#soooo sorry it took so long to answer this

[blushedfemmes]

Hey so uh- I’m very very not normal about that fisting post.

Reading your words about the butch being in awe and their pupils being blown out led my brain in the direction of intox, and I’m just thinking about you getting me really high and then having me play with you and work you up to this point.

Maybe we’d smoke, or you’d feed me edibles right before we started. And by the time I’m working you up to fit my thumb, the high starts really hitting.

Thinking about watching my whole hand finally sliding in and just watching in absolute amazement, completely slack jawed. Practically drooling, if not actually doing so. Only vaguely aware of the way hearing you moan sends even more waves of pleasure through me. It’s hard to tell when lm already throbbing.

Then, if you clenched and gushed around me, the way I’d moan and nearly cum on the spot because oh my god that’s so hot.

And in true Clarke fashion, I’m assuming you’d giggle and tease me for being so entranced. Asking me if I’m just going to stare at you, or if I’m going to do something about it.

Fuck the whole possessive aspect of it I- fuck 😵‍💫

-🍻

ohhhh this is extremely big-brained of you. i do need to get a butch ridiculously high all at once and watch it hit them like a freight train with their hand all the way inside me. your stoned, blissful expression, flushed cheeks and half-lidded eyes, would make me that much wetter. and i’m such a slut for being filled, it wouldn’t take much for me to cum, fluttering around your hand. god i’m thinking about the sounds you’d make, so high that you’re not thinking of anything but my pussy, it’s all you can feel, see, smell, taste.

but when i’m able to catch my breath i’d be teasing you for sure 🤭 i might have to guide you with my voice, you’d be too gone to do anything without direct and simple instruction…

[edwardseymour]

Do you have any idea were the "anne boleyn fashion icon" claim started from? i want to write a disproval but no one ever sites a source which makes it difficult?

✨ terfs/zionists fuck off ✨

well, i wouldn't be the best to ask for anne's historiography. i have to assume it stems from brantôme, who claimed that while in france, anne "dressed with marvellous taste and devised new modes which were copied by all the fashionable ladies at court; but none wore them with her gracefulness, in which she rivalled venus". likewise, nicholas sanders claimed that once in england, "she was unrivalled in the gracefulness of her attire, and the fertility of her invention in devising new patterns, which were imitated by all the court belles, by whom she was regarded as the glass of fashion", and that "on her throat there was a protuberance […] this she carefully covered with an ornamented collar-band, a fashion which was blindly imitated by the rest of the maids of honour, though they had never before thought of wearing any thing of the kind". both written in the late sixteenth century... i think it's only logical to discredit these as unreliable sources from someone recalling an idea of anne. significantly, no french sources from her lifetime mentioned her, nor did english sources (including inventories, artistic depictions) corroborate a fashion trend of collars in the 1520s-1530s. brantôme's obvious exaggerated praise, and sanders' negative bias in his characterisation of anne, mean these are clearly not reliable sources.

nevertheless, the strickland sisters cited them uncritically in the 19th century, and their work was significantly influential. i think what is significant is that the alleged uniqueness of anne's fashion choices is claimed to have stemmed from an attempt to obscure physical differences: "on this account anne always wore the hanging sleeves [to hide her extra finger] as her peculiar fashion when in france. this mode, which was introduced by her into the court of catherine of aragon, was eagerly copied by the other ladies", according to the stricklands.

more reasonably, i think it's fair to say that anne probably was fashionable, but i don't think there's substantive evidence to prove she was some kind of trend-setter who introduced french fashions. that much is nonsense, if for no other reason than what we describe as a 'french hood' was described in the sixteenth century as a 'scottish hood', before anne even returned to england. often people cite mary, queen of france, as a better candidate for introducing french fashion to the court, and while that isn't unreasonable, i think more broadly there were multiple records of french influence in england before henry viii's reign. if we are looking for someone to valorise as a fashion icon and power dresser, who spent a considerable amount of their formative years in france, before coming to england and being crowned, who repeatedly expressed their interest in continental fashions from burgundy and france, to the point of having a french tailor and commissioning continental works at court...

