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[returnofahsoka]

Hi Kam!

If you're still doing the fandom year in review asks, 4, 7, 9 and 18? And whether or not you're doing it, have a nice day! <3

hi Az!!!! thank you sm!! have a nice day too and a lovely christmas eve!

Favorite books read this year - the earthsea cycle by ursula k le guin. the non-traditional fantasy just blew me out of the water! the depiction of the elderly, women and children as protagonists, the power of the spoken word, the fight between good and evil not as a war but as something done on an individual level, the healing and the mending and the building of bridges.... what a series, man

Favorite TV show episodes of the year - i have to say, is there in beauty no truth from prodigy got me real bad, like almost to tears of joy bad. and the dirt under your nails, the finale of arcane, with all its flaws and things that i felt missing, still punched me in the gut with THE emotional catharsis of the year. being that i am, a jayvik girlie since season 1, i just sat there completely flabbergasted because never in my wildest dreams did i think they would go there. and they did go there. "jayce will understand" and he did he really did!!!!!!!!!

Best new fandom discovery of the year - i adore the x files yes i know it's a thirty years old show but i'm just getting around to watching it and. okay maybe the overarching story isn't the strongest but the monster of the week episodes are so fun and tbh mulder and scully can carry the weakest plot on their backs because god, what a pair of dysfunctional weirdos, what an insanely codependent dynamic, what poetic levels of loyalty and devotion. truly i love them sm

Fandom that you never expected to get into - see above, because even though the x files have been on my list for ages, i never actually thought it'd be this good? that it would suck me in this much? i saw a couple episodes all over the place but it took me starting from the beginning and watching the conduit to say oh fuck this show will have my entire soul, won't it

[boltlightning]

15. What was your hardest fic to title?

15. what was the hardest fic to title?

to my great embarrassment, that looks on tempests and is never shaken is among them! i'm not too familiar with shakespeare's sonnets and this is the only one i really know (and mostly bc of the "ever-fixed mark" line, not the one i chose). this did inspire me to pick up a compilation of all the sonnets tho!

2024 in review asks!

[menelaiad]

YEAAAAH YOU FINISHED IT!!!! How do you feel 🎤

i have never felt closer to menelaus SDFGHJ

i feel like i know that dude obscenely intimately rn

more so than usual and i never thought that possible for me

................. but also exceptionally relieved and excited to work on other fun things!!! <3

[runawaymun]

6, 11, 23 for the author asks?

6. Do you have your work beta'd? How important is this to your process?

Nope! Nobody betas for me in a formal sense. Sometimes if I've been staring at a chapter for too long, to the point that I hate it and can't figure out if there's a reason I hate it or if I've just been stuck on it for too long -- or if there is a sentence or paragraph where I feel in my gut that it might not flow correctly/make sense but can't figure out how -- I'll grab @the-commonplace-book & she's usually kind enough to read it/listen to me read it and give unbiased feedback!

11. Link your three favorite fics right now

The Ransom of the House of Fëanor by @eirianerisdar - favorite LOTR fic of all time, literally can't recommend it enough.

Thou Mayst Be False - @jaz-the-bard - Gondolin OT3 complete with jaz-typical levels of miscommunication and misunderstandings and Maeglin whump. So good. SO, so good.

Vincarna - not sure if the author is on tumblr! - but it's a MGME fic and surprisingly well written, and I must admit I'm a sucker for the trope when it's well written, so!

23. Best writing advice for other writers?

Read more than you write.

It's a fairly common piece of advice but I've found it to be indispensable. Whenever my writing feels really flat and isn't flowing, it's usually because I'm not reading enough. Reading is how we learn to write better. Literature is a language. The more you take in, the more fluent you will become. You have to read everything - good books, bad books, poetry, nonfiction, mythology -- everything everything everything. Keep a catalogue in your brain of which books worked for you and which books didn't. And a catalogue in your brain of books that did specific character archetypes, or plotlines, or scenes really well. Bookmark them, come back to them when you're trying to write a similar kind of character, scene, or plotline, and then dissect how they did it so you can replicate it in your own work. That's how you learn to improve. Literally, if you don't read enough, you won't get better. You can only improve so much by rote writing practice. Don't get me wrong, you can learn a lot simply by writing every day, but you'll be working from a limited supply of language and bookcraft that's in your brain. You have to continually expand and top off that well of information inside of you, or else you're going to start running into issues.

get to know your fanfic writer asks

[kcrabb88]

Nine People You'd Like to Get to Know Better

Thanks for the tag @babygirlbridger! <3

Last Song: Wait for Me from Hadestown

Favorite Color: Red, gold accents

Currently Watching: A Gentleman in Moscow and Abbot Elementary as they come out each week, and I just started 9-1-1, actually (something in the water with that show because I just keep wanting to watch the next episode!)

