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Pathologic 2 + the onion headlines, part 2 (part 1) (patho classic version)
#мор. утопия#pathologic#pathologic 2#aspity#lara ravel#peter stamatin#daniil dankovsky#anna angel#katerina saburova#петр стаматин#даниил данковский#катерина сабурова#too lazy to add more tags#yes i am avoiding doing important things#bc i'm moving soon and starting school again and v stressed#i could be preparing for school#or looking for things for my apartment#or cleaning#or even writing the fanfic i meant to write as a quick one-shot warmup#that is now several thousand words#but no#i'm making memes again#so it goes#i am often seized by the fatal american need to have a pretty good time
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writing Legend and Wild interactions always leaves me at the end with no clue whatsoever what I just created or if it even makes sense or is in character
why? Wild, why do you do this to me you frustrating little twink?!?!?!?!
#ketto's writing misadventures#i write some several thousand words with no clue if it's any good but unable to reread it#because i'm still in Wild Induced Brain Fog#and now I have no clue if I even like this#does it make sense with the story?#who knows!!!!!#stupid eldritch boy with his stupid eldritch charm#lu wild
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strangling my past self How Did You Write Reasonably Sized Fics So Easily
#IVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO NOT GET CARRIED AWAY HELP#sitting here with scenes that should NOT BE 5 THOUSAND FUCKING WORDS LONG HELLOOOOOOOOO#my brain: You Have To Show Every Single Thing. Every Convo. Every Action. They Have To Know#NO! THEY DONT! ITS CLUTTERED AND BORING AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#see this is what happens when you don't write seriously for FUCKIGN MONTHS-#its fine we're fine im Calm#trying to edit my own stuff is like wrangling some Wild Beast with my bare hands#she has horns! i am bleeding from Several large punctures! i will not let go!#absolutely unprompted#past me: bangin out 2k-5k fics that include multiple scenes and conversations each of perfect length#me now: and so this simple 'good morning' exchange will take ten pages-#WAILING WAILING#but god damn i need to create Something i have to i have to#i feel like im losing my mind....#I WANT TO BE POSTING FIC AGAIN CMON CMON
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Working on a new thing. Details to come.
On the left is Avi (she/her) and on the right is Bax (they/he).
#artists on tumblr#yeah it's a new visual novel project#it's a sci-fi thing so those aren't any specific furry species they're just furry aliens#Avi's design sprung into my mind fully formed and I had to draw her#been working on it for a couple weeks now#I've actually got several thousand words written so I'm excited#art#furry
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i've been working on a drawing for a few days that i really like but it has three characters in it so it's taking forever and i've officially reached that point where my brain is going "or you could just... not finish it? who will stop you? the government?" but i wANNA FINISH IT SO BAD I NEVER FINISH ANYTHING UUUUGH
#i have this issue where sometimes i ''scratch the itch'' early when im working on something creative#i.e. -> i get an idea for a drawing and the sketch turns out really good#i.e. -> i get an idea for a fic and crunch out several thousand words of zero draft (where i write the story as tho im talking to#somebody about it; its very conversational and the point is just to ''tell myself'' the story so i know what its about)#(its a more active fun than actual writing bc i dont have to think about it very hard; it gives me the raw enjoyment of storytelling)#but then what ends up happening is my head thinks of the task as ''complete''#i got the enjoyment of telling the story; i got the enjoyment of creating the drawing#and i dont wanna finish them bc now i wanna move on to my next thing and get my next boost of ''Hooray! Creative!'' feelings#i get less joy out of completing things than i do from just doing them until im bored but atst not completing things feels bad lol#valen and the void#💣 temp post
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What if Furina wasn't a girlfailure for 500 years? (Shorteneder Version (still long))
Off the top, I'm not a lore expert. If this doesn't make sense lore-wise, feel free to tell me all about it. Expect it, even. I just wanted to write this down because after experiencing her story, (when it dropped months ago in version 4) this idea just never got out of my head. I process media in a way where I'm constantly thinking on the level of "why did the authors make these specific decisions?", and I couldn't shake the feeling that the authors lacked a bit of imagination when considering just how long 5 centuries is. I have like over a thousand words of why I think this which includes a discussion of historicity and biblical allusion. I cut it all -- nobody wants to read that.
That being said, this is somewhere between a rewrite and like a notes document. In this, Furina is still fundamentally the same character. Her personality and mannerisms should be basically identical, even if she's more competent. This rewrite hopes to preserve the main beats of her arc: The confrontation by Arlecchino, the disaster which causes people to doubt her godliness, the trial, and a backstory which makes you pity her. I'm going to lay these out in chronological order, rather than plot order.