[watermelinoe]

I've been watching the ranma remake and really enjoying it - I never watched the OG but I was obsessed with inuyasha and really wanted to be into """anime""" so I knew a lot about it. idk if I'm brave enough to venture into ao3 looking for fic yet because. man. I wish I could have been able to watch ranma before the gender fandom existed. I know you aren't so much an anime-watcher as manga-reader but you've reblogged ranma gifs so :3 got any ranma thoughts?

ohhh ranma 1/2 was baby's first manga that i read in its entirety.... i haven't watched the entire anime but i've seen select episodes and both feature-length films, hot take but i actually prefer the dub! especially akane's voice and ranma's later voice (they would later go on to do inuyasha and kagome's voices, a nice long career of yelling each other's names lmao)

akane tendo is one of my all-time favorite characters, i first got the idea to cut my very long hair short bc of her, she's still on a pedestal for me and in a better world she would have had a big power-up arc... the shounen curse of girls getting left behind ://

i've read quite a lot of fic over the years and it was probably the first series i ever wrote fanfic for. it's... interesting to consider it from a modern perspective, since the original series didn't exactly age well in some areas. i would say that the main theme could be described as "toxic masculinity" - the main conflict is ranma eventually having to come to terms with his "girl side" while still being considered a man among men. i guess the ~queer~ interpretation would be that he's some flavor of trans, which is funny because the whole series is about playing with gender roles... to the extent that a 30-40 something year old straight japanese woman in the 80s and 90s is willing to challenge gender roles. it's not perfect is what i'm saying, there's still misogyny and homophobia.

in the translation i read years ago, one of the antagonists straight-up insults ranma by calling him a transvestite. and there's a really unfortunate storyline where the protagonists are trying to "correct" a girl who's attracted to ranma in female form, but the punchline is actually it was a crossdressing boy! you can be gender non-conforming as long as you're straight :))

but it was a big deal to me when i first read it bc it depicted characters whose gender non-conformity was just part of them with the underlying message that that's just the way some of us are and it's fine. and ranma ultimately accepts that he's not any less of a man just bc of his "girl side" (which can be seen as one big metaphor for having a "feminine" side). i do get annoyed when people apply trans headcanons to these characters because it misses the point, it's basically saying well actually they ARE less of a man/woman and i'm like 😐 did we read the same series

but anyway yes i have lots of ranma thoughts 😭 too many in fact!!

[r3tr0s-posts]

I would love seeing the ship cheeseball again :>

>>Here's some cheese crumbs 0]

[prismaticuniverses]

💕❤️‍🔥🐱 for volo :3c

💕: Who confessed first and how? Did it go as planned or did shenanigans ensue?

HEHE okay to be honest I'm still figuring this one out but I think Volo would confess first!! It could go one of two ways:

Either in a quiet moment before Shit Goes Down with Volo, and Ris wants to reciprocate but just isn't ready (there are literally space-time rifts everywhere can we explore this later (Volo laughs it off and agrees except he knows there won't BE a later but Ris doesn't know that)) OR he confesses while Shit Goes Down and Ris can't reciprocate because if they don't stop him the universe will be destroyed. In a way they've both rejected each other and it utterly crushes both of them

I think both are very good in their own ways I just haven't decided which one I like best yet :3

❤️‍🔥: Who tends to take the lead with showing affection?

RIS for sure...Volo will say some sweet stuff, but Ris def does so more often!! They usually lead with physical affection too

🐱: Do they have pet names for each other, if so what are they? How does their partner feel about their pet name?

They actually don't use pet names very often!! Ris is a liiittle more inclined to, but knows Volo just prefers their names, especially in front of other people. They both like using 'love' sometimes, and on even rarer occasions, they'll call each other 'my star' ^v^

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

hello mina? have you listened to mabel? it seems like your thing

hi morgan!!! and THANK YOU I had somehow completely forgotten that Mabel exists and that I need to listen to it again. you know me too well it is absolutely my thing, I even have a half-written essay about modern sapphic speculative fiction and the epistolary form knocking around somewhere that was very very inspired by it lol. but yes I absolutely love its narrative style and odd, poetic, atmospheric creepiness. listening to it felt very dreamlike-- I got through most of the first two seasons in a single day while drawing outdoors, and felt so much like I was wandering too deep into a forgotten place that I drew back from it a little bit. I should return.

[carnagesaw]

i would really really really really Greatly like to hear your morikaze and takahashi headcanons so much that im willing to very briefly get over my fear of sending asks to people. I wanna hear it theyre both very dear to me

mmnbvjklslm.........skl/./.....n starts cackling maniacally twisting twisting twsiting turning wriggling in the fdirst like an earthworm.

