#there thaz works

[nordlichtgeschichten]

I feel I should get chattier on here and my brain is circling a story idea I've had a while ago, not sure if I ever mentioned it.

Basic idea of it is to have two stories that are semi-connected despite being a few centuries apart - One of a viking lady who's setting out on her very last voyage, and one of a young pirate who's at the very start of their adventures

Basically a general theme of ends and beginnings.

(Spoilers for the story:

The two characters never meet, but every now and then something - objects, later on places - from the Viking's story will pop up in the Pirate's story, until it becomes clear that the Viking not only ended up in the place the Pirate starts, but is in fact their ancestor)

Idk if I'll be able to pull this off in a way that's fun to read but I sure can try!!

[starpros-sunshine]

This one specifically I can never get over just. The atmosphere is so. It's the tenderness of it all. The way Eichi holds him the way Wataru is fully trusting Eichi to not lose him and keep him steady the way Eichi Looks at him the way they are fully in their own little world right now the way they are just having fun before the big show just. The tenderness and strangely intimate warmness of it all gets to me.

[allmyandroids]

thinking about him 💕

[keeps-ache]

i have been BETRAYED. i've been thrown to the grappling arms of damnation and i've found that the exit was merely a dim recollection of another place !!

[likelyscam]

🎧! I hope you have a good day!!

THANKS FOR THE ASK!! and i hope you have a great day too!<3

[her-canine-teeth]

the boop gifs i have saved keep downloading at webps and im not bothered to figure out how to save them as gifs so imsgine i booped u like 20 times

BOOPING U BACKK 21 times

[bookshelfdreams]

hey babes remember this project

(yeah neither do I it's been months and months) (who wants to make a wool coat in the height of summer anyway)

But! The last weeks have been rainy and too cool for July/August, and reminded me that autumn is right around the corner and Christmas will be here sooner than I think.

I actually finished weaving sometime in spring, I don't remember when exactly; didn't make an occasion out of it. I made 3 lengths of fabric total

... which, as it turns out is Quite A Bit! Look at that stack :) You have no idea how satisfying it was to hold all that in my arms.

Return of the King for scale

Each of these is about 55cm wide, and 230cm long which is insane, considering that I started out with a 4.5m warp. Granted, about 40-50cm of that are wasted on the loom and another 10% or so loss has to be calculated in (because of course the warp doesn't stay straight, it goes around the weft which means it becomes shorter) AND the threads being wool they have a lot of stretch to them. But still, that's a lot of shrinking, for a fabric that's still loose enough to fray. No wonder clothing was valuable as fuck, it's not even the amount of work that goes into it, but the portion of that work that's essentially wasted. And if I had wanted to make a tight fabric, an actual broadcloth, I would have had to calculate in a lot more shrinking.

I finished this in the washing machine (I think 30°c with no spin cycle and no detergent? But I'm not sure about thaz, I forgot 59nwrite it down I think). Then I gave each piece a lanolin bath. I may have overdone it a little? Some of the wool feels a tiny bit - well not exactly greasy but soapy. Whatever. It does improve the wool's hydrophobic properties and makes it feel a little softer.

And all the pieces fit!

This was very satisfying

I did not, however, have enough of the lilac linen that I originally wanted to use for lining. So I bought another fabric, the only one I could find that I liked: A very, very lightweight brown linen.

The listing: This is very light and transparent! Me, opening the package:..... oh wow, I didn't know it would be this light and transparent

I hope it will work. There's only one way to find out.

That's all I have for now! I have cut out the front and back pieces, and now it's just sewing, sewing, sewing.

[yourlocalmechanism-dr-carmilla]

Headcanons for when youre upset about your break up:

Orpheus:

[Before eurydices death]: he would definetely listen to you, hes good at that. And also sing a song, to try to ease your mkdn-it works, his voice is very beautiful. He would also tell you that you will find slmething one day...after all, he found eurydice. Also would give you a hug and encourage you to write a poem or a song, to turn your pain into art. Eurydice would also je really sweet for you-ürobaböy she would bake something for you and shes alsoa great listener, who gives good hugs. Shed say that soemtiems, it doesent worl unfortunately. But its okay, and not your fault- so you should try to pit your love into other things and surrond yourself with things thaz make you happy.

[Afzer euryidces death]: the bit sbout putting pain and making it into art? He does that, frequently. You can join him if yiu want to. Or you could cry together while also condemning the city.

