#so it's more of the not-yet-canon the could-be-canon that we haven't gotten to yet bc valve has yet to finish the series

[vv-ispy]

Ships that could have worked out if it wasn't for one (1) thing

[thatrandomidiot182]

Reader messed up by telling Jace she wanted to be the one to kill his brother…like how did she think that would go over with him? I am curious of why she thought saying that would bring him to her side?

Oh yeah, Reader fumbled so bad. To be fair, she wasn't really thinking at the moment, kinda just blurted it out, she didn't say it as a way to bring him to her side, more as a way to get him to stop bashing Aemond.

I mean, this is the first time Reader and Jace meet after Viserys' death and before all out war.

Reader has plans and she knows that if it came down to it, she would never hurt Jace, so she's desperate to sway him to her side or at the least get him to run away with her.

Them running away tg was best case scenario, but as we know that didn't work out at all!

Anyway, as the convo continues Reader begins to get more and more desperate as Jace continues to refuse her offers. If they don't come to an agreement now, she knows it will be the end of them, no matter the winner of the war, their relationship would never be the same. Jace is being incredibly unswayable about this, and all for what reason? Because of Aemond.

There were many details left unsaid about Lukes death, so Jace latched onto the facts he did know.

Aemond hated Lucerys, and he was the one riding the dragon that killed him.

2 + 2 right?

So he goes on to reprimand reader for loving such a man, a murderer.

Reader loves Aemond as much as she does Jace so hearing him go on and on about how horrible Aemond is really gets to her. She has always stood up for Aemond because everyone villainizes him, and this case was no different.

She tried to convince Jace multiple different ways that Lukes death really was just an unfortunate accident but Jace is as stubborn as his mother.

He's also mourning, so he's not thinking very clearly either.

He latches onto the first conclusion his brain comes to as he hasn't had the proper time to process it all.

He knows that Reader also loves Aemond, for some odd reason, and he normally refrains from being too vulgar about his uncle for that reason, but he can't find it in himself to stop.

Honestly, Jace's tirade about Aemond wasn't all true, he was just venting and if he had gotten the chance to finish and calm down, he would have apologized and actually listened to reader.

However, Reader was highkey frustrated bc Jace kept insulting Aemond, and having witnessed Aemond's genuine remorse over the incident she began to feel more and more pressured to 'clear' his name, as well as becoming more anxious about Jace leaving for good. The conversation wasn't going how she wanted it too and it left her extremely frustrated!

Thus, she jumped the gun and blurted out what she believed to be the truth in an attempt to absolve Aemond of yet another lie ruining his reputation.

She immediately regretted it, especially because she didn't mean for it to come out as it did.

Had she wanted to kill Lucerys? Yes.

That is the undeniable truth, however she never actually told Aemond that, and she never actually would have done it either, seeing as Jace genuinely loved his brother.

Now, Aemond was incredibly pissed at Luke no doubt, but he was still his nephew and not to mention, a child. No matter how angry he was he didn't ever consider killing the boy, he simply wanted to be properly avenged, Luke's death took that chance away from him...

Reader could have stayed and explained her words more thoroughly but Jace wouldn't have heard her out at that point.

In short, the reason she said what she said was due to a lapse in judgement, a rush of emotion and desperation.

It all could have been avoided if either Jace or Reader was patient or thinking clearly, or practiced clear communication properly lol.

I actually plan to write an ending where they clear things up before leaving Winterfell...

HOWEVER!! This is not the end for Reader and Jace canon-wise!! I do plan on having them reconnect at some point before the end of season two, I just haven't figured out how...

Hope this answered your question anon! If not, please don't hesitate to ask me again bc I can sometimes overexplain and still completely miss the point lol.

[tbhimnoteasyonmyself]

9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know You Better

First of all, thank you Mickey (@thisautistic) for tagging me <3. Super thrilled that you thought of me for this!!

Now...

3 Ships You Like

1. Kimchay (Kinnporsche)

My babies. I want to protect them both. They're precious and perfect to be put in situations. A force strong enough to have me cooking a longfic after years of not writing a single one. Do I need to same more?? Absolutely obsessed 💜💜💜.

2. Pangwave (The Gifted)

Obligatory mention to my special little ADHD x Autism duo. Don't even argue that they're not canon, if you think that it's bc you missed very significant subtext, I suggest you rewatch this series. Pls and thank you. I will NOT take any criticism.

3. Sandray (Only Friends)

I knew from their 1st sex scene that I was down bad but their trailer sex scene just completely rewired my brain. Is their dynamic fucked up? Yes. Will they hurt each other along the way? Absolutely. But they're on their path to something better and I believe in them. Bc if Ray is deserving of love even after everything that went down then so are all of us. And there's that.

First Ship Ever

Larry Stylinson! (from One Direction)

Straight back from when I was 13, going strong! kskskskssksk I'm not so much there actively in the fandom anymore, but know that I'm there in spirit. sksksksksks Could never abandon the reason for so much change in my life! Good memories!!

Last Song Heard

Nooit Meer Spijt by S10

It's such a good song! I'm not Dutch or Dutch-adjacent but I was introduced to S10 by a friend of mine who's Belgian and I fell in love with her music ever since!

Favorite Childhood Book

A Fada Oriana (The Fairy Oriana) by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.

It's about a fairy named Oriana that has to take care of a forest but one day, while looking at the river, meets a fish who talks her into neglecting the forest, which causes a lot of trouble. Then, Oriana, has to learn how to repair the damage she made.

It's a book about responsibility, consequeses, the importance of individual action and learning from one's mistakes.

Currently Reading

Património Cultural: Realidade Viva (Cultural Patrimony: Live Reality) by Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins.

It's a book about the preservation of patrimony in Portugal under the context of belonging in the European Union in the 21st century.

It's not a very interesting book nor scientific, just a summary of Portuguese and European laws for people who don't wanna read the laws (?). I wouldn't read it on my own but it's a mandatory read for one of my classes in my Master's so I gotta ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Currently Watching

23.5

I didn't know if I was going to but since GMM seems to be finally trying out more for the GLs, I feel like I need to show my support in this direction so I made the moral choice of watching as it airs to make it clear to them the audience for this is here and we want more of it!

So far ep.1 was super cliché and silly but I liked it a lot!! I want all the clichés for the girls too! Tired of seeing queer women suffer and die on screen...

2. 3 Will Be Free

It had been sitting on my watchlist for a while but I never gotten around to it for some reason... Nevertheless, my latest Wheel Decide™ for what to watch next landed on it, so... I'm watching it now!

2 episodes in only but I'm loving it a lot!! The plot's super interesting so far, really like the way they're going about it. Let's see where it goes!!

Currently Consuming

I'm gonna opt to mention the game I'm currently playing (besides Bloons TD 6, but I'm always playing Bloons, so... not news), which is Heaven's Vault by Inkle!

It's an extremely niche game, focused on figuring out an ancient language and, with it, the history of the world it's set in. It envolves robots, space travelling, discussions on xenophobia and religious intolerence and a lot more. I haven't finished yet but I'm loving the experience so far!