Sweet / Savory / Spicy: savoryyyyy

Current Obsession: My brain is currently full with proofreading Sailing by Gemini's Star for release, Hadestown, and Quinlan and Obi-Wan (and my current fics).

Last Thing You Googled: The Gai music collective after they did that AMAZING deconstructed Wait For Me

[magicicephoenix]

i finally finished reading I see you, Sundrop! by @shirajellyfish and IT'S SO GOOD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT TOOK ME THIS LONG TO FINISH IT RAAAAAAA

i will be gushing about it in the tags but here's a lil animation i made based on the below paragraph in chapter 6 that gave me such a strong mental image that i had to make it real :)

[donttellunclesam]

subway ride home from pride <3

(close ups under the cut)

[okaymeg]

I mean 1-5 obviously for this gnome vtuber

hell yeah buddy thanks for your investment

What memory would your OC rather just forget? Once Pixie publicly mixed up a behir and a basilisk in front of someone who immediately called her out on it. Most people were pretty chill about it because mistakes happen but she went home and fell on her bed in abject hysterics and made voodoo dolls of all the people who heard her mistake and then cut their ears off with scissors (didn't work).

What's something about your OC that people wouldn't expect just from looking at them? She's very tiny and feminine and wears a lot of pink and well-thought out outfits and paints her nails and all that (idk medieval girl stuff) but she curses like a sailor, has a horrible temper, and will happily pick apart wild animal dung with her bare hands to better identify what it came out of.

What is your OC's fatal flaw? Are they aware of this flaw? Her ego writes checks her tiny gnome body can't cash. She's pretty convinced that with the right technique she can tame, or at least placate, any wild beast, and though she has a genuine love for animals, monstrosities, beasts, aberrations, and their ilk, she loves them like a horrible toddler does--with sticky hands and uncomfortable proximity. "Appreciate from a distance" are four words she will absolutely never hear.

When scared, does your OC fight, flee, freeze or fawn? It depends on the circumstance; she only really fights if cornered, but when it comes to a cool creature she'll fawn. She smells really bad because she has every imaginable strange meat freeze dried and stored in her pack, to use as a distraction in case she needs to escape from a tight spot. She generally likes to avoid killing anything or anyone because she's pretty soft-hearted despite her obnoxious attitude, but especially when it comes to creatures she weeps openly if she is ever forced to kill one.

How far is your OC willing to go to get what they want? She'd lie cheat and steal for sure. The good thing about having knowledge and experiences as the biggest goals in a person's life is that it's pretty easy to accidentally move in the right direction. I haven't debuted her yet but I can definitely see her lying to her party members that there's tale of treasure in yonder cave when in fact there is not, but she thinks there might be a really cool bug inside. Usually she's pretty harmless and while she's single-minded, she's not malicious or overly ambitious.

[cheriboms]

everybody was very nice on my last post(s) so !!! more cole and manfred be upon you :D

[yasmeensh]

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link - The Blood Curse

This comic had been in the back-burner for over a year, and I have finally got to working on it during the past month. It just so happens to be on theme for Halloween, too. So it is a fitting time to share it.

Please enjoy and share your thoughts! Zelda 2 lore is my passion <3

PS. This is part of a larger script I have written in an attempt to dramatize the full zelda 2 plot. This was a scene I often daydreamed about since it was a crucial moment in Link's character development. This is the point in his adventure where he loses his love for adventure and discovery. He can no longer take indulgent risks. Any danger befalling him can result in the destruction of Hyrule. Link's internal struggles and the concept of him being the saviour of Hyrule on one hand, and the destroyer of Hyrule on the other, leads to the conception of Dark Link.

Perhaps one day I'll delve into that topic and make a short comic about it. One day.

