to be more present. I'm just so incredibly excited!! 137 DAYS!!!!

Of course I will! I'll try to get some for the holidays, maybe I'll have some time to read then. I need a break for real. So this is gonna sound funny, but there's this YA really old book series called Sadler's Wells/Ballet Slippers. And I kinda wanna do a Nace AU loosely based on the main love story in it, so I'm re-reading that hahaha. Also sometimes it just feels good to read something like that for the nostalgia, you know?

Omg, lucky you! I haven't watched any in the past week. It's been busy, and I'm just tired. I really do like that one so much! I did watch Holidate last week, I really think Emma Roberts should only do rom-coms, she is so good at them!

Tomorrow is the last hectic day at work, so I'll hopefully be a bit less busy from then on and finish setting up my tree (it's been lightless since I got sick, I know, a travesty).

Sending lots of love and christmas magic! ✨🎄☃️

[sirenalpha]

this is a lot of what I do as a gardener, but this advice also sounds like it's best for shorter fics (aka under 50k) and for shorter chapters (up to 1.5k when novel chapters tend to be between 2-4k) so some stuff I would add having written longer fics

-having written both consistently shorter chapters (like 1.5k) and then letting them grow until they were regularly 6k, there's a reason they're normally 2-4k, they seem to flow better at that length having a few scenes in them rather than only one or too many I don't remember exactly what happened in the chapter

-I usually have a plot or character goal to accomplish per chapter and sometimes it ends up being different than the one I expected because I kept writing and something else happened and I didn't get to the original one

-my chapter lengths are a little variable because of that and I sometimes have a 5-6k chapter cuz the scenes were longer and there was nowhere to split it up and sometimes they're a little shorter

-you can write your timeline and world building down after you write the chapter for reference, anything you find yourself needing to redo like recount the days or figure out what season you're in or what order events happened or this is how this aspect of worldbuilding worked, save yourself time and effort and write it down

-I personally love writing in order and I assume most gardeners are like that and skipping around like some people talk about doing for writing sounds awful because idk where this thing is going and shit happens on the way so ideally I would write a story from beginning to end no skips

but with longer stories it can take so long to get to the scenes at the end I'm excited for which means I'm gonna go on thinking about them for basically years and forgetting versions so sometimes you just write it down so you don't forget the good thing you really liked from that version

you'll probably have to change things by the time you get to it for real though

-you don't have to do this with fanfic since it's serialized work and a hobby, but it's nice to write ahead and then when you go back to edit a chapter you're doing it knowing what happened next

-note down any changes you want to make because you will not remember them if you start having a lot of chapters

-this is just my personal opinion I have no research to back this up and it's probably super biased but I feel like architect style lends itself to plot driven work and gardener style to character driven and that could totally be because I write character driven fics and fanfic generally is more character driven so I tend to think of fics in terms of character arcs not plot arcs

so I think of it as where's the character at in their life and emotional state to start and where do I want them to be at the end and why aren't they there now

it's easiest to see with ship fics because the start is these two characters aren't together and the end state is these two characters love each other and are together and why they aren't together is usually they don't know each other well enough to have the trust and affection for each other to be together so how do they get that, what do they need to see from the other person to trust and like them more, how are they proving themselves to each other

the nice thing about fanfic is someone else has done the plot so I don't have to think that hard about what happens, use that as a base, and make the character stuff happen around/on top of that

-the reality is once you get to much longer projects, you need more structure to help yourself out because it'll just be too big to remember every detail and you're going to want to minimize ruining your own continuity or worldbuilding so you don't accidentally take readers out of your work

Idk if this is too broad of a scope for this blog, but if you could answer this, it'd be great.

I've been in a writing rut since I started getting serious about writing, and I've identified the issue in the past month or so: I slant heavily on the gardener end of the writing spectrum and all the advice on writing I've ever seen was for architect-style writing. Not once in the eight years I've been serious about writing did I find any guides on gardener-style writing (and if it says it's gardener-style, it'sreally just architect-style with gardner aspects), and my experience has just been more or less jamming a square peg into a circle hole, getting nothing written and feeling bad about it.

Now I'm unlearning all the architect-style habits that are destructive to me as a writer, but I can't find any resources for gardeners aside from Stephen King's On Writing. If you or any of your followers know how to help a gardener's writing, that would be great. I have so many fic ideas I want to write, but can't since I'm learning to write all over again.

