#ty for the tags i used them 2 be self indulgent

[ahollowgrave]

don't worry @idalenn, she brought options!

[wildflowerteas]

hella has officially joined the tsp book club! part 2 of our reactions pending lmao those were some very intense hours

if this was an irl socratic circle i would pay to be a fly on the wall. I FUCKED UP BY ADDING TWO MARGARETS THATS MY BAD. they'll be distinguished in upcoming dialogue. Brown goes by 'Maggie' n_n. Precinct 1 breakroom has seen some things. Also, yes! The DA prosecutes for the state! In a civil dispute, it's person to person going before a judge. But in criminal cases, the government is trying to put you away, not receive money/fair compensation for damages, so the DA does that work.

Your flabbers will be gasted 😭 might need to start using that.

BEAST tag is there for a reason! I only tagged it 'beast skk' so that people wouldn't expect the same dynamics or roles for the other characters ( like akutagawa sibling dynamic ), but of course, if skk is beast-au inspired it would naturally affect a few of the characters closest to them as well. Also, Skk is slowly but surely devolving into the aesthetic of their BEAST counterparts. Dazai hasn't been written in that brown coat for a good while now. The white suit at the New Year's party was also a deliberate choice.

never seen or read All my Sons all the way through, but i've encounted this quote in the wild:

“...he'll come back. We all come back, Kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right-- every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again. I don't think he went very far. He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out.”

---and i absolutely loved it and have been influenced by it.

i would be sat for that essay honestly.

. . . yes. it's the same diner. implied only, but i do have art in the drafts of skk on a case-date of milkshakes and files with skk in the same seats to parallel it.

Kouyou's assimilation!!!!! I can't believe Rori noticed that!! yes, she's almost always mentioned in a kimono, tying an obi, or wearing her haori, and even needed Chuuya to translate for her during their first years together. but she's changing. super excited to introduce the Kouyou of the present ( yes, she's alive ).

Agatha Christie was. self indulgent.

Yep! Jouno! 😭 The hunting dogs have been in my notes-app plot web since the very beginning when I decided to write tachihara into this. Since I'm translating the insane post-war politics of canon BSD into this au, they were naturally going to find themselves written into it.

TV girl .. . save me TV girl.... taking what's not yours is tsp skk i will be adding this to my on-loop writing roster.

THE JOUNO/DAZAI DIALOGUE HELLA 😭 I ACTUALLY CHOKED.

Unlike canon, TSP fyodor would, in fact die if you shot him. Not that I'm planning on writing that . . .

Jouno and Chuuya was lovely to write. They will be interacting again, unfortunately, so expect some introductions to the other members of the hunting dogs as well.

Dazai in the spotlight for once! Now he knows what it's like to be under the stagelight with Chuuya in the audience.

Kousano! Yeah that ship is preparing to set sail. Whether it's still afloat is the question. A question that hasn't been answered by Miss Medical Examiner's presence in the 1978 timeline. Yet.

[dont-call-me-algernon]

Ty @circeancity for the tag!!

RULES: Reveal the titles of the documents in your WIP folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!

The thing is, I don’t have a single wip folder, but a different wip folder for each fandom. Meaning I have something like 20wips at a time, in various states of abandonment… yeah. So I think I’m gonna stick to the ones I’ve edited/added to at least once in the last month, for this one!

1. dead ringers

A pre-canon first meeting one shot about the citrus killers from Bullet Train, written by me for me basically, given the almost non-existent fandom for this book. Unfortunately a case of “I have everything written and more or less edited EXCEPT the last few paragraphs, how do you even end a fic”.

[...] "It's a bit freaky from up close, isn't it?"

"I beg you pardon?" He scoffed, affecting annoyance for being suddenly addressed by a stranger.

"Too bad there can only be one," the other man said, a small grin beginning to form at the corner of his mouth. Tangerine almost expected him to laugh and exclaim something along the lines of ‘oh, I always wanted to say that!’. How cliché. "And that would be me. You can save your energies. If I could be killed, I would be already dead," but then he backtracked, "Then again, if you went down without a fight, it would be kind of a bummer. So try to put up a little resistance, yeah?"

2. fishbones

I recently made a mistake, and that mistake was getting into Funger (Fear & Hunger). Now everyone must put up with my rare pair shenanigans over there too. I’m prooobably gonna keep the title, unless I come up with anything better by the time I've finished writing it (very unlikely). Also – small warning for people chit-chatting during an impromptu autopsy, I guess??

[...] "Much obliged," the doctor said, offering him a thin smile that looked almost as out of place on his gaunt features as the rest of him, with his eccentric slacks and silken bow tied around his collar, did in a devastated village turned warzone. "Henryk, was it?"

"At your service," he replied mechanically and regretted it at once. He didn't want him to get any creative ideas about his willingness to help with his current task.

"Let me tell you, Henryk, you'd make for a terrible pickpocket," the other remarked as he drew another cut along the dead man's sternum.

3. bank time babyyy

Incredibly silly working title for an incredibly self-indulgent Death Note fic about “what if some of the corrupt yotsuba execs had lived long enough to be able to react to the events of the 2020 one shot (re: the new Kira using yotsuba bank for his plan)???”

[...] "Somehow, the board still believe it’s an elaborate publicity stunt."

"And you decided you’re going to let them," Mido concluded for him. "They must think we have the strangest concept of guerrilla marketing."

"Only until I'm able to fix this…" he seemed on the cusp of adding something – situation, debacle, utter trainwreck – before likely resolving that no Japanese word could do justice to the absurdity of their predicament. "I never thought I'd be grateful for the depth of human stupidity, but here we are," he gave way to another pause, marked by an almost solemn intake of breath preluding to what, from his perspective, must have been a pretty humiliating admission. "I'll need your help. And your spirits."

Besides @bespectacled-bookwyrm I’m… not really sure who else among my mutuals has any active wips, so I’m gonna tag them and anyone else who may want to do this little game, as usual.

[ao3feed-narumitsu]

Bodice Positivity

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/48837817

by TopazEstrella

Miles' hands tremble a bit as he tries the last corset, wrapping it around the belly he wants to hide from the world and tying it up in the back. It fits snugly against his body, and he decides he likes it. It would be nice to feel sexy at the wedding, after all.

He puts on the rest of the wedding outfit and determines that no one would be able to tell he is wearing a lacy piece of lingerie beneath his suit. Perfect.

An exploration of Miles Wrightworth and his relationship to his body, gender, BDSM, and what it means to be a father.

Words: 8950, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Time Makes You Bolder/Even Children Get Older | (The men and their daughters' weddings)

Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, M/M

Characters: Mitsurugi Reiji | Miles Edgeworth, Naruhodou Ryuuichi | Phoenix Wright, Ichijou Mikumo | Kay Faraday

Relationships: Mitsurugi Reiji | Miles Edgeworth/Naruhodou Ryuuichi | Phoenix Wright, Houzuki Akane | Ema Skye/Ichijou Mikumo | Kay Faraday, Ichijou Mikumo | Kay Faraday & Mitsurugi Reiji | Miles Edgeworth

Additional Tags: post-SOJ, Spoilers: AAI1 & AA4, Established Relationship, Married Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright, Hurt/Comfort, Corsetry, Miles Edgeworth in Drag, Y'all this is the gayest thing I've ever written 😭, This definitely happens in AA7 (Shu told me), Background Faraskye, Miles is a samurai nerd, Empty Nest Syndrome, Fatherhood, Miles is self-conscious about his dad bod, Phoenix is the sweetest husband, Phoenix breaks character during roleplay, Phoenix is obsessed with Miles’ tits, married people can have dope sex too, even if it is awkward, body negativity/body dysmorphia, Aging, They are only 40 here but Miles acts like he is on his deathbed, Internalized Fatphobia, Body Positivity, Gender Roleplay, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Light BDSM, Top Phoenix Wright, Bottom Miles Edgeworth, Sorry I couldn’t justify Miles topping here and they occasionally switch in my brain, Phoenix improvises and uses clothespins for nipple clamps, light flogging, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, self-indulgent body image comfort fantasy, the ending is so fluffy I'm too soft for them, I just kinda miss fucking with gender in bed so I'm making my Barbies do it for me

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/SHnhbqy This is an automatic feed of all new stories posted to the Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright tag on AO3. Because of that, it is not guaranteed that Miles and Phoenix are the main characters in the story, nor the only ship. Please verify content upon clicking through to AO3.

[phantom-does-a-thing]

for the ask game: 2, 3, and 23 :]!!

2) Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

- “I wrote this instead of sleeping” (350 fics)

-“fluff” (284 fics)

-“hurt/comfort” (204 fics)

- “angst” (203 fics)

Yeah that’s pretty accurate. The first one is a little embarrassing I don’t even know why I always use that tag it’s just fun tbh and also at this point habit bc like 90% of the time I write late at night bc it’s really overwhelming to try and write during the day. Also I write a LOT of fluff and comfort bc I am self indulgent and like fluff and comfort so yeah id say it’s pretty accurate.

3) what are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics

I think personally one of the significant things is the way that I like accentuate every inhuman character I ever write to make them even less human. And then that just becomes like a very key part of my characterization. Like Gillion having a tail or more animalistic features/traits or same thing with Vyncent or just giving characters animal traits bc it’s really self indulgent to me. And also I think more comfort than hurt in a lot of cases bc as much as I write angst I love writing comfort soooo much.

23) what is a trope, AU or concept you’ve never written but want to?

This is hard bc I don’t really know what stuff I’d want to write if I haven’t already because I’m not a big fan of AU’s or anything. Ik I’ve written this before but I do wanna write more horror stuff especially with bitb bc like it’s literally a horror campaign and I used to be a horror writer but other than that I don’t really know what stuff I’d want to write. I have a lot of fic ideas that I really want to write like at one point I want to do some Caspian angst.

Ask game

Ty for the ask Jackie!!!!!!!!!! Much love

[woozification]

wzfct.gif in 2022!

i was tagged by @jeongtokkie to recap my year of creations, ty sarah! <3

i posted a total of 35 gifsets in 2022! i only started giffing in september, so i had soo much learning to do along the way - and i still have plenty more to learn now! in the interest of linking more than 4 gifsets, i'll mention my most popular and my favorite from each month.

i giffed every member at least once, but many of my most popular & favorite sets were woozi-centric...it's the tunnel vision, i'm afraid 😔

september:

most popular: giggly chim pearl interview woozi

honestly so representative of me as an individual, a carat, a woozidan, a human being, etc...this was also an exercise in letting go, because i originally wanted to do 8 gifs, but only four of them turned out well </3

my favorite: woozi's chipmunk cheekies (pt. 1)

i really love to do compilation gifsets, even though it takes longer to gather material for them. i was also just happy to see other people excited about woozi's omnomnom face 😂

october:

most popular: tiktok + the hoshi-woozi combo

my most popular that month by a mile. they came out very grainy, and i couldn't figure out what to do with them at the time. i think my skills have improved since then, but i'm glad they were well-loved regardless <3

my favorite: rtl confession day woozi

mainly bc woozi was rocking the cute little "retro lesbian i want to take on a rollerskating date" look. (disclaimer: i'm a lesbian, i'm allowed to have dreams. disclaimer 2: i know woozi is not a lesbian, but i'm still gonna take him rollerskating.)

november:

most popular: woozi's bday

by far my most popular set of the entire year, w/ 1000+ notes :') a compilation set that took a long time to put together! i'm so so happy with how it came out.

my (second) favorite: dk & seungkwan professional back-up dancers

is this my favorite because i did a good job or because they make me cry laughing in that episode? 🤔 either way, i was/am really pleased with it, especially since i sometimes have a hard time with big gifs <3

i think many of my mutuals have been tagged already (and it's already the new year, oops) but please do it and tag me if you like! happy new year, everyone - here's hoping 2023 can give us all a bit of a break 💕

december:

most popular: loser woozi failing to swing on a bar </3

he's a fool and i'm obsessed with him. i also just really like adding text to gifs.

my favorite: giggly s.coups <3 <3 <3 and/or woozi's cheekies pt.2

more compilation sets! i find it so satisfying when they come together. the s.coups set was for the svt gift exchange this year, which was a lot of fun. & the woozi set was, as most things on my blog are, purely self-indulgent <3

[certifiedceraunophile]

Hi! A fan of your writing here. I just love the way you write Caroline. An Avoidable Heart is my comfort fic and I am constantly in awe with the way you write and craft the dynamics in that story. Caroline's inner monologue is just priceless and God! I just love that intro scene where Caroline is walking into the Mikaelson compound with vampires and hybrids in the surrounding ready to pounce on her.

I would love to hear how you would have visualized Caroline crossing over into TO or not? Like in what season and why? How it would have likely gone?

Thank you!

First of all lovely anon gimme a moment to breathe, asdfghjkl why are people so lovely 😭😭🥺✨ It means sooo much to me that you’d take the time to jump into my inbox and send these kind words, like please I’m not worthyyyyy, But you make me smile and feel really freaking warm so *handcuffs your hand to mine* you aint leaving 💖✨💞🙃

But OK ALSO oh my god dude THAT CAROLINE WALTZS INTO THE COMPOUND AND TAKES ON A COUPLE HUNDRED VAMPIRES BY HERSELF SCENE???? Ughhhhh I’m sorry but I have SUCH a boner for Caroline in that, like my badass -I admit kinda op- QUEEN IS HERE and she’s fucking shit up, I’m sorry but I love that scene so much it’s so dear to me I was killing myself over how self-indulgent and grossly Over powered Caroline is but like idgaf man it’s such a hot scene and Caroline is practically invincible and we just love to see that, so seriously lovely anon, you telling me you LOVE that scene??? Puts the biggest smile on my face and reassures me a LOT bc I was whining and cribbing over how absolutely unbalanced that scene is to literally everyone BUT LIKE YOU JUMPING OUT OF NOWHERE and pointing that exact scene UGHH…...meant to fucking be the both of us 💖💞✨

And ALSO Caroline’s monologue is quite honestly the easiest inner monologue out of the three voices I wrote for that work, Klaus’s is the real pain in the ass tbvh like it is NOT easy writing pretentious besotted losers with a Kardashian complex especially when you need to make them sound cool when they’re the lamest OP dude bros to ever exist - and no I don’t hate Klaus although I seem to try my darndest to convince ppl I do- I just personally believe that a feral fucker like that with a thousand years of existence under his belt can grow a pair and graduate from his kindergarten level of emotional maturity to adult sometime soon, But then on the flipside he’s so grossly adorkably smitten and feral for Caroline plus hella horny for her all the time that its usually easy to write the trashed and devoted idiot he is into something pretentious and powerful and potent when relating to his unflappable arrogance and his narcissism, but sometimes I also need him to be *deep* and ffs profound for the sake of the plot and jfc my muse just wont work with me on that, she’s like I’m sorry I’m not about to bust my ass to make this mongrel intelligible like no sir all I wanna do is make him uncomfortably horny for Caroline and leave him like that.

So smh yeah the struggle is real….but lmao Caroline is just so precious and fiercely protective and just so achingly lonely in that story, so desperate for connection and trust and intimacy yet so guarded and impervious to everyone like it hurts me to write her like that but it really challenges me as an author to balance out her inherent light with the “void” I create in her and through her, so yeah it’s a very fulfilling task and I wouldnt change it one bit, and also I had to balance out her physical op-ness w half a millennium of the ugliest emotional trauma lol so I guess that figures, but the point being….once again I am overjoyed knowing that you liked a facet of the story that I tried so hard to make as authentically Caroline and achingly real and moving as I can and I cannot possibly feel more accomplished than rn for it so ty ty ty ty for reaching out to me and telling me *tackle hugs* It makes me GIDDY knowing that you enjoyed that particular part of the story like ugh stab me please you're too sweet.

And ok NOW, coming to The Originals part of the ask, (also please note that when I say TO headcanon; Hope does not exist, Hayley is a dead in a ditch and ofc Klaus will stop being that lil bitch they tried to pawn off as Klaus in TO) 

HEADCANON 1

Honestly my biggest headcanon when it comes to TO crossovers somehow always include non-humanity!Caroline like it’s just so perfect to me?? The opportunity to make shit BLOW UP b/w them like imagine the DEBAUCHERY, the heat, the SEXUAL TENSION, the repression of one Klaus Mikaelson, the EXPLORATIONS, and omg the role reversal when Klaus has to be the voice of moral reason between them and not bc he believes Caroline would not be able to stand herself if she does something heinous and monstrous but bc he wants her to be completely and utterly herself, and yk *aware*, when she DECIMATES ppl to the ground and is in full-on predator mode, like he wants her monster to come out and play with him when no part of Caroline is locked away or suppressed, so obviously when she is w/o her humanity KLAUS exercises restraint on her behalf, like can you imagine that, Klaus restraining himself and being the vague, extremely broken and just largely inaccurate moral compass between the two of them for ALL the wrong reasons- and the entirety of NOLA just standing there watching him herd this baby vampire who seems to be intent on riling him up and angering him when all she is doing is giving him a massive hybrid hard on, like IMAGINE THE GOODNESS of non-humanity Caroline wrecking NOLA and Klaus letting her wreck it bc he is helpless in the face of Caroline Forbes and also bc he is quite honestly *enjoying* the debauchery himself so why put a damper on the festivities.