[wheatcak3]

imagine the Shepherdess but bards uwu✨✨

also click for better quality 🥺

timelapse below!

(i remembered part of the way in but 90% of it is recorded LMAO)

[doublxpresso]

Toward new memories

(link click audiodrama fan animation)

[meteooru]

happy birthday to the babygirl

(and to me, i turn 20 today oh god)

[sweetieviktor]

jealous! viktor x reader (headcanons + tiny scenarios)

summary: viktor sees you talking with a friend and get jealous.

content warning: idk if it counts as a cw but jealousy?? also, i made with s1 viktor in mind!

author notes: heyyy, so sorry this one is little, im still trying to find motivation after the end of the series but i think it turned out cute! thank u for the request and hope u like it!! :)

» it was a common sight to see you walking up and down piltover’s academy, working or just chilling on lunch breaks, but every time viktor would approach you, you were already with someone. sometimes an unknown person, other times with a friend, laughing and joking, touching them in such a sweet way, side by side in the aisles.

» he looked at you both, blood boiling and shaky hands. if you looked at him, it was possible to see his lips forming a thin line, brows furrowing, his left eye almost twitching. oh, he was jealous.

» he felt angry at himself to feel like this, he didn't mean to be jealous at all, but he wanted to steal you away, just for a second, and be the one by your side, be the one you smiled to, the one you’ve been touching so sweetly.

» he wanted to reach for you, to interrupt your silly conversation about whatever you two have been talking about, he wanted to share his new discoveries with you, he wanted to be in their place so bad.

» but he couldn't complain, not when you waved a goodbye at your friend, and turned your body, recognizing viktor, eyes lighting up immediately, smiling from ear to ear.

“viktor!”, you shouted, voice echoing in the aisle while you walked to him, “i’ve been looking for you all day. you wouldn't believe what happened!”

he looked at you, expression softening, eyes shining, mimicking yours, his thin lips now turning into a little smile, “yeah? tell me."

» soon all the jealousy melted away, now, he is the one walking by your side.

[krazieka2]

Here's a big old Fire Emblem Search & Find I did for the FE3H Masquerade Zine! Find the Golden Deer, but see if you can't find the rest of the students as well! For the ultimate challenge, see if you can't name every character! (Disclaimer two characters are NPCs with no names)

[cashmoneyyysstuff]

can you do a bakugo x reader who’s afraid of the dark? i think he’d be cute about it and make small explosions kinda like fireworks to cheer them up

omg whats so funny about this is that this is a scenario that happens in my oc x canon verse actually omg !! this is such a cute ask, tysm anon ! fem reader (tho no gender specified) ages arent specified here but i imagined both katsuki n reader younger (11-12) !!

there's a sudden power outage during math class.

the mix of groans and immediate screams put you on edge, they make your heart beat and you wish you could tell them all to just shut up. but you're mouth isn't working, your throat is clogged up and you can't see anything.

you hate the dark. it's embarrassing to still be scared of it at your age, it's childish and you're not a little kid anymore. you're sure katsuki wasn't scared of the dark anymore. granted, he wasn't scared of anything.

you’d walked out of your classroom, trying to maybe find some type of light source outside of class, you doubted the teacher noticed you leaving with all the chaos brewing.

very bad idea, it was pitch black. probably even darker than in class somehow. you feel your heart beat quicken as your eyes slowly start stinging.

you won’t cry, that’s so lame.

you’re old enough to know that monsters don’t exist, you know nothing is going to come snatch you up to drag you off into the darkness never to be seen again. of course you know that.

but you’re still so scared, and the scenarios you’d just made up where making you even more nervous. your eyes sting and you know it’s lame, but you really feel like crying.

if you were going to cry, you at least wanted to make sure no one could see you doing it once the lights turned back on. you manage to find a broom closet in the darkness and decide to hole up in there. you shiver, tightly hugging your knees. you feel tears prick in your eyes. it’s lame, and you’re too old to be crying, but you figure no one will know anyway.

then the door slams open.

you gasp, but don’t dare look up and squeeze your eyes shut tightly. maybe a monster was here to take you, maybe it was one of your classmates and they were gonna tell everyone how uncool and lame you were for crying.

