#why I'll always take the stories with shitty writing but fun characters

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

wibta if i dropped my collab stories/partner* to focus on my own stories?

*i would still be friends with them (i hope). i mean not making stories together anymore

my friend (18nb) and i (also 18nb) make stories together. it's not rp, it's more like discussing ideas that we plan to turn into novels, comics or games one day. it's a fun hobby, we're creative people so it's a good outlet and we both want to let the world see our stories one day. that's what we've been planning for years

yeah except that things aren't going anywhere. i know we're young and busy with school but things aren't going anywhere at all, seriously.

let's take this story we mainly focus on as an example. we don't have a clear plot even though we worked on it for literal years. my partner loves the story in theory but they only care about the characters so it's hard to talk about anything else. sometimes i push them a little towards more productive things (i don't think i was ever pushy by the way, i only gave suggestions and asked for opinions) to no avail and it always feels like they're not interested. i tried communicating my frustrations with the plot holes and slow pace, they agreed, but it didn't change anything

yeah it's fun, yeah it's a cool hobby, but that's all it is. i hate to say this but i've lost hope on getting anything done with this friend. i tried to make it work, it's not working, and i'm not happy. i want to think about the future. i'm very passionate about creating, i would do this for a living if i could and i'm seriously considering taking that road

that's why i want to focus on my own stories. i think i'll stop bringing up our collabs and engage less, if at all. i know i can keep this as a side hobby but i don't feel fulfilled anymore, so i doubt i'll do much. and i know communication is key and all but telling them directly might hurt them more so i don't know if it's a good decision

i'm writing this here because i might be an asshole for dropping them all of a sudden after working with them for so many years. it's kind of like betrayal? it feels shitty to do. also they're neurodivergent, i mention this because it's a big reason why they can't work on this the way i'd like, they can't help it. most importantly they're a very close friend and i don't think they'll take it well, after all they're passionate about this too

so yeah, wibta tumblr?

What are these acronyms?

[cfr749]

I totally, totally agree with your view of their relationship. The Barnes episode is one I can’t watch and I just pretend it doesn’t exist. The whole situation with Chris and Ashley was just…unnecessary and written horribly. I feel like Tim treated Lucy better when he was her TO and respected her and didn’t treat her like a child which is mainly what he does now. He became more patronizing AFTER she was no longer his rookie. Additionally, he didn’t say anything after Lucy told him he would do great in Metro - just gave her a half smile and left. He acted like a teenager during the Valentine’s episode when he gave her the silent treatment when he found out she did the five-player trade. And it ended with LUCY apologizing and Tim never once apologizing for his immature behavior. He also treated her horribly in the episode when Isabel came back. He invited her to LUCY’S apartment without asking Lucy, gave her a half-hearted apology only when Isabel was AT THE DOOR and then proceeded to joke around with his ex-wife ABOUT Lucy and IN FRONT of Lucy and then regressed to his TO voice with his “Chen!” later at the station, right after making fun of Lucy trying to help him relax. Like, hello, that’s your girlfriend! Why are you snapping at her when she didn’t do anything??? Chris was absolutely a shitty partner but Tim is a becoming a very, very close second. He treated her better when she was his rookie and especially before they dated. And im so bummed about it because I had such high hopes but the way they write Tim’s character is just ruining it for me.

Hi anon!

First off, I'm glad you got to get all of that off of your chest 😂. I know how isolating and frustrating it can be to have all of the feelings about choices the show is making, but feel like you can't share those frustrations without pissing people off or experiencing backlash. So while I can't control anything other than my own response, I'll just say, you're always welcome to vent to me!

I'll be honest and say I didn't notice / react to all of the things you mentioned in the same way, but I can see your points and understand why those moments may have rubbed you the wrong way. Especially since, like I mentioned in my last post, the issue isn't any 1 isolated incident. The issue is a repeated pattern in the storytelling and messaging.

Something I want to be clear about before I go any further though:

This is not about my head canons or what I'd like to believe the writers were trying to convey.

Of course I think the idea of Lucy liking Tim more than Tim likes Lucy is ridiculous. That's why I can't figure out what on earth the writers were doing.

Of course I don't hate Tim (I literally could never!!) --- I love both of these characters deeply, and close to nothing excites me more than the idea of the two of them falling in love.

This is specifically about choices the writers made and what we actually saw unfold on our screens.

And if my takes seem to be more pro-Lucy, that's specifically because, IMO, the way the story unfolded was much more favorable to Tim that it was too Lucy.

Which isn't even surprising. Women often get the short end of the stick. Women of color almost always do. And that is literally the entire point of why this conversation is important. It's why shrugging off repeated instances of Lucy's character being eroded in service of the ship or maybe just as a result of the thoughtlessness of the writers really bothers me. It's why I'm not the only one who feels this way.

So, anon, for now, I'm just going to dig into the first item you mentioned as one of the first examples of this pattern -- the Katie Barnes of it all (sorry Katie - you were lovely - I promise it's nothing personal 😂). Setting aside the confession prank in 3x09 (which is it's own essay), this was the first time I started to really question the direction the show was going with making the ship canon. At the time, I hoped it was a blip, because we all remember that look in 3x14, and... yeah.

I believe this was the first appearance of jealous Lucy. And don't get me wrong, I have no problem with using jealousy to tell a story -- as long as it serves a purpose and as long as it's not completely 1-sided.

But instead of moving Chenford forward, this actually moved them several steps backward for me.

Like you mention anon, in seasons 1 and 2, despite Lucy being his rookie, I felt that they were very much portrayed as equals. They helped each other in different ways. I’d argue Lucy often showed she was more emotionally intelligent than Tim and used that to help him navigate through the end of his marriage, and Tim obviously poured everything he had into getting her as ready as she possibly could be to move on to the next step in her career.

But this scene in 3x11 managed to re-assert the Rookie - T.O. dynamic in a way that slapped me harder than any moment when he was actually her T.O. -- asserting Tim's view of Lucy as someone he needed to teach not how to be a capable police officer, but someone he needed to teach about the world.

He said this to Lucy. Lucy! LUCY!

If you don't understand why this is categorically absurd, please go re-watch season 1 right now.

The fact that it was couched in compliments and we got to see Lucy go squee over his praise doesn't make this any less patronizing.

Literally, I don't need to hear any man say this to any woman ever. I especially don't need to hear a white man saying it to a woman of color. And I sure as hell did not need to hear Tim say it to Lucy.

So where'd we end up?

Lucy took some major hits to her character, blurring the lines between personal and professional by accusing Tim of giving Katie special treatment because he found her attractive, and ultimately came off as jealous, immature, insecure, and unprofessional amongst probably some other less than flattering things. And note, I'm not saying I think she is these things. I'm saying she was portrayed to the general audience as being these things.

Tim, on the other hand, got a windfall -- not only did he get to be the wise, all knowing teacher (let's not forget his deep love of meditation), he got to have all his past sins erased under the guise of helping sweet Lucy understand the world is a scary place.

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So obviously you mentioned a bunch of other examples, but this is already too long and probably not at all what you were looking for in a response, so I'm going to wrap up here. I got another ask about the Valentine's Day plot, so I'll tackle what I did and didn't like there eventually (yes, I am capable of liking things. it's rare, but possible).

Thanks for the ask! 🥰🥰🥰

[altraviolet]

hi!! here to drop an ask or two :D

i really liked lightning rod (hence the long comment i left a month ago). you said it was inspired by a dream? do you have anything interesting to point out about that & the process of dream to story, because i've been trying to turn a dream into a coherent story myself. it's always cool to hear about other people's processes for things!

i also found the canyon concert to be interesting, especially the phrases "symphony of agony" and "sickening disorientation of being too small and too big at the same time". i found the darker take on jazz to be fun to read, also. do you have any comments on that fic?

anyway, getting carried away with the ask lol ... so i'll end it here!

Hi!! Thank you so much for the fun questions :D Ohh you've dug deep into some of my most terrible (for the characters) fics... hehe

For folks unfamiliar: both stories mentioned above have HEAVY and DARK themes. They are locked and appropriately tagged.

>inspired by a dream

I went back to my story file for Lightning Rod and I can share my brainstorming notes there. I'll put it beneath the cut!

Content warnings: pregnancy, miscarriage, and failure to thrive (infant death) mentions. Like literally just the words. No details. Discussion of violent and very alien, sex-related stuff.

