#thank you again for the ask

[magpiewithinternetaccess]

What is your favourite WIP you are creating of any kind for any fandom?

Hi!! (I got overexcited about your question so long answer incoming hope you don’t mind)

the supernatural brainrot runs deep so all my wips both art/writing are exclusively about that 😅

current notable favourites (aka ones I look at longingly in my doc but procrastinate working on) include:

The apocalypse fic I’ve got in progress on ao3 which is particularly close to my heart

A season 6 era christmas fic I’ll hopefully write in December

An endverse fic revolving around a DnD campaign

A Despair time loop fix it fic

A Cassie centric fic about her getting into hunting

A witch-Sam Stanford era thing that’s pure chaos

And too many more aus and character studies to even count!!

However my actual reigning favourite is top secret and by that I mean I’ve been too intimidated to start working on it because I love the idea too much and don’t want to psyche myself out by mentioning it anywhere 😭😂

it’s a post 15 fic and what I like most about it is that it’s a story that can ONLY be fanfiction if that makes sense - as in, the actual plot and idea can only happen if it’s Dean Winchester and co. having gone through 15 seasons of television and now this continuation of mine.

I write a lot of original fiction alongside my fan works and multiple times now I’ve been developing something for a fic that I realise can actually be a novel so I pivot and create new characters etc, but I love this particular idea because I can’t do that with this concept. It has to be Dean. It has to be Cas. It has to come after everything else they’ve gone through.

Fanfiction is something pretty new to me but I’ve fallen in love with writing it so quickly because it’s such a fun and interesting way to construct stories and ugh I just have such an undying appreciation for it!!

ok rant over now 🤐

Thank you so much for the question!! I love getting to connect with people over our creative ideas, that really is what fandom is for 💚💙

I’d LOVE to hear if there’s anything else you’re working on/brainstorming at the moment too!! (that goes out to anyone who happens to stumble upon this post as well)

[mad-serotonin]

Who's your favourite black clover character and why?

My favorite Black Clover character

💚 Is absolutely Finral 💚

More than that he is actually my favorite anime character in general.

He’s been close to my heart ever since starting the series in 2019 and he’s not once been dethroned from his spot as my favorite. There’s a lot about him that makes him so special for me.

This is going to be a bit of an essay but I got a lot to say about him HAHA

First off he is my fav archetype done right, and done the best:

I have a personal preference for the characters that are hopelessly flirty guys with confidence issues and emotional baggage. it’s just a trend for me. Most of my favs are this character archetype but done in different ways. I absolutely love Tabata’s approach to how he wrote Finral. He has such a wonderful way of bringing him in as a very simplistic character and building upon his personality and how he became who he was at the start, and continuously finding ways to beautifully motivate his development in such a very real way. The arcs where you see him slowly build himself up while fighting alongside Asta and Vanessa specifically are SO good for creating a new depth and feeling behind his tropes that make him so fresh and unique.

Simping AND Kinning:

Straight up required to say I’m just simply in love with him?????? He’s literally perfection for me. I think he has the most genuine kindness and pure personality I’ve seen written. I love how his fear and weakness transform through the series into a strength and determination to prove himself and protect the people around him.

And he’s so relatable for me. I genuinely sympathize with a lot of his story. His issues with feeling like he belongs and becoming someone he himself can be proud of hits home. Watching him grow throughout the series was a experience that I hold very close to my heart and it makes me SO HAPPY to see how far he’s come and knowing there’s more to come just keeps me going.

Sweetest Angel ever (Angel symbolism AWOOGA):

He’s just so nice, literally cares so much about his team and his friends. And don’t get me STARTED on his unending love and support for Langris despite all that’s happened. He just sees the best in his brother and doesn’t despise him for things out of their control and truly puts in the time and effort to build a healthier relationship with him. He is a simple man who wants to love and be loved. And this applies to his squad, his family, and his pursuits for love and I think he deserves to find that love and be happy in all areas.

Designs and magic wise the angelic symbolism alone and in contrast to Langris was such a beautiful and amazing choice. Tabata was COOKING with that. He truly does see himself as a “fallen angel” his story literally having him fall from “grace” if you look at it as grace being nobility. I just think there is so much symbolism and potential in expanding his magic using this connection and I personally love thinking about it myself.

He Pretty:

Overall I think he just has a pleasing design. I adore his hair over everything else. I love how it changes through the series both in style and color. As someone who changes their hair a lot I completely vibe with his reasonings for changing it too. Like yeah please add that color to give yourself a reinvigorated spirit and confidence for success. His hair looks so fluffy and I wanna feel it. (Personally love myself most when I dye my hair with green tips I love matching him it’s so nice hehe)

Outfit design wise I LOVEEEEEE IT the full color scheming is nice but the overall very Elven vibe with leaf motifs and the pointed boots is just MWAH 💋👌🏻. He just has a solid iconic look and it suits his vibes perfectly.

