#thanks for the Q!

[aghostnamedcalamity]

When Benjamin gets sick, how does Mordecai take care of him?

Begrudgingly. Very….very…begrudgingly.

[takeariskao3]

I have a question: which TTPD song would you put in your AG playlist?

harry pov the prophecy

hand on the throttle, thought i caught lightning in a bottle … but it’s gone again

[sui-imi]

How would Roo react to meeting Frisk? Like, does he act normal or go quiet?

As a precaution, he always JUDGEs/CHECKs everyone he comes across. Anyone with LV 5+ makes him nervous. 10+ and he's outta there.

So how he acts around Frisks depends on their LV, really. If the LV is fine, then he'll be friendly.

But for some reason, whenever he sees a Frisk, a tiny part of him feels... scared? He doesn't understand why.

[fortunafavours]

💘 HEART W/ ARROW - what traits do they look for in a relationship? do they believe in love at first sight?

hmmst...

Malcolm requires honesty, kindness, and you to be genuine. The rest doesn't really matter, but these three are the most important traits to him. Closed off MCs will have a harder time relating than more open MCs. He's not a believer in love at first sight, but attraction at first sight, certainly.

Cyril needs someone trustworthy, empathetic, and grounding. He has a tendency to be reckless at the best of times, and will spiral out of control if he doesn't have an anchor point. He needs someone who's willing to challenge him on his bullshit without being an asshole about it. He does not believe in love at first sight.

E values someone with a good sense of humour and an adventurous spirit. When they aren't consumed by SCEPTRE work, they enjoy travelling and trying new things, and want someone willing to do the same. Lots of inside jokes with them. They do believe in love at first sight.

JJ wants to feel needed in the relationship. They need someone patient and loyal, and they need to feel like they matter to you as much as you do to them. They're also a big homebody, so someone who enjoys time in as much as time out is perfect. They do believe in love at first sight, but they also tend to fall in love with every pretty face they come across, so?

D really requires patience and empathy because they are not... the most expressive, so there will be trials and tribulations in pursuing and being with them. They also look for someone who is expressive and open with their own feelings, so a closed off MC will have a harder time with them. You'll both just be emotionally constipated the whole time, silently stewing over nothing lol They absolutely do not believe in love at first sight.

A looks for kindness, gentleness, and empathy. Even at their most prickly, they try to be as kind and empathetic as possible through it all. People who choose to be cruel when kindness is an option will simply be hunted for sport. They aren't shy about telling you if you're being an ass either. Amaryllis believes in love at first sight, Amaranthus does not.

[erinatactica]

It was really funny going from 'this could have been devil survivor 3....' to 'oh fuck P5 Tactica is really good' (Eri my friend my beloved my bestie is no small part in this), so I feel like asking-

What kind of Atlus games have you forayed into?

(I realise this question is coming off like megaten elitist which isn't intentional but words are hard so if I say like <there's literally no wrong answer, because it's not like Persona is magically bad because it's more popular or anything> that should alleviate that right? help lol)

hi! so glad you enjoyed it!

I've played basically the p5 suite (seen some of pq2 and most of the dancing scenes). i watched letsplays of 3 and 4 when i was a kid (i've been told I would love 2,... gotta get on that). i'll be revisiting 4 golden soon and playing reload when it comes out... so they'll get a refresher.

never played a mainline smt game, but i sure would like to!

and i have played catherine... which is definitely a.... loaded game (and i know fullbody has even more... load) but i think many parts of it are fun! just... needs to be consumed with a side of salt and critical thinking. performances in that game are fun though! also done by PCB if i remember correctly.

but hehe i hear you! i think persona games get a bit of a bad rap now for their popularity (especially 5?) which is silly. they're popular because theyre good :)

[words-after-midnight]

Happy STS!

What does your first draft look like? What kind of revisions do you do for a second, third etc? Do you drafts change a lot or a little between each?

Hey Kate, happy STS!

My [first drafts] typically look [RQ: what does a first draft look like?] a lot like this, only the text in [brackets] is in red and comprises things like [RQ: research question] and [notes to self, eg. "add in more details here"] and things like [fact-check whether or not people wore a certain brand of sneakers in the early 2000s] or [name this character]. Full of placeholders for future me to fill in. When in first person, they also tend to ramble a lot and go off on tangents that are mostly unrelated to the actual plot of the story - these almost never make it in full into a second draft, they're more for me to explore the narrator's character and get a grasp on their voice. The story tends to not read as all that cohesive in the first draft, and no one sees it. It's just meant for me to "figure out" the story and to have a foundation to polish later.

My later drafts and manuscripts tend to run on a continuum between "pretty different" and "unrecognizable" as compared to the first draft, depending on factors like how solid the original outline was and how close the first draft ends up being to my "vision" for the story, if that makes sense.