NOTE: if you like pregnancy in fics, that's totally fine. I Extremely Do Not, so you're going to see my uncensored opinion here, lol. The following is an exact copy/paste of my notes:

Mirage/Skywarp story I thought of last night when I woke up in the middle of the night from dreams that I think centered around being loved by someone else. 2 explorations: 1. reproduction alternative from what I know of in fanon. IDW1 AU. No pregnancy shit, I hate that. This is when 2 mechs want to have a sparkling. Caretakers have been taking care of the old spark fields and with the proper metal and sparking, sparks can flourish there. The couple goes to a special store to buy a 'lightning rod' (or some other name), a short rod of metal they take to the field. Caretaker shows them to a spot where a spark had come from before. They kneel across from each other with rod in the middle, separate chests, and let sparks touch each other and the rod. The rod picks up the spark energy. If there's a successful ignition, the rod melts down into the ground. The metal of the rod provides the sparkling with its frame building materials. Most lightning rod stores are kinda shitty, but they do the job. A real metallurgist will take the couple into account when suggesting a lightning rod. 2. after three failed lightning rods (failure to thrive in the ground), Mirage and Skywarp go to an actual metallurgist, Swerve, who measures their spark energy and takes samples of their native metal and does calculations and suggests a specific rod for them. It's thicker than the others they've had. It's got a core of [metal], and concentric rings of other metals around it. It's very expensive, but they buy it. They take it to the spark field. Ignition. The sparkling successfully grows. The caretaker 'harvests' it [or whatever] and Mirage and Skywarp take it home. It has perfect little wings and cute little hands and it makes them so happy. It flourishes for a short time and then dies. They are distraught. ~ This is quite different from my usual story. My usual stories are sad but hopeful. This is devastatingly sad. This isn't something I would want to read and it's something I don't really want to write. I like the reproduction idea. But why the grief? Is it really necessary? What do I do with the characters after that? I have no idea. They'd be horribly sad. They would blame themselves. They're just incompatible, after all.

So... that doesn't really answer your question, but I wrote the story so long ago, I really don't remember the dream itself anymore. I just remember being really, really sad. But you can see the process of me thinking through the logistics of the story. You can also see me wrestling with the concept itself, since it's not something I usually write. It's really fucking sad.

Maybe a lil checklist type thingy will help? This is my advice for turning dreams into stories:

write down everything about the dream you can remember. every detail, every feeling, and especially the overall tone

think about what it is in the dream you want to express in story form. boil that dream down to a pitch, a single sentence. use this as your focus. you'll come back to your pitch when you're unsure of what you're doing later in the writing process

write out/explore/brainstorm the consequences of the dream ideas. that's most of what I was doing above: thinking about the physical actions that construct the plot, which in turn are what the emotional tone rests on. aka- I needed to worldbuild a non-pregnancy way of reproduction so that the story could explore what happens when there are problems. in essence, the equivalent to miscarriages, and deaths due to failure to thrive. those, on their own, are not the plot, but they are supported by the worldbuilding

don't be afraid to discard bits of your dream that don't support what the story is about. or, said another way, don't be afraid to deviate from the dream if the story will be better for it.

when you're not sure if a character or a plot point or any other element is working for your story, go back to #2. this is your focus. everything you're doing is to support that pitch

It's honestly up to you how true to the "canon" of your dream you want to be. Only you will know if you tweak a detail here or there, or change a character in some way.

As an aside, I've always been kind of darkly fascinated & puzzled by the phrase "failure to thrive." I don't understand what that means. I think I've looked it up before but the phrase lives in a permanently nebulous part of my brain.

Best of luck with your dream story! If you have any other questions about it, please don't hesitate to ask box 'em :)

Onto The Canyon Concert... hoo boy. I wrote that in 2018. Hmm, looking at the folder now, it seems like the first title was "The Desert Concert." I don't see any difference between that file and the final (I also have it saved in 3 different file formats... lol). I'm afraid there isn't any copy-paste-able behind the scenes stuff remaining, but I can ramble a bit about it if you'd like :)

I had two really weird TF ideas and used this fic to explore both of them at the same time. They were:

what if you make Thundercracker into a stereo system? this seemed like an entirely normal and natural question to ask, since his whole thing is being REALLY LOUD

what if you took the typical spike-valve dynamics and inverted them? make a spike that goes soft and melts, seeps into the valve, and hardens again (the valve is very cold), which forms a connection between the mechs. and what if to achieve this, the rest of the mech has to be the opposite temperature? (like to heat the spike, the rest of the body must go very cold, and vice versa). and ALSO what if the mechs were connecting not only physically via spike-valve, but after that connection is made their sparks can send pulses back and forth, AND they connect on the field level as well?

Haha that's a lot of ideas. But! I really wanted to explore how alien their sexual encounters could be. And! I think the fic explores these ideas pretty well (or at least, clearly), especially considering how short it is.

One thing I did deliberately was give the characters very terrible and cheesy G1 dialog when they were interacting as enemies, and normal dialog when interacting as anything else. Here's an example of what I mean:

Mirage knelt over Jazz, watching the visor for flickers of light. “You should depart,” he said quietly. “'kay,” said Skywarp. He hauled Thundercracker up to his feet. “Till next time, Autobot scum!” He fired his gun entirely in the wrong direction and winked. Mirage smiled. “Begone, Decepticon menace!” He likewise returned fire.

Mirage and Skywarp talk normally to each other, but like G1 when they pretend they are enemies. Haha. idk, it just amused me to do that.

Hmm what else can I say... I'll take some bits from the fic and comment on 'em :)

Jazz says, "Pretty darn good moon. I've always liked that moon.” I've always liked that line xD

Mirage's line here is foreshadowing for his having set up everything specifically to get together with Skywarp: “I have a knack for summoning trouble.”

I dunno if the visuals of the big horrible claw music torture machine make sense, but it's quite clear in my mind. I did my best to get it down for the reader.

I wrote this fic before Mirage/Skywarp became my OTP... I wrote this fic just to explore those 2 thingies mentioned above, but people in comments said they were curious how this pairing could happen, which led to me writing my really long Mirage/Skywarp fic, which led to me HAVING THEM AS MY OTP AHHHHHHHH Transformers finally got me there.

Oh! You mentioned "sickening disorientation of being too small and too big at the same time." Yes! I've found this is a recurring thing in my fics (what this says about me, I can only guess...). This is related to the feeling Thundercracker has when his ability travels the length of the speaker machine thing, and it is the same feeling/phenomenon that Soundwave has in the Echo Garden when he feels the true length and breadth of 2938 Megatron. It's a bigger version of how I imagine fields feel for Cybertronians: you extend beyond the confines of your body, you can sense this extra distance in some way, you can process that and understand it. But you ARE your body, you are IN your physical body, so it's disorienting to swing back and forth between the two (TC) or to suddenly go from one to another (SW). I dunno why, but this idea comes up again and again in my writing.

The darker take for Jazz was done simply to make the story happen xD I don't think of Jazzes as being terribly dark, but I had to do it to explore the Thundercracker-stereo-system idea :D

Hmm... I guess that's it for now! Thank you so much for asking. It's fun to talk about the older/weirder/darker stuff :D

[genericpuff]

…Here is something a bit more serious I wanted to ask…

How do feel when it comes the fact that plenty of sexual themes inside LO are being told incorrectly to a young audience (I keep hearing on how most of Webtoon readers are still around 12-16 year old girls)?

Specially with the fact that Rachel keeps on sexualizing Persephone after some scenes showcasing her trauma….

I hope I’m not overstepping my boundaries here…thanks again for listening.

You're not overstepping at all ! This is actually a topic I've gone off about in the past at length on reddit and in chatrooms like Discord so I'm always happy to divulge about it and talk about it. It's a problem that goes way bigger than LO but I'll try my best to keep it focused on LO for the sake of getting to the point.

Before I get into it, obligatory TRIGGER WARNING for discussion surrounding sexual trauma/abuse/etc. and how it's romanticized and marketed in Webtoons media.

There are so many comics in Webtoons library that are just skeevy beyond belief for the stories they're trying to tell. Whether it's gratuitous oversexualization of its characters to the point of being absurd, to the implications of the romances in these stories that often border on non-consensual/toxic, Webtoons seems to be using these types of things as its main draw in a lot of their "big money" series - or at least, the ones they tend to market the most.