MORIKAZE;

-SOMEWHERE IN HIS MID 30S-LATE 30S he seems like a really tired guy who just wants to do his job. the fact he gets to be a bitch is just a plus to it. workaholic maybe since he was kinda pushed into working for mdcr. stays hours after the workday is over to fix and look over stuff

-if i had to describe him itd be standoffish and loyal, even if he doesnt want to be. i think hes definitely a coward when it comes down to it though

-does not like working for mdcr too much, but the benefits are insaneee and also jungle makes it bearable

^-otherwise, morikaze doesnt like kirimi at all. they have a little work place rivalry but manage to keep it civil since theyre higher up. also because morikaze is petty as helllll

^^-morikaze resents working for someone so young, and is also oddly a little terrified of jeraldy just cause of his sheer anger. its what keeps him in line

-probably workplace besties with ven, and i use that term loosely. they have a sort of camaraderie. after ven leaves mdcr for good, he envies her escape from the company, but in the end sticks with mdcr cause where else would he go?

-jungles the executive, but morikaze mostly carries out jungles duties ( assistant executive ? ) for him since jungle gets bored working after like 5 minutes. hes definitely the backbone of the company, and he doesnt hate it since it makes him feel important to mindy

^-aside from ''assistant'' executive, i like to think he does tech ( diagnostics , etc. ) stuff and money management for the company

-when he was younger he learned how to master a ton of brass instruments. i dont think hed be the kind of guy to play in a band or live solo, but hes probably dreamt about it. trumpet was his favorite but i like to imagine he was also a big tuba and saxophone guy

-ive said this before but hes a big ska fan. jazz too but i think moreso noir jazz. i cant decide whether hed like fast paced stuff or slow so its a bit up there for me

-definitely a frequent to places that play jazz though, and even concerts

^-morikaze is fat mostly but hes definitely got a little muscle there

-CARES GREATLY for how he presents. 40 step skin care routine and he always irons out his clothing. has like insanely good hygiene its kinda scary

-hes def a real sour guy. if youre tryna have fun at a work outing with him youve gotta get some alcohol in him for him to start lightening up, otherwise hes not budging

-big fucking fan of spicy food.

-not a natural born ice elemental numa unlike koritora. he had to learn how to curate and harness ice himself. i imagine this took years and he only really got the hang of it by the time mo4 takes place, but hes pretty skilled with it regardless

^-as such, i think his body would have scars and visual damage from the ice depending on where and how hed use it. even if he can create ice from himself, it definitely takes a toll on his form after a while, especially in battle if he doesnt have his mech or a weapon. the more power and force he uses the more it kinda nips away at him

-wears makeup. not all too much, just stuff like eyeliner and mascara. i also think hed draw in his eyebrows since i feel like hair in the numa eye is a symbol to be respected

-i think even if he is a little cold, a lot of employees at mdcr still look to him for guidance

-obviously, he has a very hard time differentiating limerence and love, as he has not experienced the latter due to how much work he buries himself in

^-honestly i chalk this up to kirimi experimenting on him in several unethical ways without his consent or knowledge but this also could just be how he is its anyones guess but the former is more fun than the latter

-aware of jeraldy and kirimis corruption, but compared to the two, he cant do anything

JUNGLE;

-older than jeraldy ( only by a couple months id say maybe 18 at the time of mo4 ? but very freshly. imagine dying right after u turn 18 fuckkkkk ) , but also a bit more immature than him. while he tries to act like an adult, he always seems to fall flat

-whatever is the numa equivalent to being indigenous, jungle is that. the markings on his head and face are a family community tattoo. got them a couple years after the massacre to honor his family. each of his relatives had different tattoos, probably got the same as his ma when he was younger to honor her but probably stands for the natural process of life ( birth, growth, death )

-even for a numa hes terrifyingly skinny and tall ( about the same height as kashikin who stands at around 5'2" ) , doesnt eat a lot unless he needs to, oddly agile and freakily flexible, you put him in a tight space and he could easily be out in seconds

-often seen jumping around mdcr often. youll see him in one room one second and then 6 floors up he'll be there too somehow. hes probably wandered through mdcrs rafters a time or two lol

-he didnt like anyone at mdcr aside from jeraldy and kirimi for a very long time. i think hed have issues trusting people and feels like he can only rely on the two for anything