I understand it's not for everyone but I'm loving it!! <3 (not a Mickey D's reference, fuck Mickey D's)

Currently Craving

You know, I could go with bibimbap bc I really want some rn but I'm gonna go a bit deeper and say: after the terribleness of my last 2 relationships, all I really want is one that's not enirely chatastrophic. kskssksksksk That'd be pretty neat. kssksksk

So yeah... This was a lot of fun, actually!! I love to share stuff about media I like!!

Tagging @jukain4216 @lost-my-sanity1 @anthrotmnt @shannankle @defomin @aiyui @fiddlepickdouglas @tinysandwichstudent @sicknsadsicknrad @itsamzz28 @whomanist and any other of my lovely moots that hasn't directly been tagged but comes accross this <3.

All the love! 💜💜💜

[seelestia]

okok tbis is an imagine not an ask obviously but i need 2 get this out and i know youre a peacock man enjoywer. Did you see that one Kakavasha and Arle fanart..... imagine. a world where that guy got taken into the house of the hearth somehow instead of whate nded up happening to him. Something tells me Lyney wouldn't be next in line for Father anymore 💀

“peacock man enjoyer” .... ur absolutely right 🥰 LMAO. i did see the fanart going 'round before! it's this one on twt i assume?

BUT BUT before we get to HoH-ified aventurine – lemme chip in my thoughts abt aventurine & paternity. bcs !!! i hc him to be a gentle father—softer tone when talking to children, petting their heads, willing to indulge their whims (like games which he is also fond of, etc.)—but aventurine might not allow himself the privilege of being a father due to his current life. i don't think he even dares to give himself the belief that he would be a good one either (he would). still, it's obvious that there is a special place in his heart for kids. they're young, innocent, yet to be tainted by the filthy ink of this world's tribulations – it's something to be protected while it lasts, he thinks.

(aventurine with kids.... hdwhshhsh i need to keep my sanity 🙏)

putting further thoughts utc!

anywho back to our what if aventurine is in the house of hearth !!! my guy has the persuasion skills like a true diplomat! he has the schemes & charisma! he has unassailable (smug) composure that took away his ability to be emotionally vulnerable! what a recipe for trouble that brims with potential all the same. i still haven't gotten a good grip on arlecchino's character, so i can't say for sure whether she'd choose lyney or aventurine.

abt the differences between the two tho: the only thing i'm certain of is that lyney would be “father” because of how his desire to protect his family has gone beyond mere 'desire' and transformed into a firm, fully-fledged conviction. as for aventurine? my brain can't rlly think of anything elaborate except for a few words: “survival”, “detached”, and “knows what [he] wants and takes it”.

maybe it's also the charisma? from a glance, aventurine looks like he has a more 'solid' sense of it compared to lyney (although both of them are canonically charismatic iirc!). this could be bcs we've witnessed lyney's vulnerable side before (re: archon quest where he tried to save his siblings) – so that lessens his elusive charisma but makes him more “human” in our eyes. aventurine also went thru the same thing in penacony but admittedly, his reveal has more to do with bitter nostalgia than the desperation that was present in lyney's. so tldr: desperation = less rizz? /lh. i genuinely can't provide anything concrete atp sorry 😵‍💫

[chevvy-yates]

WIP WEDNESDAY

Decided it is time for another update so here's a longer post to what I've been up to and stuff that circles around in my head lately.

tagging:

@medtech-mara, @imaginarycyberpunk2023, @itzsassha, @humberg, @kittenchrissy, @rosapexa, @cinnamon-mey, @heywoodvirgin, @dreamskug, @drunkchasind, and everyone who sees and wants to do as well.

No pressure as always!

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1. CHARACTERS & LORE

Let's begin with sth. first I have on my mind for a while: As this fandom (sadly) seems to fall more and more apart, I would like to know if there are still people interested in reading actual lore content or not. As some of you know my dear friend @nervouswizardcycle and I are continously building up some sort of our own expansion after the main game events with rp/fic, character builds, backstory lore and support by vp and it eats a lot of time. The lack of interactions on tblr during the last few months and in several discord servers has led to me not posting a lot anymore either (beside my mental exhaustion phases that come and go). It seems more active again though, as majority already played Phantom Liberty by now or are right into it, so they slowly come back bc they presumably avoided spoilers. —————— So, here is me wondering how many following my blog are 'really' interested to see me sharing all lore of the boys (including story parts) or does the majority prefer just to see pretty pics and that's it? —————— (I've wanted to add a poll here but it doesn't let me save my post so I might do it in a seperate one a bit later) I know: it's my blog, I post what I like in the first place, and I'll likely continue that way but somehow I would like to know if it's worth the effort of formating and thinking about how the posts could look or if I can take that time to do something else with it instead if there's less interest. So, I would just keep it in my tiny discord server I share with my rp partner(s)/in private chats with those interested bc it's gotten to be a lot and we are still at the very start it feels.

2. SKILLS, CYBERWARE & HUMANITY LOSS

As I'm the type that can't have ocs with no background/lore, I sat down the other day and did a build for each with their skills, wrote down what chrome everyone got (incl. additional c-ware from the lore books plus I'm reading e.g. into what programs my runner twins are likely to make use of). It went this far that my friend used the amount of the game's 'cyberware capacity' as 'humanity loss'. It is used in the lore books/ttrpg anyways. So I've counted all my boys possible capacity* and use it as humanity loss (HL) now which led me to thinking about which one of my ocs goes to get treatment and how often they go to see a MedTech on regular base. I thought I could give them a certain minus amount to reduce the HL for each depending on how much or less c-ware they got — e.g. Thyjs as soldier has most (but all is good Militech chrome) and used to go and still goes regularly so his HL gets a huge reduce — whereas Ryder's gets always nulled no matter how often he gets threatment, because BEAST (rogue AI) eats it away each time (to understand that in full you probably have to know the story). Ry must have most HL loss as he often walks along the edge towards cyberpsychosis, so I'm forced to reduce Thyjs' with most c-ware installed a huge amount. And that's how I made it now. It's probably far away from canon ttrpg as my 'canon cp world' consists of 75% game, 20% lorebooks and 5% own added ideas I haven't seen on the lore yet. And I like it that way I gotta say. On a little side note: It also had me thinking about creating a new support character for the team that could be in fact a MedTech. But I won't do that anytime soon.

* some things might still change as I slowly started playing their playthroughs and skill them for real now. I love each build so far because it's a whole different experience! And playing someone with noe netrunning ability is hell as I was only usedto paly netrunner before.