As an artist I love the experience of drawing him too. He’s so fun to draw and he’s got so much potential for expanding on his design outside of canon. (Drawing scars from the Langris fight is my fav thing to do) and at this point I’m so sure I’ve drawn him more than any other character EVER and I will not be stopping any time soon.

All in all I LOVE HIM. and he means the world to me. That’s my man and I will always be in his corner as the series progresses. I hope he continues to get moments to shine and I hope others will continue to enjoy him like I do.

Thank you for sending in this ask! I’m happy to have gotten to rant about him a lil bit. : D

Bonus hehe:

[thescrapwitch]

can we hear about amnesiac Maglor? 👀

Thank you!

This one is also in the early draft stages. I had two ideas: one was "what if all the Sons of Feanor survived the second kinslaying" and "what if Maglor lost his memories during the third kinslaying and kidnapped/adopted the twins to 'save' them from the 'attackers'". I realized I could combine the two to create a wonderfully messy fic which will cause lots of changes to how the last part of the Silmarillion/War of Wrath go :)

Staring: Maglor, suffering from memory-loss but determined to keep a pair of twins he found in a burning refugee camp safe from the evil people who are hunting them; Maedhros and co who don't know if Maglor is dead or captured but are determined to find answers; E+E who are very confused but latch on to their mysterious new protector/father figure and grow up with him in the wilds to be the feral terrors we all know and love; and Galadriel, who has to make some hard decisions about what to do about all of the above.

It looks like this will be a long-fic, so I want to finish at least one of the ones I'm currently working on before I dive too deep into writing it (I always try to only post two-three long-fics at a time, less anxiety inducing for me). But I haven't written a memory-loss fic before, so this one should be fun!

[kannedia]

😊 What can make your OC smile even when they’re feeling down? What cheers them up and makes everything feel better for them? Is your OC generally a happy person and do they enjoy making others smile? What about your OC makes others happy?

🍐 What is your OC’s mentality? Are they overall positive? Negative? A bit of both? Describe their thought patterns and reasoning behind their choice making!

(for any or all of your OCs)

A Game of Asks

Thank you for the ask.

😊 Y'shtola, yes? Yes.

Full answers beneath the cut as it gets a bit long. Also, while being around Y'shtola does make Asel happy she's not alone in that.

😊 Being around her fellow Scions, with certain exceptional moments, usually does a good deal to lighten Asel's mood. Their presence definitely helps her with opening up to strangers.

Her fairy familiar Lily and her carbuncle Ariel also usually manage to cheer her up. Especially when she's feeling antsy. When such happens Asel usually calms herself with crafting or tea. Usually, the type of chai she used to have growing up though she'll take almost anything else.

Asel herself is not so much a naturally happy person as she is a stubborn person. She wants to be a good person, she wants to be a kind person, she wants to be a more positive person and by the twelve she is going to make such a reality. And for the most part, she has succeeded. In part because while she is not naturally happy, she is naturally kind.

This kindness is part of what makes people happy when she's in their presence. She's a moderately good listener with some amount of wit and humor in her. Her love of learning also helps.

🍐 Oscar is overall a positive person. I kind of designed him to be such, as part of my goal with him is to teach myself more positive thinking. The other part being, of course, to make him into an actual character.

In general, his thought patterns are at times all over the place. Oscar can be a little spacey at times and occasionally struggles to focus. His big decisions are usually made based on things like how he may help those around him and how he can make the situation even a little bit brighter. Smaller decisions are a lot less concrete.

[doll-elvis]

How and why did Elvis go down hill so fast after the Aloha from Hawaii concert

ahh this is a really interesting question, thank you for the ask <3 !! also I’m sorry if I didn’t interpret this correctly and if you mean’t the immediate aftermath of the special, I kind of answered in terms of the long run 😭

now this might be an unpopular opinion but I don’t believe that Elvis actually ever went ‘downhill’ at a constant or steady rate

Many fans, biographers, and reviewers sort of see the Aloha special as ‘past the point of no return’ for Elvis, meaning they see it his last moment of “greatness”, or the last moment where he was truly on top

The Aloha special was no doubt a peak moment for Elvis, but I don’t definitely don’t view it as his “final truly great moment”. I also don't see the special as him reaching the top of the mountain and then next 4 years are him going down it. I see the special as one peak of many, in fact I think he continued to have peak moments up until his passing, which is why the suddenness of his death is so tragic because I don’t believe he was done. He was of course physically not well but not to the point that he wouldn’t have been able to overcome it if he had more time and proper care

