#vic’s asks and replies

[themotherofhorses]

are you willing to share any handmaid ideas you currently have?👀

sure! here’s a smut WIP idea (inspired by THAT alicent x criston scene):

Sweet handmaid is trying her best to focus on sewing up one of Prince Aemond’s trousers — ripped during a past training session.

Meanwhile, he’s between her thighs, going to town on her like an absolute menace that hasn’t eaten in fifteen days.

The rest ….. well, you gotta wait to read :D

[hotdyke-hardstyle]

VICTORIA DE ANGELIS LIVE AT MIAMI MUSIC WEEK (2024)

[vicsbasement]

My favourite headcanon is that Carlos has been in love with Charles since the very beginning (he even said he followed Charles' F2 career), while Charles has only realised it recently

This headcanon is so precious to me. Unfortunately I just got to F1 during last year so all I've learned about the past of both drivers has been retroactively, through Wikipedia, interviews, etc. I wish I could've been there to enjoy them as young drivers too.

But about Charles just realizing it recently... YES??? I can see it, I can feel it, something shifted in his heart this year. They're closer than they've ever been, they look so comfortable around each other... They behave like they genuinely enjoy each other's company.

Anyway thank you so much for sending me this ask because it made me smile ❤️

[irlplasticlamb]

Have you seen Love Lies Bleeding yet?

not yet no AND IT HURTS ME

[isatoru]

tumblr is hiding ur reply to me about maki and her daddy kink but im going to assume u agree with me bc its a vision i saw in the flames and the voices whispered in my ear etc etc

the vision you saw in the flames and the voices in your ear are correct i fear vic I LOVE DADDY MAKI i think it fits her so well….. i fear the dynamic is a bit sick though because she does actually wanna fill in for that missing role in your life in a way that you need (and it becomes a need for her) </3 also out of spite to be what everyone around her growing up would tell her she isn't or can't be. and that is to be a man you need (in a woman) ........ v__v

[netherfeildren]

💐 once you receive this lovely bouquet of flowers you have to mention five things you love, publicly, and send it to 10 of your favorite followers if you want. SPREAD POSITIVITY! ⛅️

I'm gunna do it right this time, I swear I've read it correctly now!

gypsy water byredo perfume

my signed copy of the goldfinch by donna tartt

waking up late

peonies

when you're getting to know someone for the first time and they tell you small details about their childhood and you know that you're really getting to know them in a real way

[gloriousmonsters]

Hey btw I absolutely want to hear that Yu-Gi-Oh propaganda. Hit me

*sam reich voice* you have until I cut you off to sell me a manga about a Japanese teenager being possessed by an Egyptian pharaoh

Honestly, recommending Yu-Gi-Oh is a bit hard just because of its multiple forms; the manga, the first anime, and the second anime. All of them have good points; some more than others, but there's a few things each has done that I prefer. If you got into just one, I'd rec the manga; if you go anime only, you HAVE to watch at least a few episodes of the original anime before the follow-up.

This is because Yu-Gi-Oh is two (or three. four?) stories stuffed in a trenchcoat and if you miss out on the story it was at the beginning, what happens later will not be nearly as good. I have a lot of other things I want to say but I'm going to put a short version after all my screaming so ctrl-f 'give me the short version' for that, lol

HIT ME WITH THE LONG VERSION. I WANT A TED TALK

Yu-Gi-Oh is a horror story that takes a swerve into shonen through the Power of Friendship, but never loses its horror elements. You might know the basics, but I'll lay it out--Yu-Gi-Oh focuses on a sweet, shy boy named Yugi, who has no friends and gets occasionally bullied by another student, Jounouchi. But when an opportunity arises to take revenge, Yugi passes it up, choosing to treat Jounouchi as his friend instead. Jounouchi turns out to be a golden retriever at heart and immediately becomes his ride or die for life (their names put together literally form the word for friendship. it's stupid i love them). Oh, and a dark personality takes over Yugi and engages the guy who hurt the two of them in an unhinged 'penalty game' where the guy's left tormented by visions :)

Yu-Gi-Oh does a few laps through the grubby teen horror genre, and it's amazing. People are in danger of getting stabbed daily at this school and ALL of them want to stab the protagonists (or beat them up, or steal their spot at the school fair, or--). The only thing that makes Yugi's 'dark personality' the good guy is that the people he tortures are so awful. Yu-Gi-Oh Season 0, as the first anime is usually called, captures this vibe beautifully, everything is dark shadows and bloody sunsets and glowing eyes. It pretty much went wherever while the manga struggled to catch up, so it really builds its own little world; not something you need to watch more than a handful of eps of if you want the overall canon, but delightful in itself.