For those who don't know what gardener and architect refer to when it comes to writers, a gardener is a writer who starts with the seed of an idea and lets it grow in whatever direction the light shines. They prune it and weed it as they go but otherwise let the idea lead the way. An architect, on the other hand, plans their stories out first and then writes them. They have a structure and the details all mapped out first and then the writing is just executing on that vision.

As a gardener myself, my biggest piece of advice is to avoid writing advice. Like you've said, the majority of it is aimed at people who do things like plan and plot and worldbuild ahead of time. Because of the structure that that writing style enjoys, providing "one size fits most" writing advice works well for it.

I tend to find a lot of that advice to be counter to what I need to do. Planning a story out ahead just makes me feel like it's already written. Building out the world before I start writing it feels like a hollow exercise - more like writing an encyclopedia than developing a land and culture for my characters to inhabit.

What I find useful is taking an episodic approach to writing. The entire story will be like a season of a television show and each chapter is like one episode. I always have my eventual "season finale" end goal in mind, but any particular chapter can meander closer to or further from that goal. It's alright to take a circuitous route, as long as I get to my destination in the end.

It's also alright if my destination changes as I'm writing. Sometimes those meandering paths take me in a more interesting direction than I was originally going down, and that shifts the story. As long as you're vaguely following a three-act structure (or 5 act or 7 act), the flow of it will feel familiar to your readers and they probably won't really notice it happening.

This advice I'm giving might not ring true to you either. You didn't have a specific problem to address, so I've been wandering a bit in my reply. Really what it comes down to is paying attention to yourself and your needs. Figure out what it is that keeps you writing and what it is that makes you stop. Do more of the former and less of the latter - and don't worry if what you're doing is "weird" to someone else.

I write directly into the AO3 window (which AO3 specifically tells you NOT to do, btw) because drafting first in google docs or something takes the fun out of it for me. I post my chapters without previewing them first. I write in 800 to 1500 word sprints, and I focus on dialogue, and I almost always try to end on a joke or a pun or a cliffhanger. These are all things that make writing an activity that I want to do.

I can't really say anything much more specific given your ask, but I hope something in here was helpful. Let's see if any gardeners out there have some resources or advice that might work for you.

[overlydramaticinephile]

Head over heels in love.

Pairing: Steve Harrington x Fem!Reader (no physical descriptions) 

Summary: Steve goes with Y/N to an admissions college party and things don´t go exactly as they expected. (Yep, keeping it vague bc i suck at summarys)

Word count: 2.6k

Warnings: Based in the beginning of season 3. Arguments, fluff, and a tiny bit of angst. Steve is one year older than reader. Some curse words. (English is NOT my first language)

A/N: Hi! Tbh I thought I would only write one fic but I got super motivated to do like a whole different scenes from Dawson´s Creek and incorporate it to Stranger Things somehow…so yeah- hope you guys enjoy! <3 thank you so much for reading my other fic too!

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Steve found himself outside of Hawkins High waiting for his girlfriend to come out so they could hang out, it's been a while since they had their fun, you know, with Y/N worrying about her college applications and Steve working full time at the new mall.

When Y/N didn't show he decided to go inside what could be described by many as the hell hole. Steve was a little nervous, but he had to do something, so, he walked in and started looking for the Y/H/C girl. After what seemed like an eternity of looking and asking around, he saw her going down the stairs by herself and he thought it would be the perfect time to surprise her.

“Steve! what are you doing here?”

Steve moved very quietly to where Y/N was now standing and picked her up from behind causing her to yelp for a moment until she realized what was happening. They both started to giggle in a way that would make lots of people throw up. It was way too adorable.

“Well, Missy, you took a while and I decided to come to look for you”

“Right…sorry, I was looking at the last details for the party on Saturday night.”

Oh, yeah, Steve remembers 'the party'. “Do we have to?” he whined.

“Yes, Steve, we have to,” said Y/N for what felt like the tenth time.

“Well, have you thought about hiring an escort? Because from what I'm told you can't take me anywhere.”

“I called around, but they're all out of socially-presentable man-meat.”

“What if I just broke up with you? What would you do then?”

“Look, do what you have to do. You're still coming with me.”

“Fascist.” Steve sighed.

“Scaredy-cat,” said Y/N with a dramatic shocked voice.