Another reason that I can’t say he ever steadily declined is because that throughout his career, particularly in the 60s and 70s, Elvis had periods of highs and lows that often coincided with how his personal life was going i.e family, friends, girlfriends etc.etc

For example the tail end of the summer in 1976 was a particularly rough patch for Elvis. His health was declining, his relationship with Linda was on its’ last legs, his group was split (Dave, Red and Sonny had been fired), and Doctor Nick even stopped being his physician after a fallout had occurred and Doctor Elias Ghanem stepped in

Doctor Ghanem was even more neglectful in taking care of Elvis and as a result Elvis was loaded up on anti-depressants, sleeping pills, and other extremely debilitating narcotics. He was rendered almost completely incontinent. Thus resulting in one of Elvis’ worst tours yet, and one of his worst rated shows ever aka ‘Houston we have a problem’ which was taped on August 28th 1976

Reportedly Elvis was slurring and stumbling so badly on stage that several fans walked out, one reviewer even noted fans crying as they left

“People had witnessed the side effects from Elvis's medications during his performance in Houston. Elvis had taken Sparine (for depression), which contributed to muscle and speech problems. It knocked the bottom out of him, dropped his blood pressure. He couldn't do diddly-squat”

excerpt from the book “The King and Dr. Nick” by George Nichopoulos

It was one terrible show/performance after the next and Elvis was pushing himself to the limits and suffering because of it. According to band members Elvis had to be convinced to go on stage because he was so worried about disappointing the crowd. He wanted to perform better but his body physically wouldn’t let him. It was so terrible that just after 3 days of Elvis being under Doctor Ghanem’s care, Doctor Nick was called back and began working again to regulate Elvis’ prescription use

And then on November 19th, 1976, Elvis met 20-year-old Ginger Alden, and to just say he had “improved” would be a massive understatement. He began performing like he hadn’t been for years, resulting in one of his best tours, and some of his best shows such as his New Year’s Eve performance on December 31st, 1976. And more than just his career/shows, Elvis’ mood had visibly lifted, he was out of his depression and he was much more optimistic for the future

excerpt from the book “Elvis: My best man” by George Klein

excerpt from the book “If I can dream” by Larry Geller

So Elvis went from having one of his worst-rated concerts, to one of his best-rated concerts in just the span of a few months, which again proves to me at least that his “decline” wasn’t steady

When he was motivated and inspired, he could do incredibly great things, whether that motivation came from a single girl he wanted to impress in the audience or billions of people around the world like in the Aloha special

And this pattern can be seen throughout his career

Like in the 60s where Elvis would tend to let himself go a little bit between films and then when a script was given for his next picture, he would find the motivation to get back “in shape”, even reducing the amount of prescriptions pills he was taking in order to do so

But even the films eventually grew tiresome and Elvis didn’t find that motivation for his career again until the 68 comeback special. dontbeecruel breaks down the lead up to the special like Shakespeare I swear- please take the time to read it for yourself if you haven’t (it’s amazing) 😩 ⬇️

Another instance in the 70s where Elvis was able to recover from a low/downhill period and rise again was after his divorce with Priscilla. His saving grace, inspiration, and motivation this time came to him as Linda Thompson

excerpt from the book “A Little thing called Life” by Linda Thompson

The divorce undoubtedly caused was one of the lowest periods in Elvis’ life. He began taking pills and prescriptions that he had never had before such as Demerol and Dilaudid, his behavior became more erratic than ever, and he was in a deep depression, resulting in the decline of both his physical and mental health

It took him a while to recover but he eventually did, and I do honestly credit that to Linda’s presence in his life as she helped him move on

excerpt from “A Little thing called Life” by Linda Thompson

This decline and then rise can even be seen physically ⬇️

Left: Elvis in 1973, the day his divorce was finalized, where Priscilla says she was stricken by his appearance and worried for his health

Right: Elvis in 1974, visibly healthier, and performing in one of his best shows of a incredible tour

So again, Elvis went from enduring one of the worst periods of his life, declining mentally and physically, to improving and performing at his best again… all within the span of a year

I guess that’s why it breaks my heart when people act like Elvis’ last great moment was at 38 in the Aloha Special, and then every year after that was just downhill. He was always singing his heart out as best he could, even towards the end, and again, if his career was managed in his best interest and if his doctors acted in his best interest, I believe he would have many more moments like the Aloha special, he just wasn’t given enough time to do so

[carefulfears]

@amplifyme thank you lovely! answering these one by one <3

top 5 underrated MSR moments

(i’m still not feeling well so this may not be coherent lol, just gonna ramble a bit)

