#thank you for such a thought-provoking question!

[thanatos-heard-somewhere]

Okay, now I'm glad that I can't afford Georgian ludicrous rent few years ago. Can't still, but really, guys, I thought you saw what's going on on Russia and Belarus, why are you all start aggressive copy this shit?

Me and my partner have fled from Russia after Putin start a fucking WAR and all this kind of laws are happened. We was multiple threaten with so called "correction raping", assaulted physically, I have a literal fight(thanks queer energy and my super high-heels for being my shield and sword in this attempt to protect my partner) because we are two plural, mostly non-human AFAB person. We hides, never dare to hold each other hand in somewhat public places, hugs and kisses was absolutely out of questions, it can provoke attack immediately with 65% probability, and some people just can call the police and you'll be arrested. Even in the cites like Sankt-Peterdsburg or Moscow. Not to mention smaller, way more conservative parts. And I'm really glad, that we don't pick Georgia as an escape route now.

Like, ok, Kazakhstan is also regularly have this discourse, what's fucking wrong with you? But at least in Almaty I feel myself approximately safe. Here exist a strong community, and I even talk once with a man, who stand for LGBTQIA+ on official debate and he is openly gay. Not so long ago it was a prides time in Georgia. Less distant, than in Russia. Wtf?

When the anti "LGBT propaganda" law passed in Russia, all of you were going insane and cared. Give Georgia the same energy. If you can have sympathy for our oppressors on the basis of them being queer, you should keep the same energy for us, if not more.

If this law passes, every Georgian queer person I know is so severely fucked, myself included. If you make jokes about "being illegal in several countries" you better fucking care about the countries you're apparently illegal in, or going to be illegal in.

Make sure to spread this around. This is important.

[teamchillidogs]

Oï!!

First, I want to say, I love this comic and genuinely can’t wait to see what awaits for us next ♡♡♡

The premise is such an interesting concept– And the art is to die for, hello?? (all my ♡ to you guys, and I mean ALL of you!)

I just had two tiny questions, if it haven’t been already answered:

If it doesn’t spoil anything, is Sonic still going to be able to run at his full speed with that mechanical leg? Or is he going to be limited? I can’t imagine my poor baby stuck with average speed, but I’m not really sure that this leg is capable of supporting his sonic speed.

And second, mostly adressed to others fans... WHY IS EVERYBODY BLAMING MAH BOI TAILS FOR EVERYTHING?? Like, yeah sure he’s technically responsible but–

Why is nobody blaming Knuckles too?!

Both Sonic and Amy told Tails to come back to the ARK and let Sonic&Shadow handle things, and I think we can safely say he would have (even reluctantly) obeyed and gone back to the ship.

But noooooo, Knuckles had to chime him and told him to make himself useful.

Useful.

To the boy who literally just witnessed his BigBroTM (fake) death in an explosion without being able to do anything abt it.

The kid who just had an entire arc abt gaining confidence and learning to step out of Sonic’s shadow (pun not intented), to be his own person with his own purpose and all that jazz.

The child who’s probably still pump up on the adrealine from his fight with Eggman (which he won if I remember my SA2 correctly).

Knuckles, mah bro, best hot-headed himbo of the franchise. You could not have chosen a worst time to utter these words.

Of course Tails was going to take him up on that and try to ”MaKe HiMsElf UsEfUl”, why wouldn’t he?? He defeated Eggman in battle (Left-over adrealine and possibly cockiness?), and didn’t seem to trust Shadow with Sonic (who, again, was thought Dead literaly less than half an hour ago bc of the Team Shadow was on– Seriously, I can see why he’d like to be by his side when Sonic is again risking his life out there for them)

And franckly, how was he supposed to realize how bad his intervention would turn out to be? It never got that bad before, why now?

#StoptheTailshate #HoldKnucklesaccountable

Sorry for the rambling and the terrible english, but it had to be said, bruh. Tails ain’t even in my Top-5 favorites character, but everyones’ so harsh on the baby, he needed some backup 🥺😭

Hii @sookilini here answering as per usual!

this is the best ask we have ever received and it's honestly my favorite, thank you so much for sending this.