“Are we at least gonna have a good time?” he said hopefully but deep down he knew it wasn't very likely.

“My guess is no.” Why sugarcoat it?

“So why can't we just say “Nay” to the whole idea of hanging out with the prep school contingent, and go over to Dustin's party?”

"Because, Steve, that would severely diminish my chances of getting into college," she said a matter of factly.

"Well, when you put it that way--"

"Stevie?" she started doing that pouty face that melted Steve's heart. Every. Time.

"Yes." he looked down, it was hard to look at that face and stay in check with your initial argument.

"You know how important this party is to me."

"Yes, I know," he said in a whisper-like voice.

"And being in a relationship means that sometimes you have to do things that you don't particularly enjoy for that other person."

"Yeah."

That made Steve finally look up. "Oh, hold on. Do you think that I enjoy those dinners for one second? For the record, we could stop those at any time." his voice becoming more excited.

Y/N decided to continue to prove her point. "You know, for me, that would be Sunday dinners with your parents."

Steve chuckled lightly. "Yeah, I really am. Is it working?"

Y/N could read his intentions. At the end of the day, she knew him better than anyone. "I know you're still trying to get out of this party."

"It's like watching a train wreck." She deadpanned and gave him a kiss on the cheek with a grin on her face.

Later that week

The couple started walking with arms linked to each other. Y/N was wearing a simple black dress that cut at the knee with some sensible black heels. Steve, on the other hand, was wearing a suit, which Y/N haven't seen him in since his graduation day. Let's be real, he looked extremely handsome, with his perfect hair and that smile that could cure disease.

"You know, we can always just turn around. Which would, of course, be incredibly cowardly."

Walking through the stairs you could tell Y/N was nervous by how she kept furrowing her face making her look worried. Steve like always, noticed that.

Y/N breathed out. "Yet sounds incredibly appealing." she let out a nervous laugh.

By this point Steve couldn't take his eyes off her, he felt truly lucky to be able to call her his. Lost in thought he couldn't help but smile.

Y/N looked at Steve with confusion in her eyes, yet his face also made her smile. "You're grinning like an idiot."

"Yeah, I know. I can't help it," he said with such a gentle voice.

"Why?" She was beginning to get nervous. What could he possibly be smiling about right now?

"Because…I'm the only guy at this party who gets to walk in with Audrey Hepburn on his arm." Yep. Steve in love was a total sap. No one can convince us otherwise.

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"You've certainly been quiet tonight, Miss Y/L/N."

Steve and Y/N sat at the table with Walter, the head figure of admissions. Making Y/N even more nervous if that's even possible.

Y/N chuckled awkwardly. "Just soaking it all in, I guess."

"Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?"

Damn, could this get any worse? "Um...there's really not much to tell. I'm pretty much your average teenage girl," she said with a tender smile that she hoped would hide all her insecurities right now.

By now Y/N was hoping for a miracle that would make things less awkward.

"Having reviewed your application, I hardly think so. I seem to remember a certain fondness for art. Have you been to the Guggenheim?"

"No, but I have always wanted to go to New York..."

"Well, the building itself…It's really the most amazing feat of construction. It's an extraordinary combination of intersecting shapes. It's an architectural epiphany."

Steve could tell how uncomfortable Y/N was, she had this embarrassed look on her face so he thought it wouldn't hurt if he cut in on the conversation.

"Nah, I don't know. You ask me, the thing just looks like a big artichoke."

Y/N turned to him in total shock and so did the other guests. Silence overcame the table until of course Steve kept talking.

"No, I'm serious, it does."

Walter looked intrigued by his comment. "Oh, so you've been?" you could tell it was a genuine question with genuine interest.

"Well, no, but my parents, their big architecture buffs, and they're into those coffee table art books. So, I've seen all the pictures, and I'm here to tell you, it looks like a big artichoke."

After what felt like the most awkward tension they had ever lived, Walter started to laugh, making everyone laugh with him like some type of clockwork.

"Big artichoke. You're right. It does look like an artichoke." he seemed to not be able to control his laughter. Y/N smiled confused and gave a little laugh at the scene.

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"So, then the Rabbi says, “Rectum? I damn near killed 'em!”

