#the russians (pacific rim)

[taintedmind6669]

[vuulpecula]

✖ @ensnchekov inquired: I am probably late but god a new years thing with them later on down the line in their Pac Rim verse?? (they deserve something good right)

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By the time she arrived to the 'new years eve celebration', Fox wanted nothing more than to go back to her room and sleep until the next year. Yet, she had told Pavel she'd be there, going so far as to say she'd play wing-woman for him if he wanted. Teasing him for something they never quite spoke about, but it was clear by the way Pavel thought of him, the way he spoke of him, he held great admiration for Sulu.

After a few glasses of sparkling cider spiked with champagne ( thanks to whoever snuck that in ), Fox was set up on one of the couches in their common room. Looking at the slightly sad decorations hanging from the ceiling and listening to whatever strange playlists one of the American's had put on. It was a lot about party rocking and other nonsense, but they seemed happy. Overall, the party was rather lackluster. Everyone was tired from an alarm earlier that morning and it was fairly clear that once the clock struck midnight, they'd all be heading off to bed.

When Pavel sat down beside her, Fox wasn't sure. It was almost as if he had been there the entire night, even though she had seen him talking with others. Smiling. Alive. She rested her head on his shoulder, half-listening to his conversation with others, half-watching the other rangers. Mostly, she watched the clock, waiting patiently for it to reach 23:59. At the moment it was only at 23:09. The 50 minutes in-between somehow flew by and ticked on forever. When the countdown came, a wave of energy hitting the room, Fox raised her head and smiled. The clock struck 24:00 and there were kisses and hugs and shouting all around.

Looking to Pavel, Fox blinked slowly at him. Lids laden with sleep already. The champagne hadn't helped. There were quiet moments like this before. When it seemed as if all the world just disappeared. She attributed it to being in one another's heads, thinking as one, acting as one. Even out of the rig. Maybe it was the champagne or maybe it was the exhaustion, but she found her hands on his face, holding his jaw softly. One kiss was placed against his left cheek, dangerously close to the corner of his mouth. Gently, she applied pressure to his jaw to turn him slightly the other way. Noses brushing. A second kiss was placed on his right side. Partially on his cheek, partially over his lips.

"С Новым годом, Пашка." She whispered in their shared native tongue, releasing the hold she had on him, though her fingers lingered for just a moment at his neck, twisting curls between them.

[unnonexistence]

idk if there's anything in stories i get more petty about than poorly-written "main character shows up to a new place and meets everyone" character introduction scenes

[eshtaresht]

not me getting jumpscared by russian language a full hour into the movie

also I think it was dubbed? bc it was spoken only in the mecha and without accent, while actors themselves are canadian

[californiannostalgia]

Things I noticed on my Pacific Rim rewatch:

1. Raleigh had his left arm ripped off while he was piloting the left hemisphere, then had his right arm and leg shredded while he was piloting the right hemisphere. Holy fuck he has been through it. His resilience and battle focus is enough to be recognized by Pentecost, whose solo Tokyo battle was three hours long.

2. Implied that Hercules Hansen was one of the OGs, like Cherno Alpha. Wonder what happened to his copilot before he began drifting with his son. Wonder what happened to the Jaeger he piloted before Striker Eureka.

3. Pentecost says he carries nothing into the drift, but that just means he knows how to match with anyone, right? Wonder what that final drift was like in Chuck Hansen's head.

4. Tendo Choi is in command of the bridge when neither Pentecost nor Herc Hansen is present. I forgot that he reverts to Cantonese in stress situations, love these details.

5. I enjoy the bilinguals of this film. Also really interesting choice to focus on the western rim of the Pacific Ocean: Australians, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, and a badass Marshal who strikes deals with the black market and literally anyone else who will fund the Jaeger program. We get to have industrial apocalypse, alien thriller, and cyberpunk in one film. (Side question: are the Americas' coastlines devastated?)

6. Mako's expressions are so. Agh. Her face shows what she's feeling with unshielded honesty (she feels so much, like Raleigh) but she carries herself like Pentecost: deliberate, controlled. Very much his student (daughter).