3. FIC SNIPPET TIME

I decided to give you an insight of what I've roughly written yesterday about Ryder and Thyjs having a talk about how they feel for each other:

“Ik ben eerlijk. I liked that accidental kiss we shared a-and i-ik find je leuk, Ry. Probably more as— a friend is supposed to do.” De Wit instantly starts feeling nauseous and something tightens around his stomach but he needs to get it off of his heavy feeling soul. “I-I guess I have stronger feelings for you than I had expected and it’s confusing me.” He frowns, “It’s not usual for me. Never felt any kind of such an attraction towards other men. I-It’s just you— I think I might be into you, Ryder.” The last sentences came in a mere murmur than spoken and Ryder’s name was only a light whisper. Thyjs didn’t dare to look to his left. He feared he would lose his new gained friend now because he said his stupid thoughts aloud. Instead he continues staring at the distant horizon feeling the lump in his throat only getting heavier. The sun was already half arisen and the sky was painted in a bright orange and yellow fading out into never ending blue. After de Wit seems to have finally finished his long talk, Ryder realizes the pack has fallen out of his hands. He needed to repeat in his mind what Thyjs just told him. Did the man really pour out his heart to him at this very moment? He couldn’t believe it at first. The pale soldier he obviously secretly fell for just told him he was having feelings for him that reach further than friendship? It took him what seemed like an eternity to get out of his frozen state. Ry moves up into a straighter position, still supporting his body with his right forearm, turning more towards Thyjs, who is still watching the rising sun with a rather sad look on his face blinking every once in a while. Eventually Scharfenberg brings up his left hand to reach for the older man’s face and de Wit suddenly feels two fingers under his chin making him look at the younger man again. He sees a tiny smile on those dark lips he caught himself looking at so many times in utter secrecy. That tiny smile that’s usually the base for a brighter even more heartwarming smile baring dangerous fangs who make the man look frightening, but smiling like that? Thyjs often caught himself thinking Ry looked cute with these fangs as well. Ry sees Thyjs’ confusion as his eyes look questioning right back at him. So Ry better says something now. “I-Ich äh—” he clears his throat, “—I don’t know where to start. How to talk feelings in the first place.” Letting Thyjs talk himself off seemed to be right for Ryder and it was worth it, because he thinks it’s the most earnest confession someone has ever made to him, yet he doesn’t know how to answer to all this best. So he decides to place himself into a sitting position, to look the soldier boy straight into the eyes. His gaze gets distracted by Thy’s slightly opened lips for a split second. It is the same situation as earlier downstairs, only that Ry has his fingers still under de Wit’s chin and starts to lead his face towards the other man. Just a few inches are left between them and Thyjs can feel the younger man’s warm breath on his skin. He also has this incredible sight at those beautiful male black eyelashes again the very moment they cast down and then he feels those same lips from before on his own with such a soft pressure that again he closes his eyes in an instant and starts to revel in that same electricity running through him but also the revenant paralyze surrounding him again.

It is just a brief kiss, similar to the one in the apartment downstairs but shyer in its move. As soon as it happened it ended. Ryder opens his eyes afterwards immediately because he fears somehow the man in front of him would get up, step back and turn away but instead he still feels his chin pressed softly against his fingers. It casts another tiny smile onto Ryder’s face as his now racing heart skips a beat or two, seeing that Thyjs didn’t make a move nor a sound. His eyes open now as well and Ry swears he’s never seen heterochromia looking so soft but also surprised at the same time at him like Thyjs does right now. He waits for a reaction but Thyjs just keeps looking at him, lips parting shortly just to close again. “What? — Did that make you that speechless now?” Ry asks with nearly the same surprisement. Thyjs lets out a heavy breath and nods, eyes totally lost looking at him which lets Scharfenberg put on a warm smile. “Want to— try again?” Thyjs swallows his unspoken words that gathered in his throat he couldn’t speak aloud and nods again. Heavier, his lips turning into a smile as well and his eyes are suddenly filled with happiness and relief, like he’s telling Ryder that he cannot wait to have their lips meeting once more and to feel that intense buzz from before as it spreads through his entire body like when he’s powering up electricity. This feeling right now? It’s strong and sends an entirely new sensation through him. Is dat het gevoel van vlinders in je buik? He wonders but doesn’t get much more time to think about it because Ryder choses to lean in for a second time.

It can and probably will be rewritten or changed but I definitely want to have it this way! Thjys starts talking and talking almost doing a monologue instead of a dialogue until he comes to the final point and Ryder wants to respond with words but doesn't know how to (he may find them a bit later) and just does what's best: kiss this soldier. I'll max out this kissing scene for a lot more pages just because I can.

I love the idea of Thyjs as war machine being totally romantic and getting super takative when alone with Ryder. And Ryder definitely is a soft romatic boy, alsways was bu Beast made his life harder to show this side more but Thyjs gets to see it also in private.

4. VP

Since I do more 'actual play the game' now even though I have installed most of all mods back, I rarely do pics atm. If I do, they are just rather nice pics where I try to use the ingame light rather than to spawn spot lights. here's a preview of what comes next:

I have so many ideas I want to put into reality. Especially pics that underline the rp/fic chapters mentioned above. But I'm not going to force myself. I'll see what I can realize for the rest of the year and what gets to be stamped as a New Year's resolution. I'll probably focus on a few blorbo pics this weekend because Ryder's birthday is around the corner (31st October) and Jay's boyfriend Enzolino has just a day prior. So if I can manage, I'll do that in the first place.

Thanks for reading! <3

[darkenforcer]

2 FROM EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE PLEASE

QUESTIONS FOR THE MUN || accepting !

What caused you to start writing? What was your key point?

reading and writing have always been hobbies of mine, so when i learned i could write as the fictional characters i love? with other people!? i was so down!

i don't remember what keyed me in on it, though? i used to play pretend (it was just LARPing, lbr) on the playground until i was around 11, so maybe it kinda clicked in my mind that writing was the natural next step? no clue.

Do you tell your friends / family that you write?

KINDA... i tell people i write with a community online and create "collaborative stories," but i never refer to it as rp or go in-depth unless i know that person's also done it before / is in similar fandom spaces.

Are you happy with how your favorite canon muse was portrayed in canon?

sure, i don't have any major complaints about his writing! it's consistent and fun to compare how differences in the localization shift the tone of certain character/rship-building scenes, while still managing to keep the spirit of his character intact. my only "issue" is that they could've put more time into expanding his character arc in the third act (but the same can be said for every character... a fumble all around tbh).

Have you ever written a canon muse that you first thought of ‘meh’ when they appeared in their canon show/movie/book?

NOPE! can't do it. if i'm not weird about that fictional character from the start, it's very unlikely i'll ever put the effort into forcing myself to write them. i need that click! that spark!

How do you create an OC? What are your steps for developing an OC?

i haven't developed an oc in yearssss so i'm the last person anyone should be asking. uh... (1) be a preteen, (2) develop an insane normal fictional crush, and (3) make an oc to ship them with. bam.

Who was your first OC?

i made my first in-depth oc when i was a wee 9 year old... she started out as a self-insert sonic oc that i obviously had to ship with sonic and shadow bc, duh. i also forced my cousins to make ocs so we could roleplay together lol.

i had more before that one but they were basically just vague roles i slipped into when playing pretend with my friends.