I always get to excited and emotional when i read these things, thank you so much for your kind words <333

ALSO THANK YOU FOR NOT ATTACKING TAILS, he has been DRAGGED TO FILTH I CAN´T TAKE IT /j

So first: is Sonic still going to be able to run at his full speed with that mechanical leg? Or is he going to be limited?

Unfortunately, the people of Marmolim (the planet he landed on) as you may have been able to tell, don't know who Sonic is and are unaware of his speed and abilities. So, the prosthetic leg isn´t capable of withstanding his speed...

Secondly

Why is nobody blaming Knuckles too?

I honestly have no idea why most people commenting did not catch onto Knuckles provoking Tails by poking at his insecurities, I'd even dare to say his ego more so... Tails got into his head "oh I don't need Sonic to get things done. I can do anything, I'm more than just the brains, I can do the action too" at least this is my intention with his actions.

We have to remember, Tails is literally just a child at the end of the day, yes he is incredibly smart but can you really expect a 12-year-old-ish kid to act rationally when put in a stressful life or death situation while getting yelled at by everyone for just trying to help?

Nobody would ever expect a kid to even be in that situation to begin with right? at least that´s what I think.

We all know Knux isn´t the smartest in hindsight...he isn't stupid by any means, but he will say what comes to his mind without second guessing for sure.

But oh well...Knuckles isn´t here to defend himself....anymore...

But there is still hope

[lostreverb]

OK so fuck marry kill: Colin Zabel, Peter Maximoff, and Ralph Bohner.

Personally, I'd fuck Ralph (see if he lives up to the name), marry Peter (I love that goober) and bc I haven't ever watched mare of easttown, I'm sad to say that Colin would be the one meeting with Princess Diana ☹.

okay well WELL OKAY THIS IS HARD?

fuck - peter bc his mutant powers HELLOOO VIBRATING DICK

marry - colin bc he's literally like the perfect husband like THEEE perfect husband

kill - ralph (as much as i love him) and put him out of his misery LMAOOO

i almost said colin for kill but uhhh yk!!!

[karamazovanon]

draw Pyotr topping Stavrogin

[emptywithoutu]

hiiii what is the best way to refer to you respectfully and hornily? I want to avoid unintentionally misgendering with gendered forms of erotic address <3

Wow I had to give this a good think! As far as my identity goes, I can be a bit fluid when it comes to femme vs. masc terms. My brief research has led me to find that there just... aren't a lot of nicely non-gendered kink terms (although I saw "coach" suggested in a reddit post, which made me laugh out loud). I'd say that either master or mistress is probably fine on a general day, although sometimes I will prefer one over the other (I have times where I approach identifying as a trans man while still remaining nb, although I never identify as a cis woman outside of sometimes kinky scenarios).

Sorry for not having a proper answer ^^;;;;

[tunastime]

12 or 4? ^-^

4. a story idea you haven’t written yet (x)

ooh... this is a good one. so there's lots of story with SEN that I don't think I'll ever get the time to write unless asked. I've been thinking about how I'd explore Hels and Wels' relationship within the coalition, and how Hels and Ex get to know each other so well, and what happens to Wels, etc etc. there's also a huge academic-style piece I'd thought about writing for doc's s9 base because it's so... anthropological in nature LOL. I don't think I'll ever get to them but they're fun ideas to spin around. same with a lot of life series thoughts... haven't written a creaking!bigb fic yet but I DO plan on it

also ever looming is my piece of original fiction... sighs... one day I'll get back to it

12. a trope you're really into

hard question because I honestly can never remember tropes LOL. maybe like... died and came back wrong? died and came back changed. the idea of being fundamentally changed and still loved/loved more is really interesting to me... something something healing... it's nice! It's fun to write about too. I think it's more narratively interesting than just killing a character off, too.

Also can't go wrong with a classic mutual pining or will-they-won't-they. always very tasty :>

[semperintrepida]

If Kassandra didn't have access to any of her superpowers, how do you think she would fare against Lara Croft in a one-on-one fight? What about Nadine from Uncharted or Abby from the Last of Us? My opinion changes depending on if normal weapons like guns or bows are allowed. If no weapons are allowed, I honestly think Abby would win, but no one else would. If normal weapons are allowed, it gets more complicated. I would be interested to hear what you think.

ooh, great question! And one that's difficult to answer—as you pointed out, it really depends on the situation.