Now don't get me wrong, I've got a strong stomach for weird/creepy/dark shit and I'm capable of having suspension of disbelief when reading stories like this. I'm an SA survivor myself but despite this, I'm no stranger to dark romance or stories that 'toe the line' or even overstep it completely between morally acceptable and morally apprehensible, a lot of these kinds of stories have actually helped me overcome and heal from what I've been through. Suspension of disbelief is important and this is, after all, fiction, where we as creators are able to explore taboo or 'forbidden' topics in ways that either interest us or empower us or just feel like fun to write.

But there's still a line to be drawn because I'm an adult person who has literary analysis skills and is capable of picking apart these stories and what they might be consciously - or subconsciously - teaching us or portraying. Kids and teens? They basically are what they eat. This isn't to say teenagers are stupid or anything of the sort, but I was a kid too once and I know I internalized a lot of media that I straight up shouldn't have been consuming at the time. And I do think a lot of webtoons on the WT platform specifically dangerously veer into that territory all for the purpose of money and clout.

Again, don't get me wrong, I love morally questionable or otherwise abrasive characters, I think they're fun to write and fiction is a great way to explore those kinds of dynamics (and I've had pals weirdly thank me for how much suffering I put my characters through LMAO). But I'm also not gonna sit here and bullshit people into thinking my main projects are meant for teens. They're not. My main protagonists are in a shitty toxic relationship that should not be romanticized. My main character is a hyperbolic self-insert reflection of how awful I used to be as a person and how I was at the center of all my own problems for years. You should be 18 at minimum if you want to read my work because the stuff I write about isn't appropriate for or wouldn't be able to be observed and accepted as just fiction the way most mature adults can.

Now I'm not saying my work is "deep" or anything like that, it's stupid fun weeb shit. But it's the kind of stupid fun weeb shit I wouldn't want a teenager internalizing or taking to heart. It's why I'll include plenty of disclaimers to remind people that my stuff is a work of fiction and I simply enjoy exploring these kinds of tropes and dynamics through my characters, but I do not condone their behavior or the things I represent in my work. I fully respect other creators and writers who do the same.

Rachel is not one of those people. Rachel doesn't do this. She tries to claim to be progressive while completely misrepresenting the things she writes. She doesn't actually care about these topics, she just wants you to think she cares about them. Don't get me wrong, there are other series on the platform that are absolutely problematic when it comes to this sort of thing (Webtoons looooves marketing them, blech) but Lore Olympus is the absolute pinnacle of irresponsible, the sum of everything that's wrong with Webtoons.

It gets constant special treatment - often times being put in the banner reel every time it updates and in the prime spots no less that are rarely ever given to other - far more thought-provoking and well-written - series that could really use the ad space.

It markets itself to kids and teens despite having subject matter that either isn't handled responsibly OR should be taken with a level of suspension of disbelief that a lot of teens/kids aren't capable of having.

And the subject matter that it does try to handle responsibly is flubbed entirely because they're leaving it up to the writing 'skills' of a privileged white woman from New Zealand who's either never lived these experiences or, those that she has, couldn't even write them into a narrative when she tries because she still exists with internalized biases that completely miss the mark because she's never tried to look at things with a viewpoint outside of her own.

She's just not a writer, full stop. But because it's Webtoon's golden goose, they market the shit out of it anyways and give it preferential treatment. And of course, they market it to kids and teens because it's cute and colorful, and kids and teens will be more likely to overlook its blatant problems because they don't have the literary analysis skills yet to identify them.

The other side of the coin they market to? The adults who don't think these problems are problems to begin with. These are the same adults who celebrated 50 Shades of Grey and After as if they're masterworks of fiction. Overall very shitty, problematic people. At least the teenagers have the potential to "grow out of it". The adults who defend Rachel like their life depends on it are grown up but not mature or empathetic in the slightest towards those who have found their own stories and experiences trivialized or otherwise misrepresented completely through LO.

I know, that's undoubtedly a lot of hot takes, but this is such a massive problem in romance stories today. I get it, it's "drama", and it's been around since the harlequin novels of old, but the way it's pushed and romanticized and presented as if it's somehow "couple goals" by the people - often women - who write them is getting to be exhausting.

At this point I put Rachel Smythe right up there with Anna Todd and EL James - ego-driven female "writers" who wrote shitty fanfiction that got a lot of views and happened to fail upwards in their success, but when you dig past the subscriber count numbers and the clout, they themselves are not that profound or well-read in any meaning of the word. They're just people with huge deeply-rooted issues who write problematic romances instead of going to therapy.

And that's all I'm gonna say on that.

[yonemurishiroku]

I’m going to be honest I think some nico fans are a little to hard on fanfic writer’s people are writing for free and I see it all the time the notes when y’all attack shippers solangelo do this pernico do that people are writing for free and it keeps fandom alive driving people away cause one don’t like a ship is shitty just don’t read the story it free heck I’m in an anime community and if you know anime fans it gets nasty but even they try to not attack writers everyone is agreement not to attack artist drawing but why not extend the same grace to writers

It feels kinda breathless reading this but yeah I get your point and I wholeheartedly agree.

Even before engaging with the PJO fandom, I've been made aware of how nasty a English/Western-based (yeah I made that word up) fandom can get, so I'm mostly prepared to witness some... incidents (?). It's hardly a surprise at this point lmao.

There's always a line to follow. And someone behind you that would yell "Hey! That's mischaracterization!" whenever you're brave enough to escape the prison. This fandom treats unconventionality as if it was a crime, which reduces a lot of the fun. Shame.

I reckon it happens to every character's fandom, not only Nico - like, there should be a line when the community crosses a certain number, their quality decreases as much as it grows bigger. 😂😂😂 And yeah by that same logic, the Nico fandom would be one of the harshest bc the nature of his popularity.

I'm aware of the anime community. Though, if I read it right, anime originates from Japan, and Japan is without a doubt the laxxest when it comes to borderless creativity, so yeah, in a way, it's still better than a fandom brainwashed by the Western purity culture.

By the way, I don't think artists are any better in... whatever this is. if one is hateful towards something, they will attack the creator regardless of whether they're a fanfic writer or fanartist. Perhaps, the artists would have better chances of gaining a certain amount of supporters, who would defend them should need be, but again, that also means they have more risk of encountering nasty viewers as well.

All in all, things are not the brightest (since when they are anw) - that's why I'm here! 🥰🥰 To help destroy it faster, really.

Jk (or maybe not). I am proud to serve as a secure haven for those with unconventional creative sparks, even if it means challenging societal norms - for nothing other than to spite the shipping police, really. I make a point of trying to encourage every type of creativity, moreso to fanfiction just bc I'm mostly engaging it with - not bc my support is limited lol. It's nothing much, but I'll take the fact that you feel safe enough to send me an ask about this issue that I'm doing at least a good job of being the patron lolol.

[nonsensemonkey]

yall, this game is SO good. it had me cryin and shit. had me doubting myself. had me fucked up-- i highly recommend it. truly. best game i've played in a while.

major spoilers below

first game i played since the rgg craze that left a deep impact on me. i think i'll be thinking about this one for a while. i might go back and play from the beginning and make tyler and alyson raise hell with all their choices next time hahaha. gahhh so much fun. all the characters felt so believable!!! ALL OF THEM! and even though i didn't like that michael kept coming onto to tyler even tho i politely brushed him off once before, he still felt human to me as well. sometimes dudes just can't fucking take a hint- no matter how nice and cool they are.

what was so crazy to me was how he was talking about how tyler was 'sooo special' and blah blah blah but just 6 months later this mf already taking photos with someone else with a pet talking about 'the new addition to our family'. like bitch if you want me so bad--????? THAT'S WHY I SAID MICHAEL GAVE ME UHAUL VIBES!!!! eehhhhh- like, no, give a mf some time to know you my guy. shit. idk maybe that's just me. (6 months is a while but im just saying)

but anyways, so.

i loved alyson and tyler's relationship so much. tyler is so fucking 😩😩😩😩🥰🥰🥰🫦🫦🫦. he's so hot. the amount of screenshots i have of that man is abysmal. he and alyson does this thing with their mouth but idk, i feel he does it alot more than she does, where he kinda bares his teeth-- sometimes it's a smile but not always. unff. LOVE! i love minor mouth ticks. i have one and i always notice when other people have one- aizawa has one (he chews at his inner lip). nish seems like he would kinda does the same thing tyler does now that i think about it but anyways im getting side tracked~~~

i loved their relationship! the bond thing was sooooo neat- being able to share memories and inner thoughts. HELLA NEAT! i love that so much.