7. Newt and Hermann are obsessed with their scientific theories being right, even if it means the possible doom of humankind. Iconic Academics. Also they must be important enough to have helicopters on call, since they run out of one to get to the bridge in time for the final fight.

8. Final goodbyes between Stacker Pentecost and Mako Mori.

9. Mako and Raleigh are two of many orphans who had no intention of surviving the war that took their families. Raleigh's last sacrifice was simultaneously the most selfless and selfish thing to do. Good for him to have survived, Mako would've found it hard to forgive him.

10. "Stop the clock."

[chaifighter]

Rewatched Pacific Rim Uprising the other day with my sister and god. Just. What a masterpiece of funnybad cinema. Mako’s never-mentioned-before brother is the main character alongside a girlboss teenager whose homemade jaeger curls up in a ball and rolls like Sonic. Mako dresses like a flight attendant now. Drift compatibility is no longer a measure of your connection to another person, instead it’s something you’re ‘good at’ or not. Raleigh died offscreen of cancer years before the movie but this is only addressed in the novels so when you’re watching pru you’re just wondering why no one even mentions him. (There’s a moment after Mako’s death (she died bc her never-mentioned-before brother’s jaeger fumbled the pass on her helicopter lmaooo) where you see a memorial with her, Stacker, and… one of the Russians? Not Raleigh? Why did they not put Raleigh’s face there to at least communicate that he’s dead?) The Jaeger program inexplicably still exists even though there are no kaiju. The government was trying to defund Jaegers in favor of the sea wall even when the kaiju were still around and tearing through the wall like tissue paper on a weekly basis, why are they still funding them when the only demonstrated use case is as oversized cops that can barely navigate a city street. Anathema Device is there just to be the pivot in the world’s blandest love triangle (semi resolved by a winky implication of a polycule? Okay sure I guess). There’s an evil black Jaeger which exists for no reason conceivable outside of Doylist apologia. One of the Cool New Toys Jaegers is just a normal big robot with a spike ball on one arm it looks so fucking stupid. Charlie Day is eating up every scene he’s in and Burn Gorman is having the time of his life elbow deep in kaiju guts. (The two of them and their scenes are genuinely great zero complaints but they’re living in a different movie than the rest of the characters.) (Okay for real I have to address it Newt and Hermann are genuinely so good in this movie 1) for what and 2) fucking how? Why is Hermann mucking around in kaiju entrails He Would Not Fucking Do That but Burn is having so much fun it works somehow. Newt’s wretched fashion sense bad mandarin and shitty plastic sunglasses have bewitched me utterly I need to study him. Elevator cane beatdown. Hermann they’re in my head. The breathless little smile on Newt’s face when he sees Kaiju Voltron (yeah three kaiju turn into one bigger kaiju. Like Voltron. Don’t worry about it).) The monster is trying to blow up the earth by throwing itself into Mount Fuji???

[fridgrave2-0]

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Quotes from the Pacific Rim commentary re: Guillermo del Toro's aesthetic decisions

"You cannot do world creation without filling in with texture and detail."

...

"People think that world creation - movie, for example - is the big gestures. But it isn't. It's all this small details. Look at the markings. Look at the vehicles that open the doors. Look at the banners and the markings in the crawler that moves the robot. Everything is full of detail. We designed this."

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"We going to what I call gothic tech, or goth tech. Which is to go right away into a world that is rusting, that is in decay, where you have the concrete is cheap, the paint is chipping off, the armors in the robots is dented, it's sort of pitted and they feel like knights, like these ancient knights, and we start accumulating, for example, atmosphere."

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"I wanted the movie to be very romantic, but not romantic in the Harlequin novel sense or the romance novel sense of the word. I wanted it to be romantic in its epicness. You know, I wanted it to feel like an opera. I wanted it to feel dramatic. So instead of doing this in a well-lit street in New York I wanted this first fight to happen in an almost like, the middle of a romantic painting, like Caspar David Friedrich is a romantic painter I adore. And I wanted very much for it to happen in the rain in the middle of a tempest in an ocean where the waves are crashing into them. And the water throughout the movie becomes an incredibly complex expressive element."