1/ redux ii - "because i knew you'd talk me out of it if i was making a mistake"

this is my favorite line delivery of the series. it carries so much weight. he hasn't stopped smiling at her the entire time she's been in the hospital, trying to alleviate how much she worries about leaving him alone, and at times it is forced, but not here.

when he tells her that he was lost the night before, but found his way when he was with her. and explains to her the situation that he is in, the choice that he's been given, the decision that he's made. and she asks why he came to see her if he'd already made up his mind.

the way that he laughs and chokes through tears at the same time when he responds, "because i knew you'd talk me out of it if i was making a mistake."

it's almost ridiculous to say out loud, in the end, because it's the end. it's a foregone conclusion, and it's so so limited.

the look on her face says so much. there is so much grief in being needed. it doesn't last forever. it might not even last the rest of the day, she might not live long enough to ever find out if he's walking into that hearing to make a mistake. how can either of them do anything but cry and laugh in the face of that??

she's on her deathbed and he's flashing that smile at her so maybe she won't worry, like he did when he knelt before her in a surveillance unit and handed over his gun, a lifetime (or two years) before, trying to make it all okay. but how could it be okay when this person needs her like this? when it's all so fragile? when tomorrow, maybe, there won't be anyone to listen to him and tell him if he's making a mistake.

it aches to be depended on.

"you are going to die in your best friend's arms. and you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, because you've memorized it, it's all you know." (richard siken planet of love)

she's going to die in her best friend's arms, and it's funny, because what is there to do except choke out a laugh through tears?

2/ sein und zeit - "she was trying to tell you to stop"

this is tough as nails love.

this is the dirty work that no one can bear. this is being willing to tell someone what they need to hear, and to stay for the fallout.

i love this episode, and this whole scene is such an intense and important moment in who their characters are.

she gets down on the floor. she looks him in the eye and tells him the truth, even when her voice wavers. she holds steady in the midst of his lashing out, his eruptive grief, his inability to accept the facts that she cut through skin and bone to find. she grabs him and holds him tight and rocks him on the ground.

i always think of this quote from audries' throat, eye, and knucklebone:

"Sometimes she wishes he’d get some kind of universal object permanence. Actually practice the world-weariness he preaches with his tired eyes and dingy kitchen. Learn to anticipate the punch or else to slip and roll with it. It’s all incongruent - leaves her there cursing God and rocking him on the floor and all the while thinking you should know better at no one in particular."

mulder, who at 12-years-old, closed his eyes every time he walked into his room, because maybe his sister would be there when he opened them.

who looks up at stars and sees wandering souls, who can spin any light in the sky or water in an autopsy report into a reason why the world is still kind, despite all to the contrary. for whom "trust no one" is little more than a computer password, because he listens to everyone, believes everyone has something important to say, even cold answering machines.

he wants to believe, he comes into every situation with a bad joke and the most hopeful answer, he is rarely wrong. he still walks into every room with his eyes shut tight.

and what a thing to dedicate your life to, to spend your days with someone who sees the world this way. except, what happens when even the most complex spins and intricate theories cannot account for the dull sharp reality of loss? when there are certain things that are just too awful to be explained.

he should know better. one of them should, at least, but sometimes when you walk into every room with the most hopeful answer, you're wrong. sometimes there's just no evidence or conspiracy or mythos to be dreamed up.

his mother killed herself. she did so without saying goodbye, without telling him the "unsaid" truths she's kept secret, without leaving anything more than burnt photos of him in the trash and a message on his answering machine about how he didn't call her back. a message that he can rewind and replay a thousand times over, it still won't hold any answers. he still won't be able to figure this out.

it's horrible and painful and devastatingly human, with no grander purpose to it, and he should know better than to look. after everything that he's seen and lost and been through, he should have retained some understanding that this is the world.

but he looks anyway, with as much dedication and hope as he does everything, and there is no one there other than scully to say stop. to say this is the truth. to say these are the facts.

there is no one there other than scully for him to run up against, and she sits calmly and holds onto him.

she tells him the truth, and she tells him something else, too. she tells him that his mother wanted to tell him to let go, that she wanted to "take away his pain."

which...maybe this is true, or rather, maybe scully believes this. but scully stood in the next room when his inquiries to his mother got him little more than a slap to the face.

scully watched on tape as tena signed her son over to the devil, a hospital pen in her hand and cigarette smoke framing her face. scully's heard this voice on an answering machine too, and she never got a response either.

there's so much pain in her face as she tells him, through tears, that his mother just wanted to take his away. her own version of shut eyes and a strategic spin, this is what she has to offer.

in the following scene, it's morning now, and scully answers the door with her hair frazzled, still wearing her blouse from the day before but not her blazer.

weary from a night spent confronting the punches of the world, she's visibly exhausted when she looks at skinner and says, "it's been a hard night for him."

when mulder comes to the door, she never moves from her place in front of him, blocking him in. (she has always shared him with the world only reluctantly). as skinner tells mulder that the mother of the missing little girl in california has something to say, and she will only talk to him.

sometimes, when the worst happens, you want the person with the most hopeful answer.

skinner tells him that he's booked them two flights, and after mulder nods and walks away to get ready, scully looks at her boss and tells him that he "better book three."

tough as nails!

