#thread 195 .

[completeoveranalysis]

[3]

Ooh yes I love that closer shot of the statue! How it feels like Sakura’s power and Sakura’s future, and yet it dwarfs her completely, leaving her tiny by comparison. How the weight of all these enormous things in the future all rest on this tiny child just doing her best. 

Meanwhile we have Lava Lamp lying to her WHICH IS SO INTERESTING. He does it to protect her and so she doesn’t worry - but is this the beginning of the lies? The first big lie that builds and builds until the entire Tsubasa family is weighed down by the endless lies they live to try and fix everything around them? (sans Kurogane, who rolls his eyes at all of them)

And I’ve mentioned this somewhere before but (mild spoilers for Cardcaptor Sakura) Lava Lamp here being ‘A Syaoran who lies to Sakura’ to try and help her behind the scenes and work things in her favour is also a thread that CLAMP play with in Clear Card. And it’s always fun to see which plots and themes are so easily paralleled in both series.

[ollieinoue]

Ollie has no idea when or where he is [ @magnolia-rhodes ]

The thing about Ollie was that he could actually literally fall asleep anywhere at any time. Especially when it was not time to go to bed. Exclusively when it was not time to go to bed, even. Monty always asked him how he woke up so early in the morning, and Ollie never really had the heart to admit to him it was because he very rarely ever actually slept through the whole night. Now, he realized with a pang, he'd never get the opportunity to tell him. Well, alright fine, that was a little overly dramatic and probably not true, but it felt like it was true in the moment. In the moment that he was being shaken awake and found himself … somewhere among scattered books, with his face laid out along his laptop's keyboard, and a doc that seemed to be filled with "lkj;lkjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj" (etc) on whatever paper he'd been writing.

"Oh fuck," Ollie said, sitting up, rubbing the imprints of his keycaps from his cheek, and wondering what fucking time was it?? Had he missed an exam? Had he missed the deadline for someone else's exam? Had he been sleeping for the entire week and he missed them all? Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. He was really dropping the ball this quarter. In reality it was probably fine but it had really been one of those kind of naps. In a quick motion he had most of his things in his bag, and was standing up to leave when he realized the person who had woken him up was still standing there, looking as sweet and concerned as ever. "Hey babe," Ollie said, with a breathless kind of forced smile at Lola, "What time is it?" What day was it?

[killyridols]

web of life 5 by fiker solomon, 2023, jute & cotton thread, 162 × 195 centimeters

[thugnificent714]

Here is a floor plan to better orient yourself to the floorplan of the Imperial Winter Palace that I used. I will show The Neva Enfilade of rooms 192 (The Anteroom), 191 (Nicholas Hall), 190 (Concert Hall), 193 (Fieldmarshal's Hall), 195 (Armorial Hall), 197 (Military Gallery of 1812)

192 The Anteroom-it formed the processional exit of the Neva enfilade, and presented their guests with a choice, either to descend the Jordan staircase and exit the palace, or to turn right and continue through the next enfilade.

191 Nicholas Hall - Originally known simply as the Great Hall, in 1855 a large equestrian portrait of the late tsar was hung from the wall, and the hall was renamed the Nicholas Hall. This hall served as the setting for many imperial balls and receptions.

190 Concert Hall- As the name implies, this hall was used to host concerts, balls and grand receptions. On occasions the concert Hall would be reserved for the highest-ranking guests and members of the court as the beginning of any imperial processions.

193 Fieldmarshal's Hall- Built to honour the greatest military leaders of the Russian empire, this great hall and the adjacent throne room are part of the suite of rooms that were created in the western part of the winter palace for Tsar Nicholas I in 1833.

194 The Small Throne Room- I was unable to make this room as I am limited by the largest lot size, but I still wanted to share a pic. The room was built to commemorate Peter the Great. Lined with crimson velvet and embellished with silver thread, this room was used by diplomats to offer good wishes on New Years Day.

195 Armorial Hall- this vast chamber was designed for offical ceremonies and grand receptions. It sits between the Miltary Hall and the palace courtyard.

