#thank you for the distraction

[thequeenofthewinter]

Hello Winter! I'd love to know 8, 14, G, and 🤝 for the firsts ask meme :)

Hey there Meg <3

Thank you so much for the asks. :D

8, 14, G, and 🤝

8. First time they took a risk, or the biggest risk they've ever taken

Honestly, while it would seem that perhaps joining the Civil War was the biggest risk that Dahlia took for herself, I would have to say that actually it is when she decided to actually date Ulfric.

Sure, they both liked each other, held romantic feelings and that’s all well and good, but actually jumping into a relationship of that caliber (and after doing all that damnable Dragonborn stuff), it was a risk to take the plunge—not only because you never know if a relationship is going to turn out but also because…it’s Ulfric.

He actually points this out himself when they have their post first kiss conversation as he is also acutely aware of what would happen if they do start dating and where things will go for the future. Actually…

“Does this mean you are courting me now? Or what does this mean for us?”

Ulfric expected this question at some point in time, and he has also thought a lot about the implications of showing her the affection he feels. If he is entirely honest with himself, admitting that he feels for her was easy. However, answering the questions she has just posed to him might be a little more complicated, and he wants to be honest with her. She deserves it. At the same time, he is a little afraid. He isn’t sure how she will react to what he is going to tell her and if it might scare her away.

Ulfric is silent for a few moments as he tries to think of how exactly he wants to word his answer. Dahlia picks at the food on her plate while she patiently but anxiously awaits his response.

“You said that you were going to be honest with me, so I will be nothing but honest with you in return. I want you to know that always. What I am going to tell you is not easy to digest.” He waits for her to respond that she understands him, and when she nods, he continues.

“If we should date each other, things will be a little more complicated than usual. But I suspect that you knew that already. In addition to this, you know I am running a rebellion, and I hope to place my bid for High King when everything is said and done. This means a few things for myself and possibly for you should you decide that you want to continue this relationship. Inevitably, I will have to marry, and I will need an heir. There is no way around either of those two things, especially since I am getting older.” He sighs. “This is a huge responsibility for any partner of mine, and if you should decide that you’d like me to court you, this is something that you will need to want as well. I would make you High Queen.”

14. First time facing their fears

Hmm..I had to think about this one for a little while before answering. I would like to think that by the time we reach the events in “In the Midst of Winter” that Dahlia has already faced her first biggest fear which was the heavy task of coming to terms with being the Dragonborn. Every Nord in Skyrim grows up with stories of the Dragonborn. It is a legend passed down from generation to generation, a myth which no one quite believes until…

…Dahlia is faced with a dragon and absorbs its soul, and that goes not go well for her. She would be ashamed to tell you that she ran from the responsibility for about a month before finally summoning the courage to go to High Hrothgar, and even then she vomited several times while she was climbing up the mountain.

G. First time seeing the other one sick/injured

:) I wrote an entire one shot about Dahlia being sick and Ulfric coming to visit her. Perhaps I’ll just leave that here as our answer. (But both of them would be worried sick. Dahlia would be flitting around and doing everything she can, and Ulfric would be very strict about Dahlia staying in bed. …and both of them would want NOT to be in bed.)

In Sickness and In Health

🤝 Favorite "first meeting" scene you've written between two characters

Ooo, I am afraid I only have one first meeting scene written, so I guess that position would have to go to my two Idiots: “Battling a dragon on top of the battlements of the Palace of the Kings.”

[diazsdimples]

besides the poopy ex, how’s the rest of your weekend looking? any movies/tv shoes getting you through hiatus? fav romcom? fav snack?

It's a little up in the air right now, considering the fight ex and I just had. I have a friend coming over for this weekend bc I can't be alone with this man, and I'm hoping I can find someone for tomorrow.

I watched Deadpool and Wolverine which was absolutely hilarious and I will 100% be watching it again. Mostly I've just been doing a rewatch of 9-1-1, but also watched Bodyguard on Netflix which was amazing, and some Modern Family. Definitely in the market for new shows.

Favourite romcom is Love Actually lmao (I am Tommy Kinard), I watched it with my mum when I was young and then it became our Christmas movie.

Pringles are my favourite snack!! Love them so much!

Ask me things!

[aphroditestummyrolls]

📓

Hiiiii friend 💕✨ for you, I have a bullet train fanfic moment!

It’s several missions since Shinkansen, and tangerine has healed, lemon doesn’t let the two of them split up anymore (until this mission, and it doesn’t go well), and ladybug has somehow, someway— you could even call it fate— ended up at each and every one of them. He’s like a bad penny, until he slowly, through the bonds of the job, becomes a friend and a colleague. And not that he’d ever say it, but tan finds him… charming. Maybe. You can’t prove it.

They’re on a honeypot mission on this Uber rich luxury yacht, docked off of Croatia, and tan gets drugged by their target. Ladybug and Lemon have been working as the first mate and the captain, and ladybug is meant to be the one keeping tangerine safe.

Between all three of them, they manage, but it’s a close run thing, and tan is all out of sorts. The target ends up getting killed, tan especially is worse for wear, and they have to escape on the dingy to the mainland in the dead of night and flee to a remote fishing village to lay low and heal the worst of the wounds. There, things come to light— struggles with trusting others, childhood trauma, adulthood trauma, and learning to let other people in— and lemon nudges and nudges ladybug and tan closer together.