-I might wanna add that I favour this headcanon a lot bc I genuinely do not even remotely *like* the idea of NOLA as Klaus's chosen place to set his roots so like I would love Caroline going to NOLA and destroying everything there just bc I detest NOLA and the storyline behind it in TO. (yes is it petty? Obvi, but like I am a petty soul and I make no apologies ma’am)

HEADCANON 2

So yeah that’s my main TO headcanon, but my other one being, one I talk about very frequently, scream about in tag rants to an obsessive level, and like this is a cracky one but still very valid, where Caroline rolls up to NOLA humanity intact and all, finds Hayley preggo and is just laughing her fucking ass off bc anybody ANYBODY, with half a brain and a two minute convo w klaus would know how UTTERLY stupid the entire baby shit is especially when it’s with an immemorable one night stand, and Caroline’s just losing her shit about how like an entire city is obssessed w this baby and she just straight up tells Klaus he’d SUCK as a dad (which he really does tho like he was a shitty fucking dad canonically too) and Klaus is just like *sigh* girl tell me about it. I mean basically he’s finally relieved that someone is on his side about the whole baby thing and how he definitely does not want his entire millennium of life to finally sum up to this one squalling leaking stinky infant/unicorn Hayley is apparently baking in her oven, and I say this headcanon is cracky bc klaus would never have put up w this mess long enough for Caroline to come in and sort it out, there’s this preferred method of disposal of his called heart ripping that would've been employed quite early on and honestly saved us all a lot of brain cells and minused years of life, bc let’s be real any Klaus who’s NOT a lil snivelling bitch wearing a Klaus skinsuit would’ve yeeted the baby and the mama first chance he got, and that’s just how I see it.

Lmao I really hope I didnt scare you away w my *strong* opinions Ik they can be a bit much but I enjoy having them so theyre not going anywhere, anyways this ask answer got WAYYYY too long but I’m hoping I answered your question well with this or atleast left you slightly confused and bemused over my feral screaming....either ways I’m really really really happy to have got your ask and the chance to rant so much bs, Twas cathartic and honestly I had nothing to do today so I was more than happy to dish this baby out for you. Thank you so much sweet anon for putting a smile on my face today I am absolutely HONOURED by your words you’sa cutie 💖💞✨🗣🗣

[laufire]

I was tagged by @wisteria-lodge (ty!)

The Game: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favourite opening line. Then tag some authors!  

I went with the last 20 saved (well, edited) documents in my WIPs folder.

tagging: @elasticella @missbrunettebarbie @bebewrites @bombshellsandbluebells @punishandenslavesuckers @anghraine @toboldlywrite @sienarosso @grapecase and whoever else feels like giving it a go, just drop a mention so I see it ^-^

1. Castiel didn’t come to the decision easily; it shamed him to say that it had been, in no small part, a question of pride. (SPN. pre-s4 canon-divergence AU. The idea was inspired by this anon’s prompt).

2. A man in a trench coat had lurked on the corner of his eye all day; now, he waited for Dean outside his motel’s room. (SPN. This one was also inspired by an anon’s prompt (smh); it’s a Meg and Castiel role reversal AU, so now I have a whole ‘verse in my head with demon!Castiel and angel!Meg and how they’d fit in the story, meet the Winchesters, etc.).

3. Sometimes Bela indulged in the thought that the worst thing about Hell was the tedium, the rutine and repetition of the day to day; but then, the torture started. (SPN. My “Castiel gets Bela out of Hell” AU).

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5. In the upcoming days, Silver will work hard to forget this truth: when he dared to reveal his true nature to the crew, it wasn’t because he sorely needed to replentish his energy after losing his leg; it was because he’d hoped they would kill him. (Black Sails. Vampire Silver AU).

6. John Murphy’s second life started when he woke up hungry and filthy in a half dug mass grave. (The 100. Vampire Memori AU -part of my Vamp/Blade T100 AU series. Indra is Blade btw xD).

7. The last thing Anna espected was to open her eyes again after Michael’s attack. (SPN. Self-indulgent Anna/Mary AU).

8. “I take it the interrogation didn’t go your way.” Castiel couldn’t stop himself from needling Dean, who glared at him while his hands still shook. (SPN. Endverse!Megstiel story).

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10. Someone else might have thought they just woke up from a nightmare, but Silver knew his head had just hit against the rocks. (Black Sails. Max & Silver, Russian Doll inspired fusion, set in s1 of the show).

11. After talking with the rattled Ms. Bose, Jo could feel her luck in this hunt was finally changing. (SPN. Bela/Jo, s3 canon-divergence AU. Three guesses as to who is Ms. Bose).

12. Sam had put if off when Lucifer started raising; when he and Dean were on the plane; when Zachariah had them spilling their guts; in the hospital... but finally, he reunited a few seconds of calm to freak. The fuck. Out. (SPN. My Ruby’s Terror Twins series lmao -Ruby screams out she’s pregnant, shocks Sam and Dean enough she can escape with her knife. Then, a few months later...).

13. Ruby opened her eyes, and immediately knew two things: the slash in her stomach was healed, and she’d put her faith in the right deity. (SPN. Ruby Lives AU. Ideally, a rewrite, but that might be too ambitious xD. Of s5, sure).

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16. What Moira first noticed about Akeri was the book he’d tried to hide beneath his clothes; the carved marks on his cheeks came second. (Black Sails. Maroon Queen x Mr. Scott -who I gave alternate names because I can’t write an entire fic about them and pretend they call each other that lol).

17. Alastair spoke to Dean in a tone that sat in between that of a lover and a proud father. (SPN. Alastair brings Bela for Dean to torture).

18. The letters -all four of them now- never came signed; for that matter, there was nothing specific or damning enough, no misstep hidden within them that he could have used, and so he stopped looking for those. (Black Sails. Rackham x Rogers Foe Yay post finale lol).

19. That very night Silver will curse himself for his naivete, for thinking you can escape from something while you plant roots on a place; but in truth, the day had started so well. (Black Sails. An attempt to explore certain ideas about Silver’s past that’s likely to go nowhere lol).

20. At the ten year mark Silver returned to land and found the wrong woman waiting for him on the beach. (Black Sails. A weird “Silver ends as the captain of the Flying Dutchman” canon-compliant AU).

Patterns: ig the most notable one is that I like to throw the reader in the middle of the action, especially in fic. Often I go back and elaborate on the context, but I like a cold open xD

Favourite: I’m very happy with them all (first lines matter to me), but I’m especially fond of 9 and 14 for Latoya and Eva’s dramatics; 5 with vampire!Silver (ouchie); and 13 for the irony xD

[national-nobody-writes]

2020 Creator Wrap

2020 Creator Wrap: Favorite Works

I was tagged by the oh so talented @irolltwenties!

Rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 (or so) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought to the world in 2020. tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

I’m not a particularly prolific writer (WIPs for days, but completed projects? Not so much). Somehow in this hell year though, I did manage to complete more fics than in any previous year for a total of seven new works (~49k words, all on ao3), plus a chunky chap of a long running WIP (~20k words) so I’m actually pretty damn proud of myself! I also made some new fandom friends in 2020 which has easily been one of the biggest delights of the year & has definitely helped my creative momentum, so ty all for that. <3

Counting down from 5, here are my favs:

5. Downtime

I have endless love for JayRoy and it felt so good to finally finish something for them for once this year! All of my past WIPs primarily focused on them ended up firmly in my graveyard folder, including the fic that this one shot was originally meant to be connected to. I liked the way this turned out well enough to clean it up and post it on its own though, so at least now I can say that I have something published for them at last.

(Also it got me back into the JayRoy headspace enough to outline a whole YJ/Earth16 JayRoy fic that I’m excited to start drafting in 2021, so we’ll see where that goes...)

2.3k NSFW; A mix of playful sweet and roughness, just like them.