3/ the erlenmeyer flask - "mulder? i just want to say that i was wrong."

this moment exemplifies so much of their relationship in season one, and this is my favorite MSR. baby-faced and curious and overjoyed to know each other. they are best friends.

no one else would run up behind him on the street and stop him to tell him they were wrong, and that they should have believed him. it means so much.

when she tells him that she should have just trusted his instincts, and he replies, "why? no one else does." and she just smiles at him...season one scully has found secret treasure no one knows about. she can't believe she's getting away with hiding him in the basement.

4/ paper hearts - "but i do know you"

it's about THE INHERENT GRIEF IN BEING NEEDED!! of course a paper hearts moment was going to land on this list somewhere. my attachment to this episode knows no bounds. i could bring it into anything.

paper hearts is an ahab and starbuck episode. mulder is more haunted than we ever see him, as he spends the hour grasping at ghosts. scully's place in this episode is everything that makes her role so important, as she tries to balance hope and rationality. this is their quest, and these are their skeletons.

earlier, when roche tells mulder that he just wants to see his face when he finds samantha's body, you hear scully exclaim "oh my god" before standing up and screaming at him, opening the door and just getting mulder out.

she tries to reason, she tries to rationalize, she tries to get him away from "the darkness", but when it comes down to it, she digs in the dirt next to him with her bare hands.

i love these little moments that they always share in the end, when it's all over. there's nothing more to be done. all that's left is a tattered scrap of fabric with weary eyes looking on. she just comes in to check on him.

she gives him the results of the labs on the last heart, how there's nothing to go on, and then she tells him that they will find who that last little girl was. when he asks how, she replies that she doesn't know, "but i do know you."

this is their quest. they will find all of the victims, give the families the answers that mulder so desperately wants for his own. she doesn't know how, she just knows him, and that's enough to believe.

when she tells him to "go on home and get some sleep," all he can do is laugh. after all of the heartache and tension in this episode, how brutally visceral the pain of it all is, it melts away in the incredulousness of her suggestion.

he flashes that smile and hugs her, "thank you" and "i'll be okay" at the same time

and she strokes his hair and stares at the floor.

the grief in being needed. (who would come make sure he's okay if she were gone?). the grief in following ghosts. (there has never been a more brutal reminder that samantha was more than the photo in that frame). the grief in loving someone so encased in pain and loss. (he will not go on home and get some sleep).

there's so much grief in being starbuck, in the end.

5/ how the ghosts stole christmas - "maybe i did wanna be out there with you"

is there any better representation of season 6 than hanging out with a movie after a night of some light murder/suicide plans?

this episode is just the best. and one of the things that makes it so good is that it's comedy is rooted in examination, in bringing mulder and scully's psyches into question and condemnation.

😭😭😭😭

having only christmas eve to keep up their reputation, our titular ghosts, lyda and maurice, are forced to resort to "pop psychology" to fulfill their haunting. they have no idea the gold mine that stumbled into their house this year.

instantly upon meeting, maurice WHACKS mulder, calling him "narcissistic," "overzealous," "self-righteous," and prone to obsessive compulsive antisocialism

a lonely man who considers himself passionate and misunderstood, but chases illusions in order to find warped meaning and significance

meanwhile, in the next room, scully is not safe from disturbance, as lyda calls out her "conflicted yearnings" and delusions of loyalty. the reason why she's "really here"- for the satisfaction of proving her partner wrong.

in the end, mulder and scully escape the house only by realizing that the ghosts don't actually have any power over them. it's all an illusion, it's not real, and lyda and maurice can't hurt them- or make them hurt each other.

but it doesn't stop them from internalizing the messages of their haunted house, and mulder spends christmas alone watching a christmas carol, as the scene opens on him listening to scrooge say the line, "i don't deserve to be so happy."

also unable to shake the events of the night, scully shows up

and asks if any of that was real. if it was just an illusion. which, always knowing when to back down on the need for belief, mulder gives her, agreeing with her that it must have just been in their heads. (folie a deux, she is always more comfortable in shared madness with him than with the world.)

after having been dragged out on christmas eve to look for ghosts, finding them, and then deciding that it was all shared delusion: she repeats back the insecurity that lyda gave her, "not that my only joy in life is proving you wrong."

but after coming inside, she betrays her true insecurity. responding to mulder's "when have you ever proved me wrong?" with "well...why else would you want me out there with you?"

why else would he want to spend christmas eve with her, why else would he want her with him, if not to play her role? if not to offer the "science and rationalism" that he told her, not too long ago, saves him?