Backstory
Focalors told Furina the prophecy, leaving her terrified and overwhelmed. All the people of Fontaine will drown, and she will be left alone, crying on her throne. Despite her horror, some rebellious gumption rose up in her soul and allows her to steel herself. Much like Focalors before her, despite being handed a doomed situation, Furina decided that there was nothing she couldn't fight back against, even fate. Knowing that there's a flood coming, she put together a plan.
Furina decided that she would hold grand competitions every decade, gathering the greatest tinkerers, engineers, architects, anyone with interesting ideas in her nation to show off their most creative inventions, no matter what those inventions did. She would call these competitions Fontaine's Utopique Rendezvous for Industrie Nouvelleté, et Audacé* (FURINA). As their god, Fontainian culture was her privilege and responsibility to shape, so innovation and technological advancement would be placed at the core. With great patience, she would lead Fontaine from the Medieval age to the Industrial revolution. During FURINAs, as she strolled through the streets of Fontaine, the entrants displayed and described their creations to her to each would be personally judged by her. There is not a maximum or minimum of winners, there are only those who do and do not catch the eye of the Hydro Archon. At the end of the competition, she rewards the winners with her patronage to sponsor them and their ideas. These winners would come to be informally known as FURINA Scholars. She created these patron relationships usually with the goal of creating or improving a public infrastructure project or taking a particularly fascinating or promising invention from an impractical novelty to mass producible technology that anyone could use. FURINA Scholars had a hard time limit of 10 years, being required to present their progress publicly at the next FURINA by the latest. The results of these varied from practical, aesthetic, to insanely niche novelty toys you'd expect a French aristocrat to buy.
A lot of real kings and queens can't dedicate themselves to advancement in this way because their bureaucracy, the power structure beneath them, know that they don't have to be beholden to them forever. Each bureaucrat knows there will be another younger ruler eventually who would could be manipulated into giving more to them and less to the people. Not so with Furina. She would use the royal coffers however she wanted to, and nobody could speak out against her, lest they be hit with the combination blasphemy-treason from the judgement of the Oratrice Mechanique d'Analyse Cardinale.
(*This is intentionally butchered French, in line with the Oratrice Mechanique d'Analyse Cardinale. If you can't read it, it's basically Fontaine's Utopian Conference for Industry, Novelty, and Audacity. It's a funny acronym, and a bit on the nose in multiple ways, but I think it would be something she would come up with. I imagine that Furina would never call it FURINA, but over time people would start calling it "the FURINA" and eventually "the FURINA de Fontaine" in the way that people always start butchering acronyms when they become normal words.)
Every day, Furina's free time between these FURINAs was spent studying, learning, testing, and inventing in her study. If Fontaine was to be flooded by rising waters, she herself would be dedicated to finding a way to allow Fontaine to survive any flood. Out of the public eye, she found ways to spend every spare moment honing her skills and iterating her designs. She quickly learned to dismiss attendants that came to her with some spurious legislative work whenever she left the Opera Epiclese. Go to Neuvillette! She had a duty which so obviously rendered such things spurious. Paperwork? When Fontaine could be drowned any year now?
(Just as in the real story, it's implied that Neuvillette is vaguely aware that she must be working incredibly hard, but she deliberately hides her toil from everyone, including him.)
Obsessively, tirelessly, she toiled single-mindedly towards in designing super-structures capable of diverting, pumping, or otherwise controlling vast amounts of water. As she would sketch mockups of grand designs, she was thinking of public excuses for doing this rather than just using her "archon powers." It would make her seem more benevolent to say something like "I cannot be everywhere at once, and I need to be sure that the people of Fontaine shall not suffer a disaster under my rule, even out from under my watchful gaze." It was even true, in a way. Over the centuries, she carried out plans for every major Fontaine settlement's coastline and the entire capitol city to be protected by works of engineering which were equally intricate and gargantuan. At the same time, they balanced preserving the beauty of coastlines and consistency in aesthetic that is paramount for France. She directed the creations of these superstructures over generations with clarity and consistency in intent. She eventually became capable of concocting ideas that were not possible with currently invented technology, her innovation outdoing the rate of technological advancement. That meant she was not nearly finished. Waiting for technology to catch up with her ideas was always a good opportunity to update the physical build of her superstructures.