^-after vens recruitment i think hed slowly start backing away from the two out of concern, and morikaze talking about the two would just reaffirm what jungle feared to be happening. while he cared deeply for kirimi and jeraldy he realized the path they were going down wasnt exactly healthy or the solution. even with the space however, hed always remain loyal to jeraldy

-i think somehow he managed to avoid kirimis mistreatment, whether kirimi saw him as bait or just another thing to watch, he was definitely not a concern for him, so he got out of it by a hair

-minimal nocturnal ability, he cant see too far in front of him however. definitely needs glasses but refuses to even consider it in the end lol

-sees morikaze as more of the weird distant father, but its still the closest thing aside from kirimi and jeraldy he has to family. in a way i think he looks to morikaze for assistance ( bad idea ) but doesnt like to ask for it. as such it kinda comes off as jungle berating or using morikaze for his own profit, whatever that may be

-he has his own room in the mdcr building, as do jeraldy and kirimi. the closest he'll get again to having a home would also end up being the place hed be killed

-bare minimum of idea of what it means when it comes to self care and hygiene. also hes like the average guy on malelivingspcae when it comes to shit like that hesso bad at it i promise you. funny but also terribly sad to the point you can only give like a nervous chuckle before remembering

-the phone is a replica of his moms

^-hes very obviously a huge mommas boy

^^-any topic relating to parents or the such if you bring up or try and jestwith the guy he will breakdown. Angrily.

-tries to keep himself busy with a lot of stuff that isnt mdcr related, cause he gets super fuckin bored and eventually hell just start thinking about everything going on again. im saying he likes to try and remain blissfully unware but hes certainly very Painfully aware of the demise incoming

-worlds worst posture goes to jungle, even worse than sigkin and arakawas probably, but i think itd be a tie

-his puppies were a gift from jeraldy............ smiles

-got a little too attached to the robot of his mom. jeraldys probably walked in on jungle napping on it at some point beneath mdcr. hes never brought it up to jungle

-this guy will purposefully piss people off at mdcr to spar with them, doesnt matter in meeting, lunch room, etc etc always looking for a fight to dominate

^-despite this, hes definitely gotten his ass whooped by kirimi and morikaze, but thats because their moves can directly counter or overwhelm jungle, especially with how cocky he can be. only reason he fought kirimi was because kirimi likes to push buttons and knows exactly how to get jungle mad

^^-i dont think hed have the heart to try and spar jeraldy

-hes one of the rare cases of characters where i dont think he cares for music. regardless hes definitely a breakcore / noise guy. just any type of loud noise. hed listen to construction metal if it meant there was background noise

-his powers are wayyy too strong for him to fully control since hes not exactly using an object to try and concentrate the power ( ill compare this to how fukurou has the book and marikin has his cards, or how any other mo4 character has a weapon they can channel something into ) , which has led to a bit of destruction around the building

^-id also like to mention i think his powers revolve around raw energy. as such he can collect and transform the energy into anything ( those mostly being chemical, thermal, etc. ) he needs, unlike the other numa who can channel these into only one or two types of energy

-in conclusion, hes a big ball of ( potential ) energy that could go off at any second depending on the situation and hes always seeping energy from the surroundings

^-this would have been of use to kirimi theres no way to control it since even jungle cant. no way of using it, for good or bad, so there isnt a point in trying to harness it if the main user doesnt realize the potential ( and may never )

[arsenicflame]

✨, 🎥, 💕, and 🏳️‍🌈 for OFMD and Madoka?

ahhh Iz! so many, thank you so muchhhhh

✨ what draws you towards your hyperfixation? what is interesting about it?

for OFMD: i love the characters!!!!!! all of themmmm. their dynamics are probably the most interesting thing for me. i also love the setting & playing around with more serious sailing stuff, and also into the areas that make this group special. i think fundamentally, the show is such a good sandbox to play around with, what could happen, why, etc etc. i love adding little pockets of lore (i think this is why im so drawn to Sam Bellamy stuff, its adding more to the universe & to izzy and layers of depth that werent there before, even if hes completely part of the past). especially after s1 and kraken era speculation, it was all the what ifs and maybes that drew me in.

for PMMM: this is a hard one! i first watched madoka back when it came out in 2011 so its really hard for me to imagine a life where its not important to me. i think the thing for me about madoka magica, is that its about hope. it so often gets sold as a dark magical girl anime, but at its core, madoka is about looking despair in the face, and choosing hope anyway. its about finding a way through even when it seems impossible. ive always been drawn to that. and the interpersonal dynamics- im big into the different story manga, which adds so much depth to kyoko & mamis characters & their relationships.