"you didn't want to be there? oh, that's...self-righteous and narcissistic of me to say, isn't it?"

god, they are both so slow.

they both consider for a moment, these roles they play. these "subconscious desires" that they mask in their own personal pursuits. how easy it is to turn them against themselves, to expose their uncertainties and weaponize them.

before scully lands on, "no, i mean...maybe i did want to be out there with you.”

and they exchange the christmas presents they totally swore they weren't gonna get each other this year.

maybe they do just want to be out there together.

maybe it's not about grand perceptions of loyalty or meaning. maybe it's not about the parts that they play. maybe it's not about obligation or dependency. maybe they just want to.

[trillscienceofficer]

Hi! If you were given the chance to solve this problem, how would you solve this problem? Because I want Jadzia to live but also Ezri to live too!

There has to be a way where both Jadzia Dax and Ezri Dax can co-exist!

Or! Is it possible for a Tom Riker scenario with Jadzia?

First of all, I apologize if my post was rude, I want to underline that I have very specific opinions regarding any Jadzia Lives AU and it's entirely on me for being extra picky. In any case thank you for this ask!

The short answer is that the only AU of this kind I'm personally interested in is one where the Dax symbiont is a sort of 'narratively indivisible' entity and can only belong to one host, therefore Jadzia manages to survive (likely thanks to some medical miracle courtesy of Julian) but loses the symbiont, which in turn is joined to Ezri in the way we know.

Any situation where both Jadzia and Ezri get to keep Dax feels... not quite right to me. The joining process has a gravity to it wrt the succession of hosts that I feel would be lost in this situation; the symbionts aren't real but what they represent imho is very specific and "duplicating" Dax feels, idk. Too easy a solution? Not to mention it would imho also considerably cheapen Ezri's not insignificant sacrifice in joining to Dax without any preparation.

This is not to say that eg a transporter accident-duplicate like Thomas Riker or William Boimler wouldn't work fine to have both a Jadzia Dax and Ezri Dax. Or a version of Jadzia Dax plucked from a slightly different past timeline. There are lots of possibilities for having both, it's just that... I'm not interested in them. I don't think they'd have what I generally look for in a joined Trill narrative. So much of what makes Jadzia and Ezri's stories great to me is that they choose over and over to be Dax despite the heavy burden the symbiont sometimes is for them. I feel like a duplicate story would remove that agency somehow, while eg having Jadzia learn to live without it at the same time as Ezri is gritting her teeth and almost losing herself trying to adapt to the joining would be something I'd actually be interested in seeing.

Again, entirely personal opinion, and by all means duplicate-Jadzia is an entirely viable solution for this problem! Certainly better than having Ezri not joined to Dax at all.

[misty-moth]

arthur 12, 18, 23 for the character ask game 💕💞

Arthuuur (♡ヮ♡) thank you for the ask 🥹

12: A headcanon I have for him:

“I only like my coffee black.” I think that will change in due time.

Now don’t get me wrong, I think he loves it and it’s his favorite in the story. And maybe it always will be. But this man is living in the 1900s where he’s only dealt with the possible additions of cream and sugar. I also opt for plain black coffee when those are my only options 🤷‍♀️ (he’s also getting the fanciest coffee, courtesy of daddy Comte’s wallet)

But he also loves fudge, which hints at a sweet-tooth. I can see him loving creamer once better flavors start popping up, and different types of spices and brewing styles.

My guess? He’ll grow very fond of dark chocolate mochas that aren’t too sweet. Maybe pistachio, too… Just enough sweetness to keep the coffee flavor at the forefront.

18: A relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire.

Arthur and Newt’s relationship makes my heart smile. I know Arthur is a lil shit to Newt, but I feel like Newt needs it. Arthur reads people like a book, and has stopped teasing in its tracks in some routes when he notices true discomfort. He also knows how to deal with a contrarian.