197 Military Gallery of 1812- The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic Wat of 1812. Destroyed in the famous fire of 1837, all portraits were saved by palace guards thanks to the slow burning of the fire.

I hope you enjoyed my attempts to grasp the same beauty and grandeur as Eduard Hau was able to capture in his watercolours.

[represaille]

This area is not her responsibility, not her burden to oversee, but even so, Nel finds herself patrolling the town's streets most nights. With the rash of recent incidents, even if the little ones here find her presence unsettling, she will keep careful watch where she can.

It is a thankless task. Most nights she is out, nothing at all happens. On the nights she does drive away whatever manner of ruffians appear, whispers and rumors of ill fate appear the next day regardless. There is no vocal acknowledgement that she is here beyond the occasional murmur that the claw marks in the ground have begun to look distinctly un-wolflike.

Tonight, a stranger in a mask approaches her.

"It is late," Nel agrees brusquely. Most are either asleep by now or too wary to leave their homes to approach an unfamiliar face. In times of distress, an unfamiliar face is often a dangerous face. "But the light of the moon is more than sufficient."

Even were it to be a new moon, she would be stepping just as confidently as if it were broad daylight.

"You are not a resident of this town. Identify yourself."

Under the Full Moon

[200 Character adventure]

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[angel-with-paper-wings]

for the truth & dare ask game: 🎱, 🛼, 🥑, 🍬, 🦴 :)

Thank you for these!! Sorry it took me so long to reply, these past few days have been busy for me. Thanks for your patience 🙏

🎱 post your AO3 total stats 

I still can’t believe these stats are all from my fics… thank you to everyone who has read my fics and contributed to these numbers, I’m endlessly grateful to every last one of you 🥹

User Subscriptions: 13

Kudos: 455

Comment Threads: 195

Bookmarks: 144

Subscriptions: 94

Word Count: 181,154

Hits: 14,330

🛼 describe your latest wip with five emojis

I’ll do the latest chapter of my fic since that’s the last thing I finished: 😰🎶👗🧺📔

🥑 you accidentally killed somebody, which mutual(s) do you text for help?

Hmm… first of all, you can’t prove anything 🤐 Second of all, I would probably contact @thelastsliceofcheese since I actually know her irl and she can help me hide the body and maybe even act as an alibi. And I believe @jennyfair7 once said that she was a lawyer(?) so I will need her help too.

🍬 post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

This is kind of about both Christine and Erik, but I think Christine could have become a great singer even without “the Angel of Music” as her teacher. In the Leroux novel, her voice was said to have sounded like “a rusty hinge” before she started receiving lessons from the mysterious voice. Does this mean Erik has some divine power over her voice and he gave her the talent to sing well, and that if she leaves him then all her musical talent will leave as well??

In my opinion, OF COURSE NOT. At the end of the day, Erik does NOT have superpowers and he’s just a normal guy being a normal music teacher giving her lessons in normal opera technique. The only way Erik improved Christine’s voice beyond a technical level was the *idea* that the Angel of Music was teaching her. Ideas and belief are so powerful: we need to believe we can do something in order to actually do it. Since Christine *believed* that she was being trained by a supernatural force, she made “supernatural” progress. If it is true that Christine was not able to sing as well after she leaves with Raoul in the end (I don’t think we know that for sure), then the only reason for that was because the events she lived through in the story were harrowing and emotionally traumatizing for her (which we DO know for sure). She still has the ability and technique to sing well, but her mental and emotional fortitude has been so damaged that she can no longer sing with the same passion behind it.

🦴 Is there a piece of media that inspires your writing?

The fanfic I’m writing now is heavily based on the interpretations of Erik and Christine from the 25th anniversary performance of the ALW musical. Whenever I’m having a hard time writing, I always rewatch it in order to get a refresher on their dynamic. Rereading parts of the original Leroux novel as well as other recordings of the musical help out a lot too!