Is there any fandom you regret exploring?

can i say all of them njgnjg i think every fandom out there has its subset of annoying fans who'll make you reconsider ever interacting with anyone you haven't personally vetted lol, even if briefly. for example -- just bc of its infamy -- i never interact with sonic fans outside my circle; i've seen way too many pointless debates and shitty opinions to risk venturing out there again...

In what fandom did you start?

i am SO glad sonic was the first because the ones after it are infinitely more embarrassing.

What are your favorite ships on here (feel free to tag?)

OOO good question!!! i'll start by saying i've been rooting for break/zhilan since day 1 -- love those goobers!! other than that, i enjoy seeing any ship get together on here, like lloyd/zelos, vash/wolfwood (both iterations), nicolette/wang yi... if you're shipping with someone just now i'm hooting 'n hollering whenever they interact.

Have you ever developed a ship based on writing with a certain other character / mun?

nope, not yet! it's not that i'm against developing ships after noticing chemistry betwen muses -- far from it! -- it's just never gotten to the point where i wrote one.

What’s something you find weird on here?

i can't think of anything in particular, so... tumblr's commitment to making their layout as annoying as unoriginal and bloated as possible.

What people make you happy when you see them on the dash?

commence the taggening... you (duh), @kleinstar, @moraypower, @hollowfaith, @cladinivcry, @ultimatelifefcrm, @innerbeast, @nicawlette, @twohundredpower, @spiderstaff, @lalaluuz, ... i can't keep tagging people i'll go on forever...

[asfearlessasamango]

here i ammmmm i hope this isnt the longest ask ever lol but i cannot overstate how GORGEOUS i find your prose. the phrase “tiredness curls up in each joint like old cats in old corners” is so absolutely evocative and paints such a melancholic, beautiful, rich picture in my mind every time i remember it. i could actually get it tattooed thats how seriously beautiful i find it. most of all i loooooooove the amount of social norms, architectural details, cultural differences etc etc you infused in the story to fill in the gaps of the canon universe. the choice of using of rice paper vs. glass and all the reasoning behind it is the example that comes to mind, but im sure that if i knew more about east asian cultures, i could identify more and more details you scattered throughout the plot to turn this make believe world into a truthful parallel of the real one we have. i can only say bravo. and if you have any recommended reading for homework, i’d love to know more about these references! now back to your writing! one of thee strongest points of the story, for me, is how believable these characters are as people. they feel so fully fleshed out that sometimes it was like intruding on someone’s most private thoughts - even a little painful to keep going, and i mean that in the best way possible! i especially loved the subtle addition of zuko’s ingrained sexism and prejudice against other nations, things that ofc he’s never had reason to unlearn in this universe. he is compassionate, but can be very unkind - seems like a delicate balance, but in your story, it just flows naturally. you inhabit their heads, strengths, flaws and life experiences so well, like sokka’s blind defensiveness when he thinks of himself as helpless, his brashness and ingenuity when he sees zuko more as a puzzle to solve than a person. that goes even people who haven't gotten that much plot attention yet - like azula wearing blue lipstick (!!!!) foaming at the mouth from the thought. OFC she would!!! shes bold, shes confident and shes here to shine + now she allows herself to have fun! do “ugly” and “imperfect” things for fun! and all the parallels between this redeemed azula and the canon zuko we know. your oc who is zuko's guardian, who he calls grandma, hasn't even shown up yet and i already love and miss her. uncle iroh!!!! zuko assuming malice from uncle iroh who only wants the best for him - but ofc he doesnt know that! but we do, and it hurtssss katara and aang!!! the bath scene with aang, zuko’s forced vulnerability, their honesty, aang’s absolute grace towards zuko. suki and the kyoshi warriors! i trust they will get their turn to kick some ignorant prince ass. and the thing that draws me the most to this genre: the exploration of trauma in its aftermath. your storytelling is wonderfully brutal here. like… you draw a white picture by filling in all its shadowy contours…. if that makes sense. all the ways zuko’s life was affected by his father add up to the shape of his hurt. him not eating fatty foods to stay fit and "bend better". recognizing azula in his own reflection instead of himself. wearing his mom’s night clothes. im going feral feral feral whew! in my heart all this would’ve been a very pretty glittery letter sent to your author p.o. box. i love your story and it lives constantly in my imagination - thank you so much for sharing it with the world!!!

ohhhmg.... thank you for this!! i sat on it for a whole minute to respond right! i'm so glad you like it!! i love that you love all these characters' new lives <3 <3

there are so many Very Careful Lines to Walk in doing an ATLA au bc the original characters and cultural stories are really so complex. and i am FAR from an expert on east asian history / cultures but here are a few sources that I found helpful / interesting:

jinian qian's writing for The Millions, especially the articles "The Moon Is Beautiful Tonight: On East Asian Narratives" and "Light in the West and Shadows in the East"

chaoyang trap, which is not at all about ancient china but about very modern chinese cultural existence, especially on the Internet / social media / fandom. I can't say this has directly provided me with a lot of relevant info but it does help me figure out attitude / approaches / how things "translate" into western contexts

and of course there are so many A:TLA blogs that really keep the analytical conversations going and make ao3 as vibrant as it is-- @atlaculture, @boybff, @volkswagonblues, @azularedemptionarcwhen, @chitsangenthusiast, @azulasnailtech, @visit-ba-sing-se, @marriedzukka, @bleekay, @ash-and-starlight, @sokkagatekeeper, @azulapropaganda, @zukkababey, @comradekatara, @ofherlionheart, @chaoticsandstorm

okay i will stop blasting this post into all of atla tumblr's notifs but the above blogs are total Gs, 10/10, would not be as deep into my MFA in a:tla without these trailblazing scholars who went before me

have a lovely vintage kermit meme, mwah

[openphrase123]

hihihi i just finished chapter 15 of curtain call and ITS SO GOOD!!!!! im obsessed with your worldbuilding and writing and characterizations and its all so good!!!!!!! i too also wish we could've canonically had some more of the emotional catharsis by having these confrontations and problems dealt with directly. the way siffrin gets angry too in this fic???? mmm chefs kiss love it love it so much.

anyway!! i know there's the next big fic you're working on as well as intuile for long term projects, but i was wondering if curtain call was going to become a series after the epilogue? ik we haven't gotten it yet so that could answer my question but i was just curious!! bc i feel like there is sooo much to explore with the way you've set the characters up and the types of convos they've had and promises they've made.

ty for your time and i hope you had a good day/night!! enjoy your week off this fic and i hope the personal project goes well :)

hold on before i get into this. apropos of nothing i'm obsessed with your url

i KNOW like. listen. i love isat so much. i wish some fights got a little meaner or bled into the last loop. but i know that's not what it was trying to do so i don't fault it for it. but i did write a bunch of fanfiction about it instead lsadjflasdkjfas

curtain call is not going to be a series! i only got so much juice in me for a project and there's other fic stuff that's drawing me more... curtain call was so fun and i enjoyed it but it was the first isat fic i started writing so i was still getting in the swing of writing for it! i honestly thought it would be the only isat fic i would go write and then i fell down the rabbit hole really hard. oops.

