#thanks for the ask!! ❤️

[fazedlight]

Hey Mel—

Here for the Supergirl posts and your writing, but I always enjoy reading your thoughts on Xena, even if though it’s a show I never really watched. (aside, don’t know if you’ve seen My Life is Murder, LL’s Aus-NZ murder mystery series? Case of the week, nothing groundbreaking story wise but everyone’s a delight and it’s charming)

Anyways, came across a couple of unproduced X:WP scripts today and thought I’d send the link to you in case you haven’t seen them. This site is a goldmine of TV scripts and had some SG as well :)

https://sites.google.com/site/tvwriting/us-drama/us-drama-collections/xena-warrior-princess

👀 👀 👀 whoa, thank you for that very cool find - I will have to take a look!!

I've heard good things about My Life is Murder (as a fun serial show), it's definitely on my list! I heard Renee O'Connor (Gabrielle from Xena) was in an episode at some point too.

Maybe when I'm done with my current rewatch, I'll watch that next!

[ataleofcrowns]

Hi, firstly, I would like to say that I stumbled on this story only a week ago and I am fully hooked. I know Ch 10 just released but goddamn I need more. It's such a beautiful world and each of the love interests have my heart (A&D my beloveds). I really like the Kurdish influences and it's extremely refreshing in such a Western European saturated genre. My question is: How did you come to the decision that there would be explicitly recognized inner and outer magic systems? It feels so unique.

This might sound like it's completely unrelated, but I was inspired by Middle Eastern architecture, culture, and Ancient Persian political systems.

While I was thinking about how the magic in this world works, I decided initially that everyone would have a core of magic that they could use inside of them. It was a more typical version of magic you see pretty much everywhere in the fantasy genre.

But while I was researching architecture for Arsur's world, I noticed that a lot of Middle Eastern architecture was built in such a way where the houses face inward, often toward an inner courtyard or an atrium, with a separation from the outside or the city streets.

This concept also recurred when I was reading about the structure of the royal court. The divide between the inner court and outer court is one I took from the Achaemenid Empire, which I later also applied to the Crown's own court.

A lot of this struck me as related to cultural norms as well. In my own culture, there tends to be strong divisions between in-groups and out-groups socially that filters out the way you are expected to behave, with many social rules attached to different situations. Or, put in another way, how you behave and think privately vs what you express publicly.

This recurring theme of division between "inner" and "outer" gave me another thought: what if there was magic both within living creatures, while also still existing outside in the environment? Wouldn't that naturally lead to thinking there would be two different ways to interact with magic? Similar to a difference in how you behave in private, "inner", vs how you behave in public, "outer".

And that's what eventually lead me to the inner/outer magic system! All kinds of brain connections being made there.

[abba-enthusiast]

No. 12 on your spotify list?

<33

[dujour13]

41. Comfort food for the micro story prompts!

Thank you, this was a nice one Ash ❤️ but it went over "micro" I guess. A little post-Fifth Crusade since I’ve been working on that today.

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Before a crackling fire, Aivu asleep in his lap, Woljif stretched his legs out and sank deep into the comfy stuffed armchair and contemplated whether there was some way to teleport the contents of his stomach somewhere else and have more cake. Nothin’ a little dimension door can’t fix right up, he thought complacently, with a pleasant sigh as the pressure in his abdomen receded. A couple of hundred yards away a school of Andoshen trout received a happy surprise.

Doran came in and settled on the divan with a glass of sherry, loosening his belt a notch. “You’ve got a healthy appetite, son. Don’t know where you put it.”

“Haha, yeah.”

Nilufar came in and perched next to her husband with a cup of tea poised on her knees. “Sia’s gone out with Ky for a bit. I hope he works things out with him.”

“Yeah, he’s good at that kinda thing.” It hadn’t ever crossed his mind that people outside Mendev, especially eleven-year-old nephews, had a certain mental image of crusaders that didn’t bear much resemblance to reality.

“We tried to talk some sense into Ky but I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect myself. I admit I was a little worried Sia’d come back grim and scarred. And then there he was. Hasn’t changed a bit.”

If you only knew, Woljif thought.

“You seem like a sensible young man, Woljif.” Nilufar sipped her tea. Gods, she had the eyes, looking at you over the lip of the cup like that. Except hers were dark brown instead of hazel, her brows and olive skin a shade darker.

“I guess I am,” he grinned.

“This child,” Nilufar said kindly, “needs some stability. Schooling. Someone to comb her hair, for crying out loud.”

In Woljif’s lap snoozed what appeared to be a human girl of nine or ten with plump brown cheeks and a mess of purple hair. Her legs were tucked under her flouncy purple dress and she had tossed aside her dagger belt to curl up more comfortably. Both she and Siavash had informed the family repeatedly that she was a dragon and a friend, not their daughter, but this apparently was not the only imaginary dragon Siavash had ever come up with, so they weren’t buying it. No sense arguing.

“You’re right, but don’t you worry. She uh, has a tutor.” He’d made up his mind not to lie to Siavash’s family, or as little as possible, and strictly speaking it was close to true, because although Hal had sent her back to Elysium three times he always took her back. “We got good people to take care of her while we’re traveling.” A reformed succubus counts as good people, right?

“We’re relieved. Zarin wants to try to do something with her hair tomorrow.”