Ariadne:

She would get you-after her failed marriage with theseus. Shed also be liek "love is only pain, better focus on slmething else." Would probably take you shopping to make you feel better. And shes really good at shit talking people and would def tell you why its not your fault and also encourages you to live better out of spite. Would be abit stiff about hugs, but accept them nonetheless

@sugar--brown idk if these are any good but i tried.

[sillyxaly]

hi hello talk to me about junmei :3

i prefer post-canon stuff but i will gladly take anything!! also. do you perchance know of any jun wu redemption fics because i could only find one on ao3 ;;

yes he’s a villain but. it’s fanfic! he comes with a complimentary sad backstory! he’s stuck under a mountain to think about his actions! he’s stuck there forever, he has plenty of time to reflect on his behavior

First up @witch-is-writing do you know?

I only remember ones that vaguely count as redemption really but in my defense I woke up a minute ago, saw "Junmei" and scurried to write this text. Also do tell me which fic you found so I can check if I read that pls :3

Jun Wu is just the personification of 'hurt people hurt people' for me and if you wish I may write an essay about that thazs vaguely structuered and more of a ramble. I do however very much consider mei nianqing to be important to his healing. I dont even call it a redemption arc but oh boy that man needs some Healing. Mnq does too and they really should do that together because their issues are so intertwined. I have so many loose thoughts about this right now oh ma god.

The path to Jun Wus redemption or healing will always lead through the vassal that stayed longer and the vassal that left in the end. The one man he couldn't kill in two thousand years. The one man who knew him before he put on one mask after the other.

And truly they have all the time in the world for that post-canon. Let nianqing (...nian...nyan....nya... Yeah i didnt sleep enough.) visit him in the mountain. Return day after day to make it stick a little. That hes there now. Bring tea, bring books to read, whatever really. They are both so incredibly hurt it makes me sick (positive) and it would be a journey. One thats hard and rocky. One where JW still falls back to lash out and bite because its what saved him for hundreds of years but MNQ stays now no matter how he growls.

Yes JW is just a rescue dog to me and I will never get that thought out of my head ever again but I have one and the similiarities of it are striking. Funnily enough that also means most people should just ignore him (for now). Let one person get closer for now, more than that would be too much and if he starts to feel cornered he will growl and then he will bite. Its an intricate play ot trial and error to figure out when to actually step back and give more space and when to take him by the scruff even if he tries to bite. So MNQ got a lot of work and figuring that out ahead because thats his rescue now (has always been really) and JW will always remain a little more at ease with him than the rest of the world.

At last those who caused the pain have died and after that, by all means, it was all a grasp for control because for as long as he has control he can never be hurt. I believe we all try to hold control over at least something in our lives and its natural to do so. We are all scared to be hurt. But nobody can control everything (much less forever) and he needs to learn to live with that fear and uninternalize the mask of anger that hides it.

No matter what he needs to feel safe first. Not ultimatly safe but at least safe to show that hes afraid. Safe enough to stop wearing a mask of stirkes to hide the vulnerabilty. He needs to be scared and he needs to be vulberable and it need to be safe and okay for once.

And who better to grant that safety than that started the whole tale of his demise and his crimes by telling our main character to the face that this man shone so much brighter than he ever did. A fact i will never get over. The contents of what MNQ tells XL and us is like: War crimes, attempted murder on me, wiping out the heavenly capital, bringing ruin to Multiple kingdoms and how does one start such a tale best? Logically by refering to the man in question as the sun. But thats not enough. He wasnt just any source of light. He outshone you and all of us and all the other gods which are now dead because he murdered them.

MNQ is crazy for that and I absolutly adore that and that is literally all it will ever take for me to ship this. You can not tell me that is not a subtle love confession?? JW attempted to murder him multiple times i don't think people normally talk about such a guy like that??

Uhhhhhhhhhh anyhow

*subtly slides discord link*

I also made this where witch is also inside and so far nobody else but uh yes in case you want that because I dont know how to tell people.

[kathrynmjaneway]

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[starpros-sunshine]

"Eichi charges the idols to stay in the starmony dorms he's so horrible" he is literally just doing business you think he's going to pay for all of that out of his own pocket why should he what reason would he have to pay for what other people do it's not like they can't just leave any day as seen with Shu and Izumi they live in entirely different countries and they're still fine why in the world shouldn't the idols pay rent????

"Oh but he pays them in scrip" I see the problem but, again, from a buisines perspective this is smart. This is a reasonable way to keep your business afloat. This makes sense when you're a CEO.