[bruce-wayne-simp]

Ao3 Wrapped: Author Edition

Tagged by @five-and-dimes ❤️

Fics posted in 2024 in chronological order (13 fics in total):

Wanting, Kneading

A Trial of Devotion

The Challenge

Captivity

Comfort in Unexpected Places

Invasion

Unworthy

Violation

Who Left The Stove On?

Wounded

What Would You Do for the Observatory, Kenway? (Assassin's Creed)

Secrets Below Deck (Assassin's Creed)

Rendezvous (Assassin's Creed)

2024 stats:

Works: 13

Work Subscriptions: 20

Kudos: 874

Comment threads: 71

Bookmarks: 130

Hits: 6,896

Word count: 9,371

Top 3 fics by kudos:

Wanting, Kneading (195 kudos)

The Challenge (164 kudos)

Comfort in Unexpected Places (124 kudos)

Top 3 fics by word count:

Wanting, Kneading (1,712 words)

What Would You Do for the Observatory, Kenway? (1,029 words)

A Trial Of Devotion (825 words)

Top 3 ships in 2024:

Ok this ones difficult because most of them are:

Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling

And any others are just one-offs 😭 so ill do the other two from a fic i wrote in my current fandom (Assassin's Creed):

Edward Kenway/Adéwalé

Edward Kenway/James Kidd | Mary Read

Top 5 tags of 2024:

I guess ill just do these as which ones appear most often? And/or which ones i think worthy of including. Idk

Hurt/Comfort (not surprising 😂😭)

Rape/non-con (an archive warning but i think it counts bcs i have multiple fics with it)

Human AU

Frottage

Kitchen Sex

Tagging: @aquilathefighter @lighthouseshepard @tj-dragonblade @staroftheendless and @altair214

No pressure to do it!! ❤️❤️

[mercenarymage]

With a new set of faces - some familiar, some not - Hugh had ventured once more into the place that had nearly pulled him under hardly a few days prior. Though he's able to provide guidance to the foes he's faced before, he stalls when he learns that dragons and wyverns have joined the fray. The Necrodragon's toxic breath irritates old wounds, and the call that Yuzu makes to avoid the sharp talons of the wyvern are heard a tad too late - they dig into the mage, who calls out to Yuzu in turn to fire, now, while the wyvern's occupied.

The arrow makes home in the wyvern's flesh, bringing the dangerous foe down. And with the others taken care of by Forde, Hugh brings his attention to Yuzu. "Come on, let me see your injuries." He requests, finding something to temporarily bandage her wounds. "After that, let's…"

Hugh finds that once he's sat down to tend to Yuzu, he's having trouble getting back to his feet. Hugh looks to the flames - knows that what his body wants. "I'll…tend to the fire." He at least agrees, remaining put.

He'll tend to his wounds once they're off. -> @maligknightsthorns @craneswings @renaisguy

Less In The Horde = Less We Fight In Round 5

[dirtydragonthoughts]

Transformers Yuletide Literary Fest - Day 10

Welcome to the Transformers Yuletide Literary Fest! I’ll be recommending one or two fics every day until Christmas. Feel free to join in if you’d like (I’m using the tag #tylf2023 for this.) All fics are complete!

(If I can easily find a Tumblr account for the author I’ll tag them. If you know of an author who has a Tumblr account and I didn’t tag them, please let me know so I can add it! )

Fics in my recommendations will come in two different flavours: tangy and spicy. 😄 As always, curate your own online reading experience, and mind the tags if necessary for your own safety. ♥

Tangy

Title: Spec Ops Mission 98: Jazz's Interrogation at Soundwave's Pedes

Author: @kc-anathema

Rating: Teen (contains plug-n-play interfacing)

Wordcount: 195, 290

Summary: Surrounded by the torrid fiction of his fellow Autobots, Jazz uncovers a Decepticon plot hidden amidst their written fantasies. Can the Spec Ops commander turn this plot of high treason into a narrative…of love? OR Jazz is surrounded by a bunch of perverted writers, and wouldn't you know it, one of them is a Decepticon.