🎥 do you have any favorite scenes from your hyperfixation?

for OFMD: ive already mentioned one, so again, that, but a second one: the new unicorn scene. its both the complete opposite to the other, and its twin, and it means so much to me. its really first time we see izzy released from his duties, as first mate, to ed, this is just izzy. and its the first time we properly see him accepted by the crew. i dont really know how to put into words what this scene means to me, but i think you understand anyway. i cried. thats my fucking boy!!!!!!!!!!

for PMMM: i think most of my favourite scenes are from the manga (again, TDS fan) but out of the anime, i think its probably the fight against Elsa Maria- its stylised in a gorgeous way, the animation and movement is artistic and gorgeous. and, its the first moment where you really start to feel dread. the first moment you realise that something awful is coming. its beautiful artistically and narratively

💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them!

for OFMD: skipping right over the obvious, because ive dedicated my life to the fuckin guy, archie!!!!!!! my sweet love!!!! urgh shes ao delightful, one of the best things to come out of season 2 forreal. i dont think theres a single scene with archie i dont like, i love her stupid little quips and her pragmatism about everything. thats just the way things go, we fight to the death. pointing out that the guys on top do get away with it. idk, theres just not a single thing i dont love. its also so nice to introduce someone not of the revenge mindset, but also not as messed up over things as fang & izzy. she just fills her role perfectly. so fun to see a "normal" pirate. i love her i would do anything for her

for PMMM: i am, in my heart of hearts, a kyoko girly. my first love, the original. i think loving kyoko set me on the path to love izzy too. shes the underdog, she comes in as the villain of the story, till you start to dig into her character and understand why she feels the way she does about things. even if you disagree, its a different perspective on her. shes teeth and claws and knows nothing but fighting to survive. i love her backstory and her attitude to the truth of their life, and i love her stupid little quips. yes girl it is reasonable to break a guys legs to get him to date

🏳‍🌈 do you have any headcanons (lgbt, race, neuro, etc) that are important to you?

for OFMD: as i said earlier, im pretty flexible on most headcanons, usually working whichever fits in to the particular idea im thinking about, but trans izzy is pretty consistently up there. its one of those things that i think adds a lot of flavour to his actions in canon, and also adds backstory to him and why he might be who we meet in canon in the first place. also making characters trans fucks and should always be done 👍

for PMMM: everyone is gay. including hitomi. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

media hyperfixation ask game!

[aycief]

Heya ! Im curious about your OC Azor! He seems cool :0 First, is his ace a bug type eeveelution ? Do you have a design ? And second, i wonder why no sewaddle when it seams like the perfect match for a bug type specialist and tailor ?

oh my god i'm KICKING myself bc it somehow never occurred to me to give him a sewaddle/leavanny OTL he wasnt always a tailor so i didnt consider it when i was originally building his teams but im kicking myself for not including it in that sewing room piece.. i was thinking less about his actual teams when drawing that (bc half of his 'main' team is fakemon) and more just thinking about getting bug rep from as many gens as possible (sorry to iv and vii for not making it 💔 tho kricketot made it in as a desk sticker at least) but leavanny was the mvp of my original white team so it's Very dear to me and youre right that it's Perfect for him !!

but to go back to the first question !!! yes his ace is a bug-type eevee ! i realised wayyy late that the piece maybe made it look like it'd be a spider-vee since it's an arachnid-heavy drawing but it's a moth called papilleon !! ^__^ it's one of the first fakemon i designed for our fan region. my beloved bug baby

[ID: three digital drawings of a bug-type eeveelution fakemon. its main body is an off-white yellowish colour and it has mossy-green ears, long-tailed spotted wings, and fluff around its neck and abdomen. it has six legs, two compound eyes and two simple eyes, and the ends of its legs are exoskeleton rather than paws. it lacks an actual tail. the second image is pixel art. /END ID]

i had some drawings of it with an older azor design somewhere but can't find it at the moment :")

EDIT: found one !

[ID: a digital drawing of Azor holding Papilleon. in this design, Azor wears red-framed square glasses and his hair is slightly longer and fluffy at the bottom. /END ID]

[cursezoroark]

They're perfectly healthy. Which is great, considering the circumstances. I met most of them by coincidence though. My mawile is from my mom.