4. Mirror Image

Bluepulse Week really saved me this year in terms of forcing me to just write, damn it! Did I finish all the prompts this year? Nope. Did it get me to complete a handful of fics that I ended up really loving? Yes. This was one of them.

This fic zoomed into existence entirely out of necessity as an alt idea to a prompt that I had a much longer idea for, but didn’t have time to complete. It then got a positive enough reception that I decided to turn it from a crack-adjacent, passable one-shot to a slightly more developed two-shot by request of one of my commenters. Really, it was writing that second chapter that ended up endearing the fic to me.

6.3k Humor, time travel shenanigans & accidental dating. This fic is the sweetness of teenage crushes, the confusing mess of discovering your sexuality, & laughter with your best friend.

3. Soft Wesper One Shots

Would you look at that, another nsfw piece. Could it be that I’m starting to get to the point where I can look back at completed nsfw fics without cringing terribly? Love that for me.

This fic took me by surprise, tbh. I wouldn’t consider myself a part of the grisaverse fandom (I’m utterly ambivalent toward the OG trilogy & have no plans to read them), but I did fall deeply in love with the whole Six of Crows gang earlier this year to the point of having quite the book hangover afterward, unable to pick up anything else except related fanfic for a couple weeks straight. These fluffy, nsfw scenes were born out of that, and I was pleasantly surprised to see such a positive response to them in the comments. The whole SoC gang has my heart, but the dynamic between Jesper and Wylan in particular got my writing fingers itching.

3.7k Domestic, post-canon fluff & tender sex with flirty Jesper & blushing Wylan abound.

2. Stick With Me

Ohh, I still get warm fuzzies thinking about this fic! If I’m only low-key proud of the first three on this list, this is one I’m legitimately very proud of. I had this idea on the docket already from a convo with @ivyxwrites early this year (or maybe last year? who knows, time means nothing anymore) but used Bluepulse Week as the excuse to finally get started, and I ended up adoring the process of writing it far more than I anticipated.

As much as I love planning out meticulously crafted, plotty stories, sometimes all you want to do is pick some well-loved tropes out of a hat instead and run with them (in this case: stuck in a cabin, only one bed, & heated argument leading to confession). It was freeing to just mess around and have fun with this fic, knowing pretty much right from the get-go how I wanted it to unfold and seeing it so vividly in my mind. It also probably helped that I was writing it for Ivy; it’s much easier for me to stay motivated when creating directly for my friends.

Finishing this was also such a serotonin-filled burst of pure victory for me since, as previously stated, I’m terrible at finishing projects--particularly multi-chap fics, particularly within a decent timeframe.

25.5k A showcase of the essence of what I love about the best friends-to-lovers dynamic. Part character study, part wires getting crossed & uncrossed, and whole idiots to lovers. This fic is the warmth in the pit of your stomach from a yearning made real & the sudden clarity of realizing what you were looking for had already been there all along.

1. The Rest Pt 1: Delicate (Remember Me Chap 4)

Oh, Remember Me. Of everything I’ve ever written, this story remains the one I’m most proud of and certainly the closest to my heart (not to mention the longest running, whoops). The first iteration of the beginning of this story was actually drafted back in 2017, but I walked away from it for a couple of years before deciding to dust it off and try again. It has spiraled into something far bigger in scope than I originally planned for, but I’ve come to love the path it’s led me down so far, and finishing this whopping 20k chunkster of a chapter was like breathing a huge (if temporary) sigh of relief.

This chap was particularly cathartic to write because it allowed for a number of convos between the boys that had really needed to happen, and was finally the ‘getting together’ moment the fic had been building toward for a while. It’s also so sappy I could die, but I will not be apologizing for that, lol. I was really hoping to get Chap 5 up this year as well, but y’know. Sometimes things just don’t work out like you plan for and that’s okay. 

Chap 5 does have 17k done already (with prob another 5-8k still to go) & I’m itching to share it, but no sense in rushing if the end result would suffer for it. Luckily, everyone in comments has been kind enough to beat me over the head with ‘take your time, we don’t mind/we’ll still be here!!!’ which I’m immensely grateful for. So, at least the pressure to hurry up and get it done is purely self-inflicted.

Of all my works, this fic has not only gotten the most passionate responses, but has also been the main gateway for me to interact with other bluepulse creators, which has been a real joy. Nothing brightens my day like the essays people leave me over there from time to time after discovering the fic. That kind of engagement is the highest praise, & responding is very self indulgent fun for me (bc, clearly, I could go on and on about this fic & YJ in general forever).

54.8k total so far (WIP). Bart & Jaime’s relationship journey from beginning to ‘current day’ (aka the moment the fic begins), using amnesia/memory restoration as a framing device. The high highs and low lows of first love, navigating a 3 yr age difference, and the long, winding road from best friends to lovers as the years roll on. Slow-burn-adjacent (in terms of both the boys’ relationship to each other and reader’s relationship to the fic bc of how long I take between goddamn updates).

Tagging @ivyxwrites, @incorrectbatfam, @paintingwithdarkness, @bluepulsebluepulse

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Um, so you're like a Tumblr god with writing, so do you have any tips on how to get your stories noticed and out there? Thank you!

ashdgfsdh that’s so!!!! nice!!!!! ty!!! so, to be totally honest, part of my situation is that I got really lucky with one of my fics early on, where it got like,,, a lot of notes and as such I ended up with way more followers but I can still try to give some tips!!!

(this got a little long, so I’m putting it under a cut)

1. Tagging

People (me included) will go through the Sanders Sides or character tags to find stuff to reblog. Only the first five tags you throw in will actually have your work in them (i.e. if you tag ‘1′, ‘2′, ‘3′, ‘4′, ‘5′, ‘6′, the fic will only show up when you search 1-5) and it won’t show up through searches at all if you use certain words (swear words, in particular, I’ve noticed).

Making sure to tag your stuff in a way that people will see definitely helps but also make sure it’s relevant tags. People looking for prinxiety won’t be thrilled to have analogical in the tag they’re searching. You can check my fics for the way I tag them if you want!

And, in relation to a different kind of tagging, use tag lists! I know there’s some general ones online (@the-taglist-repository has a bunch) but sometimes author’s will also just straight up tell you to tag them in stuff (e.g. I love being tagged in aspec or autistic sides content, @/rosesisupposes likes being tagged in superhero AUs, @/sleepless-in-starbucks demands /j to be tagged in all losleep content, etc. etc.).

I would be careful about just tagging people though. I’m, personally, not a fan of being tagged in things that I haven’t asked to be tagged in. It strikes me a little bit as ‘you’re a big blog so I’m just using your followers to try and promote myself’, even if that isn’t the intention.

2. Make content regularly

Now, I get that regularly putting out content is definitely not as easy as just saying you will—life gets in the way sometimes and creativity is stressful—but it definitely helped me when I started writing. I wasn’t doing much else with my time (an unusual circumstance), so I was putting out like,, at least 2 fics a month. In the entirety of last year I wrote 80 fics. But seriously, the more you write, the better your writing will be (practise!) and the more likely people will see it.

You can also try doing writing games like I’ve done for follower milestones in the past. You can find lists of prompts on tumblr, reblog them and ask people to send you a prompt and a ship for you to write a drabble for. There’s also things like Secret Santa (where people trade content for the holidays) and Soulmate September is this month, organised by @tsshipmonth2020! So participating in writing events that you find could also help!

3. Interact with other writers

The biggest thing, I think, personally, to help content creators is for them to work together to lift each other up (sounds kinda cheesy but I’m serious). If you comment on other people’s work telling them how much you enjoyed their fics, I guarantee they’ll be thrilled and you may become friends! (I’ve had,,, several friendships start this way; @/sleepless-in-starbucks and @/max-is-tired, among others).

And you can interact with writers outside of tumblr too! Discord is a super great way to chat with other writers and get your fics out there, I’ve found. There’s even some discord servers dedicated specifically to writing tss fanfics (@potestessemagishomosexualitatis has a great one that I’m in and ik there’s one run by discord user ‘parallelwrites’, though I’m not certain of their tumblr URL).

4. Write what you enjoy!

I guarantee people can tell if you’re writing stuff you’re not enjoying. You don’t have to write only the most popular ships to get notes on your writing (I mean, just look at Lia, who’s basically made their blog on the foundation of losleep). You should write the things you like, even if they’re niche, cause I promise if you want to read it, there’s other people out there who do as well.