Why I love it: This story left me stunned... in a good way. I started reading it as a WIP because the premise sounded hilarious (hahaha, the bots and cons are writing RPF fanfic about each other, hahaha). But as the story went on, it turned into a LOT more. It became a story about love and trust, and forgiveness and boundaries, set against the backdrop of a brutal war. And then when it ended and we got the wrap-up of all the threads that we hadn't even known existed... Wow. This was an amazing story, and I will definitely read it again someday.

Spicy

Title: The Angel Breaker

Author: @altraviolet

Rating: Explicit

Wordcount: 62,452

Summary: Mysterious, deadly creatures descend on the population of Cybertron, spreading a disfiguring, brainwashing disease. The wealthy retreat underground while the rest try to survive a dangerous and disrupted aboveground society.

Years after suffering a great personal loss, Drift works for Flatline doing menial tasks. But when Flatline sends him to find someone who has done the impossible – survive an attack – Drift finds himself swept up in a continent-spanning plot. To save the Cybertron they love, Drift and his allies must find out what these creatures are, who made them, and if they can be stopped.

Why I love it: One thing that I've always loved about Altraviolet's work is the worldbuilding. (If you've been paying attention at all to my recommendations over the past 10 days, you'll know that I LOVE me some good worldbuilding. 😄) This story has a wonderful amount, specifically focused on geology and botany, and their relation to culture. BUT ALSO it has a gripping story that sits on top of all that worldbuilding, with a "rare trio" that I never would have thought of myself, but it really works well here. The author has an excellent way of making sure each character has their own voice, and motivations, and hopes and fears, and then wraps it all up in story that somehow wouldn't feel out of place in a Mythology of Cybertron collection.

[party-pri3st]

Pandreo could prattle on for hours about how tomes of his land channel the energies of ancient elemental dragons. He could happily describe every last stance and visualization he's learned for different spells. He could write a thesis on the mnemonics he used to remember chants written in the tongue of the ancient Divine. But, he's already misstepped one too many times to make a fool of himself again. Unlike his own church, he's not always going to be able to make connections here by being the most bombastic person in the room. He bows slightly, just a gentle bend of his spine. "Please forgive my clumsiness. I'm Pandreo, a priest of the Divine. This may not be the place, but I'd be honored to share notes on how magic works in our worlds. And if you're waiting for someone more worthy than myself to meet you under this mistletoe, I can take my leave." (It leaves a bitter taste in his mouth, being so formal. Like the mask his little sister once wore to make their parents proud of her. It never worked.) (But he needs this mask to survive, at least for now.)

🎄 -> party problem

[fancyfade]

Wonder Woman 1987 runs ranked

Greg Rucka's Run (#195-226) - This is my absolute favorite run on WW1987. Rucka's got a good handle on Diana's character, and is very good at creating plots with lots of threads that are interesting to read. I think the way that Greek Gods are re-imagined (except for Hera and Zeus) reflects well in other DC-universe stuff at this time with regards to magic, which is the idea that old gods change with humanity to survive.

Eric Luke's (#139-159) - creator of devastation, my all time favorite wonder woman villain!!!!! So much good just for that! And we also have Artemis training cassie, what is not to love?

George Perez's run (#1-62) and Messner-Loeb's (#63-100) - these two both have bits I really like and bits I really don't. they're this high, because the fact that they each ran for so many issues means that the good parts outweigh the bad parts, and it's easier to forget about those. George Perez does very strong worldbuilding for the Amazon's and Diana's initial cast of supporting characters, Messner-Loebs introduces some very fun plots and characters (like Space Era Diana, Donna Milton, and Artemis).

Philip Jimenez's (#164-188) - Jimenez's run I feel bad putting down here, though I did like it. It started very strong, and I loved the way he retconned the worst bits of Messner-Loeb's Hippolyte. With Hippolyte's actions in the contest no longer being tied to Messner-Loebs trying to make her partially responsible for what Heracles did, and almost vicitm blaming her, it made it feel much less just 'pile on hippolyte' to see the next part of what he addressed, which is the way that the amazons of bana mighdall were treated as second class citizens. the de-establishing of the monarchy was great. in general, my only complaint about jimenez's run is i feel like a lot of the plotlines are rushed, and we don't really have a lot of time to see the cool worldbuilding stuff he was setting up. And Villainy Inc was boring and wasted time we otherwise could have spent on the interesting worldbuilding stuff.