My glib answer is that as a writer, I could show any of these characters defeating any other in a realistic way that you'd believe. That's my superpower.

So without going back to you and asking for more specifics, the best I can do is walk you through my thought process for writing a believable action scene between two characters.

(Lots of talk about writing action scenes after the jump!)

The first thing I think about is the situation and setting: Where are they fighting? When are they fighting? What universe are they in? Are they in our reality as we know it, or the mostly-realistic-with-a-dash-of-fantasy worlds of AC: Odyssey or the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy, or somewhere else entirely?

The situation and setting are crucial. Kassandra and Lara fighting in a traditional dojo would be much different than having them fight in a pine forest, or the war-torn Athens of AC:O, or a mining base on Mars. As Kassandra says to Kyra in The Breaking: "I'm surrounded by weapons." The setting determines what unconventional weapons might be at hand, if any, what cover is available, what bystanders or dangers might need to be accounted for.

Once I've established the setting of the scene, I start thinking about weapons in more detail. Do the combatants have formal training? What kinds of weapons and how much actual combat usage? How does the universe they're in treat weapons? As much as I love AC:O, that game puts all types of melee weapons on equal footing regardless of reach (length). It works within that universe because the game is consistent about its combat, but in the real world a dagger is no match for a polearm and that's fact.

Weapons tilt the table. Think of the moment in the Tomb Raider reboot where Lara gets that first gun. Her opponents could have 20 years of martial arts training and outweigh her by 50kg, but that doesn't matter a whit against a ranged firearm. The gun is the equalizer.

Setting matters. Weapons matter. Only when those parameters are sorted do I consider the physical abilities and hand-to-hand combat experience of the respective fighters. There are so many what-ifs to consider, and making everything fit together makes for a good logic puzzle. (And I haven't even gotten into the characterization aspects of writing action: not everyone has a killer instinct, and that matters!)

But let's go back to your original question and simplify things by thinking of the most basic scenario for unarmed combat: a bout taking place in the real world, in a neutral location like a dojo.

Even without superpowers, Kassandra is an impressive physical specimen. She has the strength to overpower opponents and the advantage of reach. She'd have a disadvantage in endurance, however, since all that muscle mass she's carrying is going to need energy to move it. (A good example of "strength vs endurance" affecting muscle mass can be seen in sprinters vs marathon runners.)

We'd also have to establish which Kassandra is fighting: young Kassandra (as we meet her in Kephallonia) or Kassandra at the top of her game, winner of the Olympic pankration and honed by at least five years of fighting damn near every mercenary and soldier of renown in ancient Greece.

To defeat her in unarmed combat in the real world, an opponent would have to:

outmatch her in physical ability and have just enough hand-to-hand combat experience to use it to their advantage, or

equal her in physical ability and hand-to-hand combat experience, or

have so much more experience that they could overcome all of her other advantages

That's a tough ask, and I don't really see Lara, Nadine, or Abby having enough hand-to-hand combat experience to pull it off, even against a young, less experienced Kassandra. I think Abby would come the closest, and if she went off and studied a bunch of hand-to-hand styles intensively for several years she'd make it an even fight.

So, to recap: it's definitely possible to contrive situations where one of them could defeat a non-superpowered Kassandra. I'd choose a setting and weapons that would support the challenger's strengths, and adjust Kassandra's experience accordingly.

Setting matters. Weapons matter. Experience matters.

[the-casbah-way]

if you could be 8 inches taller but you would constantly hear faint banjo music literally all the time, would you?

this implies that i want to be tall so we're off to a poor start. i joke about the fact that i'm tiny but it doesn't actually bother me because a) it means no one expects my level of strength and power so when i bite and destroy them i have the upper hand i'm so serious and b) i don't actually give a fuck about height. if i were eight inches taller i'd be over six foot and that is deeply frightening to me. ALSO i have auditory processing disorder and ocd so my brain is extremely loud at all times. i have to get prescribed migraine medication because my ocd makes my brain such a loud place and my auditory problems make every single sound i hear the exact same volume. so the clock ticking is as loud as someone talking in my ear. and then there's all the intrusive thoughts on top of that which are genuinely constant and often extremely graphic and disturbing. if you added in faint banjo music on top of all that you wouldn't even be able to hear it. i'm immune. like the joker

[konshokoentaiko]

i always thought i was a very typical enemies to lovers girlie but i think i just realized my actual taste in ships is the dynamic where the two are supposedly equal rivals/enemies who represent diametrically opposed themes (for the Aesthetic), but in actuality it’s just one of them yanking the other around on a chain while the other whines and rages and protests and ultimately makes an absolute spectacle of themselves

so uhhh. how did THAT happen and when and why

[cloudlesbian]

Do you prefer egg nog with or without the pulp?

