#so it doesn't really matter

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

i don't know how to explain the mental damage it does to me that joel mchale's love interest from animal control was born in 1994 and alison brie was born in 1982. it awakens a deep sense of injustice in me as someone who was in the jeff/annie trenches from the fall of 2009 onward. i don't know. i'm sure i've made this exact same post before. but oh my god. 1994! WHAT! can adults even be born in 1994?!?!?! i get that it's 2025, but i stand by my question. what.

[lucius-the-sinful]

Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

tagged by @omgkalyppso

1: how many works do you have on ao3?

Including orphaned works, 26 :)

2: whats your total ao3 word count?

90,878... feels wild if i put all my fics together i could get a novel

3: what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Backwoods Bloodshed a supernatural (not that supernatural) Gabriel Reyes/Jack Morrison AU, M rated, 5k words, 146 kudos. idk why this one got so popular it was a half baked idea that never got finished lol

Stomach It Angst Mc/Hanzo. Rated T, 2k words, 137 kudos. I genuinely don't remember anything about this one. I guess it was spurred by a prompt lol

Well Acquainted Tony Stark/Stephen Strange first meetings pre Avengers: Infinity War, Rated T, 999 words, 133 kudos. This one was apparently written for a contest on Twitter???

'99 Again Drifter Silas/Arthur Nightingale and the trials of their developing relationship, Rated M, 8.3k words, 114 kudos. I will finish this one eventually I promise even if its five years from now

Earned It Mc/Hanzo modern setting AU inspired by some fanart on twitter and another poledancer AU fic, Rated M, 1.7k words, 63 kudos. I unfortunately remember this one, I'm just glad I had the foresight to talk to an actual poledancer before writing this lol.

okay that was awful next question please :)

4: what fandoms do you write for?

Currently: Warframe, Cyberpunk, and Elder Scrolls. But I tend to deviate to whatever my current hyperfixations are.

5: do you respond to comments? why or why not?

Yes! I try to respond to every comment I get. The only time I won't respond to comments is when I feel like I have nothing to say or someone is a regular commenter/already in my DM's.

6: what's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I feel like "angst" can't be measured properly when half of my works have angsty endings LMAO. Recently, probably part 5 of my series about my dragonborn OC, Something In The Orange

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

Fragments maybe? More so making the best of a bad situation... which i think is what mostly happens in my fics. '99 Again (link above) will likely be the fluffiest/happiest when its done.

8: do you get hate on fics?

Not that I know of.

9: do you write smut?

Hehehe yes :3 Most recently was Alpha Tongue, Mercer Frey and my original dragonborn dunmer OC. Isolated from my series because I was pretty proud of it

10: do you write crossovers?

No, not really. I think the closest thing I get to a crossover is just inserting my main OC, Zafir, into everything. But I consider that more of AU style fic.

11: have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

12: have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, Earned It (link above) was translated into Vietnamese. It was requested to be translated by the translator which was super cool!

13: have you ever cowritten a fic before?

No, I tend to be kind of controlling when it comes to my writing so I don't want to subject that to others.

14: whats your all time favorite ship?

Hhhhh aughhhh idk. I feel like I don't engage much with canon x canon anymore. I guess Albrecht/Loid from Warframe. Its the tag I end up looking through the most even though there aren't a lot of fics for them. Mannimarco/Vanus Gallerian is also good but another rarepair lol.

15: whats the wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I'm going to be so for real, I don't think my series Witcher, Poet, King will ever be finished. Its such a tragedy because I have invested far too much thought in witcher!Zafir but I just don't really know where to go with the series.

16: what are your writing strengths?

I think dialogue, suspension, characterization. I'm working on unreliable narrators/characters and that's been a lot of fun.

17: what are your writing weaknesses?

Environmental descriptions are still my weakest thing in prose. I also get overwhelmed with longfic, which is why I break it up into parts of series. I have been told my chapter lengths are perfect by some readers, but I always feel like the length can be lackluster for others. I think my ideas are huge but my execution can be lacking for sure lol. But I feel like thats a universal struggle

18: thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I think I have done it before in Spanish, but I don't want to do it again unless its going to be accurate. Whenever I represent another language now I usually don't put the actual words unless the POV character understands it. For example, in Temperance :

“ Just take the most expensive stuff, ” One said in Russian. Zafir felt a headache coming on, as he realized he understood them better than if they spoke English. Yet… he never recalled taking the time to learn Russian. “ Looks like the fucker’s ready. ” 

The only exception to this is if the language in question is fictional and doesn't really have an exact translation like elder speak in The Witcher or dunmeri in Elder Scrolls.

19: first fandom you wrote for?

Okay, you'll never find this anywhere because I think it got scrubbed from the internet, but back when I was like 12 I wrote a ton of Creepypasta fanfic. Humble beginnings LMAO. I still have the documents on an old laptop in storage.

20: favorite fic you've ever written?

Feather Fall, Rated T. Just follows my OC Zafir after the collapse and death of most of his witcher school. I just love the character interactions between him and Vesimir, Lambert, Eskel, and Geralt. Would love to write more for that series but here we are.

tagging: @sevastiel @skyrim-crossing @pocket-vvardvark and anyone else who wants to participate <3

[starwarsshippings]

i had to

[truuskn]

he's so cute and sillyyy 😫 my goood, look at him, just look at him!! how do we even have the nerve to pump his life with angst? my dude deserves to be happy 24/7

[afamiliarsword]

I think I might have ADHD but I'm really unsure? Might check for it some day but it's really weird looking at people talking about it and going "Oh I did that yesterday. Oh I've done that a lot."