Y/N seemed to not be able to make a profound conversation like she hoped to make the best impression. She just sat there contemplating what she could do to make this better while Steve here was making Walter have a great time with his funny little comments. Y/N knew Steve had always been a social butterfly, he used to be “King Steve” for a reason. But she certainly wasn't expecting him to enjoy this so much after the crap he gave her earlier this week about the event.

Walter kept laughing the entire time. "Good one, right?" said Steve with that smile.

He was nearly choking by how much he was laughing at this point. While Y/N just could help but be a little jealous of Steve's social skills.

"It's very good. Y/N, I had no idea your boyfriend was such a charmer."

She gave a fake smile that only Steve could read. "Who knew?"

Walter got serious for a moment. "Emerson could use a young man like you, Steve. Why haven't you applied?" Well, this got interesting.

Y/N saw this as an opportunity to get some time in the conversation. "Yeah, Steve, why haven't you? She knew the answer, he didn't get into any college yet and his parents were trying to teach him a lesson by making him work his ass off.

Steve got quiet for a moment trying to think of an answer. "Well, I-- To be perfectly honest, uh, both of my parents are real big lefties, so for me, it's Yale or nothing."

"Well, that certainly is our loss." Walter seemed genuinely sad at that answer.

Y/N had enough by now, she didn't understand what the hell was happening right now.

"Hey, Steve, can I talk to you for a second?"

"Yeah sure." he seemed very calm.

"Outside. Excuse us." she faked a smile again.

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Y/N started to walk as fast as she could, and she looked pissed.

"Steve, I can't believe you just did that."

"Just did what?" he didn't see any problem.

"You lied!" she got more and more desperate by the second.

That's when Steve started to understand where she was going with this.

"Hold on a second--"

"After that whole pseudo-motivational diatribe, you flat out lied."

"Y/N/N, can I have the floor for just a second--" he really wanted to explain what was going on inside.

"Why are you trying so hard to impress these people?"

"Are you done yet?" he deadpanned.

She seemed to not be able to stop saying all her thoughts making it impossible for Steve to explain himself.

"I don't even know who you are right now." she sighed.

"All I'm try-"

"Excuse me, Steve. Excuse me. I would love for you to meet the dean. Do you mind, Y/N?" Walter seemed very excited.

And of course, with their luck, they were interrupted. By Walter of all people.

What was Y/N supposed to even say to that? "Course not." she fake smiled for the third time that night.

"Sure," said Steve, looking at Y/N with an unreadable expression while he turned the other way.

Walter started to chuckle. "He's a great guy. An old friend. I'd love for him to hear the, uh…"

"Two Rabbis."

"Yeah." He laughed.

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Y/N sat at one of the benches outside and couldn't help but cry. What happened tonight? It clearly didn't go as she wanted, and sadness took over her while she sobbed. She didn't even notice Walter coming back outside.

"Hi, Y/N," he said with an understanding tone.

Shit. Y/N thought. She wiped her tears and acted like he didn't see her crying her eyes out just a second ago. "Uh, hi, Mr. Kubelik, um…I'm sorry, I…I think I need to apologize."

He was confused but calmed. "Really? Whatever for?"

Y/N sighed. "Well, I think I blew it tonight. And it's just, um, this is kind of a whole new world for me, and I, um, I don't really know what to do or what to say, and I know that I don't fit in very well--"

"Y/N, you didn't blow anything. Your academic record stands on its own. You're a stunningly bright young lady. No one is grading you on your social skills.

She looked a little more relieved. Like she could breathe again.

"Be that as it may, you couldn't ask for a better character witness than that boyfriend of yours."

Y/N looked up into his eyes confused and wanting him to elaborate on his last comment.

"Seriously. He just talked the dean's ear off, all about you. How you've changed him, how you've helped him. How he couldn't imagine a better life than one with you by his side. What a rare gift, to have someone say such things about you."

She couldn't help to smile a little and get all shy about it.

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Finally, the party was over, and Y/N joined Steve after she said her goodbyes to some people at the event. Even though the last time they saw each other they didn't see eye to eye, the moment they looked at each other, they felt the need to be in each other's arms.

"Apology accepted," mumbled Steve.

Y/N removed her head from his shoulder. "I didn't apologize, Stevie," she said while furrowing her eyebrows in confusion.

"Well, no, but you were going to."

Y/N gave him a smug smile. "I was?"

"Yeah, you were going to apologize for bitching me out earlier." he was being pretty forward about the whole situation, you had to give him that.