Despite her having already gathered vast and unmatched generational knowledge after her first full century of study, she still continued FURINAs to find the best and brightest minds of each generation. (If it must be done for Genshin's thematic consistency or ideology, these can all even be vision holders). These inventors who all grew up in the context of Furina's unparalleled genius had the privilege of standing on the shoulders of a giant. Innovations begot innovations, forming a virtuous loop which drove unprecedented progress in industrialization leading to evolutions in technology especially in civil engineering and hydrodynamics. As Furina's knowledge and mastery over engineering slowly but surely surpassed mortal limits, FURINAs seemed to be more and more judged based on eccentric, incomprehensible whims. With relative frequency, participants would watch seemingly impressive inventions be passed over, meanwhile random toys that just made her giggle and applaud would win. She would say "I just find these trinkets so charming!" but in truth, she saw potential in central conceits in inventions that had the chance to change the underpinnings of Fontaine's infrastructure. Or she just genuinely found them charming.
As time passed, Furina's structures continually improved to a point that they did not just avoid, but very publicly Dominated countless floods and storms that would have been disastrous otherwise. These creations legitimized her godhood and won her adoration in the eyes of the people, who wove countless folktales over the ages telling the tales of Furina's power - herding hurricanes and subjugating tsunamis. At the same time, this made her prodigious skill for the dramatic arts even more impressive through the plurality of her talents. This resulted in many full circle moments, where Furina would play herself in epics about her overcoming disasters, not that she wrote, of course. These would sometimes exaggerate her powers, like giving her omniscience or visions of the future, the perfect designs flowing freely and naturally from her hands, as though they were as effortless as breathing.
Of course, she was not truly invincible. Slowly, she started to fray. As new innovations became more difficult, technology caught up to her designs. After the superstructure renovations commemorating the 4th century of her rule, she was distraught. This was the first time she had updated her superstructures without the plan for the next one at least partially completed. She needed to spend more of her energy pondering, as just her "free" time was insufficient. This led to her to becoming more absentminded during official duties, having forgone sleep or being still caught up ruminating on how to optimize designs, improve existing technology, or apply them in a novel way, but for some reason nothing was coming to her after a few years of different experiments and trials. Even in discussions with her FURINA Scholars, they stopped having new ideas in hydrodynamic engineering projects, being drawn towards other directions where they wouldn't need to compete with god. As she crossed the 450-year mark, she was becoming increasingly aware of the fact that her designs weren't nearly enough to protect the entire country and even further from perfect. For the better part of the last century, any improvement had been like trying to squeeze water from a stone. In the last ten years, she has probably improved her latest flood barriers by less than a liter of water. 30 more years restarting from scratch over and over with her current knowledge, no meaningful improvement.
For the 48th FURINA, she decided out of desperation to hold a hydro-themed FURINA. As she walked the streets of Fontaine, talking to each inventor as they presented their work, she was distraught. A marked decrease meaningful innovation. Worse than this, she noticed that inventors were less interested in creating submissions for this FURINA. The sentiment she was picking up on was that they felt futility in even trying. What was the point of trying to innovate in a field that they can hardly understand? The cutting edge of hydro-related innovation was driven so far by Furina that they felt mortals need not apply. Who could even be given the privilege of becoming the decade's FURINA Scholars from such a lackluster field...? As always, she found a way to get out of a dismaying situation. She crowned herself as the winner, made a grandiose speech about who she was still unmatched in the domain of Hydro, and unveiled her side project of the Aquabus.
At the end of the hydro-FURINA, Furina had never felt so alone. For the first time since her first decade, she had not the faintest idea of what to do from here. Nobody did. She had already pushed to and past limit of her knowledge, of her peoples' knowledge, and the limits of material possibility in Teyvat. All of these centuries had passed her by, all these sleepless nights, all her evolutions in the design of Fontaine to fortify it, for what? A worm, wriggling on a stone, drying out in the sun. If she failed to prevent the flood now, what would any of that time mean?
Furina found herself standing in her study, towering alone above the room crowded with her innovations, blueprints, experiments. Her gaze floated over each page; her life's work surrounded her. Broken mechanisms, meaningless scribbles, trials without results. Countless wasted mines of materials, countless wasted gallons of ink, and countless wasted centuries of labor by her precious hardworking people. Not realizing she was fully sobbing, she slumped to the floor, picking up the blueprint of one of her latest redesigns. She couldn't see anything aside from bodies floating in the water. Her mind replayed the faces of every person whom she's ever worked with or learned from, whose families she met, and every child of Fontaine whom she watched grow. They died all the same. Her vision started to swirl as their faces closed in around her. They rose up all around her from the waters in her blueprints. She grasped at them desperately, begging them to stay with her. On her side, shaking, sobbing, with a bundle of ripped and crumbled papers clutched against her. For the first time since she was told the prophecy, she felt truly helpless. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw her mirror. She scrambled through a carpet of papers, trinkets, and tools to touch her forehead to the glass.
"Mirror me, I-I've been doing everything I can. Our people have been trying, too! They worked so very hard, and they've built my all of designs beautifully."