The horror era doesn't end, but peaks before it really mixes with shonen, with an arc villain called Kaiba Seto, an unhinged rich boy who's taken over his adoptive father's company and is in the process of converting it from a vague business + military tech operation to gaming and theme park related stuff + vague business (king shit) and who after suffering a penalty game from Yugi's dark side proceeds to construct a revenge that involves a death amusement park where he tries really hard to kill all of them, and an attempt to beat Yugi('s dark side) in a card game in front of an audience. Yugi('s dark side) promptly wins and shatters his mind, shrugging that he'll pick up the pieces if there's anything left to salvage.

Then everyone starts playing card games all the time. 

The thing with Yu-Gi-Oh is that you have to buy into the central narrative, which is that this card game is essentially sacred. It's called 'dueling' for a reason; it's about honor and proving yourself and philosophical argument and Friendship and, rarely, about actually having fun. If you can buy into this, dueling is SO fun I promise. Although I'm always nostalgic for the wild west 'different game/toy every time' of early Yu-Gi-Oh, many of my favorite moments in the series are duels.

And when you've bought into the premise, Yu-Gi-Oh rewards you with ALL the juicy emotional moments and dysfunctional characters fumbling toward better things and gay shit you could want. I love it primarily from two angles--one, it's at its heart (especially in the manga and the last-ish arc of the anime) about becoming a better person in whatever way you can. It sounds cheesy, but I will go on record as saying that the Battle City arc is one of my favorite narratives about trauma and finding ways to move on from it.

The other angle is that it's batshit and LOADED with characters that are just. So fucked up in various ways. It's a kooky Ancient Egpytian fantasy narrative stuffed into a sports manga about cards continually being stalked by its horror roots, you can pick and choose your own elements of worldbuilding because shit does NOT make sense, and every villain is a GOLDMINE of not only delight but noncon opportunities (*mabel voice* noncoppurtunities). We've got somewhat hinged sadists. We have unhinged sadists. Combat sadomasochists. We have mind control that's actually pretty inventive and creepy. We have people with all-consuming grudges and pretentious depressed bitches who sublimate their trauma into murder. The more consensual ship options are just as varied and delightful.

Kaiba Seto also crawls out of his coma to become the third main character and trust me, if you like Kinnporsche you will almost certainly LOVE Kaiba, especially in the manga. He is a Kinnporsche-ass character. Narrative about trauma and cruelty and power and daddy issues up to here. Huge asshole. My sweet baby boy. Every filler arc the anime added is basically about him and he deserves it, even if they don't fit with the overall narrative.

Oh, and in the fourth season of the anime the writers do a bunch of drugs, watch Atlantis: The Lost Empire, notice that the censors have gone out for lunch, and rapidly assemble an arc where you put up with about forty-five combined minutes of pure stupidity in order to get a urban fantasy horror shonen fusion where we talk about the horrors of war and the fate of humanity and how cults pull vulnerable people in and radicalize them, and do some of the most glorious indulgent fanfiction bullshit ever. It's the horniest and darkest season and will probably punch you in the gut if you have depression and gives us the best filler villains in existence (one of whom was the guy I originally made that post about, lol). Despite its flaws, it functions remarkably well as a conclusion for the story, which is good because the last arc of Yu-Gi-Oh mostly doesn't exist? Like there's a little bit of content at the beginning of the manga arc but other than that it's just. Not there. Weird!

THAT IS A LOT OF WORDS, VIC

I apologize, I have a lot of feelings.

GIVE ME THE SHORT VERSION

Yu-Gi-Oh is a paranormal romance bundled with a story about friendship and personal growth wrapped in a horror story masquerading as a shonen manga and it FUCKS. There are so many little guys you look at and go 'wow! there's something incredibly wrong with you!'. If you can get into it it will Get You. Also I need more people in this fandom that aren't solely into my NOTP or twentysomethings that call ships 'illegal' please for the love of God. I will write fic for you if you get into it. Yes, this is a bribe. pspspsps

WHAT ARE YOU EVEN SAYING I SHOULD READ/WATCH

bare minimum is read the manga best minimum read the manga up to the end of battle city and then watch YGO season four and then read the beginning of the last manga arc as if it were a gradually fading ancient text that crumbles into the dust the moment you say 'wait, what the fuck' out loud. you can also just watch the anime with the background assumption that everything was 2x darker and 1.2x gayer in the manga

THAT SOUNDS DAUNTING, HOW DID YOU EVEN GET INTO IT

Honestly I don't know how I got into it either but this pit's great once you slide down to the bottom. 