[victorineb]

What's your favorite bug? Mine is the stick insect, they're So Good at being sticks

Here is where I out myself as not being a huge fan of bugs 😬 (sorry, insect side of tumblr). That said, I do enjoy a nice, fat bumblebee. There’s a laburnum tree in the garden that absolutely throngs with bees during the summer (seriously, you can hear the buzzing from twenty feet away) and it’s a joy to watch all the bumbles get off their heads on an abundance of pollen. So yeah, bees 🐝🥰

[blu3berrydraws]

If you are bored..... hm..... what do you listen to while you draw, if anything?

Pure silence. And not because i enjoy it. I literally go 'i should put on some music' and then i start drawing, get drawn (hah) in so much that i forget that im listening to silence and then its 4 hours later.

But when i do manage to remember to put on music it's usually just my liked songs playlist. And occasionally epic film music !

[nancywheeeler]

hi em!! let’s hear about “if i cannot move heaven, I will raise hell” 💛💛

hi jamie!!

"if i cannot move heave, i will raise hell" is some of the sports rpf i keep vaguely threatening to post. i'm not sure it will ever happen on my current ao3 account, but hey, if challengers ends up leading to the tennis rpf renaissance of my dreams...

i don't have too much written in this particular WIP, but here is a tiny snippet:

Daniil took a deep breath—lily, and a hint of sweat, and sex—and remembered they were still technically in the middle of a conversation. One of the worst side effects of spending time with Stefanos was how often he derailed Daniil’s train of thought. “If you say I can say whatever I want,” he said, propping himself up on his elbows, “it means you can’t get mad.” With a light hum, Stefanos said, “Then you shouldn't say things that will make me mad.” “Oh, so easy,” Daniil rebutted, but the sarcasm sounded fonder than he meant it to. Finally, Stefanos glanced over his shoulder, his nose and eyes scrunched in that way where Danill couldn’t tell if he actually found something funny or if he just thought he should. “You are one to talk,” he said. He had a straying strand of hair stuck to his cheek that Daniil fought the urge to brush away. “It is impossible to tell what will make you mad.”

[toast-tales]

Random question: what your current dressing style vs. the one you want??

My work outfits tend to be some sort of high-waisted slacks with either a turtleneck or a button-up shirt. I'm going for those dark academia androgynous vibes, once I make enough money to afford such a thing xD

Generally though, I'm a jeans and t-shirt kind of person. I prefer high-waisted, loose pants but I've gotta find a better way to style wide leg pants. I'm trying to expand my wardrobe a bit to more casual, loose and button-up shirts but it's SO HARD to find ones that fit me well.

I also have an affinity for tank tops (which I aspire to get more confidence in wearing) and those A-line swing dresses, which I also have trouble finding.

It's taken years but I am getting to where I want to be style-wise. I spent a lot of years being insecure about the way I dressed, and just putting on really simple stuff because I felt like I didn't understand style and would look silly. The hardest thing is phasing out my current closet because I don't like getting rid of/wasting clothes, and I certainly don't have the money to just replace it anyways.

Below are some images straight off my pinterest board on the kind of style I aspire to XD I need a good blazer, honestly.

[greenerteacups]

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about 

(Ref: this ask.)

This is fun, because in a fandom as old as Harry Potter, you get this trove of Jossed Fanon that's been passed down since before the full series was even published and spread like apocrypha. E.g., "Snape is Draco's godfather," or "aurors are wizard police," when the books actually suggest they're this rarified order of warrior spies — sort of like if you tossed the Secret Service or the FBI in a blender with medieval knights. Wizards do have normal cops, we just don't see them, because the only issues Harry ever runs into with law enforcement are the Big Deal Problems they send the aurors out for, and since "auror" is a lot cooler to say than "wizard cop," most content ends up focusing on them.

But the spirit of the question is spicier than that, so I have to go with: "Harry grows up to be a teacher." This is a really sweet headcanon and I do prefer it to Auror!Harry, since I think he'd be unhappy in that job, but I also think Auror is a more realistic move, at least initially after the war. Because Harry hates school. He doesn't like it. He doesn't do his homework, he relies on Hermione for answers, he often doesn't pay attention in class, and his O.W.L. results set him up as a solid B-student. He only gets a top grade in one subject, and that's Defense Against the Dark Arts, pretty directly as a consequence of having been forced to practice it freestyle out of class for survival for the last five years. He's an effective instructor in OOTP, but Dumbledore's Army was a select group of heavily motivated children who were also his best friends in the world, all rallying under the imminent threat of fascism, and having worked somewhat as an educator I can say (with great affection for that job) the normal teaching experience is nowhere near as engaging for the instructor or the student. You have to love the material and/or really love working with the students, and I think that while Harry loves teaching his friends, that's a far cry from suggesting he'd like to work with eleven-year-olds for the rest of his life.