Silence.
"Please, tell me you know something, anything that I can do now. I need to know. I can't let it end like this."
Silence.
"I never imagined that... that we'd even make it this far, mirror me." Furina was sitting now. With a smile on her face, she still couldn't stop the tears as she leaned against the mirror. "They truly are my pride and joy." Barely more than a whisper, an "I'm sorry" escaped her lips.
She had been doing her best for so long, but she had certainty now. Her best would not be enough.
A real Archon would be able to overcome this. On her own strength.
Furina cursed her inadequacy, mourning the people of Fontaine in her heart. It was torture. Every day, her job was to look at all the wonderful people that she was failing every day, people whom she was dooming through her weakness. During trials, she entirely lost the ability to focus on what's happening in front of her, her comments in the Opera becoming nonsensical and detached. More often, she handed off interpretations directly to Neuvillette, and tears sometimes leaked through when doing her fan meetups. Somehow, she still managed to hide her turmoil with audacious bravado as always. She felt more internally frantic as more years came and went. It was like desperately treading treacherous waters as she needed more and more effort to simply maintain surface appearances. The 49th and 50th FURINAs were brief respites from the gloom. Despite all of the stress in her life, the silly novelties of her people could still bring her joy. But when she returned to her private abode, she found that sometimes, not every time, she didn't want to work anymore. Instead, she would lay in her bed. Stillness without rest.
Her dead eyes blinked slowly, making no tears. She pondered, "How long has it been?" When she stared down at her hands, she could still see the souls of every Fontanian leaking through her fingers. The harder she tried to hold onto them, the further they'd splatter away. If only she had more time. Time, as always, passed anyway.
Plot time
Now, this is when the incident happens. Furina just hit rock bottom as the Traveler comes to town. Everything in the plot that played out in the main story happens mostly the same. This retroactively explains why all of Furina's arguments in the Mysterious Disappearances trials are so weak. Sure, she has a lot of experience presiding over trials, and it may be a top priority for her since this Furina is also excited about the opportunity for a Grand Trial that Focalors told her about, but she is so far from being on the top of her game right now.
Over centuries, Furina built this idea of infallibility, weaving a narrative to reaffirm her godhood. Fontainians believed that because each design was crafted by Furina directly, she made sure that none of them could ever fail using her uniquely intimate knowledge of the Hydro element. When Arlecchino called for an audience with Furina about the impending incident of unprecedented scale in Poisson, Furina was not just small or helpless with no excuse. Furina imposed upon Arlecchino as a god in her own land. There was to be absolute faith in her creations. Her power over hydro would never allow a Fontainian to come to harm.
"What does a puny rat like you think you know? I've thrown out socks that were older than you. Smarter, too."
Like a true god, she gaslit Arlecchino about what information Arlecchino had regarding the flood coming to Poisson. As the Regina of All Waters, not only did she have access to more information through her national information network, she also simply understood Hydro in a way that mortals couldn't comprehend. This is one of the only times that Arlecchino would seem even a little shaken by anything.
Furina didn't refuse to take precautions because she's a depressed NEET; Furina placed herself in this position where she simply could not possibly even suggest taking precautions. That would imply to Arlecchino and by extent the people of Fontaine that there was a weakness in her absolute power over Hydro and, by proxy, her status as archon. In previous centuries, she had only ever commanded upgrades to earlier designs as technology advanced to allow her to better realize her intended designs.
This made it all the more world-shattering for Fontainians when the symbols of their god, their faith in her power, warped and bursted under the immense pressure of more water than seemingly possible in nature (this flood is mega buffed in this plotline). The damage was horrific, but would be much much worse if not for the efforts of Arlecchino and the Spina di Rosula. This was the first time that anyone has doubted her as god, and nobody who doubted even wanted to because they've had faith for so long.
The trial proceeds nearly exactly as in the game, with the additional wrinkle that her centuries of age needs to be a hint as to how she could be such a genius of engineering without being the Hydro Archon.
After the trial
After her liberation, much of Furina's story is the same. She is so incredibly burnt out after finally being free that she has the same despondent attitude as she does in the game. She doesn't really invent in her free time, as she's a bit traumatized by the memory and sensation of using those tools. Even picking up a screwdriver reminds her of hundreds of years of sleepless nights experimenting desperately with the weight of the world on her shoulders.
The only real things that would change after the Archon quest would be -
In her character quest, Furina surprises everyone by proudly declaring her return to the stage on her own, having thoroughly enjoyed her time with the ragtag troupe. After a handful of lifetimes of endless labor with a dash of theatre, having the opportunity to do theatre full time sounds like great fun. The reason that she wouldn't have started before this quest is because of her burnout and exhaustion buildup ofc.