WHAT IS YOUR PARTING WISDOM, SAGE?

I don't know if this needs to be said but never expose yourself to the English dub it's horrendous

[thestarsof-victius]

☆ in response to a question from my ama;  ☆

@a-feral-child-let-lose​

☆ i use medibang paint pro, and i have a drawing tablet. thanks for asking!  ☆

[petrichorium]

tbh, I didn't even think of the whole water/rain/petrichor theme when I voted for hydro... I just thought that's what fits you best. guess it's become a subconscious thing at this time

Omg,,,,, my impact,,,,,,, subliminal messaging,,,,,,,

[anquenin]

" come on. have a taste. "

it sounded like a devil talking. tempting. and there was the thought for astarion to think, that certainly there was a devil talking to him. the woman before him. salvation. no other gods would listen, no one cared. and he knows to an extent that astarion is convinient. but here it's safe, and here it's decadent, everything he could've wished for. no longer had he had to be bound to the chains cazador had him in. the rules changed, and maybe his luck too. and he starves. he starves, and has been like this for so long. blood spilled calling for him. drawn, he walks slow. doesn't trust her. he would never trust a vampire again. he did that mistake once. ( but she seems different. it's all the same. but different. ) she was the one to kill cazador, he understands it is not out of the goodness of her heart. but when she extends the blood in a cup. when astarion has been hungry. barely fed. it's hard to deny himself. it's over, he can have everything he could possibly want. starting now, starting today. he takes the cup and holds it to his lips. the smell dizzying, perfumed even. red eyes look at her. trying to figure out any emotion. anything happening, before he drinks. and it's nothing like he has had before. it overflows, drips down the edges of his mouth. stains his shirt. it feels almost like a gift. a promise. of what's to come. of what will be. he doesn't trust his voice to speak. he doesn't say anything. eyes on hers. did he tell you he did not feed us properly? did you just know? astarion instead licks his lips. "-it's warm still." he points out, not as a complaint. just to say something. he says it with difficulty, like he's still processing it. the blood, the taste. the delicacy in it all. it could be his. it would be. it was.

@victo1re

[vxctorx]

❝  i’m not staring,  i’m admiring.  ❞ (from Peter)

@pxnandqxll

❝—I see.❞ His smile is veiled by the line of his arm, bared to the morning light just as the rest of his limbs which adorn Peter's bedsheets. His languid touch finds the tousled locks of his beloved's hair, his fingers sinking amongst the silken strands in a soft caress. ❝—And what exactly are you finding so admirable in me?❞

[themotherofhorses]

I think it’s time to be real, Vic. I am genuinely very disappointed at the fact that you decided to murder handmaid, despite so many of your readers begging you to not go through with it. I read through your “handmaid” tag and it seems like a good majority voted against it. Do you not care for them? Do you not value their own input and opinions? Honestly, what was the point of building up such a gorgeous romance only to butcher it at the very end? Plus the violence you shared in that snippet is equally disturbing and unnecessary, especially being aimed at small children.

“Her twins are dead – their tiny, broken bodies strewn near their father’s desk. One is missing his head, if she is correct. Was it Aemion? Aenar?”

Yikes.

I think this is very telling. But, in the end, you are an adult. Do what you want to do, but just know that this decision will cost you some of your biggest fans, myself included.

Hello anon! I’m gonna use proper capitalization and punctuation to answer this because …. woah. LMAO.

I hear you, I see you, I feel you.

But let’s have a friendly little conversation: at the end of the day, this is fucking FANFICTION. It is NOT real! There is literally no need to be this upset over something as silly as words being typed up in a word doc. I promise you that it does not equal the ending of the world.

(But also let’s be real, if handmaid was canon in F&B, GRRM would’ve probably killed her off too. It is rare that something so good and pure actually survives within the world of Westeros.)

Listen, I understand that many people didn’t want handmaid (and her children) to meet such a horrible fate; that is why I decided to offer two “canon” endings — an angst and a happy one. That way you can easily ignore the angst ending in favor of the happy one!! Problem solved.

But ….. but you are also treading through the Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon fandom.

Major character death, extreme acts of violence, and heartbreak is expected. Have you actually read F&B? Literally everyone DIES in the book. They all meet such gruesome fates, including the children. Just look at Helaena! At Jaehaerys! No one is safe.

One of the most common themes found inside ASOIAF is “the innocent always pays the price for the actions of their rulers.”