And I think Arthur is so much happier having a friend who’s a bit… purer, I guess? Idk if that’s the right term, but all of their conversations are light and fluffy. Arthur is wary of purity, and yet Newt snuck his way in. Vincent would bring that kind of friendship, too, but angel man has a guard dog 😭

23: Favorite picture of this character:

Cheesin’ Arthur 😭😭😭

Look at him! Look at him! I’ve been losing my mind over this pic from the moment I saw it. The cute aggression is unreal (Honorable mention to hotdog Newt for being my favorite cg before this)

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[desertfangs]

Anne's mind is so fascinating to me. She really had a whole plan for Daniel and Armand (which as wacky as it was, was a plan of sorts), and instead of even alluding to it in the books, she was like: "yeahh Daniel... that guy. He lost his mind for a while, lived in Marius' house, built some train models, then got back together with Armand and then moved to his house... any q's? No? Thought so. So, about that mural...", I unironically love her so much lmaooo

Oh my gosh, me too! I unironically want one of those t-shirts with the scan of her brain on it. Her mind was fascinating.

I’ve been in and out of this fandom since the 90s and I think one that keeps me coming back is that there’s just so much in this world that’s left unexplored. So many throw away lines you could write half a book about (DM is full of these but it’s true of the entire series!), so many scenes that are glossed over or suggested or implied and never fleshed out.

There many conversations and encounters that must have happened that just do not appear on the page—they were in the Sonoma Compound together for a while, and on Night Island together for a while, then at Court! All of them have talked and interacted and what we get in the books is just a tiny fraction of it. Which makes sense mostly-- I mean, somethings arguably should have been included, like Louis' reaction to Daniel as a vampire for example!!--but obviously a lot is happening in every book and there just isn't space. Louis had to condense the entire story of his life into one night, he couldn't go night by night for hundreds of years. No one is going to spill every detail or every moment. It all comes down to the pieces that build the main picture, and then we can then take it and infer the rest from that.

Anne was masterful at leaving little breadcrumbs you can follow if you want to. And of course, she was such a talented, skilled writer, who created these characters that just feel real and alive. She had her quirks and she was human. She wasn’t always right about things and sometimes she was more willing to admit that than others. She was just a person who told amazing stories and those stories have stuck with me since I was far too young to be reading those books, and now here I am, almost 30 years later, still writing fic, still rereading the books and finding new little nuggets I’d never noticed, still so excited to hear other people’s interpretations of scenes or characters, and to read other people’s fic that explore all these little crumbs and flesh them out.

When I say I love this fandom, I mean it from the very bottom of my heart, and we owe Anne so much for building a world that we have so much room to play in. It really is incredible. It blows my mind sometimes how real and visceral and powerful the world of the VC feels. But I digress!! I completely agree, anon. Even if we don't get a lot of Armand and Daniel in the later books together, we do get a satisfying story for them as a couple, and we get the joy of filling in those missing pieces ourselves. 💖

[selfshipdorito]

I don't really know what you're going through, so I can't say much, but I hope seeing this cute picture of Honami can at least cheer you up a bit ,, I'd say that she loves you a lot, but I'm sure she already lets you know that every day!

thank you for the ask al. this is one of my favourite honami cards. she just looks too cute here. shibao is such a cutie too. idk this card is so happy aaaaaaaa. I really want to cuddle with honami and give shibao lots of headpats and belly rubs

[skyward-floored]

Thank you for such a detailed answer on courage of ages! I love your characterizations of all the links, and especially smiled at nicknaming Spirit Tracks Link Dove and the idea that he'd be star-struck meeting Windy. And I was really excited to see someone else head-canon LBW Link as fascinated with magic! I love your take on Hue and him dying his hair after TFH. This ask is mostly actually an apology I can't send a longer ask because all of this sounds so cool and want to say a bunch more, but have gotten super-busy with real life stuff. Please know though I've gone through the courage of ages tag and binged it all and it's brightened my day a ton!

Ah you’re welcome!! Coa is definitely one of my more neglected AUs, so an opportunity to ramble about it is always a fun time! It makes me happy other people enjoy it (especially since so much of it was something to keep me sane during covid + other things I was going through around then), thank you!

[thescrapwitch]

Self-rec time! What are your favorite five fics that you've written and why? After replying to this ask, feel free pass on to five other writers to spread the love. 💗

Thank you!

A Haunting of Imladris (Out of all my eldritch!Maglor stories, this one still remains my favourite. Even though its the second fic in the series, this was where my silly little AU idea grew into a much larger tale of good monsters and family mixed in with some scares. It also taught me that writing horror could be fun!)

Reforged (What should have been a one-shot has now grown into one of the longest fics I have ever written. I gave myself permission to play around with a different kind of structure: smaller, bite-sized scenes, not worrying about transitions. Maeglin is such an interesting character to write, and through him I've been able to explore other characters I don't normally write, like Celeborn and Thranduil.)

Trial of Crablor Feanorion (I think this is one of the funniest fics I have ever written, and it was fun to try something new and write in a script format.)

Mending (A bittersweet story, but I think it has some of my best writing. Plus I got to throw all my love for embroidery into it.)