UGH the writing here was so fucking phenomenal.

all of the townspeople: tessa, tom, sam, eddy-- they all had their parts and they were all believable flawed. the only person who i think i'd consider a villian, really would be tom. because fuck that guy- you cheated on your wife, let her raise your kids on her own, watched her fall apart, watch her get stabbed, allowed her to drown to death, allowed two kids to make decisions about something that fucking major when you saw what happened and then you got the audacity to try to blackmail them for your shitty ass campaign???

i rate his bald score a -8 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾 he doesn't deserve that shiner. for shame.

more importantly, the one thing that i wish that we got to see was the perspective of mary-ann from that night. but i guess that's the beauty of the story. no one will ever truly know what was going through her head. everyone has their speculation but no one knows for certain and they sort of have to live with that in order to survive... ughhhh (i am relieved that ty can live his life potentially at peace believing that his mother would see him as her son- her SON- see him for who he is. i know that had to eat away at him while he was at fireweed.)

11/10

honorable mention for my girl denise, she didn't really have shit to do but she was there and i was happy she was. i was happy to see them braids too. like they kinda ate. ngl. i was like okaaaaaay. it makes me really happy. like someone trully put in effort on them! anyway, her and tyler are best buds now. i call it. it is my headcanon. <3

[nocek]

There's actually a deleted scene of Okoye trying to go rescue Shuri in her borders' tribe armor, and being stopped and confronted by Ayo and the Doras

Also the midnight angels in the comics are the most skilled Doras, her using the armor to defeat Attuma who has superhuman strength doesn't disminish her as warrior.

Hope they release that deleted tho.

Damn... sorry for such a late reply but it also grow up to quite a long rant. I'm sorry. I have too many feels about this movie

...

That deleted scene sounds interesting and I'd love to see it for more Ayo or just for the costumes because this movie, just as previous one, has glorious costumes.

It answers the question why she didn't go on a quest to save the princess. Problem is that this question only arises because she doesn't go on that quest because her plot thread has been cut.

I know it's a circular argument but hear me out.

That scene would be a logical explanation. A very realistic one too. It's a very real life thing to fuck something up and not be able or allowed to fix it. And it sucks and is very frustrating.

And that's why we invented storytelling with it tropes and all (ok I'm simplifying since it's after all a superhero movie but....). In stories satisfying plot will have an actual resolution. That's why the bomb is always disarmed in the last second and so on.

So if this scene was actually in the movie my angry rant will be at least 3 paragraphs longer and I'm glad creators realized that it's better to cut their loses, cut this plot thread cleanly instead of adding a tease that leads to nothing and would be even more frustrating.

Because here we would have glorious potential. Suddenly the Lawful Neutral character is being cut from the external lawful codex she was following. She would have to make a hard choice and switch to her internal moral compass and move towards Lawful Good alignment. (not my fav thing as there is so few really interesting lawful neutral characters but I'll take it gladly)

We would have a buildup, a big breath before a leap of faith just to have it suddenly stopped by external factor. Typical bait and switch which is very unsatisfying. It doesn't necessary need to be bad story writing tho. But it would require some additional scenes with Okoye dealing with her being stopped and this movie just didn't have time for that.

So in a way thank you for telling me about this deleted scene. I actually feel better knowing it all was mercifully cut cleanly instead :D

Damn, that got a bit ranty again. Sorry! So just a quick thing about Midnight Angel armors.

Comics are great and everything is better established there. Problem is we are talking about a movie where comic reading audience rounds up to like statistical error :S even people that will learn bit more from youtube comic fun fact videos are comparatively small to general casual audience. Besides we should evaluate the movie by it's own merits as a separate and complete project.

And in the movie it's more like Shuri side project of iron man but better because it's Shuri's. Probably they wanted to add bonding moment with Riri of you make armors, I make armors, armor sis hell yeah! But they didn't have time for that also. With presenting Iron Heart armor movie doesn't have time to give audience info about Midnight Angels besides that maybe it will be mass produced?

Instead of showing us (or just even telling, I'll take telling at this point) it being given to the best Dora Milaje as an act of honor and recognition of their skills is given to Okoye because she had to have something to do to appear in final battle and to Aneka which we don't know anything about besides she likes knives above a spear, is a bit quirky and is Ayo's wife (blink and you miss it, classic shitty Disney "Representation-first-ever-again"). Nothing about her above average skills :(

And even this had potential that this movie didn't have time for. Disgraced general and a free spirited soldier she previously scoffed at? Aneka being very open and enthusiastic towards new technologies while Okoye being traditionalist. So. Much. Potential.

And I'm not even mad and I'm not shitting on this movie because I hate it. Quite the contrary. I liked it I see all the potential and all the heart that was put into it and I'm just dam frustrated that the "Marvel formula" works so hard against it with it's shitty gray cgi grand battle at the end that just takes away the runtime from things that are actually interesting :(

[like-rain-or-confetti]

Hey vanity I remember you saying something about if you wrote twilight again you'd make the Romanians and the Volturi darker. Any headcanons on that?

Please Vanity I need my fix. I'd remember you said you'll fund it because you don't do rehab.

Hey I'll pay if I have to... just name the price

(This is a joke btw. Don't feel pressured. I loved that last fic you posted)

When I tell you this had me hysterically laughing 😂😂😂...

Headcanons, I don't really have- mostly just thoughts of what I could differently and revamp some characters.

So I tend to wonder myself. Like a part of me thinks, they're less approachable. A.K.A Demetri and Felix- I'm looking at you buds.

I also wonder if some -like the Romanians- have any kind of compromising bone in their body? Like realistically, women have had to spend years fighting for their right to be heard and taken seriously. We still have people out there who would take that away and they aren't centuries-old vampires. So would a very old vampire male who has always gotten the first and last word be willing to give up that kind of power? I see this as one of the Volturi or Romanian covens thinking "Oh you want to do this? Tough shit. It's my way and that's that." Covens like the Cullens that interact more with humans have changed with the times but I wonder to what extent older and isolated covens would still be stuck in rigid ways and how that would go with humans who are of this time?

Beyond a revamping of sorts for Demetri and Felix- I tend to think about the level of violence. The Volturi have definitely gotten their hands dirty over the years and the Romanians literally enjoy torture.

Although all of this could be utter bullshit because I've recognised from writing for different fandoms that I have written for twilight frightened of what people take of my writing and what people will accuse me of rather than just let the story write itself without fear of judgement of those few who take it too seriously. Whereas say for Batman, it has been a case of expect shitty actions from shitty people. I think we all know the Volturi and the Romans especially are a collective of shitty people so anticipate shitty behaviour that's driven by outdated philosophies.

But I'd definitely say Caius, Demetri and Felix needed to be amped up a notch.

The flirty or goofy Felix should be reserved for those he is friends with or more at a certain time or place.

Demetri should be almost silent, as he has been in the books and movies. This might be mistaken as being shy but is really a predator ready to strike at any given moment. When he's interested romantically, that's when he becomes the irresistible dude he knows he is😂😭

For Caius, I'd like to put him more to use. Whilst he is undermined and overruled by Aro constantly throughout the movies. I'd like to display this as a rarity rather than a constant crutch. The two are sadistic lil' shits who bond over this.😂

For Marcus, I think I'd like to have him more of darker side too. Like beyond Chelsea there's a reason why he's still there. He isn't always this zombie who saves the day per say because he likes a good love story- all of that.

I dunno, these are just things that pop into mind. I think their brutal reputation could be kicked up a notch in my writing but worry about the consequences of that since this blog is only for fun and only intended to have fun. Not to mention I think I'd like to have the other Volturi guards more known in my writing.

I'm curious! Let me know what you guys think!❤️

P.S.

what did I say I'd fund now!? What did I get myself into this time?😭😂

My price...

Hmmmmm...

Could do with more Volturi and Romanian content? Anyone willing to annoy SMeyer into giving me that Volturi book or Romanian coven stuff? Not sure if I trust it but beggars can't be choosers!👀

[redrobin-detective]

So I’m actually taking the time to watch Ben 10 Alien Force and it’s, okay. I can admit it has a more cohesive long term plot process than Omniverse and some of the stories ARE good I just can’t really vibe with it. I’m still watching it but it’s not the same burning need I felt with OV and I’m not sure how much further I’ll get before I entirely lose interest. 

I know a lot of people like AF so I’m going to put my slightly critical thoughts under a read more so those who don’t want to see it can skip it.