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"We're going to go from the biggest, the widest, to the little bug of a pilot crawling out of the helmet. Isolate Raleigh. You know, we isolate Raleigh. I'm telling the story: Look at the markings on his suit, the burn marks on his skin, those are going to become scars that he's going to carry for the rest of the movie. And I'm telling you this is when we started losing. This was the price for arrogance, this was the price for youth, and we're staining the white with red. I'm trying to build a character not just by the work of the actor, but by the storytelling with audiovisual elements."

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"And look at this, Raleigh's all introduced in this one color, he'd golden, gold colors, and he's all coated in warm greens and earth tones and the light that is bathing him is always golden, and it's about that color coming together with Mako's dominant color, and Pentecost in this case, which is connected with Mako, which are blue."

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"So this, we come to the scene where they meet for the first time. And I have color-coded this scene entirely in those two colors, in the blue and the ambers. You know, the bright ambers and the blue, the sort of cyan blue. And this is Mako meeting Raleigh, so the entire thing needs to be color-coded like that. And Mako's blue, because I'm making her origin to the kaiju, the kaiju blue, the blood of the kaiju - but also you will see in a few minutes a memory. A memory that is all color-coded in blue and splashes of red in her past as a child. And that blue has stained her hair. Even her hair has this strands of blue because she cannot get rid of that memory. She carries it in her."

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"We color-coded, for example, the Chinese robot, we color-coded it red and gold and is patterned after medieval armor, and it needs to feel Chinese in essence, it needs to respond to martial arts movements; its musical theme is very strong."

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"And here again we have now a robot, a Jaeger, that is designed, a mech that is designed to resemble a T-series Russian tank, color-coded like that, with like a cooling tower from a nuclear reactor on top."

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"And we introduce Striker Eureka, the Australian Jaeger, which is designed a little bit like an all-terrain vehicle and color-coded with the outback camouflage colors and is the most masculine of the robots, of the Jaegers, of the mech, and is very much testosterone-driven."

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"We talked about the color red; well, here it becomes very important. We have these characters fighting that is very very color-coded to be warm; we have a lot of reddish art direction here. We color-coded this arena in black and red. The stakes, the wood, the machines, the color of the light hitting the machines, the symbols on the wall, everything is permeated with red. Because again, I wanted red to symbolize sort of the heart. And Mako's going to find her heart and Raleigh's going to find his heart, or life, by connecting with Mako. We saw him bleeding - the last time we saw red with any importance other than the Chinese robot was when he was bleeding in the beach."

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"And again, red coming in and linking these three characters; these three characters are the heart of the movie, you know. And blood for nobility and mortality is what makes us human. And Pentecost and Raleigh and Mako are the heart of the film."

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"And now we start bringing, literally, bringing the crazy colors into the film. I wanted to color code this movie, bring it as close as possible to a living anime, or a living incarnation of a magazine that was very important for me growing up, which is Heavy Metal with Angus McKie, Richard Corben, Chris Foss, all these guys working with super primary colors, and I wanted to bring that saturation of colors to this, and for that I needed Hannibal Chau to meet Newt in Hong Kong."

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"In shooting the film, we then came to the final moment and again, these three characters, Mako, Raleigh, and Pentecost, which have existed in a blue-amber world start to come to a red space, you know? This is the first time we used this red space properly in this film. Other than the Chinese robot, we were very careful with not coding anything in red. But now, at the end of the adventure, everybody's coming away. And at the end of the life, at the end of their life, that is Mako, Raleigh, everybody's gonna find this light is red. And now I can talk to you about the way I sort of organized the three fights for Raleigh. I wanted one fight with the kaiju to be the fight where he loses someone. He loses his brother in the beginning. That's where he bleeds red, you know? Then the second fight in Hong Kong is where he gains a partner. He loses a partner in the first fight, he gains a partner on the second fight. And in this final fight, he saves that partner. So, it's a full circle. I show him in the construction area in the beginning sitting in a sort of throne of concrete, if you remember, when he meets Pentecost; he made an incomplete circle. And here he completes that circle."