Y/N started to match his energy. "And what about you? You're the one who lied."

Of course. Steve looked deep into her eyes so she could see his honesty. "Did it ever occur to you that maybe I was doing that all for you?"

Y/N's eyebrows shoot up. "And how, exactly, do I benefit from your distortion of the truth?"

"Well," he started to stroke her hair very delicately and continued with all he wanted to say earlier.

"Maybe I just wanted these people to see you through my eyes just for one night. To see this girl, this woman, who has more class and intelligence and beauty and grace than anyone else who's walking the face of the planet."

Y/N's eyes started to water; she opened her mouth to say something, but she shut it again when he kept going.

"And maybe things like this just come tumbling out of my mouth because I happen to be head over heels in love with you, but the really scary thing is--is…I think that they're true."

Y/N's heart melted but at the same time, she started to feel guilt and embarrassment because of her reaction earlier.

"Sorry, Steve. I just wanted to impress these people so bad, you know, to fit in, and I completely froze."

Steve cupped her face and with the softest voice, one could ever imagine he said. "Hey, that doesn't matter."

She took a step back from his embrace. Anxiety took over her. "Yes, it does! I've never wanted anything so bad in my whole life. And you--you just fit right in better than I ever will."

So that's what this was about. "Because there's nothing at stake for me here, Y/N/N. I have nothing to prove to these people. And Y/N/N, this world, is opening its doors to you. And when you step through, you are going to be such an amazing part of all of this.  And wherever you choose to go, you're doing them the favor, not the other way around.

"You know, your mom should get a medal."

Jeez. Y/N truly was tearing up with a small smile. She would never get used to Steve's love words. It made her heart do flip-flops, to say the least.

Well, Steve wasn't expecting that, but he went along with it. "Mom? Really, why's that?"

"Because she raised the perfect boy. And maybe things like that just tumble out of my mouth because I happen to be head over heels in love with you, but the scary thing is, I think it's true," she said with the biggest smile.

Steve pulled away for a second, staying very close to her."Mmm. What do you say if you and I take our little mutual admiration society on the road? Please, can we go someplace we both fit in?"

They couldn't help but chuckle at each other's words making them have the most passionate yet tender kiss that day.

"Yeah. Let's go."

FEEDBACK IS GREATLY APPRECIATED <3

[gyroshrike]

gamzee or feferi for ask game?

For the “Send me a character and I’ll tell you…” ask game

Gonna pick Feferi because someone else sent me Gamzee!

Also, this ask has talk about pailing and a bit of kink! In case anyone isn't comfy with that, here's your heads up!

My NOTP for them - I... don't know if I have one? Not super into Feferi and Cronus, which I have seen around  here and there. But it's a ship so off my radar that I don't even think about it that much. That's the closest I got though.

My BROTP for them - Love me some good bro feels between Feferi and Eridan ngl. In a perfect world, there's that whole feeling of two kids who grew up together, had an emotional catalyst in their relationship, distanced from each other while they figured themselves out, and then were able to renew their friendship, platonic and stronger than ever. Love that. That's the dynamic I like for them. I adore the kind of camaraderie that comes with knowing each other since diapers. There's that level of "even though I kind of can't stand you right now, very few people know you better than me." And I also love the concept that even at their peak distance, where they are getting along the least, they still care about the other an unfathomable amount and they always will.

My OTP for them - I'm going to make the poly question hard on myself, but my otp's for her are either Aradia♥️/♦️Sollux♥️/♦️Feferi (both flushed or a mishmash of pale and flushed) and Eridan♠️Sollux♥️Feferi. Aradia and Feferi are both weirdly morbid in their own ways and I think they'd bond over that. Erisolfef is especially fun to play with for sexual encounters, because how haywire would it make your brain to have your pitch and flushed partner at the same time? Especially if you hc that flushed and pitch interactions activate different hormones/chemicals.

My second choice pairing for them - Solfef in general is just really cute. I LOVE the contrast between the terrible circumstances between the Condesce and Psiionic and then the sweet matespritship of Sollux and Feferi. Defying destiny/changing the patterns of your predecessors is one of my fav fav fav things.

My fluffy pairing for them - Not necessarily ship, but Feferi being close with Rose so they can bond over their appreciation of eldritch beings is A+. I want them to talk to the horrorterrors together. Also Rose being goth with the hc of Feferi being the troll equivalent of goth (because she wears bright colors) is so freaking cute.