The reason I can’t get into the series like I did OV, for me, is the characters are lacking in any true dimension making me not invest in the series. Ben in particular, the heart and soul of the series, feels like a cardboard cutout of a character without much defining personality to make me believe he’s Ben much less an actual person. Having watched both OG and OV I can describe, off the top of my head, what Ben is like. 

Ben of the original series was a horrible little gremlin child with a heart of gold in there somewhere. He was childish and reckless, sometimes acting out or going too far with his pranks. He has a variety of interests and things he doesn’t like but finally gets a handle of his abilities and learns that being a hero isn’t just about beating up bad guys, it’s about standing up and protecting others.

Likewise, OV Ben has been around the block as a teen superhero. While he is still a bit full of himself and reckless, a lot of it is a carefully constructed façade so people don’t see how stressed and nervous he is about the heavy burden on his shoulders. He’s desensitized to how weird his life has become and is good at adapting and thinking on his feet. Like his younger self, he has a variety of likes and dislikes, some the same and some different as he grew up.

15 eps in AF and I still can’t really think of how to describe Ben, he’s got the personality of a freezer burned low fat waffle. He’s just a very standard teen boy without any true defining traits. I haven’t seen him talk about any interests, express any real opinions on anything. Like he had to put on the Omnitrix again after taking it off for a normal life and it doesn’t seem to have any impact on him. AF Ben is also almost always in the right, always the calm one (esp compared to Kevin who’s his own mess of one track stereotypes) with a perfectly straight moral code. He’s quiet, polite, he makes a few quips but otherwise is just kind of there. When he’s not actively engaged in the plot, he’s just sitting there with a vacant expression and a half smile. In an attempt to make him “normal” and “relatable” they not only stripped the character of anything that makes him stand out but also anything that makes him Ben Tennyson. 

OS and OV Ben are always moving, either fiddling with the Omnitrix or bouncing their leg or lounged in a precarious position while mouthing off. He’s a very energetic sort, spirited in a way that’s as admirable as it is aggravating. To watch AF Ben sit passively in Kevin’s car, hands on his knees, back straight. It’s like looking at a stranger. 

I loved Ben because he was fiery lil shit, half feral and running into everything half cocked because he’s stupid but also has a big bleeding heart. He’s a good boy, theoretically and gets better as he matures but he struggles with his self image and decision making. Kid has also straight up, and knowingly murdered and will do so again. He is a one universe force of nature running around, causing and fixing problems in the same breath. God I love this disaster. AF Ben feels so far removed from this Ben and it frankly bores me.

I’ll keep going but I remember when I first watched AF years ago when it first aired, I watched at least the first 10 episodes before I quit. I recall thinking that it didn’t feel like Ben 10 anymore and it really doesn’t. Yes it has some interesting storylines, yes the worldbuilding and lore expansion is appreciated. But god I just can’t invest in these characters. For all of Omniverse’s faults, at least the character felt not only like an actual person but who Ben is supposed to be. Ben is not and never was your ‘boy next door good boy superhero’ he’s ‘local child menace gains infinite powers uses them to steal a golf cart’. 

[maddu-oliveira]

💫 No Longer Fictional 💫

Erik Heller x Writer!Reader AU (Part 1)

warnings: mentions of alcohol, blood (reader get slightly hurt), bad language

word count: 1.1k

A/N: I tagged everyone I thought would might like to read this, so if someone doesn't want to be tagged just dm me or go to my ask and if someone wants to join the list do the same.

Taglist: @wtfobiwan @bewitchedignition @a-reader-and-a-writer @skvatnavle @11thstreetvigilante @lacontroller1991 @loverhymeswith

Reader's P.O.V

"Don't you think you should take some time off?" My friend asked during our video call, making me stop writing and look at the screen.

"Why? I'm fine, Alyssa! I like what I do" I said, starting to write again and shaking my leg because of anxiety.

"I think three books published in a few months is already too many and you need to rest, Y/N" Aly said with worry in her voice making me stop and take a deep breath.

“I just want to distract myself from the bad things happening in my life now” I ran my hands over my face feeling exhausted and now paying more attention to my friend.

"I know that's how you relax yourself, bestie but- It's not healthy and you can have a burn out" Aly was right, it wouldn't help me if I overworked and got over the thing I like the most.

"I'll just create the character, okay? Can you help me with that, Aly?"

We spent a few hours deciding what that character would look like, choosing a name as if it were our child, making jokes about being Frankenstein for creating something together, and choosing the language and appearance of the character. Maybe because I was drinking wine to accompany my friend during the call, we were having so much fun and with each new feature we laughed saying that this would be the mix of the men of our dreams.

"This man has a German accent and speaks French, he couldn't be more perfect" Alyssa said laughing and shaking her head.

"Erik Heller is the man of our dreams! I would totally marry him" I took another sip of the wine.

"Why don't you search for someone like him? You know, after that shitty relationship you went through" Aly said calmly trying to not make me mad or something.

"Because he's a character that we created to be perfect and perfection doesn't exist in real life, Aly" I sigh, finishing another full cup of wine. "I would only get a man like this if magic exists and I wish for him"

"Why don't you try? You never know if it might happen or not" She says, making me laugh.

"Oh shut up, Alyssa! How would that work? Blood sacrifice?" I stood up to open my bedroom's window.

"You're so dark! Not blood sacrifice but something romantic, I don't know" I heard Aly chuckles.

"Like a shooting star?" I asked, looking at the stars.

"Yes! A shooting star's wish would be amazing, don't you think?" She said smiling as soon as I got back in front of the laptop.

"Let's just finish his backstory, Aly"

"Why do all your characters always have a sad story?" Aly asked as soon as she finished reading what I sent her.

"Sad? They always end well and happy" I say, leaning back in my chair to make myself more comfortable.

“Yes, after suffering everything possible and being traumatized" My friend said, making me laugh.

"But at least they have happy endings, Aly" I say, arranging the table that my things were on and taking the empty bottle of wine from there. "Maybe I write like this because I'm waiting for my happy ending after going through so much"

“Aww bestie…” I heard her say but not paying too much attention until I saw something in the night sky.

“Oh shit, Aly! I just saw a shooting star-” I couldn't even finish speaking, because my friend started yelling at me.

“MAKE A WISH! Make a wish quickly, bitch”

"Calm down, Aly! I- I wish- I wish Erik Heller" I said laughing but stopped as soon as the power went off and my laptop turned off. "Shit- No no no"

I got up quickly to try to turn on my laptop, which resulted in me knocking over the bottle of wine that splattered into shards in the room, so I decided to use the flashlight on my cell phone to get out of my room and go try to turn the house power back on. Muttering curses I went downstairs to the kitchen to look for candles in the drawers, and as soon as I found them, I lit some and placed them in some of the rooms in the house. I took a candle to my room still using my cell phone camera, placed it on the table and took care with the shards, bending down to gather them using a sheet of paper that prevented me from cutting my hands. I finished collecting the shards by taking them to the bathroom and throwing them in the trash, as soon as I got back to my room I heard a noise outside in my garden.

"I just wanted peace.... These raccoons are very bold" I say, going to look out the window and scare away the striped intruder.

When I looked out the window I saw a tall silhouette, a man, who had probably fallen there because he was cleaning his clothes from the dirt. At that moment I froze, as soon as the stranger turned around I closed the window and lowered myself against the wall.

"What the fuck is this?" I muttered to myself as I looked for my cell phone that I had left on the floor. I lifted my head a little to look out the window, seeing if the man was still there and finding my yard empty, getting confused.

Am I going crazy?

I stood up looking better at the outside of the house, letting out a sigh of relief and turning my attention back to my laptop that still hadn't turned on even though it was charging. But my relief didn't last long as I heard something hit my window, probably a rock, making me take a step back and feel a burning pain in my foot.

"Shit!" I complained low, knowing that I had stepped on some shrapnel that went unnoticed when it came time to clean it up.

The noise at the window repeats itself, making me walk to it and open it prepared to throw the candle and other things on top of any possible intruder.

"Are you hurt? Scheiße-" The stranger could not finish speaking as I had already thrown the candle in his direction, causing him to mumble something I could not decipher.

"Get out of here or I'll call the police!" I tried to sound as serious as possible even though I was scared to death.

"But you're hurt-" The man approached the window, making me gasp, surprised by how he looks.