John Bryne's (#101-136) - reading this run was like pulling teeth. It was so boring. the only positive part is that he created Cassie. For that he ges one (1) right.

I did genuinely enjoy all of these runs except for Bryne's, it's just a ranking of which one I remember enjoying more.

[tatteredslipperdesigns]

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[endawn]

okay also, also — what if threads in pax’s emperor verse that’s always in my head. ocato gets assassinated way sooner and the people of cyrodiil cry for their champion to take the dragon throne. he does not deal with the vampires personally; unable to take the risk with the empire leaderless and the elder council in turmoil. does not get ensnared by mol..ag bal. still gives up the divine crusader mantle, but his gods are more understanding of it. lives out his mortal half-elven lifespan. 230 ( long lived for even a half elf due to lingering vitality from being the divine crusader ) when he finally has a midlife crisis after ruling for 195 years. fucks off to faerûn and gets tadpoled. his honor guard eventually tracks him down but has to go along with him playing knight again. they REALLY don’t want to explain how they let their emperor turn into a mind flayer. has a beef with king squidy ( at least SOMEONE here is an actual emperor ).

[mercenarymage]

By the time Citrinne and him take a seat, Hugh has a general idea what Citrinne's role is in this operation.

At first, he suspects she's testing towards his loyalty to his employer. But, when Citrinne's eyes dart to and fro, he recognizes that she could be jeopardized by resting too. Add the fact that she never received an employee list, and…yeah, Hugh's positive she's supposed to watch him. But the offer of water and the lack of urgency to tattle tale informs him that she, too, is dealing with the complications this job presents.

"Ha, did I never tell you?" He thinks back to the wild encounter in the ballroom. Right, that's probably why. "Yeah, it's why I came to Fodlan in the first place! Plenty of opportunities to pick and choose."

He allows himself to pout. "Honestly, this gig looked good on paper, but the moment I stepped foot here, I knew it'd be....difficult. I don't like breaking my contracts though, so I'm sticking through it the best I can."

He unfastens the flask that Citrinne's provided him. "So, did they pay you to hand these out, or was this your idea?"

i feel like a yellow pikmin

mission task: affluence (authority+1) [200 wc challenge!]

[onekisstotakewithme]

Fic Stats Tag Game

thanks to @nimuetheseawitch for putting this on my dash! 💜 this is a fun one that I hadn't seen before.

Rules: A list of my fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and the least words.

Most hits: 'ye who are weary, come home' is the far and away winner with 6,055 hits as of today (Sept 3/2023), and I really can't complain (maybe 6k hits isn't a lot, but I do write in small fandoms and usually for niche pairings!) because I do love this story. It's the story of the first 4077 reunion, involves all the canon pairings, a few fan-favourite minor characters, and the triad getting together. I love this one.

Most kudos: "Ties That Bind" aka my Journey to Babel tag. It has 419 kudos. I'm delighted by this one, as it was my first K/S day fic! (And only my second Star Trek fic!)

Most bookmarks: "ye who are weary, come home" wins again with 133 bookmarks.

Most comments: 'ye who are weary' again, with 195, and since this answer is geting a bit old, maybe, "Off The Record" (aka my "one missing scene for CJ/Danny from each episode of s1 of TWW) is a better answer as the distant second place, with 104 comment threads.

Most words: of my published works, it's 'no love less perfect than a life with thee', which is sitting at 98,043 words. It's the Charles/Donna wedding fic, and part IV of the verse that starts with 'ye who are weary' (my longest fic ever is part V of the verse, but it's not published. It's 125k).

Least words: The story with the least words is "Tired", a short fic I wrote about Hawkeye from 2018 or so. It's 220 words.

Thank you again, this was fun!