“what’re you doing in here ?! i was lookin’ all around for you !”

you look up then, and katsuki looks back at you angrily. you bite your lip, you didn’t want him of all people to see you like this, he’d for sure think it was lame. katsuki’s expression morphs from anger to surprise to confusion. he raises a brow.

“what’re you crying for ?” the tone of his voice makes you hide your face again, furiously wiping at your eyes. you can see how he looks at you from the lights coming from outside, it peeks through the opening of the door, and you think that’s worse than a monster coming to get you.

“i-i’m not !” you mumble, your voice crackles as you do. you hear katsuki huff and then the door slams. what you were afraid of came true, you think. he thought you were embarrassing and wouldn’t want to be your friend anymore—

warm, warm hands grip at your wrists and rip them away from your face so you can see—katsuki. he’s still here ?

“liar.” he says, eyebrows furrowed. “y’know i hate liars.” you do know, you don’t want katsuki to hate you, that’s why you’re in here. you blink at him in surprise. katsuki only squints at you, before plopping down next to you. it’s a very tight squeeze, but he nudges your shoulder to make space for himself and he makes it happen.

anything katsuki put his mind to was possible. if he wanted to sit next to you in this cramped broom closet he was going to, no matter what. you always found that cool about him.

“why’d you run off ? i was looking for you..” he asks.

“i thought you wouldn’t notice..” you respond meekly. katsuki looks back at you. your shoulder hurts a bit so you readjust and move back. you can see his incredulous expression even better.

“hah ? why wouldn’t i ?”

why wouldn’t he ? because you were lame ? because crying about the dark at your age was embarrassing ?

“cus..” you fiddle with your hands, you can’t finish your sentence. katsuki finishes it for you.

“what, cus you’re scared ?” the way he says it. scared. makes you want to deny it again. but you hate lying and katsuki hates liars. so you just shrug. it’s quiet again, you hear the tapping of branches against the window outside. rain tapping the window, and then a big crack of thunder. you jump a bit despite yourself.

“teach said the power won’t be back till this let’s up.” he explains. this meaning the storm, you assume. you don’t know what to say anymore, you’re glad katsuki can’t see you.

“s’fine y’know..” he utters after a bit. you look back at him in shock, blinking rapidly. your eyes have gotten used to the darkness and you can see how his eyes dart around. he settles on pulling at his shoe laces for a bit.

“but…” you start, your throat is still clogged up “you said you hated crybabies…an’ scaredy-cats..” katsuki scowls at your words, tugging and twirling at his laces.

“i do.” he confirms, then he glances at you. “but i know you’re not.”

oh. you can’t muster up anything. you know you should say something now, and you feel your cheeks warm at his words. but it’s still so dark.

katsuki sits quietly as he inspects you. then he gets in your space again. you whine in annoyance, he’ll squish your shoulder at this rate but he grumbles back, he’s made up his mind. and there was nothing you could do about it.

and you thought that was kinda cool.

he stretches his hand out in front of you both. “look,” is all he says. you do, and after a moment.

soft little "cracks !" and "pops !" fill your ears, they’re not from outside, but from his hand, small orange lights accompanying them. you can’t stop looking, in awe as he keeps going. you always thought katsuki’s quirk was cool, and how much he control he had over it. he’d be an awesome hero, you're sure. he made sure to tell the whole world he would be.

he insisted that you’d be his number one fan forever. you always jokingly tell him he’ll have to work for it. “watch me, then !” he’d smirk, he’d claim he’d be the strongest in the world and you’d have no choice but to beg for his autograph then. “in your dreams !” you’d quip, but it never discouraged him. you never told him you were already his biggest fan. that he was your best friend in the world, that you thought he was the coolest.

“cool..” you utter quietly.

you can hear him huff proudly next to you, then the sparks slowly stop. you turn to look back at katsuki. his face is slightly illuminated by the sparks he tries to stop, you think you see a bit of pink on his cheeks.

"who cares if you're scared..i'm here, so you don't gotta be anymore." katsuki shoves his shoulder against yours teasingly "so don't go runnin' off anymore, got it ?"

and you hope his eyes have adjusted too, so he can see you smile. you're still a little scared now that it's completely dark again. and you're still not fully convinced a monster won't pop out and try to eat the both of you. but you know katsuki isn't scared of anything, and if one does show up he'll blast it away.

and he'll light up the way for you, no matter how dark it gets.