[spottheantisemitism]

usually I’d side eye a story where the token Jewish character is a rules obsessed math nerd who says “numbers are how we get close to the glory of G-D” who is the perpetual debbie downer and who keeps putting his best friend/boyfriend down

but in a story where the Japanese character pulls a sword out of her mech and screams “this is revenge for my family” and the Russian characters speak only in swears and pilot a mech that looks like someone told Soviet Tank engineers to build at vaguely humanoid mech and the Australians are obnoxious and looking for a fight, I’d not only give him a pass but clutch Hermann Gotlieb protectively to my chest as a new blorbo

Pacific Rim wears it’s cheesiness and the fact that everyone is an ethnic stereotype on their sleeve.

“wait Cecil I thought he was a GERMAN stereotype”. Well gentile reader, that too! but the screenwriter did a JKR and said Herman is a German Jew. hence why the German Jewish math nerd who saves the day thing. it’s overdone, we get it the only German Jew you know is Albert Einstein we get it, stop making movies until you learn more about Jews.

Considering the lore tidbits like that his father created the first Jaeger Mech (why do you THINK it’s got a German name?) I want to know more about this man and his family

[usafphantom2]

VX-9 F/A-18F Spotted With Heavy Air-to-Air Load of AIM-174s and AIM-120s

The U.S. Navy is continuing to test the new AIM-174B missile, derived from the SM-6, aboard the Super Hornet, with a VX-9 jet carrying four AIM-174s, three AIM-120s and two AIM-9Xs.

Stefano D'Urso

Super Hornet four AIM-174s

The F/A-18F "Vandy 1" of VX-9 loaded with four CATM-174B, three CATM-120 and two CATM-9X. (Image credit: @point_mugu_skies)

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet of VX-9 “Vampires” was spotted with a heavy air-to-air loadout, which includes four AIM-174Bs, three AIM-120s and two AIM-9Xs, in addition to a targeting pod and an InfraRed Search and Track installed on the external fuel tank. Aviation photographer @point_mugu_skies was one of the few to capture the aircraft in this previously unseen configuration and kindly provided us the images you can see in this article.

The aircraft is the Vampires’ flagship, “Vandy 1”, which sports the black livery applied for the unit’s 30th anniversary to pay tribute to the original one which was used on VX-4 commander’s F-4s and F-14s, also known as “Vandy 1”. The callsign originated from the abbreviation of the unit’s official callsign “Vanderbilt” used at the time.

As The Aviationist has reported in detail in the last few months, the AIM-174B is a Standard Missile (SM) 6 variant developed for the air-to-air role. The SM-6 is the surface-to-air missile designed to be used on Navy ships in conjunction with the Aegis Combat System and also known as the RIM-174 Standard Extended Range Active Missile (ERAM).

The idea of adapting the SM-6 to be air-launched is not new, as the weapon was already seen on a Super Hornet of VX-31 in 2018 and 2021. However, it wasn’t until earlier this year that the testing got a new impulse and operational units were involved.

In fact, after another F/A-18 was spotted in April with an SM-6 under the wing, the weapon then appeared on operational jets assigned to the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier during the Rim of The Pacific 2024 (RIMPAC 2024) exercise in July. The heaviest load seen so far included two AIM-174s and two AIM-120s.

The one seen in the latest photo is reportedly the heaviest air-to-air load to date with the new weapon, with the AIM-174 both on the inner and middle wing hardpoints. It’s interesting to note also the presence on the external fuel tank of the ASG-34A IRST, which acts as a complementary sensor to the AN/APG-79 fire control radar in a heavy electronic attack or radar-denied environment.

Another shot of the F/A-18F “Vandy 1” with the heavy air-to-air loadout. (Image credit: @point_mugu_skies)

AIM-174B

As previously explained, the AIM-174 is an air-launched version of the RIM-174 Standard Extended Range Active Missile (ERAM), a crucial element of the US Navy’s air defense strategy. Integrated into the Aegis Combat System, the RIM-174 is primarily designed for long-range anti-air warfare but can also be employed for terminal phase ballistic missile defense and as an anti-ship missile. This year marked the first official combat use of the SM-6, with the Department of Defense confirming that the USS Carney intercepted and destroyed an anti-ship ballistic missile fired by Houthi rebels in the Gulf of Aden on January 30, 2024.