I also love Feferi and Jade being super great friends. They're both so sweet and bubbly and adorable and excitable. Feferi putting so much faith in the horrorterrors as Jade did in her clouds, idk I just think they have a lot in common and it would have been neat to see them be friends. JadeFef would be super cute tbh??? An AU with Jade on an island and Feferi is the merfolk who visits her.

My angsty pairing for them - this is more just a scenario than a fleshed out dynamic, and not even close to being a full on ship, but I've got one with Feferi and Gamzee. Basically Gamzee goes and begs Feferi to have the horrorterrors enact retribution upon him for the terrible things he's done. He can't handle the guilt and seeks her for punishment. (Ngl this was born as an idea for a femdom tentacle kink fic LMAO)

My favorite poly ship for them - Eheheheh, well I think I got the poly thing taken care of. Oh, but I really enjoy Equisolfef with Equius joining for pailing sometimes. Especially with Feferi sweetly ordering Equius to basically destroy Sollux LMAO

My weirdest pairing for them - this stems off the previous answer, but LOVE me from Equifef. This is mostly a ship I visit for sexual dynamics than a quadrant or romantic ones. Equius getting ordered around by THE highest blood? The heiress? Are you MAD? He'd freaking explode and I love that. Equius would lose his absolute goddamn mind and enjoy every moment of it.

Here, wait, wait, wait, I've got something:

This is the kind of dynamic I like for them. Just the sweetest of doms Feferi and the most willing of subs Equius. I have not been able to stop thinking about them for WEEKS.

I also enjoy situations where Nepeta is there the first few times (platonically) as his moirail to help take care of him in case he gets too overwhelmed or has trouble stating his boundaries to Feferi. Nepeta would cradle his head during, running her fingers through his hair and making sure he's doing okay. I especially like if Feferi is the one who requested she be there because she doesn't want to hurt Equius.

The whole thing has so much of Feferi being extra careful of Equius and making sure he's comfortable and also completely ruining him.

[rainwingmarvel7]

Hello >:) i saw you were looking for markiplier ego fic requests and uhhhh

since i have thoughts, i'm gonna hand them over to you :)

illinois fic for a genderneutral reader that owns a horse ranch! they're also super into horseback riding and own a beautiful, massive shire horse.

i simply think the dynamic would be really neat

Thanks for the request! Illinois is one of my favorites so I had a lot of fun writing this, and it was some good practice for me to figure out how to write him lol! Also I’ve never written anything about horses before so that was interesting lol. Also I definitely had to rewrite it a couple of times so sorry it took so long to post!

An Afternoon Horseback Ride

Illinois x gn!reader

“Hey, wait up!” you called after your boyfriend, giving your steed a little squeeze with your legs to get him to speed up. You had only had your shire horse, Thunder, for a few weeks now, but you already absolutely loved him. He was big and strong, and gentle when he wanted to be, which was most of the time-in fact, he kind of reminded you a bit of your love.

Up ahead on his own horse, a beautiful Arabian with a sleek chestnut coat named Lucky (who was definitely lucky considering how many close calls there had been on Illinois’ many adventures), Illinois glanced back at you with a grin. “Maybe you should try to keep up,” he teased lightly.

You wrinkled your nose and stuck your tongue out at him playfully, and didn’t bother stopping as you charged past, Thunder’s hooves kicking up dust in Illinois’ face. “Maybe you should try to keep up with me, love.”

Illinois chuckled and shook his head, giving Lucky a quick kick to her moving, chasing after you and your horse. He loved your little banter with him. It was fun and amusing and it made things more interesting. He liked it when things got more interesting. And you certainly made things more interesting.

It didn’t take him long to catch up to you, and soon you were racing along the trail together, neck and neck. The wind blew in your face and tugged at your hair and clothing, and Illinois had to keep one hand on his hat to keep it from flying off at the speed you were both going.

You felt the adrenaline bursting through you, and laughter bubbled in your throat at the pure joy and excitement of the moment. There was wind, sunshine, beautiful scenery, your horse, your boyfriend, and a bit of friendly competition. What more could you need?

Looking over at you and seeing and hearing your laughter, the smile that made your face crinkle up in the most adorable way, made Illinois smile too. He couldn’t help it. He just loved you too much.