I mean, I just read a qpr sleepxiety soulmate AU that the author (@averykedavra) described as ‘self-indulgent’. I’m a huge fan of platonic/queerplatonic sleepxiety but I never see it written! It’s not popular! But Avery wrote it and I loved it. I did not expect so many people to be thrilled about my aroace-Logan coming out story! I wrote it for Me but people really seemed to enjoy it! You never know what people will love.

5. Take care of yourself

This is maybe not so much writing advice as it is a caveat for all the stuff I’ve said here. At the end of the day, writing is fun and getting praise on your stories feels awesome, and I totally get that, but you gotta make sure not to burn yourself out. I went through a period when I started fic writing where I was,,,, a little too dependant on the feedback I got and if I didn’t get what I considered “enough notes” it basically sent me into a downward spiral.

Now, that’s me and I know not everyone will feel that way, but it’s good to remember you have worth outside of what you create. If you can’t manage to write the amount you think you “should” be, that’s okay. If you can’t manage to finish a piece you’ve been working on, that’s okay. If you go for months without writing because of stress, life or simply writer’s block, that’s all okay.

You are the most important thing in your creative endeavours; don’t forget that.

[aurltas]

author interview tag (!)

aaAAAA ty to @backcountry-deltora for tagging me!!! much loveee <333 i haven’t been looped into a tag game for so so long and this is making me feel 10000% better about the fact that i have not written a single fic related thing in MONTHS o)-( but i love to talk about writing and myself so here we go,,

Name: i went by crystal silvera on ffn and here for the longest time so a lot of ppl know me as crystal but my Real(TM) name is dani and my ao3 name is auritas so like take ur pick haha

Fandoms: currently in mxtx hell (im a mdzs main, to the shock of no one) but my og fandoms that i am still very much attached to are deltora quest (the OG og), young wizards, the raven cycle, and yuri on ice

Where you post: ao3 alllll the way babey (but i originated from ffn and still have some stuff up there.......it’s Not Good tho)

Most popular one-shot: oh boy i knew this was gonna be a popular one bc i only wrote like?? rambly reflective thematic pieces(?) before this, my First Attempt At Fluff lmao. even then, But we’re alive (because we bleed) still exceeded my expectations by far in terms of reception, probs bc mdzs was such an up and coming fandom at the time and i posted it right on the crest of that cql wave

Most popular multi-chapter fic: obviously where the light goes, also known as my beloved CHILD !!!! i don’t write multichaps anymore but this is 2 long ass chapters so ig that’s Technically a multichap haha,,, yeah i knew this one was gonna be popular for the same reasons as the previous one + the very intentional tipping of the scale i did here with the balance of fluff and other things. like this is just pure distilled sugar it’s so so fluffy

Favourite story you’ve written so far: oh mannnn i gotta say where the light goes. especially that first chapter, just,, damn. what was i ON ?? its so good!! what the heck!!! quite proud of my metaphor work there, even if balancing prose/poetry feel is very stilted at times . in terms of that balance i think i did a Really good job with and neither did the both of us bc i went back and reread where the light goes for inspiration and i was like “oh god this is DROWNING in metaphors i need to lighten it up a little”

Fic you were nervous to post: i was nervous about where the light goes bc i had such high expectations going in, like i Knew people were craving what i had but i was like, did i do it right?? will this be my breakthrough in the mdzs fandom??? and it sort of was and sort of wasn’t, which,, fair. also SUPER nervous for astriferous bc i had written it all in like, one (1) day and it was for an exchange LMFAOOO (and you can really tell it was all written in one go......it was only when i hit the end that it got Good)

How you choose your titles: when i write fic i’m often scrapbooking a TON of different things together so titles are often just whatever it is i’m already drawing from. there are a few exceptions, like here, then, begins the mending, or and i need nothing more where a phrase popped into my head during the writing/drafting/brainstorming process and i was like OH THAT���S REALLY GOOD. TITLE IT IS

Do you outline?: usually only if it’s plot-driven, like my (incomplete for . Reasons) (ok i was being pestered bc i took it as a prompt and my promptee was. hm) YW multichap equilibrium, for which i outlined EVERYTHING. it was so annoying but i also lowkey liked it because these were MY messy outline notes and i could go as ham as i’d like

Complete: everything that’s posted !! except equilibrium ofc . that’s gonna stay where it is unless by some miracle of nature i get my momentum back for it

In progress: i am working on another jaslief oneshot!!! and for my mdzs folks i have been working on a rly long lesbian songxiao oneshot for a Very long time and it’s . mwah (i showed it to one of my friends and she lost her mind so i think i can say that with confidence)

Coming soon: probably nothing until i’m released from ochem/thesis hell hahahahahahahaaa but if anything were to come out this year it would be the songxiao most likely !

Do you accept prompts?: not after what happened last time !!!! ;o; until i’m done with school altogether, i really need writing to remain something For Me

Upcoming story you’re the most excited to write?: i wanna finish my jaslief SOOOO bad oh my god . i put in so much self-indulgence in there and used what i learned from where the light goes to make it REALLY good n thematic. like don’t get me wrong i am also so excited for my songxiao but i wrote it with some uhhhhh Influence from things i was going through irl and it feels weighty now?? idk i’ll work it out eventually,, i’ve also had oubing fic brewing in my head for literally a year and i REALLY wanna write some pynch in the barns/cabeswater content. let me write about dreamthings and nATURE

Upcoming story you’re most excited about?: bold of u to assume i read multichapters anymore HAHAHA i rotate through the same library of 100 one-shots i have bookmarked now......but back when i did read multichaps i was REALLY into the work of iruutciv + orchids_and_fictional_cities team from yoi, they were absolute LEGENDS and their fic and miles to go before i sleep changed me as a person lmao (i also did read part of their ongoing but monsters are always hungry, darling and i’m actually still in their discord for it but it is SO so intricately crafted and i fell out of the loop and didn’t rly get back in) . currently i follow megafaunatic aka etymologyplayground’s work the most closely for my mxtx fix (my fav from them currently is probably you, asleep and dreaming)

tagging: @lenawin4 and uhhhhhhh anyone else who feels like doing this?? for my life i cannot recall any other writers off the top of my head rn o)-(

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[apologies to those seeing the first part twice lol]

1. ( ALIAS / NAME ) ——   Ray around these parts now

2.  ( BIRTHDAY ) ——  June 17th

3.  ( ZODIAC SIGN ) ——   Gemini

4.  ( HEIGHT ) ——    5′5″

5.  ( HOBBIES ) —— writing, singing, drawing, used to do cosplay, walking my pups, hiking, weightlifting/calisthenics (but that’s been pretty sidetracked lately), playing JRPGS.

6.  ( FAVORITE COLOR ) ——    Purple

7.  ( FAVORITE BOOKS ) ——    Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury, Doubt: A Parable - John Patrick Shanley, The Once and Future King - T.H. White, The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (every time someone says they hate it I cry a lil, ngl)

8.  ( LAST SONG LISTENED TO ) —— I have my Briar playlist on rn. Empire - Beth Crowley

9.  ( LAST FILM OR SHOW WATCHED ) ——  World of Dance

10.  ( INSPIRATION FOR MUSE ) ——    SO somewhere in the middle of Vol 7 I was enjoying the concept of Fair Game, and it got me wondering what other kind of semblances might help make Qrow more comfortable around or at least fighting compatible with someone. I figured if there could be a foil for good fortune/bad fortune, there could be foils for aura amp/aura damp, and that could work. But then I started thinking about how aura damp would feel?? Probably not good.  Then Vol 7 went the way it did and I just wanted some happiness for Qrow. Especially since my muse for him kicked up first. I didn’t have any canon OTPs for him really, so I decided to make my OWN. Because that’s what we do. This was also around the time I graduated and finally could really dig into the rwby lore and the soundtrack. Between my original concepts, all the themes and lyrics from Vol 7 and the full soundtrack - the character was born. Decided to make her a wolf faunus, a) bc I love wolves, b) because of Qrow’s storytelling in the Faunus episode. Wouldn’t it be hella funny if he stumbles when talking about sexual biological compatibility and has the comment about a wolf cub’s teething period being dicey, because he’s talking about his own family? c) wow that hella works with this semblance idea. Came up with some bits of background that would help them understand each other, shared core values, and a few personality traits that I imagined would work well with Qrow - somewhere along the line the name Briar and the Sleeping Beauty allusion came through, and, again, meshed strangely well with the semblance idea. Also Briar Branwen hits my penchance for alliteration. Added in some more personal aesthetic and a chunk of what my 13 year old self wanted to be. lmao ANYWAY, jokes on me bc I made her for Qrow with Clover as a best friend, but here I am interacting with one (1) Clover who’s quickly ramping up to be husband material and 3-4 Qrows who all have best friend flags jkdfhjdhkjk. well at least she has my own qrow, and some people who are even indulging me for the polyship with them. :3c

11.  ( STORY BEHIND URL ) —— she wants to spread hope and harmony!!! and right about when I determined that her instrument’s name was Harmonizer (see from my other blog - love for triple entendre) was when I went... YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MIGHT BE SELF INDULGENT AF BUT IT NEEDS TO BE SHARED WITH THE WORLD, I’VE PUT TOO MUCH WORK IN TO KEEP HER TO MYSELF. I could die at all the love you guys give her, for real.

tagged by: @infortunii​ + @alreadyafairy​ ty babes!!!

tagging: IDK WHO’S LEFT!! @combat-heelys​?? 