"Who the hell are you? Get the fuck out of here" I said firmly and closing the window quickly lowering my self next to the wall again. This just can be a sick dream because I'm exhausted. It's just a dream…

[ghoste-catte]

9, 18, 27

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

I don't believe in ghosts, but I am afraid of them.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

Aaagh, it's always hard to pick one of these, but I'll go with this bit from if you're really finally mine (i need to know that you're not lying)

“If we don’t die,” he’d said once, and fully expected to die. As he always expected to die. Had always expected to die. Every putative mission since his storied, miserable childhood.

That fear of death was the only thing that kept him living, some days.

But then they hadn’t died. And Gaara had been promised this.

He’d planned for it like it was a job. Like there was a payout in hard cash and a meal of just-rare meat to be eaten across from Lee waiting for him at the end.

This fic is a little bit of a quirky one, because it's the sequel to a "mafia band AU" that was partially written and never published by @egregiousderp, which spun out from a hilarious misunderstanding of the way GaaLee Bingo was supposed to work. I am lucky enough to get access to their fic drafts from time to time (under the table porn exchange). So the lines referenced here are lines from that unpublished fic. There's a moment, for example, during their first time when Lee asks if they can do it again. They're mafia members undercover on a retrieval mission at a Battle of the Bands, and during it they realize they're in love (and then bone in the back of Naruto's shitty wizard van). So Gaara meant it when he replied, "If we don't die." It was a genuine possibility. Gaara was born into that life and Lee was conscripted into it (as Gaara's bodyguard and later his partner). So they've both faced down death, together and separately. Lee's taken bullets for Gaara. Likewise, the rare meat thing is a reference to the unpublished fic, where Gaara eats like a little bit of a monster and Lee is both fond and chiding about it.

Playing in someone else's sandbox is always an interesting time. Skuun has very specific characterizations for these two in this AU, so I tried really hard to hit those. Gaara is more unhinged and feral, and Lee is quite smitten with him but also willing to push back and tease him, because he's sort of the only person who can get Gaara to do things. And they've been in love with each other for a very long time, sharing beds and hotel rooms and stitching each other up but never saying those things, so Gaara especially has a lot of years of pent up UST. I tried to emulate Skuun's style a little bit in the fic, too, which is really fun and unique. It means a lot of rumination during the act and a lot of short, punchy sentences. I had to go back and break up a lot of my behemoth sentences to match the original tone.

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

Temari. I struggle with having a good bead on her character, which is unfortunate because Kankuro is so easy. I'm cognitively aware of a lot of her character traits and can list them, but I don't feel like I have the strongest sense of her voice. I am also very wary of having female characters care about nothing else other than the main M/M ship, because I know it's a common sidelining tactic that's especially prevalent in fic. This is difficult for me, because I tend to write fairly tight focus on the romance, and I know I don't always hit the mark with Temari especially. I often want to write her more mistrusting of Lee and taking a long time to warm up to him, which I think is true to her character, but I also don't want the weight of having to pull focus from the romance to deal with that conflict, and I definitely don't want to rehash it every time I have these guys fall in love. I really envy writers like @sagemoderocklee, who I feel captures her voice and priorities perfectly.

Weird Questions for Weird Writers

[crystalkleure]

Do you still do those beyblade deep dives character study posts? If so then could you so one for Count Night? And if not then just talk about something you super duper like :)

Sure thing, I love writing long analytical posts! I just usually lack the time for it lately, sadly. Hey, I'll even throw in a Ye Olde Style character icon like I used to tack onto these things, for old times' sake!

Count Night

10/10. I fucking love Count Night. Count Night is so fucking funny.

I can't believe that the anime actually entirely neglected to mention the fact that Count Night is Zac's older brother, because those two actually act so much like eachother. It's fun to compare them and realize what personality traits apparently just run in the family blood.

Zac and Night are both so incredibly fake. They are extremely good at misleading and manipulating people, and they do it in the exact same way: They deliberately give off the impression of being far more benign and stupid than they actually are, so nobody expects them to do anything foul [or, at least they don't expect them to succeed when they try]. Zac has his Sweet Bubbly Dumb Blonde stage persona, but is vicious and outright gleefully sadistic when out of view of fans and cameras, especially if he feels he has been threatened in some way -- Zac will absolutely terrify and destroy anyone who challenges him, particularly if they are encroaching on his turf as an idol, and he's quite clever and subtle about it so as not to tarnish his image. And Count Night is...ridiculous. Look at him. He looks silly. He's dressed as a cartoonish caricature of a phantom thief, he looks like a kid in a Halloween costume. Would you ever expect some absurdly theatrical lunatic who looks like a low-budget LARPer and speaks shitty broken French for The Aesthetic to actually break into your place and steal your shit? Night looks like a fucking joke, so no one takes him seriously, so no one realizes he is actually extremely competent at breaching high levels of high-tech security and committing grand larceny. Count Night WILL steal your shit.

Also, in the manga [which is not translated to the best of my knowledge, and I can't read Japanese, so do note that I always hear Manga Details from other people], I do believe it is either implied or outright stated that Zac does not know that Count Night is a phantom thief? Night does not wear his silly costume around his brother, he wears shit like sweater vests and glasses and khakis during the daytime, he looks like a perfectly harmless little librarian in his plainclothes. I think his cover story is that he's a businessman or entrepreneur or something? However, I'm not sure that Zac really doesn't know, so much as Night THINKS Zac doesn't know, and Zac is possibly playing along with that for shits and giggles. Zac certainly did notice Night's Conspicuously Impressive Rare Bey Collection, and Zac's not stupid. I just feel like he would pick up on any Financial Oddities happening, any curiously-timed crimes being committed and making it to the news, coupled with the fact that his brother tends to Just Fucking Disappear sometimes, etc., that sort of shit, and eventually put the pieces together.

Which would explain why one of Zac's favourite Dumb Things To Do In Public is don that silly mask of his and call himself "Beyblade Mask", acting like people Surely Can't Recognize Him and then pretending to be surprised when they do [after he drops 500 hints at them lol] -- he's probably tickled by the fact that his brother has an actual Secret Double Life with a disguise [many disguises, actually] that is surprisingly actually convincing. I wonder if he's waiting for Night to put two-and-two together upon seeing him in his silly Beyblade Mask "disguise", realize that's a Cutesy Brotherly Mockery of his own nighttime habits, and realize that means Zac has realized what he's been up to. That sounds exactly like the sort of bullshit mind game Zac would play lmfao. I just feel like Zac's whole stupid silly Beyblade Mask fake-disguise thing and the fact that Count Night is an Actually-Disguised Phantom Thief isn't a coincidence, those two things have to be related somehow. Unless the overwhelming desire to cover half of your face up with a silly mask is just something else that runs in the Kurogane blood lol.

Also, it's cute how Zac and Night have the whole sun/moon thematic dichotomy going on. Zac the Sunshine and Count Night. Ha.

And on a completely different note, something curious about Count Night is the fact that his Eclipse has an Avatar inside of it. Right Artemis and Left Apollo did not have Avatars inside them until Count Night stole them and used them, combined into Eclipse. That...actually raises several questions. For one, Gachi explained how Avatars are formed, so now we know that they are some type of Energy Being that is created within the mind of their blader and then channeled into that blader's favourite spintop, so no question about what the Spintop Monsters are anymore. So, we know that the monster does not come from the spintop, the spintop is merely a vessel for it. Does this mean that Count Night created Eclipse's Avatar? It would make sense for those beys he stole to have indeed been empty, because they were created by Dr. Evel, who already has his Egis -- he's already made a bey Avatar, and people can't seem to make more than one of those things, they can only continue to adapt/evolve the one they've got. So, it would make sense for any extra beys created by someone who already has an Avatar-inhabited bey to simply be benign plastic shells, empty vessels with nothing to be put in them yet. So if Night already had Avatar Energy bouncing around in his brain, ready to Coalesce Into A Creacher and just itching for a bey to hop into, it'd make sense that he'd bond that energy to the next bey he grabbed and end up forming an Avatar for it, and in this case that bey would apparently be Eclipse. But Eclipse is also a unique bey. It is a bey made of halves of two other beys, Artemis and Apollo, both now owned by Night, though we never saw him use them not fused into Eclipse. We don't...HAVE any other cases where a fusion bey, made of parts of various beys, is comprised of parts of beys all owned by the same person. Normally, when Bey Fusion happens, the donor beys all have their own Avatars, which then either fuse or simply attack in tandem via the single fusion bey, and thus the donor beys all belong[ed] to different people. And, as stated above, it doesn't appear that one person can make more than one Avatar. Normally, when a fusion bey de-fuses, the borrowed parts go back to their owners, taking their attached Avatars with them. So, what, uh...what happens when Eclipse de-fuses into Artemis and Apollo? If Count Night were to use both of those beys together at the same time, not fused into Eclipse, how would that work? Would each one have its own Avatar, making this the only known case of someone creating more than one bey Avatar? And, if so, was that perhaps only possible because Night created Eclipse's Avatar while Eclipse was Eclipse, meaning that if Eclipse's Avatar splits into two [Artemis and Apollo], that's not so much "making a second Avatar" as it is literally, well, splitting one whole into two halves? So it technically is still one Avatar, just with the capability of dividing itself into two hivemind-type semi-physical forms at once? My brain hurts. Lore's too enigmatic and complicated and Technicalities In The Laws Of The Magical Fictional Universe is not my dissection strong suit, psychoanalysis is.