[littlefankingdom]

This man (Bruce) is so abnormal about parenthood and so intense about his love for Dick. "He's not my son, he's more than that" Son is not a strong enough word for what Dick is to him. And the last panel being Oliver with Roy, which is later, implying that Oliver finally understood wtf was Bruce talking about when he got Roy, being like "wtf does his weird bs make sense?!?"

But also, a part of it may come from how Dick wasn't comfortable with becoming Bruce's son, so Bruce got used to immediately correcting people when they called him his father or Dick his son because he doesn't want Dick to overhear it and be hurt (a lot of people in the fandom seems to forget that it was Dick who did not want to be adopted and who was against Bruce being his father. Of course, that changed with time, but Bruce respecting that is great and not "bad parenting". A foster parent should never force a kid to accept them as their father/mother)

[akiiame-blog]

going back to a concept I've always loved personally; king boo possessing mario as a boss in luigi's mansion

[parisoonic]

last ones i swear

[moghedien]

you noticed how Glinda doesn't really let go of Elphaba basically from the Ozdust scene on and she's basically always holding Elphaba's hand or hanging onto her arm, even when its physically awkward to be doing so. and even during Defying Gravity after its clear that Glinda isn't going with Elphaba, they're still holding hands right up until the point where Glinda is grabbed by a guard and forcible pulled away from Elphaba

[mintypsii]

i can't believe one piece invented gay people

[dreadark]

the difference between till at the start of round 6 and round 7

he doesn't seem like he's trying at all during round 6, having already fully given up living after losing mizi

but in round 7, even though he's lost even more, he's clearly putting all he has left into it

and the reason for that... has to be ivan, right?

he must have recognized ivan sacrificed himself for him, so for the sake of ivan's feelings till tries his absolute best to respond to them and perform that till sings at all here is for ivan

...but at the same time ivan is what haunts him

obviously, right? there's no way watching someone you were so close to you die like that right in front of you can give you actual "strength" (and this isn't even getting into the kiss...) contrary to ivan's (clearly wrong) conviction that till doesn't care enough for him to become a trauma to him, that's exactly what happens

this inextricable mix of love and hate, hurting and healing... this is the tragedy of their relationship to the end no matter how much ivan and till care for each other, they can't ever cure each other

[remcadll]

Gen obsessed with how.. *dead* your Jason's color pallete is. Like, that's corpse pale right there. Not a spec of blood left flowing in there (also father Todd's skin being full of color in comparison is a nice touch)

THANK YOU I love making him look a bit ghoulish. Guy who's not supposed to be alive but yes he is. no he isn't <3

[dottysdokis]

early 1980s to early 2010s is possibly one of the funniest 30-year periods of history to miss out on, especially for a scientist

[suru-sketches]

happy birthday, mackerel

they're at the aquarium to celebrate his birthday with his own kind (aka fish, coz mackerels are fish? lol)

[technically-human]

Valentine's Day!!

The boys finally get a happy moment after going through the canon events

This was a commission for @i-am-as-normal-as-you-are so thank them for the cuteness!

The bonus is completely my fault though:

[fyuyushia]

Nah nah nah hear me out!! Hear me out!!!

Sung Jinwoo finding you in the world after he turns back time but he's a little too late for romancing you.

By too late I mean by the time he comes to find you and DOES find you you're already taken. He's absolutely devastated when he sees you already being lovey dovey with someone else.

You're holding hands with someone, dating someone and everything by the time he tries to rekindle the bond that sparked in the time nobody remembers.

He's heartbroken, disappointed, betrayed and all—and he contemplates giving up on you. Clearly you're happy, clearly you're content in another's arms. He only has himself to blame for seeking you out too late.

But a part of him refuses to give up—nah he likes you too much to just give up so easily. After much encouragement from beru and his other shadows (who insisted it is much too early to give up—if there's no ring then it's not too late yet!!!) he approaches you.

Baby steps. He tells himself. Baby steps.

He'll start as an acquaintance, work his way to a friend, and then best friend, and then the next part—the hard part—your boyfriend.

He's practically praying for the downfall of your relationship(he feels bad because he doesn't want to see you hurt but he also doesn't want to see you with another guy)

When with you? Oh yeah he's every bit the best boy best friend you could ever get.(It's too the point your boyfriend gets jealous)

He's there to comfort you whenever you argue with your lover, he's there whenever your boyfriend pushes your boundaries and makes you uncomfortable, he's there to let you yap about everything when your boyfriend won't listen.

Jinwoo stays, steadfastly loyal. As your best friend. And when you finally FINALLY break up with your 'boyfriend'? Oh yeah you best believe he's celebrating on the inside while sympathizing with you on the outside.

You're sobbing, saying you'll never believe in love ever again in his arms and he's nodding along, uttering words of assurance like the good friend he is.

You don't even notice he's smiling as he says them, don't even notice the way he has to physically hide his joy because YESSSSS HES NIT FOREVER!! HE HAS A CHANCE!!!

Inside the shadow realm everyone's celebrating!! The cockroach is no more!! Our king's lover is free from the curse that the wretched man had cast on them!! True love prevails!!