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1, 2, 5, 16, 47, and 48 for Iaze and/or Tagra?

I’ll just answer for both bc I love my children :’) ty!! 💜

1. What’s their full name? Why was that chosen? Does it mean anything?

Iaze: Her full name is Ygdri’aze’miurani, core name Iaze. The Iaze part of her name is actually leftover from when she was briefly a Mirialan at creation (yay name generators), and Ygdri was recycled from an older attempt at a Jedi knight that didn’t stick. Miurani is there just because my brain was like “what if Iaze and Saganu were cousins lol” and I decided to go with it bc self-indulgence is a lot of fun.

Tagra: His full name is Tagra Vizla, no middle name(s) as of right now bc idk if that’s really a thing with Zabrak or Mandalorian cultures. I made him a member of clan Vizla mostly for the fun of it, and I think I got Tagra from a Zabrak name generator.

2. Do they have any titles? How did they get them?

Iaze: She has a few! Jedi Master, after fighting Vitiate at the end of the class story. Battlemaster, thanks to being promoted to the position after fighting “Revan.” The Outlander, courtesy of being in Arcann’s freezer for five years.

Tagra: I use “The Galactic Wanderer” with him in-game, but any actual, in-character titles? I have yet to think of any.

5. Do they have any siblings? What’s their names? What is their relationship with them? Has their relationship changed since they were kids to adults?

Iaze: She has two older brothers, the twins Isando and Izian. She was exiled from the Ascendancy for Force sensitivity when she was seven, and hasn’t seen them in a very long time - the working idea is that she’ll reunite with them during SoR, but the details haven’t really been cemented yet.

Tagra: He had a little brother named Charru. he died shortly before the events of the prologue - Charru was part of Tag’s team in preparation for the Great Hunt, and ended up in the crossfires when Tarro Blood decided to take Tag out of the competition before it could begin. prior to his death, Tag and Charru were very close and spent a lot of time goofing off together.

16. Do they collect anything? What do they do with it? Where do they keep it?

Iaze: she enjoys collecting crystals! some for functional purposes, some just because they look pretty. she keeps them in a box on the Defender and occasionally uses them for Jedi purposes, but mostly just keeps them because they’re pretty.

Tagra: he’s not big into collecting things. he tried a couple times on and off growing up, but nothing ever really stuck.

47. How do they act in a formal occasion? What do they think of black tie wear? Do they enjoy fancy parties and love to chit chat or loathe the whole event?

Iaze: she has very vague memories of formal occasions back from when she lived in the Ascendancy, and her Jedi training means her manners are impeccable during the event, but they aren’t her favorite thing in the world. much more interested in karaoke dives or space bowling alleys with Kira. she enjoys the fancy attire now and then, but she’s also eager to get out of it when it’s over.

Tagra: please don’t take him to a formal occasion that isn’t Mandalorian. he’ll hate it and he doesn’t care enough to be on his best behavior. he will spike the punch bowl and try to start a fight. bad idea.

48. Do they enjoy any parties? If so what kind? Do they organise the party or just turn up? How do they act? What if they didn’t want to go but were dragged along by a friend?

Iaze: she definitely enjoys a good party. preferably something more informal and filled with people she knows, but she isn’t opposed to crashing something larger just for the fun of it. friendly and having a good time dancing and eating a lot of food. I can’t imagine her being dragged anywhere if she didn’t want to go tbh, she’s incredibly stubborn and would put her foot down if she wasn’t in the mood.

Tagra: he’s 100% the life of the party who makes things more exciting just by virtue of being there. has been known to organize a fun shindig or two in his time, though his idea of an activities list is mostly “drink, dance, and get into a fight.” I also have a hard time imagining him getting dragged anywhere, mostly because Tag is almost always down to party. 

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CHARACTER SHEET repost. do not reblog.

𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

FULL NAME.   Kisaragi Yufi. NICKNAME.    Kisa, Kisa-chan, Yuf.  GENDER.     ?? Nonbinary, no preference on pronouns, presents female or androgynous. HEIGHT.     5′2. AGE.   22 ( default ), 16 ( in teenage aus ).  ZODIAC.      scorpio, but she’s claiming that sag cusp. SPOKEN LANGUAGES.   Japanese, Korean, English.

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

HAIR COLOR.     Prefers to dye it to various shades of brown, but has sported blonde once. It was pretty wild, even for her. EYE COLOR.       Very dark blue, reflects almost black or brown or sometimes purple. SKIN TONE.       Olive. BODY TYPE.      She’s a thin little thing, not particularly curvaeous by any means, small in the front but does squats for the back, regularly lifts weights and heavy items but prefers not to do so in such a manner that her muscles are always visible. ACCENT.       She’s got Nagoya dialect and it comes out when she’s speaking among her community, her clan, and her friends. But professionally, or on a job, or in public, she’s more Tokyo. Similarly, she speaks with Seoul’s dialect, tries to make sure her Korean is quite clear and distinct. Because she’s got a higher-pitched voice, her voice does sound a little odd in English, possesses a lot more enthusiasm than some of her peers, but she’s got most of the vocal tics out. VOICE.     Naturally light and lilting, extremely playful sounding, especially when she’s toying with someone or flirting. Drags out her vowels sounds or the ends of words and subject particles, for example. When her voice drops a register, it’s a warning sign. DOMINANT HAND.     Born left handed, which helps her with music, and she uses it in private for things like grooming, etc. In public, she switches to the right hand. Is ambidexterous as a result of it. POSTURE.      Has quite decent posture naturally, back and next straight when sitting. She has a habit of rolling her eyes at some of her companions more relaxed positions.  SCARS.      A burn scar on the back of her neck.  TATTOOS.     A crescent moon behind the right ear. Waves on the inside of her left bicep, easily coverable by a hand. A lotus tattoo with a trail leading down her spine, and also to her burn. Her next project is a dragon to represent the Leviathan, on her right side, starting from the ribcage and ending on her upper thigh to be easily obscured by her skirts without the use of tights. She’s interested in adding roses for her last piece, but hasn’t decided if they should be on the other thigh or below her breasts. BIRTHMARKS.     Nope. MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S).    Her clothing / makeup choices & overall appearance is pretty noticeable, to say the least.

𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !

PLACE OF BIRTH.    -- HOMETOWN.      -- BIRTH WEIGHT.  6 lbs. A small baby. BIRTH HEIGHT.        -- MANNER OF BIRTH.     Vaginally via water birth. FIRST WORDS.    No.  SIBLINGS.    None. PARENTS.     Mother died very early in her life, father is an important figurehead ( head of yakuza clan, government official, lord of Wutai.. take your pick ). PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT.      I already have a meta about this.~ She’s still involved with her dad & does work for him, second-in-command typically in the power structure & is prepared to take over when he deems ready.

𝐚��𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !

OCCUPATION.    Gang-star ( JoJo ruined enhanced the term for me, sorry not sorry ), artist, occasionally a part time student, sometimes an exorcist or divinator ( wanna be connected with ur dead folks? give her a call ). CURRENT RESIDENCE.     Nagoya, but she spends an awful amount of time in Tokyo... CLOSE FRIENDS.       If you’re one, you probs know! RELATIONSHIP STATUS.     Single. FINANCIAL STATUS.      High class / royalty. DRIVER’S LICENSE.   Motorcycle license, only rarely drives cars but honestly prefers not to. She can ride horses, prefers them wild. CRIMINAL RECORD.     It’d look pretty bad if it stuck, huh officer? Nah, she always finds a way out of trouble. VICES.     She’s quite balanced, all things considered. 