I don't think I would be alive without them. Nor would they be alive without me. They're strange, but that's ok. They're hard workers, and work together nicely. I love them, plain and simple.

... But if there was any issue, it would be with Xenon.

I met her at Terajuma. As much as she is strong, she's very aggressive. Isolates herself from the team, and clings. However, Beau has slowly been integrating her into our strategies. It's better than it was before, but every so often, she would have fits. She would fall for her own illusions.

I don't know why they happen, but I'm trying to work through it. After all, I'm the only one who could.

(ask box is empty! if you want to ask mona anything please feel free to do so via the askbox (or comment)! :D and hopefully i won't take a month to answer)

[kiwichaeng]

Hi Evie!! For the Lone Star ask, if you don't mind!

🦋Give us a headcanon about TK!

Hi, thank you for the ask!

When TK was a kid he would sneak in a new animal into the house every month. the puppy was lonely and the rat was all alone :(. So imagine if you will TK bringing a rat home in his backpack and hiding it in his closet for a week before it gets out. He would always think he could just take care of them for a little while and let them go but he would get so attached to them. After this incident he gets searched daily upon getting home...for a while and then he sneaks in something else. See the puppy above.

I do hc he was a little menace child growing up <3

[des-no9]

Oc ask: Secret, wound, torture

Questions from here!

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

Some of the things she did for Nezarr. Willingly, and not.

I think...a lot of it is that she doesn't even necessarily feel guilt over all the acts. It's more a 'sorry I got caught and you found out this horrible act because of its social stigma' and 'I'm so fucking boiling alive with rage that Nezarr made me do that. That's why I'm angry. Because he took my agency, over what I actually did' and I think she's probably more worried about people's perceptions at her reacitons to things.

She's a smart girl. She understands peoples emotions, words, minds. Nezarr taught her so very well how to utilise your words for better and worse, and exactly how to manipulate people. That, she's at least thankful for.

Funnily enough, Voss isn't the first person to learn some of these secrets. Orpheus is, when he helps her uncover lost memories with the aid of his psionics. And she uh...doesn't like that much lol.

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

Vanquish generally has a high pain tolerance. A bit from column her patron(s) help her out with her, a bit from column she was moulded under cult leader Nezarr how to handle and tolerate pain. Even how to enjoy.

But, the burn she received from [redacted] has kind of put a dent in all of that (which is probably the worst physical wound she has received). Her burned skin is pretty sensitive all in all (it's from void fire so her skin acted a little differently to a normal fire burn. also. magic). And pain there feels different. Heightened. Lke it's seeking something else.

Vanquish is reckless as fuck though, so often suffers wounds. And she just kind of takes it as part of who she is now. Because she thinks it is. Anyone looking at her can see that. Half of her body is scarred to shit.

Most of her wounds though, are emotional. The worst too.

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

Yes. Yes.

[maiteo]

hi maiaaaa🤭 hope you’re well<3 do you have any music that you’ve been enjoying lately? always love your recs🫶

hello love🫶🏽 I’ve been great, hope you are too!!!

n pls im blushing🤭 I’ve been going thru some transitional period when it comes to my music & purging my whole library lately lol but!! here’s some tunesss🎶🎧

[mutxnts]

Fic meme: 22, 23, 24!

22. Share an excerpt from your favorite scene.

okay maybe don't read this oodly since it does have a bit of an aa4 spoiler KJLSDFKLJGDSKLJFG but this was one of my favorite fics to write this year, and also maybe the paragraphs i'm most proud of. from good old days:

“You look like a true defense attorney now,” Miles complimented with a warm smile. “Take a look for yourself.” He gestured toward the full-length mirror nearby, indicating for him to turn toward it now that his outfit was complete. Phoenix did just that. What he saw in the mirror wasn’t just a reflection of the outfit he was wearing, but was also a reflection of the man he’d once been—of the defense attorney he’d once been. But now he was older, made stronger by all the adversity he had faced in the past decade. The gray hair at his temples showed clear signs of aging, and there was a certain weariness in his eyes that seemed to have been a permanent fixture since his disbarment, but the attorney’s badge on his chest still shone proudly in the face of all that. He had grown and changed so much as a person since the last time he had worn his attorney’s badge, and yet who he was at his core remained unchanged. He was still the same Phoenix Wright that cared about finding the truth and believing in people when no one else did.