“Good luck. Hey, can I get some more a’ that cake?”

[le-velo-pour-dru]

hmm for the asks: 21: something you've kept since childhood

My family has these plates that have little sections in them for different food I guess, and they have these goofy pig designs and Halloween designs on them X3 💖 We still use them pretty frequently when my dad makes mac and cheese!! He puts mac and cheese in two of the sections, broccoli in one of the sections, and crackers in the last section. We've just been doing it like that my whole life, I'm almost seventeen and we still do it, it's great hehe X3 ❤️

[theunknownintrowert]

🙃 What’s a weird fact that you know? (I love weird random facts :) )

ooohhh good question (hahah now it sounds in dan smith's voice 😄), i can't remember any except one thing from doctor who when he said that you can't wrap your palm around your elbow coz it's impossible to make all the fingers meet each other

i'm boring in weird facts sorry 😅

[onepiecesb]

Do you have a favorite color spread?

Oh boy do I! I’ve got so many favorites this was really hard and in fact I’m going to answer with more than one but you did say favorite so if I had to pick I would say this one is my favorite

Although it’s not officially a color spread it is in the color walk book and I always thought it was one but this really reminds of cover of 317

I picked this as my favorite because I really I love this one I have it on my mirror and I get to see it every morning as I get ready it’s like the strawhats are getting ready with me :)

[wanderingaldecaldo]

7, 17, 27, and E for streetkid!Val!

Thanks for the ask @togepies! 🥰

7. What triggers nostalgia for them, most often? Do they enjoy that feeling?

For both versions of Val, sometimes blocks or corners in Watson make her nostalgic. She hates it, because usually it makes her remember being small and alone after Virginia died.

17. Are they easily embarrassed?

God, yes. Streetkid Val is extremely self-conscious. Deep down she knows she is a badass -- how can you be one of the most requested mercs in NC and not be a badass? -- but that hasn't quite translated yet into self-confidence.

27.  What causes them to feel dread? 

Val fears leaving Mitch alone if when she dies. She still carries the burden of Driss's death, and she doesn't want to put him through that again, especially so soon.

E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?

Yes!! I think she and I would get on great. We would talk about quickhacks and coding and cars, just for starters.

[danidoesntart]

what’s your favorite color?

Okay so my FAVORITE color is light turquoise, like teal. I have all kinds of teal things in my house. My kitchen ware is teal, my bathroom stuff is teal, I almost made my living room teal but I decided on light blue instead. I love teal.

But my OTHER favorite color is pink. I'm always wearing pink. Always. I started wearing skirts recently and I have three pink skirts and I want another one. All my life (since I was about 2) I've been wearing pink jackets. All of my virtual pets growing up had pink clothes. It's my thing (TM).

If it's some kind of knicknack, it's turquoise. If it's clothes, it's pink.

[paper-lilypie]

Your Sonic fic had me giggling and kicking my feet happily.

IM GLAD BC THEY GOT ME GIGGLING AND KICKING MY FEET TOO

[beartitled]

So if Billy's parents became monsters, what happened to Billy's old Henchmaniacs?

The dudes found real jobs

Look at them go 🧑‍💼👷🧑‍⚕️

[fazedlight]

if it’s okay i’m going to be greedy…. c/g/r? thanks for sharing!!!

Ask Game

C: What member do you identify with most? I want to say I’m super cool like Lena (and on paper, I kind of seem like it - MIT degree, pilot, scuba diver, etc). But I think I’m most like Sam or Winn. Sam is pretty down-to-Earth most of the time, Winn is tech-savvy and geeky but in an understated way compared to Lena (and will occasionally completely fanboy over stuff in a way very similar to me). In person, I’m very unassuming.

I definitely borrow some of Brainy’s cultural cluelessness, though. (Yesterday I found out that the person I thought was Seinfeld was actually a character named George.)

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order? Oh my story writing is completely chaotic. This post has some screenshots for outlines of different fics, but to grab the top example:

I have a one-shot that is 32 scenes so far. It doesn't need more, but it'll probably grow more anyway. Scene 7 was the scene that prompted the fic, I think.

Scene 9 was written first (sort of). I've also written scenes 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 30. Note that scene 7 isn't written yet.

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence? I can share some supercorp fic that were formative back when I was blasting through fic in early 2022, before I started to write my own: A Ribbon at a Time, Love of Forgetting, Hope, Hope(less) The extent to which it influenced my style, I’m not certain. I think those writers are much better at conveying their thoughts into words than I am (though I think this is something that I’ve been improving over time). On the flip side, I haven’t found as many fics that utilize canon as heavily as I do (part of why I started writing is because I wanted to rewrite the existing stories in canon… and now I drive myself crazy making timelines 🤣).

[azarovas]

No Context Deadloch (2023-)

[abba-enthusiast]

12, 19, 65, & 88 :)

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12:

19: (I have no recollectionof listening to it THIS much lmfao)

65:

88:

[butimnotseventeen]

Thinking Gale was a girl the whole time to find out he’s not would be so sad I feel for your past-self reading that series. I love the absolute disinterest in Suzanne Collins giving the characters atypical gender names tho

Thank you it truly was very disappointing but ultimately I am a Peeta girl at heart so it’s ok! And yeah I do love that about the series!!

[rozenphox]

oh absolutely, anon ❤️