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !

SEXUAL ORIENTATION.      Pansexual. ROMANTIC ORIENTATION.     Panromantic. PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE.     Submissive  |  Dominant  |  Switch. PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE.    Submissive  |  Dominant |  switch. LIBIDO.      Average, but indulges on it less than you’d think. She’s kind of got an empire to run, community to maintain, etc etc.  TURN ON’S.     Confidence, control, dirty talk, respect, gentle caresses, rough play, teasing, thrill, slight exhibitionism. TURN OFF’S.     Hates the unsanitary, doesn’t like it when she’s not prepared for something, detests obvious time limits, doesn’t like to be marked, but enjoys marking. LOVE LANGUAGE.     Quality time. RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES.    Extremely devoted / trusting of her partner... which is serious, because her trust is not easily earned or given. Makes up for her lack of a normal life with gifts, acts of service. She admittedly isn’t good with nicknames.... but if you tell her what you want, she’ll get it for you. Or to you, depending on what the request is.

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG.     Canonically it’s THIS and THIS and THIS. HOBBIES TO PASS TIME.       Sketching, painting, planting flowers, gardening.  MENTAL ILLNESSES.   PTSD, especially in canon-based verses which she’s a survivor of the Wutai War. PHYSICAL ILLNESSES.       N/A. PHOBIAS.  N/A. SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL.      She’s actually quite confident in herself and her abilities, but  with a healthy sense of humility and understanding the need for constant self-improvement. Her serious failures, however, or when she sees a severe issue in her community, drives her to levels of weakness and intense sadness. VULNERABILITIES.     She’s extremely self-sacrificing for her community; they, ironically, are the ones who wound her the deepest by challenging her intentions, being suspicious of her, underminding and undervaluing her, and have in some cases threatened or imprisoned her wrongfully.

tagged by: @garrotejima ( ty! ) tagging: ya’ll it’s a good one so....... u should do it.

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𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑬𝑹 𝑺𝑯𝑬𝑬𝑻

repost,  don’t reblog !

𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

FULL NAME.  jackson elijah covenant PRONUNCIATION.  jak-s’n cov’nant (the southern accent elides the syllables a bit) NICKNAME. jack GENDER.   cis male HEIGHT. 6′2″  AGE. born in 1901 ZODIAC.  virgo SPOKEN LANGUAGES. english; can read a little latin (self-taught)

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

HAIR COLOR. brown EYE COLOR.  brown SKIN TONE.  outdoor-tanned BODY TYPE.  muscular, broad-shouldered and lean-hipped ACCENT.  appalachian, specifically virginian VOICE.  no particular voice claim -- sort of a mild, gentle baritone, slow and drawling, sometimes with a bit of a growl to it DOMINANT HAND. right POSTURE.  fairly upright but generally casual -- not so much slumping or curved as just not too terribly formal looking. SCARS.  the most relevant are the ones he got from the wolf who turned him; he was savaged and there are thick, raised scars high on one thigh, very obviously from an animal bite. TATTOOS.  none BIRTHMARKS. none MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S).  probably just his general size, he’s tall and muscular.

𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !

PLACE OF BIRTH. somewhere in Bland County, VA. HOMETOWN.  ^ BIRTH WEIGHT. god idek, average? BIRTH HEIGHT.  ^ MANNER OF BIRTH.  natural FIRST WORDS.  "ma” seems traditional SIBLINGS.  none PARENTS.  lillian eliza surratt covenant and william noah covenant PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT.  fairly involved, but it was a small family in a rural area so there wasn’t a lot of coddling. once jack was old enough to help out he was expected to pull his weight, and he sure did.

𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !

OCCUPATION.  as a young man, pre-werewolf, he sometimes hired himself out to neighbors for small jobs and general labor. after his change and after he’d accustomed himself to it, he eventually opened an animal rescue/sanctuary for ‘dangerous’ breeds of dog, or those which had been rescued from people who made them fight etc CURRENT RESIDENCE.  in most verses, a very nice house (cabin, basically) up the mountain in the area where he was born. CLOSE FRIENDS.  his pack. RELATIONSHIP STATUS.  verse dependent FINANCIAL STATUS.  comfortable, not rich but not struggling. he has the pack’s resources to draw on at need. DRIVER’S LICENSE. yes CRIMINAL RECORD.  no VICES.  a little too much beer or whiskey, but it doesn’t affect his metabolism quite like it would a human’s, anyway. loneliness.

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !

SEXUAL ORIENTATION. bi ROMANTIC ORIENTATION. bi PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE.  submissive |  dominant | switch. PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE.  submissive  |  dominant  |  switch. LIBIDO.   pretty high TURN ON’S. courage, strength of will, kindness, self-possession, dedication, loyalty, intelligence, stubbornness TURN OFF’S. cruelty, unwillingness to change, deliberately chosen ignorance, closed-mindedness, disloyalty LOVE LANGUAGE.   he’s not one for too many words. mostly his love is shown through physical touch -- he’s a big one for cuddling, or taking your hand or your arm, or just finding reasons to touch, generally -- and through gestures of providing care for his love interest. he cooks, he’ll provide a ‘safe space’ emotionally and physically speaking, etc. a big one is cooking though; making food for someone he cares about is really somewhat intimate for jack. and when he does talk about his feelings he doesn’t tart it up in flowery language. he’ll be simple and direct about it, but that almost makes it more devastatingly emotionally affecting than a fancier declaration would. and some of what he says is something you’d have to read between the lines to really see, anyway. RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES.  most of his relationships -- aren’t. he has a certain fear of letting folks get too close; he’s still afraid of losing control one day and hurting someone he loves. so he’s much more prone to indulge in short, mostly physical flings, just sort of scratching the itch, so to speak... physically and emotionally. but given the instincts of the wolf in him, when he finds that right person, that’ll just be it for him. wolves mate for life.

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG.  i’m terrible at these but uh -- “release” by imagine dragons ain’t bad for him HOBBIES TO PASS TIME.  reading, researching topics of interest to him, hunting, cooking MENTAL ILLNESSES. a ‘mild’ case of PTSD seems likely PHYSICAL ILLNESSES. ... unless you count ‘being a werewolf’ as a sort of illness LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED.  more creative/literary than analytical, but still a pragmatic and ultimately practical sort of fellow FEARS.  the biggest one is a fear of himself -- of becoming exactly like the monster which made him. he’s under control of himself, he’s in fact so tightly controlled that it makes him gentler and kinder even than he’d otherwise be, but his biggest fear is losing all that control and running rogue and hurting people. that somehow, his blood is tainted with the ‘madness’ of the rogue wolf who turned him, and that it’s inevitable that he’ll have to put down like a rabid dog. SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL.  most of the time, pretty high. outside of the fear outlined above, of course.... VULNERABILITIES.  he’s very lonely; he isn’t a lone wolf by inclination but he’s made himself into one, choosing to live apart to minimize the damage he might cause others. he doesn’t trust easily but he yearns for a deeper connection despite that. and his fears about himself could be used against him by someone who wanted to

TAGGED BY:  @mindsmade (ty!!) TAGGING: i’ve tagged folks for this one before i think, so if you want to do it for another muse you hadn’t done yet and you have the energy for something this long, go for it!

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2 Fast 2 Furious and the nature of sequels

Preface: I'll be calling the movie Fast 2 because 2 Fast is stupid. Also, I've covered spoilers with strike marks, like so, and the movies I spoil are Smokey and the Bandit II and Mission Impossible 2. The MI2 spoilers are miniscule, but the Smokey II spoilers are substantial - but for the record, that movie sucks ass and imo you're probably better off not seeing it. Regardless, consider this a spoiler warning for those movies.

To sum up my opinion of 2 Fast 2 Furious - while it's emblematic of the nature of forced sequels, in good and bad aspects, I would say that ultimately it is one of the better examples of a shoehorned sequel that I've ever seen.

I saw The Fast and the Furious 1 last week, and while I thought it was corny and dated - the f-slur gets used twice, there's a mesh tank top on a dude considered to be the height of badassitude, the dialogue is pretty dumb and the acting isn't great - I was very entertained. I've seen Fast Five, so I know how corny and over the top the series gets, and I'm approaching this series from an emotional standpoint - are the characters compelling, is the action good, how much am I invested in the stakes. The first movie was pretty good - I felt like it was kind of reserved, even, though that's because the budget was low and because I have unrealistic standards due to my knowledge of the franchise as a whole.