In my handmaid series, handmaid/Anya (+her children) endure the consequences of Aemond’s actions at Storm’s End (and, by extension, the actions of the Greens usurping the throne following the death of Viserys). I’d argue that her death ventures incredibly close to canon-level material.

You do not need to read this upcoming fanfic update. I will not hold you responsible for such. No feelings will be hurt, I promise. As I mentioned in previous replies, the happy ending will soon follow; in fact, “hair braiding” and “family picnic” are canon to the happy ending!

So let’s all chill out. Take a deep breath, eat a snickers bar, go scratch a dog between their ears.

[darlingvirus]

13 - Vic

I don't really HAVE conflicted feelings about a lot of people, anon. If you're stupid you're stupid and I don't like you. Easy. I guess I feel a bit strange about Byrd sometimes, though. I've fought her hand to hand a few times over conflicting hunts and I actually quite enjoy that. It's hard to find people who can keep up with me at all. I would go so far as to say she's my friend, but I know she doesn't like me at all HAHA

[vicsbasement]

Hi!! I somehow didn't connect that you are shadil on AO3 (even though it's right there in your bio... I need to fix my eyes). I absolutely loved no other sadness in the world would do. It was so wholesome and so well written. Thank you for putting your work out there for us to see!

Oh my God, thank you! I thought that you had tracked me all the way from Ao3 because I started getting your reviews and then you followed me on here, so I just assumed you knew I was the same person all along 😂 Thank you for your comments about no other sadness in the world would do, that fic is my baby and it holds a huge place in my heart. It was just a very fun experience all around, people responded really well to the fic and it was my second foray into the F1 fandom, so I made really good memories with it. I'm very glad you enjoyed it too because I had a lot of fun writing it and planning which scenarios I would put those boys in ❤️ I hope to see you around here more often, then! :3

[letsriddlemethislucifer]

[[--- I'll reply to the rest later tomorrow. I'm very tired.]]

[netherfeildren]

1, 3, 14, 15, 24 🩷

this is so so hard shit. I want to say kiss, kiss, kill, kill bc I love that dialogue at the beginning, I love the way he's so confused, I love the violence of him at the end. but also I'd like to say pink because I feel like it's my strongest writing of everything I've done

3. just answered this one but I'll do it again 😄

another favorite line(s) I'm gunna go with the ending of Joel :

Joel, years ago, when we were first married, I had a strange dream: I’d had to walk down a staircase that led far beneath the earth. As I traversed it, I had to move through all of our happiest memories, the births of our daughters, the birthdays and celebrations and the long nights together, dinners, breakfasts and laughter, lazy afternoons at the lake, in bed together, still endlessly fascinated with each other despite all the times we’d found ourselves in that exact position. But when I reached the end, I’d be able to come upon our worst moment, see what it was in preparation, perhaps, for what would come to pass. 

I feel as though I have finally reached the bottom of that staircase, and part of me would like nothing more than to have never begun the journey down, but had I not, then I would have not lived through all the rest of it. And in the end, that was worth everything else.

That last night again, in my memory: Don’t you love me, Birdie bird? 

Close your eyes, he whispers, it’ll be worth it, the last taste of his mouth. 

My eyes are still closed. 

another favorite scene is in TCC chapter 8 when the stranger (my sneaky little Ezra cameo hehe) approaches her and tells her she has the saddest eyes he's ever seen, and his exchange with Din:

“My people are scattered across the galaxy now. It isn’t safe for us to converge in the open,” monotone and serious, in that way of his. The complete opposite of this man’s  casual, melodic voice like a teasing song. 

“We kill that which we cannot tame. It’s the way of men.”

“Lesser men, perhaps.” He nods concedingly, “Perhaps,” and swallows his glass down full, looking at you, eyes full of laughter, over the brim. “What a little liar you are, pretty. He is…” yours, and there’s laughter in his voice and his mouth and his movements too, not just his eyes.

14. a fic I didn't expect to write... gosh this one's hard. I'm not sure, honestly. I guess I could say pink only if for the ending which I would have never expected from myself. I never read open endings, and honestly I'm so proud of the way I pulled it off which is another factor being that I would've never thought previously I could pull something like that off in a way I was so wholly satisfied with.

15. how to let go

24. FATUM NOS IUNGEBIT by DanceoftheSevenVeils a König Roman Empire historical AU that's so delicious

or!

In the Dark by the lovely and sweet @frannyzooey which was one of the very first Pedro boy fics I ever read, if not THE first, and which has stayed with me all year long.