Anyway Count Night is incredibly interesting and has far more potential than was tapped into in the actual show. I say this about just about every character, but BRING HIM BACK, BEYBURST. DO MORE WITH HIM. He's so fun.

[mindninjax]

also not on anon but to starve away the boredom~

hey min min~ first of all.

second of all, am i the only one who every time i see Levi on my screen i instantly say or think "hello daddy" ? or is that just me XD *wiggles brows suggestively*

and third of all -here's the question- what got you into writing in the first place? and what makes you continue on the writing journey?

tee hee hello sweet Garnet💖

Second no you are not the only one. Levi Ackerman could tell me to crack my skull open like and egg and serve my brain to him on a silver platter I absolutely would.

Third! If you'll allow me to get mushy on main for a bit I'll put it under a cut :)

I will absolutely give all credit for me starting writing to this gem here @itsleese. Ms. Weese was one of my very first friends in fandom and legit took me in like a mama cat takes in a scared lil baby kitten. Her writing is amazing and legit opened my world immensely to fanfiction because ima be straight up, I dead ass didn't know this shit existed until December 2019. I remember reading Weese's Notice and Of Love and Lemons and being blown away that I could like be apart of the story. Everything felt so realistic and the way she wrote the characters, specifically Bakugo, made me feel like they were like attainable which is such an amazing skill to have.

NOT ONLY did Weese choose to take me in as a friend and be kind and loving and introduce me to so many other amazing people that have become my closest and dearest friends as well, she was also SUPER supportive when I had an idea to write something. She encouraged me to finish it, she read over it, encouraged me to post it and made sure to let me know how much she enjoyed it when she read it. I just.... I am eternally thankful to Weese and so fucking grateful that she considers me a friend because she's honestly one of the most kindest and beautiful and most amazing people I've ever met on this app.

OK enough with the mushy feelings lol. Why do I continue to write? Simply put. It makes me happy. I've always kinda been a daydreamer with a kick ass imagination. Putting stories down on paper, exploring plot and relationships and characters I love is fun to me. It pumps so many good feelings into me when I am creating a story (even if I'm hard on myself or don't think it's worth sharing).

Recently though what's been keeping me going is escaping my current reality. Plunging myself into a setting that I can control, into a fantasy where things are a-okay or not a-okay should I choose to make them so. Life has been....shitty recently.

Last year was no cap and not to be extremely dramatic but dead ass the worst year of my life and will like forever and always be the worst year of my life. Writing absolute became a coping mechanism for me, it became a sanctuary where I could feel safe and warm. Escaping to a fantasy and writing or planning it out has saved my actual life on many occasions and I have no doubt that it will continue to do so lol. 💖

Come chat with me

[rainwolfheart]

Writing prompts

2021-10-31: Not actively taking prompts. I'll update whenever that changes! Just been way too busy to write fic lately.

I'm currently accepting writing prompts! If you send me a DA one, it'll likely be filled on Friday for DA Drunk Writing Circle.

I write in English and French, and I'm comfortable-ish writing dialogue in Spanish. (if you're looking for a french-english translator for a fic, hmu?)

I take any kind of prompt. If you need inspiration, here are a few lists I like: classical literature prompts, DA prompts, DA dialogue prompts, DA codex prompts 1, DA codex prompts 2, Trans Bingo cards, fic title prompts (send me a new title and I'll write a summary, or send me one I've already written a summary for and I'll write an excerpt)

I post prompted fics on Tumblr and repost them on AO3. Please let me know if you want to be credited anonymously on either platform, otherwise I will credit you for the prompt :)

Main DA pairings and topics

Feryn Aeducan x Leliana

Alistair x Dael Mahariel

Anders x Hamish Hawke

Anders x Nathaniel Howe

Branna Cadash x Lace Harding

Branna Cadash x Josephine Montilyet

Gaël x Marfisa Trevelyan

Bethany Hawke x Marijke Kader

Marian Hawke x Isabela

Marian Hawke x Isabela x Merrill

Marian Hawke x Merrill

Nathaniel Howe x Velanna

Isabela x Merrill

Dael Mahariel x Merrill

Josephine Montilyet x Rafael Trevelyan

Dorian Pavus x Rafael Trevelyan

Sigrun x Velanna

Marfisa Trevelyan & Rafael Trevelyan

The Bull's Chargers, Inquisition agents, multiplayer characters (Dalish/Skinner, Charter/Tessa, open to other ships)

Gen: team bonding (especially DA2 cast)

Gen: mage resistance/rebellion stuff

Gen: post-Inquisition Solas-hunting shenanigans (Tevinter Nights vibes)

Gen: crossovers and AUs (I've written Exandria AU and modern AU stuff before, feel free to suggest others)

More details & other fandoms under the cut

I can also write other people's OCs or a generic/ambiguous PC, and certain other characters and ships; don't be afraid to ask! A few notes:

I won't write anything focused on Aveline, Cullen, Oghren, or Sten (unless it's critical of them), or anything pro-templar, sorry.

I'm also not very experienced writing certain characters, such as red!Hawke, Sera, and Vivienne. But I'm up for a challenge!

I am always, always down to write characters as trans. I write Fenris as transmasc and Hawke as AFAB nonbinary unless otherwise specified. My Hawkes, Mahariel, Trevelyan and Kader are all trans.

I headcanon Josephine as ace, so I'm not comfortable writing smut for her.

If you send me a NSFW prompt, I may tone it down to my comfort zone. I'm new to writing smut and prefer vanilla stuff.

Other topics I'm currently open to writing

Check, Please! (Bitty/Jack, Holster/Ransom, Lardo/Shitty)

Critical Role (Allura/Kima, Beau/Jester/Yasha, Caleb/Essek, Caleb/Molly, Fjord/Jester, Keyleth/Vax, Percy/Vex; used to write Caduceus/Fjord and always down to write them as friends or queerplatonic nowadays; OC blood hunter siblings Sol & Hala)

Lovelink (MC x Adam, Ana, Blake, Charlie, Cpt. Muffin['s human], Dahlia, Dominic, Dr. Vile, Jake, Keanu, Milena, Nicholas, Rose, Ruby, Sage, Tiros, Vitoria, Zayn)

Star Wars (Finn/Poe/Rey, Finn/Rose, Greer/Joph, Black Squadron fun times)

The Witcher (maybe? I'm familiar with TW3 and started watching the Netflix show. Geralt/Yennefer or Geralt/Triss)

Bullet-point/short paragraph meta or headcanons (things like "headcanons about the M9's favourite foods" or "which DA story choice do you prefer out of these options and why")

Poetry (free verse or haiku; you can try sonnet, blank verse, etc. prompts, but no promises lol)

Short original fiction (especially high fantasy, fairytale-inspired, historical fantasy, near-future sci-fi, space opera, dystopian)

Very short plays and monologues (I tend toward postmodern/postdramatic/poetic stuff)

[patribrussou]

I never really liked to read long books, like times until I wanted to be bigger .... more or the desire to know soon what happened at the end of all that plot that goes on in my head and puts me there among the characters making an imaginary film .... So sitting and thinking about all the things I have lived so far, I decided to write short stories about parts of my life at sea ... But I will start with the reason I left Earth and looked for a life of "pirate"

I am one of more than 1 trillion women who believe in true love .... a sincere love .... a love that will take care of you, be yours, fulfill your desires, your dreams, be a man / woman Each one of course has a way of looking at life, this is my point of view ... How can I exchange my freedom and everything I am for a failed person who wants nothing more than have fun? while you believe it is love ?! I do not accept anything less than what I deserve, and how do I know what I deserve ?.... I know why I started working early, at 17 in a computer store in Arujá BR .... called reproshop ... and since then I won my freedom by being myself .... And I didn't stop there, I was always very silly and my greatest wish in this world is for everyone to have a decent life! A real life, not the shit I see on Facebook and Instagram .... I've helped so many people in life that they fucked me in my back ... It's been 30 years of trying to find a person I could trust and nothing ... none .... because you can never get to know anyone with so many masks on their faces and ridiculous superficialities that make no difference at all !!