The SM-6 uses the airframe of the SM-2ER Block IV (RIM-156A) missile, upgraded with an active radar homing seeker derived from the AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile. This missile can reach speeds of up to Mach 3.5 and has a maximum range of 200 nautical miles. To that respect, it’s not clear what the maximum range of the air-launched version could be: despite the lack of a booster, launching it at high speed and altitude would result in significantly greater range compared to the surface-launched variant.

With the induction of the AIM-174B into service, the U.S. Navy joins a number of air arms capable of deploying an extra-long-range beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM), like the MBDA Meteor, the Russian R-37M and Chinese PL-15 and PL-21. In fact, the AIM-174B enables the U.S. Navy Super Hornets to engage targets at much greater distances than is currently possible with the AIM-120 AMRAAM. Integrated with the E-2D, F-35, and AEGIS within the Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA) system, the AIM-174B would extend the Navy’s capability to intercept aerial targets at ranges comparable to (if not greater than) those achieved against naval targets using the baseline SM-6.

In essence, this new missile fills the gap left by the retirement of the AIM-54 Phoenix. The AIM-54 was a long-range air-to-air missile used by the U.S. Navy’s F-14 Tomcat and retired in 2004 alongside the F-14. Known for its impressive range of over 100 nautical miles and multiple-target engagement capability, the AIM-54 left a significant void in long-range engagement capabilities.

While there wasn’t a direct replacement for the AIM-54 Phoenix in terms of range, the U.S. military has been developing advanced air-to-air missiles to enhance its fighter aircraft capabilities. The AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM) is one such development intended to replace the AIM-120 AMRAAM. Although not a direct replacement for the AIM-54 Phoenix, the AIM-260 aims to offer improved range and performance compared to the AIM-120.

SM-6

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F/A-18E of VFA-192 carrying two air-launched SM-6 missiles (Image credit: @aeros808)

Operationally deployed

The photo of the new weapon during a test flight in April 2024 was reportedly part of the testing that preceded the delivery of the AIM-174B to the squadron likely to carry out Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E), a testing phase conducted on production, or production representative weapons, to determine whether systems are operationally effective and suitable to support a Full-Rate Production (FRP) decision.

In July, the U.S. Navy acknowledged that the AIM-174 is operationally deployed, likely in Initial Operating Capability (IOC) with the CVW-2 Air Wing’s Super Hornet squadrons aboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), as reported by Naval News. “The SM-6 Air Launched Configuration (ALC) was developed as part of the SM-6 family of missiles and is operationally deployed in the Navy today,” said a U.S. Navy spokesperson.

While the service acknowledged the existence and the deployment of the weapon, so far only the NAIM-174B inert, CATM-174B captive carry, and DATM-174B ground training variants were seen installed on aircraft. However, the fact that the Navy mentioned the weapon being operationally deployed implies that live variants might also been delivered.

The Navy did not disclose other details about the AIM-174. So far, we know the standard SM-6 missile is about 21 feet (6.4 meters) long and, using persons for scale in some of the few photos available, the AIM-174B seems to be of similar length. According to the stencils visible on the photos of the missile carried by the CVW-2 Super Hornets taking part in RIMPAC, the weapon weighs 1,890 lb ± 14 lb (857 kg ± 6 kg).

Thanks again to @point_mugu_skies for the photos he sent us and make sure to follow him on Instagram for more!

About Stefano D'Urso

Stefano D'Urso is a freelance journalist and contributor to TheAviationist based in Lecce, Italy. A graduate in Industral Engineering he's also studying to achieve a Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering. Electronic Warfare, Loitering Munitions and OSINT techniques applied to the world of military operations and current conflicts are among his areas of expertise.