I don't want to think about the implications of what would qualify as pulp for eggnog and in what ways definitions would have to be bended to create an answer to that. What is pulp? How is it processed? What makes something a juice versus another type of beverage? Do definitions have any meaning? Or is connotation and subjective understanding of the world the only reality we live in and can share? Here, take my hand, let's walk into the beautiful world of what qualifies as a sandwich

[rilannon]

If you could relive any of your memories, which would it be?

That is a great question! I guess it would be when my family and another family we were close with went on holiday round Australia. I was 11 at the time, so I feel like that would be amazing to relive as an adult.

[frogs-in3-hills]

14 and 27 for the writing asks!!!

14. where do you get your inspiration?

aaah tough question! honestly i get the greatest inspiration from other art/writing. which in some ways i think is indicative of my inexperience with writing in general, not saying that’s a bad thing just the truth haha. but beyond that i also just love storytelling as a mode of having conversation with other stories. fanfic and genre fiction appeal to me because they let me examine how the cogs turn in other works that i love, and expand on the ideas that are most interesting to me. also sometimes i’ll just see a great bit of prose and go “wow i wish i could write like that! i better go practice writing now so one day i can be that good!”

recently i’ve been trying to be more intentional with filling my creative well, so i’ve been keeping a journal where i write down cool stuff that i come across. probably 50% of it is animal and plant facts, so if i ever write sci-fi i am very prepared to come up with some weirdass aliens agdjgc. so i guess i would say that science and nature is a big inspiration for me as well! those things come up frequently in my work (best published example is my fma fic, but i also have a lot of wips rn that rely heavily on science-as-metaphor).

27. what is your favorite part of the writing process

it’s tied between two things! the first is the very beginning when i’m just brainstorming and writing random scenes to feel out the energy i want. i jump all over the place when i write, so the beginning is when i feel like i have the most freedom to go with my gut and let my best ideas dictate how the rest of the story will flow. i am absolutely that guy who will write a whole story around that one cool bit of dialogue i came up with in the shower

second is near the end, when i’ve had a bit of time to sit away from my first draft and i can start going back to edit. i usually make myself take time away from the draft once i��ve finished it, so it’s a relief to get back to it with something that lets my nitpicky instincts shine. i should really start beta-ing for people because i could literally just edit forever…... if only i actually stuck to my own stories long enough to reach this phase ToT

ask game

[bethrnoora]

🐅 for hiisi and 🎇 for anfisa

yayayyy thank u pria!!

🐅 (tiger) - What makes your character angry? Are they angry often? Does it take a lot to make them upset or are they quick to anger?

for Hiisi sometimes i feel like the question should be what DOESN'T make him angry lmao. i do feel like there is a throughline of authority at large, especially when leveraged against people who have no way of pushing back on that influence. he would never characterize his rage that way as he prefers to keep himself on the unapproachable side to most, but it's part of why he is so quick to take on Aventus Aretino's request to kill Grelod - especially since he was at one point an orphan at the mercy of the people who took care of him.

tamriel and skyrim especially is full of people eager to abuse their positions of power, so Hiisi is DEFINITELY angry often and while it doesn't take a lot to make him blow his lid it hasn't always been that way; as he settles into the role of Listener and travels throughout Skyrim i think he learns to rein things in a bit so as not to end up as explosive as some of the local Nords. so he generally cultivates a general air of quietly-boiling rage - though diehard Imperial or Stormcloak sympathizers, as well as upper-class bigots who hold people under their thumb really grind his gears and make him not want to wait for the Night Mother's word (and on a few occasions sometimes he doesn't wait).