however i'm not super precious about the worldbuilding in cc (even if i thought through it very hard!) so if anyone wants to steal parts of that for their fics i'm chill with that. when it comes to fanfiction i subscribe wholly to the "two cakes" train of thought

anyway thank you for reading! i know it might be sad to see curtain call go but trust me when i say. in like 6 months it's not going to be my best isat fic, i think i have better ideas in the can :)

however if you liked how the name worldbuilding in curtain call works you would definitely enjoy the video game i'm developing - [i am hooked off stage before i can finish and am gingerly placed in front of my computer so i can go back to researching godot data storage]

[royallygray]

I’m busy today ahsjsk but prepare for me to ramble your ears off later

also take a guess at which ship 💀 you’ll never get it /s

also also also did I reblog that from you and if so spill I want to hear what you’re writing /nf

OOOOOH

I bet you seventy monopoly bucks it's ethubs. just. just a subtle guess. maybe. possibly. actually quite unlikely it's not like you ship them or anything 😁

Idk if you reblogged that from me either and idk what /nf means but. ok.

So I have my main AU, soul horizon au, aka around my soul and beyond your horizon, and the masterpost of everything relating to it is here. It's Scarian and Gempearl but it's actually centered around everyone's friendship and something except I haven't actually done a lot of writing for it but I have stuff about Pearl and I have a mutual Peri @periwinklepaint (the best I love them sm just shdhagjah) she's so talented and has drawn 3(THREE!!!!!!!! :D) Pearl drawings in soul horizon au and she's the one that has kept me going in this au

And then my other main not fanfic one is iw8, that I've talked about a teeny bit, but it's my self-indulgent ass half-my-300-OCs fic, that also doesn't actually have anything written for IT-- WAIT I DO I HAVE AN AO3 AND IVE PUBLISHED SOME STUFF FOR IW8 LETS GOO

my ao3 is royalwriteswords and the series is called iw8 | Eternality under my RoyallyGray pseud

I hate half of them but yeah

uhh I've ranted sufficiently

Oh yeah I ranted a little bit about Skyler in a post. She's an OC in iw8

did I mention that iw8 is technically a Harry Potter fanfic. that crosses over with Percy Jackson. and also keeper of the lost cities. but I tend to ignore that bc it diverged primarily into family dynamics and shit bc the main family (Crownes) (Crown-nez) has a long line of people and just. a lot of people with different dynamics and shit and I could probably stop ranting but honestly I'm having fun

Okay so the main character--im unsure if I'm gonna change her name or not--is named Sarah Crownes. Which is the self insert that got out of hand and she was a Mary Sue fucking overpowered as hell (she's still overpowered but it's less relevant now) and she's massively fucked up

HO TT OGO YOU CAN TAKE ME HOT TO GO

I've gotten rly into Chappell Roan and that's been playing in my head

Anyways Sarah has a younger brother called Scott, and a younger sister called Skyler. They're all 9 years apart, and Sarah just turned 18 by the time Skyler was born.

I killed their parents, Sasha Black (yes she's related to sirius. they are twins. yes it's cringe. shut up. embrace the cringe. maybe.) and Davis Crownes (Hermione's mom's brother. now we don't know if Hermione's mom has siblings. but we also don't even know her fucking name so TECHNICALLY Davis can be canon anyways I digress) on the same day that Skyler was born (December 24, 1997). don't blame me, blame Voldemort. it was Voldemort.

Unfortunately, I fucked over Sarah bc why not. Davis and Sasha made Sarah the primary like. person of their will to take care of Scott and Incoming Baby once she turned 18 (December 18, 1997. born 1979) and like.

Sarah is grieving and also fighting in a fucking war when they die and leave the kids to her but also everyone else on their list is either ALSO FIGHTING IN THE FUCKING WAR or otherwise unfit. Like Remus? bro he's not doing well. also in war. the Weasleys? in war. Paul and Alyssa (OCs)? fighting in war.

like. they're all fucked.

also I made this decision like ages ago when I was less mature and less understanding of world, but Sarah sent Scott to Camp Half Blood and Skyler to Camp Jupiter. The reason they're at separate and not at the same is bc Sarah didn't want Scott to feel absolutely over responsible at all times over Skyler and just. yeah

but I feel like there's gotta be a more seamless way of her to do that than just sending them to camps bc she can't take care of them but I haven't figured that out yet anyways

Im done with this post let me know if you have questions and/or want more :D

thanks for the ask Kat <3

[dialux]

Hello! Hope you're having a good day!! Idk if u got my previous ask, but I just wanted to know if you're still doing director's cut and if you are then could you do one for 'i imagined a dark world where the stars clamor to be inside us' aka the feanor and findis fic? I've read it so many times its insane and I just love it so much!! I'd love to know your thoughts when u wrote it

In your findis fic, at the end, is my understanding that feanor ended up making horcruxes or something adjacent to horcruxes right?

Combining these two bc I'm pretty sure they're from the same person!

Literally this started because of the LOTR/ASOIAF crossover AU, where Sansa's dropped into ME and mistakes Boromir for her father: I hadn't read LOTR in AAAAAAAGES and so I hopped onto Tolkien Gateway to learn more about the timeline. My search essentially went Boromir -> Third Age -> Age -> First Age -> Feanor -> SILM.

I then started reading the Silm (keep in mind this is in covid-lockdown in 2020) and found myself so absolutely disinterested in the Valar that I skipped all of it to go to chapter 6 (THEE Feanor chapter), and found myself very confused. So I hopped back onto Tolkien Gateway and used their incredibly useful family trees to keep everyone straight in my head. As I'm doing all of this, I'm struck by the similarities between the Finwean kids and the Stark kids, especially Findis/Sansa-- but at this point all I'm thinking is eldest daughter eldest daughter, nothing else. I put Findis into the crossover fic anyway (still know nothing about her apart from the TG page!) and get on with the rest of the Silm.

And then I find out that there are a number of similarities between Sansa and Findis beyond simple birth order, including favoring their mother, presumably being pious, etc etc. I start reading PoME and HoME. I start building an idea of Findis in my own head from, like, four lines total in all this reading.

Annoyed at the lack of canon material, I go to ao3. This is April of 2020; after filtering for languages, I get about a 100 works. I scan a few, but don't find the character I'm looking for. This is mostly because I've wholesale made this character up myself. I scowl at myself and sulk for a few days. Then I start writing. I post the story in a month's time, and in the process I've gotten so many feelings about the Silm that, a full three years later, I still haven't managed to deal with any of them.

Re: the story itself!! I personally think of the Finweans as a little bit incomprehensible, as more mythologized even to their own family than any normal elf; I wanted to explore that idea in the story, particularly how it feels when one person becomes a myth, and how it feels to be left behind when that happens. Feanor does it first, of course, but Findis isn't far behind-- chapter 2 is all about Feanor leaving Findis (and everyone else in his family, through Findis' eyes), but chapter 3 is very purposely from everyone's perspective but Findis, so we can see how it feels for them when she's walked away.