23. Share the final version of a sentence or paragraph that you struggled with. What about it was challenging? Are you happy with how it turned out?

okay it's kind of stupid but this part from sweet, sweet bliss was challenging to me:

“Hmm… pancakes sound good,” he answered. And then, because he couldn’t resist teasing his boyfriend to get him worked up, he added, “Along with a side of bacon, eggs, and toast, perhaps. And a parfait, don’t forget that.”

i don't know why but i always struggle with food in fics? i'm always trying to decide if it's like, a normal dish to have or if it's too fancy or not something that the character would be able to make. or, if it's even something people normally eat KJSKJFDGSJKDFG and don't get me started on writing restaurant scenes, i am always so bad at deciding what a character would order so i try to be vague about it 😭 idk why food is such a challenge to me but it is jskdfgjkldfjkldfg

24. What's something that surprised you while you were working on a fic? Did it change the story?

hmmm, i think one of the things that surprised me the most while working on a fic is that i actually had an idea for how i could make hot, sticky, sweet (warning that is an explicit fic) into a two-parter instead of just a one shot. i've never written anything that wasn't a one shot, so the fact that i had ideas for how to continue the story surprised me. i wasn't sure if i was going to actually write the second part or not, but it did reshape the way i ended that fic. i had like 3 different ideas for the ending, but decided in the end to go with something more opened ended in case i ever came back to it and wanted to write that second part. (and surprisingly, i did start working on the second chapter!)

[goddevouringserpent]

38 from the character development questions, dealer's choice of who :)

38. Is there anything they wish they could change about their worldview or thought processes? What, and why?

ooh this is a very good one for Irenni (my other KC that I haven't developed as much despite loving her almost as intensely) because the thing about Irenni is... she's unequivocally, objectively Good—at least as per the rules of a world where Good is something you can be and not just something you do—but she is also torn between many different sides of herself & their accompanying mindsets

Irenni is Neutral Good and in the Angel path and her first and foremost priority is always, always to help people and make the world a kinder place and become the better version of herself she can be—but there's so many versions of Irenni. it's a kaleidoscope. she's an Angel of Compassion but as the game progresses she becomes absolutely obsessed with the concept of attaining divinity to the point where it clouds her judgment and she makes some... questionable decisions for the sake of love; she is a Rakshasa-blooded tiefling with fey ancestry (or at least she assumes so, considering her abilities as a Sylvan Sorcerer) and sees that as a burden on her, which is why she actively, openly rejects Chaos and Evil as fundamental forces of the universe, because she has to prove she's More Than, perhaps over an innate desire to just do Good. and there is little place left amidst all that for Irenni Korez, for whoever she is without the Mythic powers and the tiefling blood and the fey ancestry.

so with this ABSOLUTE BEHEMOTH of an introduction out of the way, and please do forgive the behemoth I just get carried away sometimes & moreover it is relevant to the answer, I swear: she is, overall, satisfied with her worldview, with her moral compass, even if it's less than perfect and all too often hinges on sentiment. however, her thought process is... another matter entirely. every single time she has a less than charitable thought, something rude or mean or chaotic, the temptation of an easy way out, she wonders if it's Irenni -the-person thinking that or Irenni-the-tiefling, or Irenni-the-fae-blooded, or a mixture of that. as of late, all her good thoughts are met with the same amount of existential suspicion: is it her, or the Light of Heaven? (and... the less I say about the state of her thought process post-Areelu's reveal, the better.) and she wishes, oh-so-dearly, that she could stop nitpicking and overanalysing every thought that crosses her mind because ultimately it matters little, her actions are what's important, what define Irenni-the-person in opposition to Irenni-and-her-trillion-influences. but it's difficult, and she can't take one single step without asking herself where the urge to take said step came from, and is it benefitting anyone, and is it hurting anyone, and there a better way, and and and and—

she thinks circles around herself and, despite knowing it's hardly ever of use, she can't stop it because she's terrified of what might happen to her identity if she does. but she wishes she could. she wishes she could allow herself to just... be.

[wistrea-gone]

I’m a new follower, and I just wanna say your blog is beautiful. I’m curious about how long it to you to set it up?

hello! omg it took me such a long time to get this but thank you, i'm glad you like the look of my blog <3 purple and violets, my most beloveds... i think this blog took me like a whole month to set up because i had a previous archived one + i was really busy irl so i couldn't get to actually finalizing it lmao