#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

[springs-hurts]

It was such a beautiful scene, only if it had really been Arthur and not Merlin's magic...fuck I love the Excalibur lore man! I didn't like seeing Merlin taking a sword and turning into Excalibur, IS THERE ANYTHING ARTHUR HIMSELF DID IN THIS SHOW? Clearly not, he can't even kill some bandits without Merlin's help, Gods help me I love this show but these scenes...

Take me up, // It was forged in a dragon’s breath // In the wrong hands, this sword could do great evil. It must be wielded by Arthur and him alone // The sword was born of the old magic. You have no idea of its power // Take the sword far from here and place it where no mortal man can ever find it // [Excalibur] was made specifically for Arthur // No, I’m going to make you see that Tristan’s wrong; you aren’t just anyone, you are special. You and you alone can draw out that sword // You’re destined to be Albion’s greatest king. Have faith // cast me away.

Arthur and Merlin | Excalibur

[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."

[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

[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)

[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

[urfavoritemistake]

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

[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:

[talialoveswriting]

I finally finished writing an epilogue I've been working on sporadically for almost 2 years... and it's just under 15,000 words long.

At what point should I come to terms with the fact that I accidentally wrote a novelette?

[bixels]

tarpit site.