In Roses and Muskets, just take out all the times where Furina's trauma is played for laughs, or times where she's outwardly timid in a public conversation, especially when directing. Furina's reaction to imposing in public situations should be so well trained after playing archon should be instinctual after 500 years that she never gets caught slipping by an unfortunate circumstance. In private, she can still of course be her quirky self.
At the end of Roses and Muskets, she's not awkward about receiving the trophy. She's really happy, overjoyed even, having not been able to participate in any competitions herself in Archon era.
During Lantern Rite, Furina is on Cloud 9, going crazy and stupid finally leaving the country. She is positively giggly being charmed and intrigued by every single little thing in Liyue which is different from Fontaine. She walks around the street asking people about ridiculous and mundane things, like "What wood is this fence made out of?", "Do all your boats really need sails? Where are their engines?", "What techniques were employed to build villages on all these hills?", "Where is the toilet in this establishment?... oh Me... running hydro? DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY PLUMBING-", and various other questions about architecture, technology, and everything else she'd notice as someone otherwise incredibly knowledgeable who'd been stuck in one country for centuries.
Anyway, as a thanks for reading my yap, here are some drawings of tinkerer Furina loving life
#Tinkerina#genshin fanart#rewrite#character redesign#au idea#genshin#i love furina#maybe i should repost these drawings separately for anyone who doesn't want to read several thousand words of yapping#don't expect much more of this#i meant to give her a teardrop shaped gold pocket watch but i forgot to add it#in this essay i will#essay#how to stop my yap#first post#so yeah#if i don't post this now i'll never finish anything ever#furina#i want to yap about every decision i made when designing her too but like this is long enough so . 3.
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Tell me in the tags what u answered + why you think that is if you want! (age range or generation data would also be interesting)
#there are several correct and incorrect answers here#/joking#no real reason for this just wondering bcus I say it the first two ways in my head personally#well really I pronounce it ‘two thousandnn twelve’ with the ‘and’ barely decipherable#uh just choose the most common one you say if you say multiple lol#poll#gummii.txt#I’ve read the word twelve so many times now that it doesn’t look like a word anymore. it’s beddy bye time lol#(I am writing this at 1 am. this is scheduled)#also should two thousand-twelve have a dash or no. or twenty-twelve
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Mayhaps I have a crumb of Ventura Highway content, I live for this AU
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kissing you on the forehead friend, have a crumb :3c
And like a summer storm, the dark look vanishes as soon as it appears, the moment broken.
“Right, right, right! Don’t worry your pretty little head about silly ol’ bears. I can take ‘em!” He dances away from you, breaking you out of your rather embarrassing stupor in the process, and makes a rather exaggerated show of ‘flexing’ his non-existent arm muscles.
The bit works as intended, dragging a surprised laugh out of you. You throw a hand over your forehead dramatically, chasing away the worst of your flush. “Ahh, my hero! Ready to slay the threat of an extinct creature! How exactly will you fell the terrible beast? Shall your tear it asunder for me, torn betwixt like a sheet of fragile paper in your powerful grasp?”
“Of course!” He replies without missing a beat, gleefully sincere.
You pause, staring blankly. The mental image of Sun tearing apart a bear with his bare hands for you is both comical and viscerally horrifying. Whether or not he actually could is another matter, but you completely believe he’d try if push came to shove.
Somewhere, in the back of your mind, you’re sure he’d succeed. You shudder.