Wayward Son (This fic was such a STRUGGLE to write, but I am very proud of the final result. Especially Maglor's POV.)

[kannedia]

Describe your OC/WoL in one word.

(Since this is a short one, may I ask it for all of them as a quick get-to-know-them?)

The Ask Game

Thank you for the ask. I'll do my best to fit as much of them into one word each as I can.

Asel: Concerned

Oscar: Optimistic

Iskra: Reticent

Eirini: Careful

Beatrix: Energetic

[pielove123clan]

I'm like falling asleep at the moment so I don't recall names but give me like three random OCs to answer Philia 3 with, based on that ask game you RB'd

Philia 3 - What qualities does your oc most value in a friend?

I spun a wheel of names to get the random ocs.

Lily - I think before she kind of became a shut-in, it was kindness. She valued kindness and acceptance, just the friend putting up with her and being nice was enough for her to value them to a sickening extent. The tendancy comes back sometimes. The people who accept and like her mean the world to her.

Now, its honesty and perceived relatibility if she's able to make a friend. But there's a double standard of her not neccesarily being 100% honest and keeping that wall up in front of the person and sometimes maybe she gets wrapped up in her own dillusions to really hear anything outside her scope and she needs. She likes honesty and bluntness because she knows straight forward what the other person wants. Relatibility is kind of normal? Easy to understand? She's lost the people she once thought she'd always have by her forever, like ghost of the past that haunt her being. They were all she had to latch onto but without them, she's longing for connection to dig herself out of the hole but its difficult when you think your going to add to their agonies and problems they already deal with daily. She feels stuck. If anyone's blood should spill, it should be hers and only hers. Martyr complexes are very scary to have.

Zovasa - I still keep neglecting to develop Zovasa. On account of being a spider person, acceptance and just being there is enough for them. They don't get a lot of friends. As long as you feed them your bad luck or malicous energy (something bad, i still really don't have something to identify it as) and just let them live and be himself, you're friends now. You got yourself a spider buddy who will not leave you alone!

Milicent - She is supposed to be a more extroverted person, I need to actually put that to use. She likes a good conversation and intermingling with people so I'd say good carisma. She likes to be entertained so smooth talking her and flirting with her, that's a good in with her. She most values youthfulness, not in age but metaphorically, high spirits and energy. She is a mischievous hag sort of character. If they can keep up a good conversation and spend time with her then that is what she values.

Open-mindedness too with her being a bunch of centipedes. I just thought that up. If she really likes the friend, she might mess with them with centipedes and stuff to also gaudge how much they'd freak out if she revealed her inhumaness. She'll try to peel off that bandage little by little if she really trust the friend. That's all I can think of. Thank you.

[wispmotherr]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers

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hello beloved! thank you for the ask <3 let's see... i'm gonna list five things that made me happy today, specifically. just for fun. 1. my coworkers! (most of them, anyway haha) 2. spring thunderstorms 3. the way the grass greens up and the trees show their buds so fast after said thunderstorms 4. silly goofy internet pals 5. my kitty cat philip ojomo

[extreme-unorthodox-cuddles]

Howdy! What do you think of 🐍, 📊 and 😈? Plus what's your ❤️?

Heloooo and thanks for the ask! finally the attention i have so craved

But anyway

🐍: YEEESSS very big fan of monster preds and prey. I've always liked when characters have some interesting features not like what humans have. I also particularly like when the designs are a lot weirder than normal (my sona is an eldritch abomination lmao). I don't really mind any species for pred or prey, but one of my all time favourites for either is nagas. They can be either living sleeping bag or slurped like noodle. Very nice yes.

📊: GT IS WONDERFUL YES absolutely love it! It's also the one which generally makes the most sense with vore but then again it's vore we're talking about sense doesn't matter. But the possibilities with it are amazing, gemtly hold tiny prey before eating them, dangling them above the mouth, let them relax in the mouth, the possibilities are amazing.

😈: Hehehehehehheeehehehh yeessss love me some fearplay. Taunting the prey in the preds hands, backing them against a wall so they can't escape, detailing how exactly they're going to eat them and enjoy them, yeeeeessss good soup. One of my favourite scenarios with fearplay is the pred and prey having agreed to it beforehand and once the prey is down the pred is just being all lovey to the prey, and another is similar sort of thing, but the pred is a bit too convincing and genuinely scares the prey, so they break character to make sure the prey is ok.

❤️: Honestly I don't know what to put as my favourite trope, there's so many wonderful ones to pick from. But one I do very much like is a pred succumbing to their instincts and swallowing their friend, and they feel like a monster as a result but their friend is ok and isn't upset with them. Pred thinks they broke their friend's trust but the prey trusts them enough to be ok with being eaten.