Where's your utilitarianism people where is your sense for how capitalism works you'll find a lot of the managing decisions at ES actually make a lot of sense and are pretty well implemented when you start seeing it through the "How do keep this a lucrative thing that makes money?"-lens.

[fate-defiant]

See the thing is its not even the question of wether blue or green is a better color on him its that he doesnt look good in *bright* colors. More subdued shades look absolutely fantastic on him, thazs why he has so much black in his wardrobe. Its just that very unfortunately he is stuck in an early 2000s show aimed at tweens and is thus doomed to tacky shades that dont work with him.

[thephantomcasebook]

Are the show writers aware that the Blacks are not the underdogs of the story? These guys have more dragons and more houses on their side. The only issue is Rhaenyra's sex but she has that more or less covered by marrying Daemon who is viewed by the misogynistic lords as the true power behind team black.

On the opposite aisle there's the Greens with fewer dragons and fewer houses. They are led indirectly by the Queen Alicent and Otto. Only by grit, stubbornness and spite did the Greens pull a surprising twist in the end, wiping out Rhaenyra and Daemon not only physically but also from the histories of Targaryen Kings and Queens. Many people assume the greens are the top dogs because they have a male heir and tradition favors their side. But the show has given almost no indication of any of these being an advantage. In fact the characters and their cause is treated with outrage and scorn in the show writing itself...as if they're making a grave mistake of challenging Rhaenyra's claim.

So which is which with these writers? I for one don't see The Blacks as the underdogs of the story. But thaz just me.

The show was built up and pitched as "The Avengers" of ASoIaF - basically GRRM's favorite characters - coming together to fight the evil-doers.

Now, on the surface, GRRM's world and writing doesn't work that way. However, when you get a bunch of room temperature IQ HBO Executives who are agenda minded over story telling, you get the good progressives vs. bad conservatives narrative that is germinated through-out the show. And I know that for a fact because - a now fired - former executive from HBO admitted that personally at a party that "Progressive Agenda" in their content was mandated in the "Trump Era".

So, to be fair, The Greens didn't stand a chance of getting a fair shake from the get go. It was basically mandated by the Studio Heads of the time that the Greens had to be an allegory for Trump Supporting Catholics. It was actually a selling point to Sapochnik who felt so fucking strongly about American Politics that shit for brains had to make some artistic statement - or his wife did.

They've dog whistled the Greens being bad from the beginning, from Criston beating to death a gay man to trying to make Alicent look like a Hypocrite by actively skewering Aegon's character from the beginning to make her both a bad mother and Stockholm victim of her own ideology.

Cause let me tell you as a minority - who looks like Criston Cole/ Fabian Frankel could be my brother (I'm not kidding) - and who is Roman Catholic and staunchly in support of Trump, there is nothing that a privileged white progressive hates more than a conservative woman - especially if she's a minority.

Alicent is and remains a lightning rod for every sexist and bigoted progressive to take out their weird and creepy hatred of women on and still claim themselves virtuous because of their assured cultist beliefs, it's fucking strange.

Also, the other problem is that the Normie fandom has been trained by "Game of Thrones" to root for the people with silver hair and the traditional Red Three-Headed dragon on a sable field. while the book readers, who should know by now from "Fire and Blood" and especially "Dunk and Egg" that the Targaryens are the fucking worst - which is the whole point of Dunk teaching Egg to be better than his family throughout the series. The hardcore ASoIaF fandom read obsessively but don't question the narrative as a whole.

@duxbelisarius did a 12 part Military Breakdown of the conflict and all the inconsistencies. But still, your average GRRM fanboy will agree it's fucking stupid, but let GRRM's bias in the narrative dictate their point of view. And in the end they just crave the blood shed and darker elements. Which - to be fair - has always been a part of the fandom since I joined it in 2009 when I was 19.

There's just a ton of factors, but those are the big ones.

Studio/Showrunners political mandates in the "Trump Era"

"Game of Thrones" residual bias for the normie fandom

GRRM bias toward characters creating false sense virtuous protagonists.

And a near fandom wide conditioning of disliking institution supporting moral characters.

I could write an essay about it all after 14 years, but that's what I've got tonight/this morning

[ava-oficial]

my wish came true and i got hit by a car(that invi was driving)

Luckily since im a keyblade wielder only my leg ended up breaking

i should be fine in a week

sometimes i wish i could get hit by a car

[asher-writes]

if you still do the pride month themed oc asks:

3. How did your OC discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or they always know?

6. How does your OC feel about labels? Theirs, or in general?

7. Is there something thaz could question their identity? What?

for any oc of your choice hehe

I love talking about my characters, and I love talking about pride, so! endless questions always acceptable. I'm going with Ari because I love him and also because I'm writing book 2 a lot atm.