#I've had several thousand words of this chapter done for months now but Things(tm) keep happening#it's curently the second longest chapter ive written and it's not even halfway done#might just slice it so i can get something out soon#i still think about this story constantly but free time is at a premium rn ;_#ventura highway#ask#ty for the ask though it's genuinely motivating ;w;
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The Supernatural Phenomenon™ is when a show isn’t good and is actually quite bad and the writing is stupid (and usually sexist) BUT it either plays with just enough interesting concepts and ideas or develops just enough interesting character dynamics to make it absolutely impossible to stop thinking about it forever and ever and ever and ev
#affected shows: supernatural obviously. and unfortunately girls it’s time for me to say it. my hero academia#it was so good for like one season and now we’re kind of back to business as usual#business being ALMOST good writing that’s ruined either by bizarre pacing bad jokes or tell don’t show writing styles#problem is if I think about the characters for too long I’ll start biting and foaming at the mouth#oh Naruto falls into this as wel obviously#these types of shows are absolutely PRIME for writing fic for#because I am at all times plagued by the sense that given the same characters and scenarios#I could dO IT SO MUCH BETTER#why do you think my hard drive is full of several HUNDREDS of thousands of words worth of spn fic#from when I was in high school#I mean no it’s not. who said that#postcards from stupid town
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What do you even say when your hyperfixation on a thing is exclusively based on stuff you yourself have said about it in your own head. Like ooh I love Blingus And The Crungy Blungo but only the parts on the 60 page google doc I have that nobody else will ever see
#This post is about transformers#I have a 50 thousand word google doc where I'm penning two shows with several new and returning characters#Where I'm trying to understand the cores of several characters based upon their appearances in the various medias they've been involved in#I am asked what my favourite transformers character is and I can't say oh yeah I like so and so because girl that's effectively an oc#I have a Decepticon tattoo. I wear a transformers belt every day and have done so for the last five years of my life#Same belt btw this thing ROCKS#Like transformers is my entire personality but that personality is encompassed by the 50 thousand words that I won't let anyone read#The doc is about 4 years old right now#Happy birthday to my son I'm sending him to daycare rn#Transformers#One of these days I should bring up rustcast (the two shows) on here actually since it's my whole thing#But also...... I'm CRINGE
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how about fake’s old concepts and beta stuff
https://youtu.be/TFLXJqwKiwQ?si=1bAJD3bjxLpdM6j5
ooooouh part of me is sad that the old mansion level concept from the beta never made it in, but hey, at least it lead to Fake Peppino becoming the memorable boss we know and love today ❤
but man. i freaking love his concept art sketches. it's both a blessing and a curse that we don't get Eldritch Horror goopy boy ingame, like yeah it'd be terrifying but i think my boy should be allowed to go a bit feral sometimes y'know?? as a treat! he deserves it ❤❤❤
it is, however, a crime that we never get this sprite ingame though.
#*squeaky window cleaner noises*#at least that's how i imagine that animation sounding lmao#man at the beginning of the year i never would've expected to latch onto this goofy fella so much but. here we are.#something about his silliness. goopiness. and funny frog motif really just grabbed onto me and hasn't let go since.#I HAVE NOT WRITTEN SEVERAL THOUSAND WORDS (and now an indeterminate amount of pictures) ABOUT THIS BOY FOR NOTHING#i want to hug this silly gooey creature and if he tries to eat me or turn me into a pizza well that's okay 👍👍👍
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people who write multiple fics at once, i would like some advice! i've historically been a one WIP at a time person but i want to give working on multiple projects at once another go — if you have any strategies for doing that, send them my way please (only if you feel like it, of course)
#writing#writing advice#my two modes when it comes to writing are several thousand word long fic and weird sub-1k thing i banged out on my lunch break#and occasionally i'll write something in the 1k-10k range which is also fine bc i don't mind taking a few days' break from the long fics#but now i have 2 long fics that i want to work on and don't want to push either back for weeks or potentially months while i write the othe#kvetch oc
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ASKS hmmmmmmmm 5 / 8 / 20 ?
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I just need to say I love that these eye emojis are coming into my house sdkjnfjnkfknjf they're so big and for WHAT tumblr LOL! Saving 5 for the end so I can readmore the snippet!
8. Is there a story idea in your mental vault that you’ve never been brave enough to try writing? Is this the year? Can you tell us about it?
kjndfsnjkdfsknjfsd literally the only things I'm weird about writing are smut ideas okay!!! and they're not even that weird it's me i'm the problem!!!!!!!!! So idk, the LiandrinxReader fic will probably be a nice challenge for me on that front, and who knows, maybe this is the year the Hawkedith light bondage fic sees the light of day. oh actually you know what for a non-smut idea I've always wanted to do a tropey time travel fic! but i think i would make myself insane LOL. maybe this will be the year!!!
20. Any plans to work on original fiction this year?
OHOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! It's honestly so hard to choose and prioritize what to work on!!! I have 2 big original ideas, both of which I have rambled at you about extensively LOL. I think I can make a good chunk of progress on the nano nonsense fic this year, since the style is pretty firmly in my wheelhouse and I have a pretty strong idea of the main plot through-line. We'll see how I'm feeling, but I think once I get a few of my lingering fanfic projects done I'll be ready to focus on my original things again! Month-long challenges like nano actually work really well for me when I can manage them, so I might try to do something like that eventually to make some significant progress!
5. Which WIP is first on your list to complete this year? Will you post a snippet?
Again, it's soooooo hard to choose and prioritize!!! Scorched earth is in general my top priority because I just don't want to drag it out too long--before the most recent time my schoolwork beat me to death w a stick I was under the delusion that I could have it almost finished by the new year LOL! But since it's fairly simple in structure and I have it pretty clearly planned out, I mostly write chapters in one or two sittings. Second priority is advancing/finishing ghost of you, since the next chapter is literally almost done, I just got too busy to work on it. But instead I shall offer youuuuu Liandrin x Reader nonsense! It is once again a long snippet because I cannot just be normal.