But as much as he loved you, he wasn’t about to let you win. He was the Illinois after all, the greatest adventurer of all time, who never lost and was, for the record, an incredible horseback rider. He had a reputation to uphold.

He had Lucky put on another burst of speed, easily overtaking you and Thunder, despite Thunder’s larger size and arguably greater power. Like Illinois, Lucky had more experience with this sort of thing than your horse, although you weren’t quite out of the race yet.

“C’mon, Thunder,” you encouraged, tightening you grip on the reigns as you gave him a little kick of your own to prompt him to speed up even more. “I think it’s time to steal his thunder.”

You chuckled a little at your own pun, because hey, it was a good one, but Illinois did not, probably because you were once again in the lead, and you were nearing the home stretch as you grew closer and closer to your ranch.

“Oh, come on Illy, you can do better than that,” you teased, glancing back over your shoulder at him to throw him a playful grin.

“Oh, I will,” he responded, jaw set, although his eyes were twinkling. Lucky began to speed up again, and soon you were both neck and neck again, just as the open pastures of your ranch came into view.

Seeing this, your boyfriend, not about to let you win, prompted Lucky to go even faster. You didn’t even know how that was possible, especially compared to Thunder’s speed, but somehow, it was. She was going so fast, in fact, that Illinois’ hat came flying off his head, exposing his dark floppy hair, but more importantly, throwing him off guard. The great adventurer Illinois never lost his hat, and if he did, he sure as hell wasn’t leaving it behind.

So reluctantly (although he was still sure he could beat you), he dropped back, hoping to quickly loop back and grab it, but you were faster.

With expert skill, you leaned down to the side, keeping your legs tight and your feet pressed into the stirrup to keep yourself secure, and reached out for the hat as it fluttered to the ground.

You grabbed it just as Illinois started making his way back, swinging yourself back upright on the saddle and putting on the hat for yourself, throwing him a triumphant wink as you rode past.

He stared, mouth hanging open in surprise, as you passed, unaware that he was inadvertently slowing down in his distraction. You were certainly full of surprises, and you looked really good in that hat too. You looked really good. It fit you almost as well as it fit him.

You knew he was was watching you, and you smiled to yourself. Not only were you totally about to win the race back to the ranch, but you also had your boyfriend in awe of you as you did. And that was a rare feat, considering who he was. It made you feel warm inside, and your cheeks flushed a little, although you quickly shook it off. You still had a race to win after all.

And win it, you did. Thunder had had no trouble securing a lead after the hat incident, one that even Lucky couldn’t overtake, meaning you were victorious, and you weren’t going to let Illinois forget about it any time soon.

“Wow, I can’t believe I beat the Illinois,” you remarked as you slid off Thunder’s back and landed on the floor of the barn where you had taken the horses. “Guess that makes me the real greatest adventurer then.”

Illinois scoffed, although he was smiling, swinging one leg over and plopping off the saddle onto the ground next to you. “I was just going easy on you,” he insisted. “Otherwise, I would have won.”

“Mhm, sure,” you muttered in response as he reached out and grabbed you by the waist with one hand, pulling you closer. “You tell yourself that.” You still had his hat on, and with his other hand he grasped it gently, although he didn’t take it off you yet.

“Can I have this back now?” he asked.

“Mmm, I’ll consider it,” you responded, and he made a face. Laughing, you pulled him into a deep kiss, wrapping both you arms around his neck, holding him tight.

At first he seemed a bit taken off-guard, since he still wasn’t entirely used to the whole affection thing, especially when it was initiated by someone else, but he quickly melted into the kiss, both his hands now on your waist, his hat now forgotten. You stayed like that for several moments, absorbed in the kiss, until you remembered you had to actually stop for air.

“Here you go,” you said, a little breathless, placing his hat on top of his head. “We should probably go take care of the horses now, don’t you think.”

You started to step away, but Illinois grabbed your wrist and pulled you back towards him. “Perhaps. But then again, what’s one more kiss, for the winner of the race?”

You faked a sigh, but were unable to keep the smile off your face and the blush off your cheeks. “Alright, what’s one more kiss?”

Illinois grinned, and pressed his lips against yours, and you were once again wrapped up in the kiss. If this was how it was going to be, you really needed to go horseback riding more often.