I would honestly love to write this, but I have enough WIPs as it is. And I’ve been having a really hard time writing. Hopefully that will change soon and I can make this daydream a reality 💕 thanks for asking, friend!

Put "📓" or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I'll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven't written but daydream about.

[sorry-i-spaced]

Sending hugs your way! What’s your favorite animal and flower?

Thank you Dani!

My favorite animal is definitely a fruit bat!

My favorite flower is a dandelion (also those white puff balls you find in weeds that you blow on and they break super easily! Are those dandelions? Idk, the yellow ones you find in weeds is also my favorite!

[aris-ink]

what does your username mean? i really like it and it always reminds me of calm rain for some reason

oh that's so cute 💕 I really thought it would be more obvious but tumblr doesn't allow apostrophes in usernames 😭 properly, it's supposed to be ari's ink. like for writing? you know how there is a "spilled ink" tag for poetry and stories? well that's it, I'm ari and this is my little writing corner 💌 the meaning is that simple but I guess it doesn't look that way aahehdjshd

[lawfulgay]

list 5 songs you like to listen to, then publish this and send this ask to the last 5 people in your notifs <3

In no particular order:

Cosmic Love by Florence + the Machine

Speed the Collapse by Metric

Blood in the Wine by AURORA

Joyride by Ke$ha

Cast the Bronze by Raynes

Definitely not feel good songs, but I’m a sad bitch who likes pretty music.

[celestial-choc0late]

When you’re in a tizzy, going mad because the 15th person annoyed you at work today. You were so irritated, you started mindlessly babbling to your boyfriend. You couldn’t even hear his calm whispers, urging you to calm down.

He finally resorts to taking your cheeks between his palms, kissing you passionately, yet calmly. You start to feel your heart beat steady. He snakes his arm around your waist and deepens the kiss, pulling you into him. He slowly pulls away, looking deeply into your eyes, with longing.

“Calm down baby”, he whispers….somehow making it sound sensual. He was so hot…You couldn’t help but almost automatically jump and wrap your legs around his waist, swing your arms across his shoulders. He kisses you deeper this time and with haste, almost as if he’s thankfully agreeing with your sudden move.

He immediately carry’s you into the bedroom..

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[batbabydamian]

Jorge Jimenez C2E2 2024 Commission!

[gracelesstars]

SHUT UP, IT’S HIS MOMENT! THERE’RE NO MORE IMPORTANT NEWS THAN THE ANGEL BEING GAY!!! 

(news source for those who don’t understand this)

[lcs-scar]

unique means of communication

[aphroditestummyrolls]

📓📓 <33

Hi friend 💕💕💕 thank you for the distraction from my existence.

I have a pair of fics that only exist in my brain now, because I just didn’t have the energy to take all the research I did and put it into practice 😅 they’re oneshots that cover Joe and Nicky’s relationships with their religions throughout the centuries, both of them focusing on the 20th.

The first is Joe, in the fallout from the First World War. He and Nicky have gone from Tunisia to Senegal, to their home in Dakar to recover as much as they can after a war the likes of which they had never seen before. Nicky starts praying more and more frequently to search for answers to the terrible things they saw, but Joe, to cope with the terrors of his shellshock, falls back really heavily on his faith. I did a lot of research about the cultural climate of north and west Africa in the interwar years, and the effects of colonialism and racism there in the 1910-1920s. in a time when Joe feels so helpless and angry and desperate and sad, he turns to the more all-encompassing forms of Sufism that were coming up as an expression of Islam. The history of Sufism was really cool to research, I just didn’t trust my ability to do it justice. It was all about Joe, and his heritage and rebellion and identity in a world that feels more and more acutely like it’s falling apart.

The second one is for my Nicolò, in the aftermath of the second war and the dawn of the nuclear age, and he goes almost completely non-verbal. He and Joe have gone to Malta to recover— halfway between Italy and Tunisia— and Joe is trying to talk him into buying the house that becomes Their Home. The plot is basically as Nicky describes it to Nile in In Loving Memory, where he originally hates Valletta. He’s drowning in his original guilt of the crusades and the damage that he did, and feeling like he has done it all over again. He’s doubting how many times they have truly done the right thing. It’s his relationship with faith, and feeling unmoored as a child and as an agelessly old man, and being so desperate for certainty that you can’t even speak. I stopped working on it because it dealt with the A Bomb attacks, which felt wrong.

Thank you for asking 💕 it’s fun to write out (coherently, I hope) some thoughts even if they won’t get written properly 💕

Put "📓" or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I'll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven't written but daydream about.

[bycaprinae]

Wouldn't expect less for Season 6 🙏

Based on a conversation i had on twitter

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Danse Macabre

[Commission]

[emry-stars-art]

@neilimfinejosten said coffee shop au last month so you’ll never guess what I’ve been thinking about

A few thoughts under the cut!

Andrew works at a coffee shop in a college town, so far with all the foxes except Aaron, and Neil’s been far away on the run. I’ve been putting Robin in this one and I bet Seth hangs around the shop for Allison. Aaron will pick up a shift or two but mostly he’s focusing on school.

Anyway one day in a cold winter a new guy comes into the shop looking to warm up, and Andrew just happens to be working the register (rare). It’s hard to tell with the mask, but this guy doesn’t seem to be much older than him or the team, and Andrew can catch glances of bandages and band-aids under his clothes.

He becomes a regular through winter, but none of the baristas can decide on his name because he gives a different one every time he comes in.

[thegoodmorningman]

Always be reminding everyone in your life to say Good Morning!!!