Ari is biromantic and asexual, possibly demisexual, or an asexual who likes to give but not receive. He is also transgender.

How did your OC discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or they always know?

Ari has never felt a particular affinity in either direction, for a large part of his life it was just something he didn't think about. He was very much focused on every other element of his life. When he did have feelings for someone, he honestly didn't even process them as romantic feelings at first because the sexual attraction wasn't there. It never would be there for him, either. It wouldn't be until his mid-20s that he would really clue himself in that he actively doesn't desire sex.

During the books, though, he does discover elements of sex that he enjoys. He is very forthcoming about the fact he doesn't like being touched - even non sexually, he finds it overstimulating, he doesn't like the feeling of holding someone's hand or being hugged without time to prepare, and absolutely loathes crowds.

But, there are some things on the more giving side that he enjoys, even accidentally turning Edward on because he was practically using him as a human stim toy...we've all been there.

As for being trans, it was always there at the back of his mind, but he had a dream where he was a man and it haunted him so long that he hallucinated the voice of the goddess coming down to tell him to get the hell out of his little cult town and be free. And so he left, at 16.

How does your OC feel about labels? Theirs, or in general?

Indifferent. Ari isn't very social and doesn't tend to make new friends or meet very many new people - and his sexuality is very much private to him and his partner.

In the world in general, the labels still exist but very few people use them outside of situations it would be needed. It's fairly common and normal for there to be an even spread between straight, gay, bi, etc.

Having said that, Ari doesn't really have the language to explain his sexuality in that sense. A lot of that old world knowledge didn't make it through to the present. The same happens with April, who is aromantic, and January, who is aroace. They both generally self-describe because this is important to them and they're both open to discussing it.

Ari isn't, though, Ari doesn't want words to his experiences and is a very private person. He finds it really difficult to talk about his life, and the person he is.

So whilst April describes himself as "loveless," or "less inclined to marry," and January explains he is "uninterested in the workings of the body as much as the raw material of the mind," (hello can someone spit that sheer poetry at me? Thanks), a lot of the context for Ari's sexuality comes from his avoidance of speaking about it. Or, like, other people's input.

In a conversation between Ari and Eli, he explains that he dislikes the company of most people, which makes it difficult to marry. When the topic of sex is even fleetingly mentioned, he completely throws the conversation away, showing that he really is quite uncomfortable talking about it.

In another conversation, Eli mentions that Ari doesn't pick up on social cues very easily, which makes him more anxious than he lets on, explaining why Ari hyper-emphasises his learned behaviours. Neptune then points out that she knows because she tried to hit on him for two years straight and he wouldn't have noticed if she'd spray painted it on his house.

But when it comes down to it, Edward asks Ari if he'd ever date a man and Ari - bless his soul - basically goes "I don't particularly think gender is a factor in how much I don't want that."

As for being trans, both Ari and Edward being trans is revealed in relative closeness to each other, and neither of them use the term "transgender."

Edward describes himself very typically as "being born one way, and wanting to look another," explaining that he's on testosterone. Edward uses solely he/him pronouns but he is happy with some of his more feminine characteristics.

Ari, here, describes himself as "born a man, in every way except body." in an earlier version, he explains that he could see his mind as being female and his body being male, and some parts of him reflect each - which would probably put him closer to being nonbinary but, hey, we'll see how that turns out together.

Is there something that could make them question their identity?

Short answer: Edward, and new information.

Long answer: Over the course of the story, Ari engages in a sort of shaky trial-and-error with his own boundaries. Largely because he receives new information about himself that he hadn't quite processed before. And that's that he actually does not dislike Edward's company, but, even worse, actually feels like he can learn from Edward.

From there Edward gently coaxes him through the stages of un-repressing his emotions, and that reveals more new information, and so on.

[owmylasagna-blog]

YOU ARE THE WRITER OF LIKE ME STILL??!!! WOW!

i'm going to take this moment to thank you for writing this work of art?? is so interesting and so fresh and so amazing! (i'm only at chapter three? but daaamn?)

it's so funny and so real yet so crazy and at times adorable! i'm going to keep reading!

really thank you <3

plus your writing style is so goooood!

Thaz me! You’re very welcome!!! And thank YOU for reaching out and sharing your thoughts on it ☺️ hope you continue to enjoy.