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You heard a lot about Liandrin Sedai during your first year or two as a Novice. There was a rumor, never confirmed but nonetheless ubiquitous, that a Novice had died under Liandrin’s tutelage not long before you had arrived. As a result, she was no longer permitted to teach Novices. Furthermore, it was suggested, Novices would do well to avoid her. Reasons for this varied somewhat, from ‘lest they remind her of her very recent tragedy’ to ‘lest they become the next unwitting targets of her deadly ire.’
You’re sure you never saw her in all that time, though, and eventually you heard the story repeated less and less, only really trotted out when new students arrived to the White Tower. You learned later that Liandrin had left the Tower for a long while after the incident of legend. It’s common for sisters of the Red Ajah to take extended leave, and the unfortunate fate of the Novice in question had certainly not impeded her ability to perform the functions for which she is best-suited.
You have also learned since then that for every extended absence, there is a corresponding extended stay in the Tower, particularly for the powerful and influential. Liandrin is quite popular, if perhaps controversial in some circles, and it has thus been impressed upon her how very much her talents are needed within these walls for the foreseeable future.
Nevertheless, you are nothing short of shocked to see her perched atop the teacher’s desk when you arrive for your afternoon lesson. You glance out the window, perhaps to catch a glimpse of the dire emergency that must have incapacitated so many Aes Sedai that Liandrin has been deemed a suitable substitute.
Liandrin is technically allowed to teach Accepted students. Technically.
Liandrin herself looks about as pleased as any of the Accepted. She pays you no mind as you enter, her piercing gaze fixed on some imagined point on the far wall. Her arms are folded, her lips are pursed, and it looks like she’s biting the inside of her cheek. Given her storied reputation, this understandably puts most of the students ill at ease.
“No need to trickle in,” she says, so sharply that you notice a few students flinch. “You’re all in the right place, I should think. I am Liandrin Sedai, and I will be overseeing your practice for the afternoon.”
She says all of this as though each word causes her great distress, gaze still fixed somewhere above the students’ heads.
“I am unaccustomed to teaching, and it’s been a long while since I was Accepted, so you will have to forgive me my unfamiliarity,” she continues, but gives absolutely no impression that she is asking forgiveness for anything. “Adeline Sedai was not generous enough to inform me which weaves you are currently studying. Would anyone be so kind as to enlighten me?”
The room falls eerily silent. You cast a surreptitious glance toward Briallyn, who is usually the sort to raise her hand at any opportunity. She is gazing at Liandrin like she is something inhuman and incomprehensible.
You swallow your nerves and raise your hand.
Liandrin turns her head sharply. “Yes?”
“Weaving Spirit,” you say, although your voice falters under her exacting gaze.
“Weaving Spirit,” she echoes with a mocking lilt, inclining her head and smiling with false sweetness. “Could our esteemed little sister perhaps narrow it down, just a bit?”
You feel your cheeks flush hot. “The basics, I mean,” you stammer. “Just starting.”
Liandrin scoffs. “I suppose I should have known better than to expect anything more than that,” she says with a theatrical sigh. “What was our dear Adeline Sedai having you do, just…” she waves vaguely, “pick at threads of Spirit out of nowhere? No direction, no purpose? No wonder it’s taking so long.”
She points at you, and you nearly startle out of your skin. “Come forward. Since you’ve been kind enough to volunteer.”
You can hear a low whisper of fear starting up around you as you obey her command, feel the eyes of your fellow Accepted upon you although you keep your head bowed low. You are shy and unused to this kind of attention. You can feel your face flushing all the way up to your ears.
Liandrin is perfectly average in stature, yet somehow seems to tower over you through her presence alone. She ducks her head to catch you eye, and now her subtle smile bears no tinge of mockery. “Look,” she bids you, gesturing out toward the classroom.
You attempt, quite unsuccessfully, to swallow down your embarrassment. You look.
“Your classmates are afraid of me,” Liandrin observes, with the kind of neutrality one expects of a particularly uninteresting weather forecast. “No doubt you’ve all heard stories about me. Or, should I say, one in particular?”
You glance surreptitiously in Liandrin’s direction. Her eyes are alight with cruel amusement. She is enjoying this. She leans in toward the class, as though to share a secret. “Let me assure you that what you’ve heard…is absolutely true.”
The whole class visibly recoils, and the frightened whispers culminate in horrified gasps, followed by a deafening silence.
“Look at your classmates,” says Liandrin. “The same way you would look for threads of fire or water. Look for their fear.”