🎇 (sparkler) - If your oc had the chance to start their life over again, what would they change, if anything? How would this change them and the people around them? Would their lives be better or worse? Would they change anything in the first place?

so Anfisa is generally a "keep moving forward" type of person, which makes it kind of hard to say what she would change, if anything. I think that she would certainly not want to start over from the beginning, both because I don't think she would see the point in it and because there are some things that she sees as set in stone, things that would happen in any lifetime no matter how many times it would play out. Transitioning, for one - I think she knows the Hist would be kind to her in any lifetime and her transness would be realized and welcomed by the Hist and her community.

I think by the end of the events of Skyrim she regrets not being able to help a lot of people, not being able to achieve a perfect outcome for the actual citizens of Skyrim during the peace talks, and not being able to dissuade Hiisi away from the Dark Brotherhood in some way - though the last one especially she can't help but feel like fate took him where he needed to be (or would end up eventually). so in that sense the opportunity to go back and change these things would be tempting, but in the grand scheme of things I don't think she would find it worth the risk of altering some yet-unknown future, or potentially preventing her from meeting the people she knows and loves in Skyrim.

[cloudcountry]

if you could talk to your younger self, would you try to tell them about fandoms sooner (or warn them before they join certain fandoms) or let life run its course? just curious :3

i would have told myself about the ikemen games sooner Maybe. because i really wish i discovered them sooner but...its more i wish i met my tumblr moots sooner. like how vio introduced me to all of them and helped me figure out which routes to take and what the fuck was going on. the amount of times she's had to explain a game mechanic to me...omg.

or how vivi encouraged me to play kyle's route first and how encourages my ikerev bullshit. honestly its just those two doing the absolute Most LMAO

so i guess no? because if i was introduced to the fandom i want to have discovered sooner i wouldnt have had the same method if discovering them. and they wouldnt get to see my reactions (and in vivis case, document them LMAO)

i wouldnt have discouraged myself from entering any fandoms, as problematic as they may have been (as an ex-hetalia fan and as someone who was into danganronpa (one year) and undertale (two years) because they were a fun part of my life. each fandom had really shitty people that i met and shouldnt ever had had to associate with but i feel like im a better person now for dealing with stuff like that early ^^

[recovering-redditor]

do you belong to the domain of the land, the sea, the sky or the stars?

Hm… it’s the land for me, I think. I’m content staying where I am, improving my current situation, rather than running off in search of new opportunity. Also, forests and stuff are cool, and the open ocean is terrifying.

[inkovert]

Hi Inkovert! How does your writing reflect and/or challenge the values you grew up with? These could be cultural, family, and/or personal values and beliefs.

Hello there!

What an interesting question! I’ve never thought about that before. I think I have a tendency to write kind/empathetic/loyal characters, which I don’t know how realistic it is for people who have that same quality to concentrate in the same place. So I often second-guess giving a lot of my characters those traits lol. I try to vary it a little by shifting the degree or circumstance with which a specific character demonstrates empathy/kindness to fit their personality better (e.g. maybe it’s only around a specific person, but with others they’re not as understanding, maybe it doesn’t matter who it is whether stranger or friend, maybe it’s a trait that grows or reveals itself within them over time etc). But empathy and understanding for others is something I deeply value and grew up with (maybe because my parents are both doctors 🤷🏾‍♀️), and also seek in the people I choose to keep close to me.

I value creativity and freedom, something a lot of my characters embody, either in their hobbies or the way they carry/conduct themselves. Friendship is another value that’s definitely at the top of my list. I wouldn’t be where or who I am today without my friends and so my story really focuses on and showcases different types of friendships, the importance of them, how they can mend and mold you.

I don’t have a lot of things in my writing that challenge values that I grew up with (I should maybe make that an exercise for myself to write a story like that lol). The one thing I can think of is…respect for or obedience towards your parents. That’s something I didn’t really grow out of until my mid-20s. And that’s part of Cami’s (my FMC) journey in my story. Realizing that parents aren’t always right, they are fallible and make mistakes and should be called out on it. Especially when those mistakes are to your detriment. And just because someone shares your blood or gave birth to you doesn’t mean you owe them anything. I’m still contending with those beliefs to this day and the extent to which I choose to rebel against them, but I’ve slowly come to those realizations over the years. And I think my story probably played a large part in helping me process and work through it all.