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[tlaquetzqui]

What is the worst mecha story you’ve read? Ignore NGE and TTGL and Darling in the Franxx

I actually really like both Guren Lagan and Darling in the Franxx. I don’t think most people who criticize them understand them. Or just didn’t realize they were super robot shows. (Unless you want to criticize the latter for its pacing issues, which is fair.)

The worst-written one is Pacific Rim. You’d only design that interface if you wanted to lose two pilots in a wreck instead of just one, and since you know where the kaiju emerge you would just put a giant salad-shooter head over the opening and shred them as they arrive. That second one would be solved by having them come from different places; the first should have just been regular PTSD instead of “injury easily avoided by not using a system you don’t actually need”. Having stupid things happen, when having smart things instead wouldn’t even affect your story, is criminally bad writing.

Second worst is Heavy Object. The eponymous mecha (the name is presumably an allusion to how the Russian military names tanks while in development, just Oběkt, Объект, and a number) are giant crawler tanks. They dominate battlefields because they’re so heavily armored, one even withstood a nuke, and “whichever Object gets to firing position first always wins”.

But that would actually only work once. The Object hit by a nuke was barely still operational. And that was a regular nuke. We actually have—and have had for decades—nuclear shaped charges, codenamed the Casaba Howitzer. You put those on a plane, which gets to firing position a hell of a lot faster than an Object can walk, and you’re right back to “attack aircraft run roughshod over armor”.

[thenotcanadian]

I feel like we all know this but man, Pacific Rim is just cool as hell, and so is every character.

We're gonna build giant robots to fight monsters and they're gonna be piloted by two people who are drift compatible, and these pilots are gonna be dope as all hell. Triplet brothers who all drift together seamlessly, a badass Russian married couple with matching bleach-blond hair, the dude who piloted a Jaeger by himself and his cool partner who's a novice but born for this shit. A man named Stacker Pentecost. They named that man Stacker Pentecost like that name isn't dope as all hell. I also have a huge soft spot for the hot older Australian dude who probably needs to kick his dumbass son's ass.

Anyway this movie is great, we moved on too fast.

[hrodvitnon]

rewatched Pacific Rim yesterday and oh my god cherno alpha's pilots sasha and aleksis kaidonovsky

sasha is the GUY. aleksis is the GIRL. apparently those are gender-neutral names in russian

Gender-neutral names be like that. A guy can be named Leslie and it might sound feminine, but nope, that's gender-neutral.

[alonelystargazer]

Fanfic Writer Interview

thanks to @mothboypoison for tagging me!

no pressure tagging: @hijinks-n-lowjinks @sanguineerose @epickiya722 @uriekukistan @eephemeris and anyone else who's interested! :)

Q&A under the cut because I wrote a lot, as always. If you give me a chance to yap, then I'll do it

How many works do you have on AO3?

I have 22 works from 4 different fandoms altogether.

Your top 5 stories by kudos/likes:

Better Days Ahead (JJBA)

Something Sweet (JJBA)

These Hands I'd Love to Hold (Good Omens)

Hello, My Old Heart (JJBA)

Crossroads (JJBA)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I love replying to comments! It's the closest I can get to interacting with readers and makes the connection feel more real. But my readers are also welcome to send me asks or chat with me in DMs!

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I think that would be Sharp Edges, a JJBA AU fic where Kakyoin lives but has secret feelings for his best friend Jotaro, and is his man of honor at his wedding. I've written fics that were much angstier than this, but this story is the only one that had an unhappy ending.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

I could say that most of my fics end happy, but for something "angst with a happy ending" I'll say Better Days Ahead.

Do you write crossovers?

I don't write or read crossovers (and I don't hate them) simply because I usually don't know anything about the other fandom that's involved. I don't read/watch every series that's out there.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not in the comments, but I did see someone say some negative things in the bookmarks.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes and no, because I do rarely write it just for practice and for funsies, but I haven't published anything E rated in many years. I might get the guts to publish something like that in the future, but I mainly write about other subjects and tropes like "angst with a happy ending" or "hurt/comfort".