And yes, Findis does in fact create a couple of horcruxes. So does Feanor. They're good horcruxes, though, ig? Don't need murder, are simply like the... laboratory equivalent of soul fission, and yet with some ephemeral connection to the og soul. Afaik the Valar didn't ask before hallowing the Silms as well, so! Not exactly great when imperfect people have parts of their souls hallowed!

[juvederm]

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my josh timeline is done in terms of words. like i have it all written out. i basically made a timeline in every sense like. his mental health, his weight, how his style changed, his overall demeanor, etc. i'm excited to work on designs, bc i think i've gotten a good pre canon visual (it is usually what i draw bc my drawings kinda all take place before canon i imagine or they're in an au)

as for the months leading up to canon, i always was of the mind that josh gained a lot of weight, had a decent amount of muscle (because he carried all that heavy equipment i figured) so im excited to draw him a lot more thicker, and with stubble. i used to be a stubble hater bc i couldn't draw it but i got a good brush for it now so im a fan 👍

then his weight wavers a bit until it's like what we see in game, which i imagine (bc smg likes to reuse models...) looks similar to mikes body type, but ofc i'm gonna give josh more fat than muscle. i Do think josh has a decent amount of muscle hence why he could carry a lot of weighty equipment, but also why he can just knock people out cold like goddamn he has a mean right hook (or left idk)

i think him drinking could've contributed a lot to his weight gain, so he's not all muscle, he's got a lot of fat on his body but gained muscle back because maybe he was That dedicated? idk i haven't thought of a good reason yet lol

[sinecosinewheel]

@galaxirin @bornetoblood

😭 i rly am the amelia guy huh (nm about it!)

- How I feel about this character

to start, she is my funny guy. in-game i think she's an awesome depiction of the healing church's state, the last vicar is powerless to do anything but pray, alone, clutching the medallion of her predecessor who all but set her up to fail. she's both a tragic figure, and the highest remaining member of the organization who doomed the town. in my hcs she is all of that, and she regularly mulches and beheads people, and she likes bugs. she is my funny guy!

- All the people I ship romantically with this character

hmmm. melia x early retirement. jshdj fr I don't have any specific characters? maybeeee henriett? ok wait i like to think she's henryk's great grand niece or smth and theyre really on the nose w/ the names. ok divergence, my henriette hc is that she was rejected from the church hunters and inherited her old mans Old Hunter style duds nd started vigilante mushing beasts w/ her kirkhammer pro bono. so tool of the institution x bitter rogueish vigilante. plus u summon henriett for melias fight so putting down an old flame .... i have successfully talked myself around to this ship let's get it 🎉

- My non-romantic OTP for this character

she really could've used some guidance other than laurence in her life, so i like to think she would've found a mentor in maria, had maria lived long enough to meet her. rlly tho most people were scared shitless of her and/or intimidated by her status so she had no non-killing, non-laurence social outlets. i haven't arbitrarily picked and made up a backstory wholecloth for an npc hunter to be her dead friend yet but also them lmao 😭

- My unpopular opinion about this character

slamming my fists on the ground beating my head on the wall SHE DOES NOT LOOK LIKE, I QUOTE, 'THE SEXY DOG FROM OLIVER AND COMPANY'!!!!!!

ok that's a personal grievance but i stand by it. umm i wish she showed up again? not sure if that's unpopular but i don't think many people think of it. like maybe she could've showed up in the hunters nightmare...even as a gorpse.....or had more item descriptions ab her!! i want the bell ringing woman set!!!

- One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon

hrmm i wish we could have gotten to see more of her in general!! the fight intro cutscene is fucking iconic but maybe she could've been an npc u can talk to... and then u have to fight her when u progress the night farther... n u could start her fight early like the dancer in ds3 by attacking her and get an alt intro cutscene....basically just any content of how the church worked, or what her role was before everything exploded i think

- My OTP

apparently amelia x henriett! news to me. real enemiesish to lovers opposing forces attract type shit here

- My crossover ship

ourgh. hmm maybe millicent elden ring or emerald herald ds2? maybe the ds2 miracles lady lmao melia would in her head b like my dads a much better grifter than her...shes silly i like her :) n the miracles lady is into muscles maybe. idk lmao it could be unhealthy, it could lead to melia unlearning some toxic shit bc the miracles lady is like a cartoonishly over exaggerated version of the people she was raised with, i don't even remember her name though x.x

- A headcanon fact

i stg this entire post has been a headcanon fact lol 💀 uhm uh oh lol we are ending on a sad one heehee. so u know how vicar amelia boss form is covered in bandages? after the school of mensis began kidnapping blood saints the healing blood of the healing church began to run dry, leading yharnam citizens to seek it from other sources, like certain prostitutes with special blood. seeing no other course and to uphold the legitimacy of the church's special blood, the vicar underwent the mysterious process of becoming a blood saint herself and all but bled herself dry to make up for the demand

[tvrningout-a]

SLAMS MY HANDS DOWN!! spoilers below for my pals who haven't seen a.tsv yet! we're talking about miguel, the disaster man himself!

if you're a personal blog, do not reblog this or i'm biting your ankles.

hello, hi, i've got some thoughts on miguel that'll probably be better supported once i read through his comics, but!! i've been thinking about miguel and the introduction of his character, how he says he doesn't always like what he has to do, but he knows he has to do it bc he's lost too much to stop. we find out he's talking about his daughter. from another dimension or not, he still loses her after forming an attachment to her, and this causes him to become our antagonist for more than one reason. but let's back up a lil bit.

when we first meet miguel, we see he can be quippy, funny -- he's still clearly not a happy-go-lucky kinda guy, but he doesn't appear quite as harsh as he is with miles. we even see him go against his original decision to leave gwen behind, even if it's at jessica's prompting. he's swayed bc he can't ignore her predicament, feels sympathy bc like her, there's some stuff he doesn't know how to fix either.

miguel knows she hasn't experienced all of her canon events bc her dad is police chief and alive. he knows she's close to miles. he knows she's a liability, but against his better judgement, he lets her join. he doesn't always like what he does, and sometimes he just can't do it. sometimes he's faced with the individual, and he can't follow through, leave someone behind to fend for themselves.

i think this is absolutely the case with his daughter gabriella. he found that universe where he was happy with a daughter, and initially he was just watching over what could have been. it was harmless if not painful at times. but then he's murdered in this other dimension, and he knows he should stay out of it. if he died, it was supposed to happen. but he can't leave it alone. he can't leave gabriella alone to fend for herself. so he takes a risk to save the individual -- he thinks about the person rather than the world.

and it ends up biting him in the ass. he loses gabriella and her world, singlehandedly ( so we assume at this point, at least ) causing their destruction by simply taking the place of that dimension's miguel and disrupting his canon death. he realizes then that he can't let himself prioritize the individual. he has to prioritize the world, no matter how much he'll hate it at times, because he'd rather feel guilt over a million uncle ben's than a million universes with billions of people in each one.