A part of you considers that you can see their fear perfectly well without looking very closely at all. Another part of you is preoccupied with the way Liandrin’s eyes light up watching people recoil from her. But you know from experience that Liandrin has very little patience, and she will not be pleased if she has to repeat herself.
You tear your eyes away from Liandrin and look, focusing on the class as a whole rather than trying to stare at any one person. You squint and tilt your head, think of the frightened whispers and all the different versions of Liandrin’s story you have heard repeated over the years. Some of your classmates are much younger than you, and their precocious talents allowed them to graduate to the rank of Accepted sooner than most. They must have heard the story of the Novice who died under Liandrin Sedai’s tutelage very recently, and they do not have the benefit of experience to tell them that Liandrin means them no actual harm.
You think you start to see it then, something red and wrong hanging about them, brighter in some places than in others. On instinct you reach out to pull at the threads.
You are not a talented channeler. Threads do not respond well or quickly to your beckoning. But the threads do come to you, slowly, and in this aspect alone, Liandrin is endlessly patient.
“A useful trick, to draw upon strong emotion,” says Liandrin. Her words are for the benefit of the class, but she speaks quietly, and she is standing close enough to you that her voice makes you shiver. “Spirit is that which is not strictly tangible, and yet you can feel it, can’t you, when there is a room full to the brim with terror?”
You can see the change in some students then, the ones who understand that this was, at least in part, a play upon their emotions in an unusual effort to educate. You see the shift not in their faces but in the threads you are attempting to weave, a subtle change in the color and shape as fear gives way to confusion, or brightens into excitement.
You can’t help but wonder what others see, when they look at the color and shape of your own emotions.
New Year Fanfic Asks!
#personal#exciting tag for writing things#exciting tag for answered asks#absolute LOL when I was reading over the part i wanted to snippet there was a *** that caught my eye#which is my 'i'll fix it later' sign#so i had planned out a couple of side characters to be reader's classmates and had named them and characterized them and everything#and then i stopped suddenly in the middle of doing this and was like this is stupid why do they have this much detail what am i doing#so i ended up transplanting them into tamsin's class in original thing LOLLLLLLLLL#but then i just fucking LEFT this student UNNAMED with some ASTERISKS even tho she very much has a name i just stole it for my other work#so i put it back for now but idk if i'll leave it or give her a diff name LOL#anyway THANK YOU FOR INDULGING MEEEEEEE#and my desire to yeet so called snippets that are several thousand words long
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I DID IT!!
Aaaaaaaah 😭
I am mildly impressed that I can't remember seeing a single wing fic. It's honestly fascinating. I have more thoughts about the general trends and types of fics this fandom seems to be drawn to (or seems to skip entirely), but those will have to wait for a more reasonable time of day.
Maybe sometime tomorrow I'll also go over my ao3 history for an estimate of how many of these I ended up reading in the end. 🤔
I'm going to leave the tab open in my browser but now I'm finally going to allow myself to filter out everything I found I didn't vibe with (which... Will probably remove quite a bit of fics. Especially from the E rated ones. Once again I find myself at odds with the majority of fandom when it comes to certain aspects of my otps' characterization). But I did it!!
#911#911 abc#buddie#evan buckley#eddie diaz#it's taken me a year but i've gone through the entire tag#admittedly there will probably be at least one more page added before I wake up tomorrow but oh well#now that i'll allow myself filters i won't have to scroll past like fourty fics in a row going 'squick. squick. character bashing. squick.'#'squick. author i don't vibe with. squick. another alternative meeting AU where buck is written out of his found family AKA squick.'#speaking of filtering my biggest wish for any fandom#is for people writing dom/sub vibe smut (that they have tagged as such) to actually tag which character is written as which#and no using 'top' and 'bottom' as a weird sort of 'shorthand' does not count#those are not the same#i just wanna be able to not have puzzle it together from vague tags and even vaguer summaries#in order to know if it's a fic for me or not#honestly same goes for all those AUs tagged with 'insert career here AU'#where it turns out that no it's just buck not being with the rest of them#and i have no way to figure that out until several thousands of words in#okay rant over i need to sleep now
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stunning realization folks: when I write and don’t stop to take a Tumblr break every 2.5 seconds, I actually make significant progress relatively quickly!
#personal#writing#literally I just churned out like several thousand words because everytime I want to stop (often) I’m just like ‘‘ok but what happens next’’#and just write it#ignore that I am literally on tumblr right now and also have been reblogging occasionally#it’s abt progress not perfection
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How on Earth has it been a whole year since I started writing fanfic again???
#I can’t believe it?#i hadn’t written a word of fanfiction for like eight years and now look#we’re now several hundred thousand words deep
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