Well.. coming back to talk about the reason that made me want to go to the sea, his name was BRASIL LIXO!"

Tired of living in a shitty country that still treats people as slaves and no one sees what's in front of them !! It made me lose all judgments I had left and before I freaked out I decided to sign up for this crewmember program ..... but the fact of having to stay away from everything I loved more than at the time, my pets, mother and ex-boyfriend. ... made me stay in Brazil for a while longer ... even though I passed the ridiculous interview I had to do in another city far from my home ... anyway ... I didn't go ... more years later again without any quality of life in a country that wants us to live with R $ 1,000 a month to eat, pay rent, bills (isn't that slavery for you?) Because it always has been for me! And it never left my head, because people do you accept that? They are so liberal with so many things .... What else can really change the quality of our lives??? FUCK IF!

Anyway, tired, hurt, full of animals to raise because I am one of those who cannot see a puppy suffering on the street, I already take it home .... I went to look for the ship again, because the fact of receiving in dollars that was triple in time of my money and being able to meet people from all over the world and travel to the whole world too and for free it seemed sensational !!!

So I got the contacts, went after, signed up and went to Costa! My first ship Costa Fascinosa .Ohhh my gosh! The first time on board a ship! Traveling and experiencing things I had never felt in my life, but I was always curious, brave, only when I see a snake that i runs, kkkk the rest I try 👽😂

I had a little problem at the beginning because the agency forgot to send me the flight, and I missed the plane but I would go to Rio which is not far from São Paulo / 6hrs around .... so the solution was to get one bus and go to Rio ... ... at that time I was in shit ... without money, work, friend, hurt ... anyway ... in Bad so everything that was happening was beautiful for me! I had never felt so excited and thrilled .... entering that beautiful, giant ship, full of happy people wherever I went .... entering the corridors on the boarding deck I started to realize that many people were looking at me, many people really .... while I was in line for an hour for someone to show me all that news, my friend who had taken the course with me appeared ... ready from then on, lots of hugs, laughter, come on, I'll show you everything .... and that's how * Pati no Fascinosa begins! *

[aced0g]

Bruuuhhh there's so many good questions, so I'll ask the most of them. 1-5, 8, 11, 13-18, and 23? ((Sorry if thats a lot lol

[well shit now I actually want to make this a fully fledged self insert oc] from the if you were inquisitor ask meme   https://aced0g.tumblr.com/post/183449602162/lesbiansten-if-you-were-inquisitor-ask-meme

1. Race:

-I could be really boring and just stick with human but I honestly think I’d be like half Qunari half elf maybe? Like if you made a qunari shorter and a twink. Horns would probably be the ones that go straight back.

2. Class/Specialization:

-While I’d love to do magic I just don’t think I would have it (probably also wouldn’t be a good mix lol volatile emotions and magic=big problems). SO I’d be a rogue. I’ve always been silent enough to just “appear” behind someone and accidentally freak people out plus I really really like knives. idk they’re really cool. Specialization oof probably tempest because I’m not good at crafting things and with tempest you can at least feel like you’re using magic.

3. Your homeland?

- Probably Ostwick just cause there aren’t too many Qunari out in Ferelden and at least the Free Marches have seen Qunari before.

4. Your family?

-Father would be Qunari tal vashoth who broke free and set up his own bakery out in Ostwick. Mother would be a city elf who’s good at working in the forge. Would have a little sister who’s probably going to be a minstrel. Also kind of estranged from them all, like they write but he wouldn’t want to worry them with his travels. Theres also another sibling but we don’t talk about him ever :)

5. Who were you before?

-Before Inquisition? Probably just on his own trying to forge his own path. An aspiring author who can’t think of anything to write so he takes up odd jobs here and there. Sometimes hes a merc, other times he’s making bread, then sometimes he’s giving tattoos. He was never really someone important. 8. Your opinion on other races?

-Humans he thinks are alright, they’re quick to judge based off of looks and can either be huge assholes or pretty chill. City elves are treated horribly and they need a break, someone to speak up for them. Dalish elves stay secluded and he understands why. They’re fierce warriors though and he respects the hell out of them. Surface Dwarves are usually pretty chill, a fun crowd that could drink you under the table if you try. The Carta suck ass but you just don’t get involved with them. He’s never met the dwarves from Orzamar so he has no opinion. With Qunari usually Tal Vashoth are chill, there are assholes who just want blood and murder but that isn’t just limited to Qunari hes met plenty of humans just like that. He didn’t meet a Qunari that was actually part of the Qun until Iron Bull and at first he was honestly terrified. You hear so many stories of what they do that it leaves you scared which doesn’t help when you already have paranoia and ptsd. (don’t worry eventually he and bull become really good friends)

11. Where would you hang out in Skyhold?

Honestly? Either the library or his quarters. He’s got a lot of social anxiety and he likes quiet so he’d end up making his own little section in the library where he can just read or draw or write, and if its a really bad day he just stays in his quarters until he’s needed13. What armor would you wear?-Oof most of the armor for Rogues is pretty ugly in my opinion. I’ll tell you what this boy would be caught in, black pants and leather boots, he’d be wearing like a black and green flannel shirt with some leather bracers on his arms and like fingerless leather gloves for his hands (they’d also be compressing both wrists cause boy got shitty wrists). He’d also have a leather jacket and a scarf around his neck. (also he wears glasses or else he’s blind as shit for distance stuff)14. What would your room look like?

-Honestly its pretty bare bones. Maybe a few bookshelves that barely hold any books. A few trinkets like a mabari figurine or some crafts his family made for him. The rest would just be his wardrobe, knives and writing/drawing supplies. His bed would be simple, big enough to hold two people but no more. Theres about three blankets on the bed, the bed is always made and he sleeps on top of that and grabs a spare blanket to cover himself at night. He also has a bunch of pillows. The rest of it is a dog bed and a bunch of dog toys for his mabari mutt.15. Who would be your friends at Skyhold?

-I’d like to say he’d be good friends with Varric, Sera, Dorian, Bull, and Cole, maybe Cullen too. It takes a while for everyone to warm up, but the gays get along really fast so he gravitates to them initially and then Varric is like the dad friend and he likes to write too so there are plenty of late nights with the Inquisitor just info dumping about story ideas and character ideas with Varric and its fun. With Cole he was initially a little scared of the spirit but then it turns into a really great friendship and he’d think of Cole as a brother. Plus Cole is great for helping him calm down when he’s having a panic attack. 16. Would you have any friends outside of the Inquisition?

-No. He’s shit at making friends and tends to stay alone than try to make friends. It has a lot to do with his trauma, being told that he was never going to have friends that he wasn’t worth it, so he just doesn’t try. Whenever he was with a group for an extended period of time they would get friendly but he’d never really keep in contact and so no friends. Well he has one, his mabari mutt Mahogany or Huggy for short, but he’s with the Inquisitor so it doesn’t really count. 17. Who wouldn’t you get along with?

-While I love Cassandra and Vivienne’s characters I don’t think I’d actually get along with them. I’m not religious and I don’t like acting all important, so as Inquisitor this boy would probably be Vivienne’s worst nightmare of just dressing in flannel when he’s at Skyhold and Cassandra’s because he doesn’t support the Templars and doesn’t give a shit about the Chantry or the Divine (not in a rude way but he just doesn’t care about it). I think he’d try to be polite at least but I don’t think they’d get along. 18. Who would you romance?

-Mmmm that’s a really hard decision for me because Im stuck between choosing Bull or Dorian. They both have amazing qualities and I love them both so much, but I think just because being a Qunari the inquisitor would be initially more hesitant about being around Bull I’d go with Dorian. Dorian and the Inquisitor would have a lot of personal hurt that they could help each other with and spend a lot of time just cuddling and talking through the night. The inquisitor would get very protective of Dorian during battles and probably get a little self sacraficey. 23. What would be on your tombstone in the fade (What are you afraid of)?

-Honestly? its a toss up between himself and dying alone