whereas miles has to learn in the first movie to focus saving on one person vs. the world, miguel has to learn the inverse, and it sucks. he doesn't always like what he does, but he knows he has to do it because either 1. nobody else will ( and he can't exactly blame them ) or 2. he can't ask anybody else to do it. " being spider-man is a sacrifice, " and he's already lost his daughter, seen first-hand what meddling in the canon leads to. he'll make the sacrifice of making those tough decisions if it means nobody else has to lose their dimension.

which is why things go so far off the frikkin rails with miles. i don't think miguel recruits spiders who haven't gone through certain losses ( with some exceptions like gwen and pav ) bc he knows it'll cause conflict when they find out they have to let certain people die. that's exactly what happens with miles, and bc he's the original anomaly, bc miguel and co. still don't know what might happen if he saves his dad, bc miguel is scared and can only think of the day he lost gabriella, he... chases down a teenager and gets waaaay too heated. he definitely projects some of his own guilt upon miles bc he wouldn't have ever known about gabriella's universe if not for all this anomaly business. he wouldn't have gotten her killed if he'd never needed to help put the multiverse back in order.

in the end, though, it's still miguel's own fault. he knew better, he knows better, and all he can do is try to stop miles.

[lokislytherin]

i'm playing hades and getting my ass beat in asphodel and im just thinking. hades!lookism au with zagreus!daniel who is adopted son of hades!charles choi and wants to escape hell

gun is meg bc i think meg is super hot + she can kick my ass any time! @/nivotron's fem gun is also super hot and she could also kick my ass any time but i can also kick meg's ass right back so who's winning rn. me i'm winning both ways it's the incurable m life (hence gun is meg. kick daniel's ass or daniel kicks his ass, both are good)

in terms of canonical importance i think crystal should be meg but crystal doesn't do that much ass kicking so she and goo are the other two furies who don't fight zagreus as much (? at least meg beats me more + i enjoy having my ass beaten by meg more bc alecto and i are both malding while we fight)

hades!lookism is just bamf daniel getting his ass kicked the electric boogaloo

i haven't gotten to that stage yet but jay is thanatos purely bc i wanna see him look badass in a cape and swing a massive fucking scythe like hoo boy. muscles

[t-lostinworlds]

gosh, where do i even start?

well, i guess i could just say that this has been one of the best series i've read in a while. i love it. i just love it so so much i can't stop thinking about. like it's been a day, i've gotten to sleep, i've done other things but this story is still in my mind. i just love the whole thing and gosh my heart is melting thinking about these two love birds.

i loved everything about this from the small town elements, the boxing, the exes to lovers of it all. from the start the tension was already so clear like you know the r and bucky has a history and it's teased that something happened and i just LOVE how it wasn't told to us right away in the sense that the two characters themselves haven't revised it. like i definitely enjoyed how it all felt like we were going on this journey with them instead of already knowing what happened or what went on if that make sense? like i just liked the mystery and the suspense of it all bc that confrontation scene was just soooo satisfying.

and the boxing elements were just perfect? like sometimes when i read boxing AU fics, there's really not much boxing. like it's more of something that bucky just does and it sometimes takes a backseat and is mentioned a couple of times. but this fic just had the perfect balance of it and its so woven throughout the story and it's just perfect.

i love how everyone is just living in this small town where everyone knew everyone and it just felt so cozy and sweet and wholesome like them growing up together and being best friends and then growing up and doing their own things but still coming back to that small town with the same ppl? i just it was just such a sweet thing it read.

and the characters? including the ocs?? are amazingly written? obvs stories have changed but i love how there are still nods to canon or how it fits their character so much? like pietro running marathons and all that. nat being a chief which makes so much sense? i just love everyone in this. except the bastart obvs sksksk

and now the chemistry between bucky and r is just off the charts pls. from the very beginning i was like, Isaac seems like a nice guy (which lol obvs he wasn't in the end) i don't want him to get hurt but obvs i'm biased and i want these two to get together. and i was definitely torn at the beginning bc i didn't know what bucky did yet and could Isaac actually be the one for her. but everything just fell into place so nicely and well the trash took itself out so sksksksk

honestly i could talk about this fic for a whileeeee. like there's just so many things i love about it. it ticked so many boxes for me and as a picky ready it's says a lot sksksk i'm honestly going to think about this whole story for soooo many months like. i wish i could erase my memory and reread it again bc it was such a great experience. kudos to you dear writer for this amazing piece

MESS IS MINE [MASTERLIST]

BOXER!BUCKY [COMPLETED]

series summary: as a date night surprise, your boyfriend takes you to a boxing match. little does he know, one of the competitors is responsible for breaking your heart five years ago and an accidental encounter is about to send your whole world spinning.

series pairings: boxer!bucky barnes x female reader, oc!male x female reader.

series warnings: swearing, violence, angst, fluff 🥺, mentions of: sex (but no smut), blood, alcohol, and injuries.

PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

PART 4

PART 5

PART 6

PART 7

PART 8

PART 9

PART 10

PART 11

PART 12

[olivieraa]

Worst night sleep ever last night cause I had a jaw ache, so that was hard to sleep on. But when I did sleep I had a FloJo dream!

Must have been bc of that fanart I reblogged. But I haven't had a FloJo dream in..... god I can't even say. Have I ever even had one?? Idk.

It was actually a really good plot ngl.

So my dream was actually multiverse related which was kinda amazing bc a) back in the day we wrote our story with the multiverse in mind (which was how they were able to meet other variants of themselves) and b) multiverse was confirmed as YGO canon in 2016

Idek how I can describe this dream. Esp since it was time travel related and I fucking hate time travel.

So in terms of how I've always viewed the multiverse, it means that every universe is different. Either slightly or majorly. Ex, in one universe, Joey is rich and Kaiba is poor. In another universe, none of the characters have ever met, in another universe Joey is a brunette and he's British. Or it could be that one universe is almost the EXACT SAME as another universe but the timeline is different.

And that's what my dream was. So the original FloJo timeline was 2012 and in current day 2024, they're divorced. But the FloJo in my dream were only recently married and hadn't reached the point of even discussing kids yet.

But somebody universe travelled! Idek who this was. Some woman lmao (maybe it was me)

But anyway, she came to the present to tell Jo that Flo was eventually going to leave him. Jo didn't believe her at all cause he has 100% faith in Flo despite how insecure Jo has always been about that idea, bc he never thought he was worthy. But she provides so much proof and evidence. Things only Flo and Jo would know and it leaves him in a state of shock.

His day was going absolutely swimmingly. Little did he think this encounter would kinda ruin his life.

More dream shit happens but ultimately he brings it up to Flo who gets angry at Jo for believing some woman over him. That their motto is "together forever", that Flo is constantly going on about how he'd basically die without Jo. Why would he ever think of leaving him?