I totally didn't read the second part of the question, but it doesn't matter anyway.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No and I hope not, especially with AI data scraping becoming more prevalent.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, one time a few years ago! I had one of my Hobbit fics translated into Russian.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not yet, but if anyone is interested, please tell me because I think it would be really fun! Well, maybe my writing partner might be annoyed by how slow I write.

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

I don't know if I have an all-time favorite, but the ship I've written about the most is JotaKak (Jotaro/Kakyoin) from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. I think now I would say ItaFushi from JJK and HakuHiro from Kagurabachi have my attention.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

That's at least half of my WIPs lol. There's my Nanami character study, my HakuHiro Pacific Rim AU, my fantasy adventure JJBA AU fic that's basically a rewrite of Stardust Crusaders with Jotaro as a werewolf and Kakyoin as a kitsune, and probably my post-canon ItaFushi fic Foreign Language (I say this because it was being written way before the final chapters of JJK and it kinda ruined my outline).

What are your writing strengths?

I think writing exposition and descriptions. I really like to set a scene with a sensory experience, like describing sounds and scents and the sun peeking through the window, etc., and also creating background stories for characters if there already isn't one for them in canon.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Dialogue and characterization. I feel like the way I write dialogue is very flat and boring, and characterizations are sometimes a little off, which I worry about a lot, even though my readers have told me that I've done well. I'm just very nitpicky.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Besides English, I only know Spanish and a little bit of French from high school. I exclusively write in English but since my current fandoms are all manga or anime, I like to include Japanese words and phrases and bits of Japanese culture whenever I can (I do a lot of research for this). I don't know any Japanese TBH, just the little bit I've learned, and what I include in my fics is written in romaji and not katakana or other Japanese script. And I think it's harmless to include other languages in your writing, as long as you've done the research to make sure you're using it correctly, but idk maybe to some people, it comes off as corny or something.

What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

I guess technically, I haven't published anything for HaiNana exclusively yet, but I do have that WIP in the back burner, and I'll come back to it some day. I'm in the trenches with this ship because I think I'm like one of five people in the Western JJK fandom that like it lol, but I'm gonna do it if it takes my whole life. I also really want to write something for Buddy Daddies.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

I would still say Home is Where You Are (JJBA) is my favorite, but a close second is my most recent fic Is It Any Wonder?, which is a HakuHiro (Kagurabachi) fic that I think is very cute and sweet. I think I'm also really gonna like my ItaFushi Postcards AU fic once it's all finished (hopefully).

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20 questions for writers, tagged by @weeheilandcoo ♡

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 49

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 309,912

3. What fandoms do you write for? yoi mostly nowadays. I've written for haikyuu!!, Promare and SK8, too. And maybe one day I'll return to these fandoms :P

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? Awkward Sun, study break, Light of Spring, Bruising and A Yellow Highlighter

5. Do you respond to comments? yes!! I try my best at least

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? stereo/mono literally has main character death so maybe that lmao

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Awkward Sun!!

8. Do you get hate on fics? I've gotten maybe one or two hate comments so not really

9. Do you write smut? Yes and I actually enjoy writing it lol

10. Do you write crossovers? look I've written yoi characters in Pacific Rim universe, does that count as a crossover? I also kinda want to write more of that one day

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? lmao no

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? yes!! A Yellow Highlighter got translated into Russian

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? in the sense that I've done most of the writing, but I've created the plot together with someone

14. What is your all-time favorite ship? otayuri. is this even a surprise to anyone lmao

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? maybe that one osasuna I have like 1/3 written. Mostly because I doubt there would be readers for that

16. What are your writing strengths? small details and painful internal monologue

17. What are your writing weaknesses? dialogue

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I don't do it myself, but I don't mind it in fics idk. I'm neutral abt it

19. First fandom you wrote for? Honestly don't remember, probably HP or some Japanese visual kei band LMAO

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? I'd like to say Homesick because that's been my answer for years, but honestly I'm really proud of Noxious Weed and Awkward Sun, too. But if I have to say one, I'll go with Homesick.

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thinking about her again (cherno alpha, the russian jaeger from the 2023 film pacific rim)