So going into Fast 2, I knew to keep my expectations level. It's a sequel that lacks a major star of the first one, it's set in an entirely new environment with an entirely new supporting cast, it's dripping in excess since the first movie did so well, and all of this is going to affect the story's plot in a way that will significantly deviate from what fans liked about the first movie.

But for a movie with those elements, Fast 2 actually managed to keep the essence of what makes this franchise so enjoyable. It's still fast - though the CGI and other car effects have aged like milk - there's still a focus on community and "family" in a way - Brian reconnects with Roman, he's made connections with Ludacris' character and he gets in good with the wider racing community in Miami - and while the villain is cartoonishly evil and the last act of the movie is basically a giant cartoon with the s***ty villain and the stunts, the series as a whole has steered towards crazy cartoony s*** ever since. And also, you can see the stupid cartoony s*** in the first movie - using grapple guns to hijack trucks, for example.

Of course, two of those are retroactive connections to the franchise. That last one applies to the franchise going forward, as it became a franchise zombie. So it's totally understandable that for its day, Fast 2 was controversial. I still maintain that for a sequel that could be characterised as an unneeded cash-grab and potential reboot, Fast 2 has actually aged pretty decently.

There are two unnecessary sequels I want to compare Fast 2 to - Smokey and the Bandit II, and Mission Impossible II.

Smokey and the Bandit II is bloated and full of itself. The first movie was a straightforward caper movie - bootleg a truck full of Coors across state lines and evade the police. There's a little bit of backstory and character development, but it's a lean, functional movie at the end of the day.

Yet despite sharing the exact same cast as the last movie, sans one additional character, the characters feel outlandish and full of themselves - which reflects in the entire product. The Bandit has drunk himself into a pit over Frog, so Cledus has to give him a pep talk and push him through a training montage to lose his beer weight - it's padding, and it's trying to build a greater emotional arc based on a character who feels more like an archetype who works well in the moment. There's an unnecessary target shooting scene with Buford T. Justice that feels like padding, the Dom DeLuise character is grating, and the cargo of a baby elephant - along with its accompanying ethical dilemma, seeing Bandit take a more altruistic, heroic position rather than being the lovable scoundrel of the first movie - is such a self-serving cop-out. And that finale of all those truck drivers coming to the rescue - while awesome in concept - comes in after a majority of the movie has been a stinking turd and is the biggest example of unnecessary excess and bloat in the entire movie.

Smokey and the Bandit II took itself so seriously that it lost sight of what made the first movie so good. The Bandit has a heart of gold, but the movie doesn't have to give him an ethical dilemma to make him an objectively decent person. While the idea of the team losing the bet in the end is an alright ending, they didn't need a moral victory on the level of preventing an elephant from a life of circus work/misery to paint them in such a good light. And worst of all, the caper sucks. It's so up its own ass that it doesn't know how to emulate the first movie's appeal at all.

Quick note: I spoilered plot details, but I genuinely think this movie is one of the biggest pieces of dogs*** I've ever seen and you're really not missing out on much by not seeing it. People seem to hate the third one, but even that was a fun watch compared to the second one imo. If you're never gonna watch Smokey and the Bandit II, by all means, disregard the spoiler tags.

Then you have Mission Impossible II, which I saw for the first time less than a month ago. And while the first movie was a goofy, self-indulgent romp, the second movie is filled to the brim with unnecessary excess, bloat and unearned emotional weight. It feels longer than it actually is, the cinematography is all style and no substance, the acting is grating and full of itself, the acting sucks and it feels so dated and out of place on almost every level.

Like Smokey and the Bandit II, it feels much longer than it really is. Sequences like Tom Cruise flirting with the main girl for the first half hour of the movie really make the movie drag, especially after the punchy and functional approach to the first movie. It's overly convoluted, even for Mission Impossible - at one point the bad guy basically nails Tom Cruise's plan down to the T, and the heist focuses more on his deduction than it does on the heist itself. Then the last act, with the main girl being infected with the supervirus, has some of the most self-indulgent and needlessly stylised action in the series to date, and it jams the forced love story into the forefront even more. Mission Impossible II is a rough watch, even today - it's a wanky mess.

What these movies share is that they're entirely detached from the movies that came before them in tone, plot and/or stakes. Smokey II has a dogs*** tone, the plot is needlessly padded and the stakes suck. MI2 has an over-stylized and melodramatic tone, the plot is poorly acted despite having the building blocks of a decent MI plot, and the stakes are kinda f***ed due to the forced romance being directly connected to the mega-threat of the movie. Smokey II bastardises previously established characters, while MI2 brings in a mostly new cast to ruin specifically for that movie - though the variable team has stuck around in the franchise at large.

Here's what Fast 2 does to stand out.

The plot - another caper involving the feds, with a new character and locale in place of a returning one. The stakes are less personal than the first movie, but they're bigger and they're supplemented by Brian and Roman reconnecting over the course of the movie. Brian and Roman's relationship reflects the values established in the first movie - community, or family if that's your bag. Ride or die.

The tone - gratuitous driving, gaudy colours, a bit more ambitious with the bad guy compared to the first movie - true to the first movie, and reflective of the later sequels. Arguably less actiony in some aspects. A bit sillier than the first movie.

The stakes - Brian and Roman's freedom, the safety of Brian's love interest and eliminating a violent criminal. More dramatic than the first movie - that movie was character-driven from beginning to end, while Fast 2 is more of a standard action movie with an unambiguous villain - but reminiscent of the first movie's values.

Smokey and the Bandit II extended a great movie past the point it needed to exist, and MI2 was a stumbling point in a widely celebrated action franchise that no-one likes to bring up. Fast 2 - while undoubtedly dated, corny and a deviation from the first movie's focus - reiterates values that the first movie shared, and which became more prominent as the series continued. It also, bizarrely, aligns with the crazy action s*** that later movies spiral into - just on a lower scale. In comparison to the first movie, the wilder, dumber action is a departure, but it's almost restrained in comparison to what the franchise becomes.

Roman isn't the best character for most of the movie - he might be my second least favorite next to the Miami cop - but I found his relationship arc with Brian over the course of the movie to be pretty solid, and it paid off near the end in a really great, personal way. And while it's not the same as Brian and Dom, it is still a strong "friends to enemies to friends" arc in the end. Complement that with some gratuitous racing action, and you have the basic formula for a good Fast and Furious movie.

And the thing about Fast 2 is that it reminds me directly of Smokey II and MI2. Near the end, there's a scene where the good guys intervene with the bad guys with a bunch of cars to help the good guys escape - the whole cavalry idea reminded me a lot of the ending of Smokey and the Bandit II, with the fleet of trucks that face off with the police force. And much like MI2, the main character has a fling with a woman on the inside of the villain's lair, and endeavours to save her life near the end of the movie. The former felt bloated in Smokey II after an absolute s***pile of a movie, while it appealed to the series' sense of style and whimsy in Fast 2. The latter felt shoehorned in MI2, with the character basically being a damsel and macguffin with entirely too much screentime dedicated to getting together with Tom Cruise, while the character in Fast 2 is a character who is intriguing and who feels essential, whose functions as a character aren't overshadowed by Paul Walker's massive boner for her.

Ultimately, the Fast and the Furious franchise is a flashy, speedy spectacle franchise. The worst thing you could do is botching the driving and making it feel slow and inessential. Ultimately, while Fast 2 isn't as good as the first one - and may or may not still go down as the worst movie in the franchise - it still feels like a Fast and Furious movie. And it's retroactively made better by basically being The Incredible Hulk to Fast Five's Avengers - the Fast and Furious movies are basically a cinematic universe unto themselves, and even the bad ones gain some entertainment points by factoring into the wider narrative. By the sheer nature of the Fast and Furious movies being pandering schlock at the end of the day, Fast 2 really isn't that bad. It feels congruent with the past and future of the franchise, even if it isn't necessarily as entertaining as the rest of the franchise. Other unnecessary cash-grab sequels gut the characters, skimp on their development and make stories that really don't need to exist - Fast 2 has main characters who gel well with each other (even if one of them kinda sucks), gives them a solid arc that plays into the wider theme of the franchise and introduces characters and plot elements which further movies build on.

Fast 2 is not a bad sequel. It's not amazing, and it might still be the worst movie in the franchise for all I know, but my genuine opinion is that as far as sequels go, it does hold up in several key aspects that make it an entertaining spectacle on par with the broader franchise. As far as unnecessary cash-grab sequels go, this is actually a pretty good one.