#unrivalling

[specterthief]

Curious about your Eden YoI AU

send me an au and i'll give you five fun facts

ooooooh i could go on about this AU so much but for this, i'll pick five background details i've got down but don't think i'll be able to get into too deeply in the actual fic:

kaoru's professional skating career ended abruptly due to a severe head injury (in... suspicious circumstances) that, among other things, permanently impacted his balance and prevented him being able to safely pull off jumps. carla doubles as a medical device for him, and his motivation in developing an AI assistant aimed at skaters in the first place was initially entirely in finding a way to help himself still be able to skate as close to how he used to as possible, with her widespread utility in both practice and scoring for fellow disabled skaters and able-bodied skaters alike occurred to him later.

tadashi's father makoto was adam's first coach, discovering ainosuke's talent when the two boys skated together as children and managing to convince his father and aunts that it had to be nurtured (with figure skating being a respectable sport and histories in prestigious sports like that being common enough for diet members, they see it as something worth investing in for his future.) he and tadashi were the only people outside the family to know ainosuke was being abused as a child, and he tried to use his position to protect him when he could. miya, his current most promising student, reminds him immensely of ainosuke and tadashi both.

tadashi never had the professional prospects ainosuke did, but he never stopped skating and is actually incredibly good. his relationship with his father is extremely strained, but makoto is his one confidant in this. he's been trying for years to encourage his son to leave the job aiichiro got him at the ISU to teach or otherwise do something where he actually gets to use his skills, but to no avail so far.

hiromi isn't any sort of professional and just teaches skating lessons to kids at reki's home rink, and in his free time, rather than skateboarding, he's actually an amateur wrestler. his dream is to combine all his passions (figure skating, pro wrestling and metal) into one and put on a pro wrestling-themed ice show, though he worries erika (the manager of the rink, who he's hopelessly in love with) would find this stupid if he ever pitched it to her.

oliver was a several-times world champion, olympic gold medalist and inductee in the figure skating hall of fame. he and nanako met in montréal when she was studying abroad for her last year of university and was introduced through a friend who skated in the same skating club, and they quickly fell in love. nanako decided to stay in canada after undergrad to train as a nurse, and a couple years later, she got pregnant with langa, oliver decided to retire from competition and pivot to coaching, and they moved to vancouver together to get married and start their family.

[forcebookish]

I want to know about this one for the meme: “Steve Rogers is not a virgin. He lost his virginity in 1943 to Bucky.”

HA, well. back when they released that episode of she-hulk where hulky bruce says that steve isn't a virgin (a scene that doesn't make sense because why would anyone in the actual universe assume that he was a virgin there was no reason to) because he lost his virginity to some rando USO dancer (so out of character omg anD ALSO WHY WOULD BRUCE KNOW THAT), i very spitefully started writing a pwp where steve and bucky have sex after steve rescues bucky from the prison camp in austria lol

i got like, 2500 words in? still haven't really gotten to the porn part 😩 every once in a while i open the document just to glare at it kfdjlsjg

here is a passage that i think you in particular would enjoy:

“What?” Bucky said, lowering his glass. “Something on my face?” Steve had been staring without having realized it. “No…”  Although now that he paid attention, shouldn’t there be something on it? Hadn’t Bucky had a cut when they were in Austria? It had been just on the edge of his cheekbone; now there was hardly a bruise there. That was less than a week ago. Had it been Steve’s imagination? He reached out, thumb ghosting over it.  Looking down, Bucky grinned, almost shyly—no doubt remembering their kiss.  Steve didn’t want to ruin the moment, because Bucky Barnes was never shy, but he had to ask. He whispered, as if to himself, “What’d they do to you, Buck?” Jerking away from his touch, Bucky choked out a broken laugh. “This gin isn’t strong enough.”

[toneelspeelster]

i'm in love with you.

charlie looking at nick

[suntails]

🍩⚔️

[emotinalsupportturtle]

I lolled at Dominic Treadwell-Collins (producer of Rivals) literally saying, Tony is completely heartless in the book but while he is still horrible in the show we had David Tennant playing him so obviously we had to figure a way to get him be a little heartbroken too:

(another fun fact is that the bafta scene was inspired by Dominic Treadwell-Collins’ own bafta falling on his head and giving him a concussion)

[neonhellscape]

hes my oc now

[lavender-bea]

It’s all “Newey should go to Ferrari” “Aston Martin have made him an offer”

You’re not thinking big enough, grand enough.

NEWEY TO HAAS.

[spockvarietyhour]

[flatoutin-eaurouge]

Mika at the McLaren MP4/12 presentation, 1997

[radarchives]

[specterthief]

For the meme: 5, 17, 25 (and if you like, a free question space if there’s a question on the list you really want to share an answer for)

fanfic writer asks

5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write?

hmmm i don't know how many hard "nevers" i have, since like you said that can be pretty unexpected, but there's a few things-

1. i had a really elaborate idea for a fandisc/sequel for synthesis but the idea is so intrinsically structured around being an adventure game that i wouldn't even know where to start with actually programming, so unless i get a lot better at renpy sometime soon i don't think that's ever going to happen

2. i had a whole concept for a fake sequel for the kuroshitsuji live action movie that is so beyond the scope of what i could realistically write that it's just too daunting to touch (even aside from not really wanting to publish in that fandom)

3. some ideas are banished to the shadow realm on the basis of either "it's nsfw and i feel like i Can't publish smut in any way that could be linked to me" (which is its own thing) or being too dark/depressing to feel confident in my ability to write them at all

aaaaand for an actual specific one

4. i have a really elaborate idea for a sk8/revolutionary girl utena fic i really wish i could write but on the basis of being based on RGU it is so surreal and denpa that i just don't know how i could make it work at all without it being in visual form

17. What’s something you’ve learned about while doing research for a fic?

don't get into obscure jrpgs your research folder ends up having stuff like this in it

25. Have you ever upset yourself with your own writing?

yes! many times over the years - i still remember making myself cry over a fic i wrote for pokemon black/white right after it came out (i do not think this fic is still online anywhere anymore though) and that isn't the only time that's happened since. i've always gravitated towards fandoms/characters that deal with some pretty heavy subject matter so it's not an infrequent experience for me to at least need to take breaks to clear my head and think about happy things for a bit.

i also wrote a bunch of hannibal stuff years ago and hoo boy did i gross myself out sometimes, even as a teenage edgelord

[yeyinde]

i need this moment to happen again but with True Form Sukuna

[a-whispering-echo]

Nuu of Thurva (deceased)

oh hes SOOO gonna DIEEEE

this is Dusttale Papyrus, in case anyone doesnt know the au! hes ded lololol

yeah, i gave up on the back ref and some of the metal, it was tricky, and i got tired and ran out of storage. but im happy with what i DID finish!

[d1rthaus]

Feelings, Desire - David Byrne 1996-97

[thatsbelievable]