And Jo says that everything in that previous timeline has gone the exact same as their current timeline. So this future thing of Flo abandoning him cant be the only thing that's different. That Flo will ultimately do it. And Flo is like "what possible reason would I have for ever leaving you??!" and Jo responds that Flo left the day the kids were born, and that this Flo hasn't experienced that yet. And that the Flo that left (tho they were never able to find him again and ask) must have just freaked the fuck out and bailed.

So Flo, also in a state of shock bc he realises he's kind of a piece of shit, agrees with Jo that they should probably break up.

Jo at this point had already cried till they were dried up. Flo hasn't gotten emotional yet. He's mostly just fuming. Fuming that not only did another Flo fuck up his life, but that he was gonna end up doing that in the end to his Jo. And that he'd rather not make another Jo go through that kinda suffering again.

He's so sweet in my dream I feel bad lmao He just can't believe that for someone that parades about how much he'll love and protect his husband, that he ends up hurting him in the worst way possible, more than anyone ever has. He basically kinda hates himself upon realisation, realisation that he's a really evil villain, and that he can't believe another version of him put a Jo through that and has lived for 10 years as a single dad, and he was gonna end up doing that to his Jo. He can't even imagine seeing his Jo in that much pain. And that he's the one that inflicted it? V sad.

Idk really remember how the dream ended but I think that's a good ass story ngl. Bad sleep but hella interesting dream.

If I'd to write that as a fanfic (not that I write fanfics) and continue this story, I'd probably make Flo into a bit of a stalker. Just always watching over Jo. I mean, this Flo had never made the decision to up and abandon his love. He'd never even thought about that for a second! So for Jo to just be taken from him so quickly, like, he's not gonna get over him that fast. Flo truly believes Jo is the love of his life, that he couldn't possibly ever feel that again with someone else. That the life he lived before Jo entered was meaningless, so how could he go back to that and ever be happy?

So watching Jo at least from a far is enough to keep him a little satisified. It's bad enough he doesn't get to hold, kiss, cuddle, play or have sex with him, but the idea of never getting to look at him again? Too hard. So yeah, he needs to be able to at least see Jo every if not most days.

He doesn't even know how to live in his mansion. This mansion they made a cosy home, is now just a house. Just him and his staff. (I'd have to think about what they'd do with the dogs. I know Flo would at least keep Flirt, his favourite one. But Joey in an apartment with the other 11? Miiiiiiiiight not work out. May have to only keep a couple and try and have the others adopted. Again, another heartbreak ;A;).

Actually, a canon Flo quote is--- Ok omg I went to go get the quote, and its in the same ep as Jo dueling Mako and Mako says him and the ocean broke up blah blah, and damn why are there no subtitles!! But anyway, just after the Florence scene, Joey says to Mako:

"That's why you guys ended up getting divorced, because you didn't communicate. You can't build a healthy relationship on--" And then Mako interrupts saying he'd rather kill himself than take relationship advice from Joey lmao

But yeah Flo's quote to Mar--ik is that he uses his Ring "to manipulate the fabric of time and space, bending it to my will in order to create shambling monstrosities that feed on the souls of the living. ...And sometimes I just use it to find gay people."

"Why would you wanna do that?"

"Secretly I'm very lonely." Lmao poor thing.

So yeah, he obvs brought it upon himself.

So he'd just be stalking Jo from afar.

But he's also facing a serious conundrum! In our FloJo canon, basically Flo was generally suppressing his evil side via sex. It's one thing if this was actual, but this was abridged so we came up with this idea that abridged Bakrua is just as villanous as canon Bakrua (changing the name so it doesn't end up in the search), but he suppresses it due to laziness. Like he feels urges to kill but as long as he satiates himself with something just as pleasurable, he won't kill.

And it's not like he (before Jo) cared if he killed. It was just be like "ugh man, gotta kill... effort tho. I'll just find someone to fuck." Which is why he would fuck women, cause they were easier to seduce and he just wanted a quick fuck. He went after men when he was actually looking for a good time.

And so killing or sex... it was just wtv he felt up to. But killing was riskier, so being a playboy with a harem at his beck and call was the easier choice. But when Jo came along, Jo never knew about this. And Flo ended up killing a bunch of people, including a kid, bc Joey didn't wanna have sex with him one specific time (not knowing Flo needed it at that time, cause Flo never explained the requirements). Flo wasn't gonna cheat, so he killed, thinking that would hurt Jo less. But Jo was just like, "why the fuck didn't you tell me?! I would have had sex with you if you told me it would stop you from murdering!"

And so Flo went to jail and yadda yadda.

So current Flo, without his Jo, really and truly does not want to have sex with anyone else. How can baseless sex with nobodies compare to making love to your true love? So he's getting his urges back again (that he hasn't had since that time he went to jail bc Flo and Jo had sex frequently enough to never need to do it when Flo 'needed' it. They be fuckin all the time). And so he goes out to kill one night. But thinks "I'll only kill bad guys. Then Jo wouldn't be upset. ...Not that he'll know." But when Flo's about to stab a guy, he realises killing anyone at all would make Jo upset. So he breaks the guys arm and heads for a club to pick up a hot chick to have a quick fuck.

And this goes on for a couple of months. Jo has tried his best to go back to his normal life. He doesn't live in a rundown shithole anymore (Flo wouldn't allow that), so he has a normal and nice apartment. He goes to work. He hangs with his friends. He's never been the same again. He smiles as often as he can but he's suppressing a lot of sadness (also YGO canon).

Meanwhile Flo is out fucking women and stalking Jo. Likely projecting female!Jo onto these women to make it more bearable.

And then one day Jo realises he left something important at the mansion and comes to pick it up. And when the butler lets him in, Flo is coming down the stairs with a random woman and they're both

And Jo is all

They both look at each other in shock. Jo looks down and says "I'm just here to collect some things." and walks past the two. Flo is still all

After putting Jo through so much, he didn't want Jo to ever know.

And so Jo is up getting like video games or something that he'd bought from the games room, and Flo immediately goes to his ipad to check the camera for the games room. The woman is all, "hey~~" and Flo is all "get out" as he frantically goes to check the ipad.

And he finds Jo in the room gathering up his games. But he's crying. And it breaks Flo's heart. The woman scoffs and leaves. Jo dries his eyes before gathering himself and coming back down. Flo grabs him just before he leaves and says I can explain. Jo says he doesn't have to, they're not together. But Flo really wants Jo to understand that he hasn't moved on, and especially so fast. But that he's doing it bc he thought if anything, he'd prefer Flo have sex rather than kill ever again. And Flo has absolutely no problem killing if Jo approves. But he has to do one or the other. He never learned to suppress the urges bc him and Jo fucked so much he never thought he'd have to.

Jo picks the sex. But he's obvs not happy about it. But Flo says he only ever picks blondes, and does it from the back lmao

So I was thinking about that this morning as I had breakfast hahaha see I clearly want to start writing this fun shit again. My brain is activated.

But this is just a fanfic scenario as there is no Flo around. But it was fun to think about.