I think Hermione could be a teacher, sure. When she retires from the Ministry, I can totally see her taking Minerva's job as Headmistress, and she runs the fuck out of that school. But I think Harry's stint in the Aurors ends with him running off to go do something fun and unserious where he gets to fly a broomstick, like dragonkeeping, or maybe just raising his kids and being a rich famous househusband for Ginny. He's earned it.

[aghostnamedcalamity]

How long will Benjamin live?

I think he’ll live a pretty full life; the average life expectancy at his time was about 70 years. He’ll make it to about that age :)

[jbbartram-illu]

may i ask what kind of turntable you use?? im a cake decorator! i love seeing tools applicable across multiple art forms. keep it up with all your wonderful little guys

It's called a Banding Wheel & got it from my mom (who got it...sometime in the 80s or 90s when she was still doing pottery), so all I know is that it's made of steel & super heavy (weighs almost 20lbs!?) & is a similar idea to this one from Pottery Supply House (but again, more than 5x as heavy & bigger)!

It's definitely the same idea as a cake decorating turntable & I agree that it's neat when tools align across art forms!

[talldecafcappuccino]

Top 5 songs of this moment that you keep replaying

Fight Test - the Flaming Lips

All That You Are - Bear’s Den

Night’s Falling - Andrew Bird

Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine (I may have bought the guardian of the galaxy vol 3 playlist on vinyl because of the way they used this song. Totally unhinged behavior 😂 but happy to have figured out my turn table situation so I could play it.)

Fought & Lost - Sam Ryder (this was a recent surprise because I didn’t care about the song until Hannah Waddingham did a duet with him like 48 hours ago) 

[1800duckhotline]

i love tisha so much he is so cool,, now i need the kuobakhaya ramble though.. if u dont mind..

(big sign pointing at me that says: he forgot to finish replying to this when he drafted it)

anyway

well well well.. so her backstory is currently being reworked on because i wanna do several background checks for my own peace of mind, but basically:

kuobakhaya syrgenovna kuschut comes from sakha, specifically yakutsk. long story short, she was born there, but her parents decided to move towards western russia when she was still a toddler with the intention of living in a different climate (i am still in the process of deciding whether or not bakhya had siblings or not) but later on in her life she moves on her own to brighton, england, in hopes of being on her own and also because her lifetime friendship with tisha (which basically makes them feel like brother and sister) could grant her a possibility to start a new life.

i used to have a very streamlined/long version of her biography but i've been reworking it in my head. the gist of it is that she's always been easily subjected to peer pressure, despite having a fairly assertive personality, bakhya desperately thrives off of being liked by others. similarly to tisha she became a drug addict in her early teens thanks to peer pressure, and has suffered from it for more than a decade, all while trying to get clean multiple times without success. she is a young woman in her current age of 28 years old, basically the same age as tisha, and at this moment in time she's been trying to quit drugs by going cold turkey on them (she used to do heroin) even knowing that it'd be pretty disastrous for her. the idea of going to rehab is scary to her, basically. (don't worry though she does go eventually)

in spite of a hardly manageable lifestyle, and while coping and dealing with mental illnesses among with eating disorders, she survived also thanks to four main passions of her: herbalism (which her mother taught her a lot about ever since she was a kid, and the knowledge of which she enriched by herself as an adult), poetry, romance (as in, the genre) and music. extra is dogs. shes a dog girl through and through, she used to have one as a child too.

she owns a plant/florist shop where she resells plants and grows her own as well, and for a fun spin sometimes she prepares seeds and fertilizers that are entirely handmade. how she can manage the costs of this place can be explained by tisha's hefty paychecks (killing for a job can bring you quite the bag) and the accumulated money she gains from being a shopkeeper herself. it's tough but she hangs on. kuobakhaya may not be the perfect person but she is also very spiteful and very very much stubborn, as well as a bit of a hater (good for her, with the things she's dealt with i can't blame her) and in spite of her nervousness she whip up some pretty stinging insults if she wants. she isn't afraid of acting and being friendly with complete strangers but she is more awkward when it comes to opening up. she also hates when people demean her and behave towards her as if she's an aimless child just because she seems, and is, nervous a lot of the time. she hates people infantilizing her like that and she's very vocal about it, also because she is still "almost 30 fucking years old" (her own words)

but she has obviously softer sides, such towards dogs, poetry, and children and well, plants.

bonus fact is that she doesn't trust people enough to tell them her real name all the time so she often introduces herself as "valya" which is a pseudonym most folk that aren't intimate friends of her address her as. it helps her feel a little safer and grants her an extra layer of anonymity sort of. it's also the name she signs her poetry with

[hellverse]

Hello. Do you read fanfiction?

-- Person who reads fanfiction

i do!