#you don't need to match length. Just wanted to set the scene up

[cxncordia]

@oceanicxeyes - When the Sun met the Sea

It started when they attacked that girl during the sports event.

Two weeks ago, Toño and his friends saw how one of the students from the Infinite Academy pretty much transformed into a scaly abomination in front of them and with great bravery and strength stopped her. In the nick of time, Toño was able to undo the spell that had been placed in the poor girl. It was a whole ordeal but it was doable, she got to be healed from the horrible experiment placed upon her.

This had made the Teporingos, a group of five mages and Toño, become alert about the situation. Regina had mentioned having had premonitory visions about the arrival of the new enemy and Moises had his sights set on the Infinite Academy, a school for the rich elites that was heavily secured and, behind closed doors, dedicated to the pursuit of dark magic.

The Teporingos were the protectors of this city, the Verbena mages who took care of the land and protected it from evil that sought to take it away. Moises had tracked one of the professors of said Academy and after having investigated her, it seemed that Professor Yuri Aparicio, in charge of Etiquette and Decorum of the Academy, was also one of the Cinco Brujas that belonged to the group of Nefandi that Toño and los Teporingos were trying to elminate.

Tracking her by the whole city, Toño finally stopped when he saw the red-haired woman enter the bar. He had to follow her, to pursue her and to gather all the information necessary to stop this new enemy.

However, when he stopped the motorbike only a block away from the bar Tacho realized of a particular situation that the young Mage had not come to consider.

"And how do you think you are going in?" The small talking chihuahua scolded Toño from his back pack. "Do you want a disaster for us? Don't be a fool!"

"Disaster? But what do you want, Tacho?" Toño asked, frustrated by the small dog's scolding. "I told you that we need to investigate!"

"Investigate from afar, Toñito." The chihuahua explained. "This is an adult establishment and they won't let you get through."

"Well, I could disguise myself as an adult, you know?" The boy explained to his companion. "We are supposed to hide our powers in public! An adult will have no trouble entering and seeing what is going on." Toño took the backpack and adjusted it over his shoulder, the leather jacket squeaking when the straps were pushed back. The young mage found a place to disguise himself, sliding in the back alleys where the stench of urine and trash was almost nauseating.

"Stop, stop, stop, stop...You can't make a spell like that!" The small chihuahua practically barked from within Toño's backpack.

"Why not!?" Toño huffed. "Just wait and see!" Toño focused his energies, trying to imagine how he would look when being an adult and words in Nahuatl flew from his mouth. "Huapahua," Toño pronounced in a whisper. He had learned these from his Mentor, Huey Tlanextli. Taking a deep breath and soon Toño could feel how his height and his hair was growing. How his muscles got firmer and his clothes were getting tight around him.

Being a mage really made all these experiences so interesting.

When looking himself at the reflection of the window, Toño couldn't believe it: that really wasn't him, those were now more the face of an adult. "Hehe, nice..." He cooed, touching his chin and starting to notice how different his skin felt.

"What are you doing!?" Tacho scoffed in surprise. "Magic should not be used for fun!"

"Relax, Tachito. I got it all under control." Toño responded with more confidence than he would have. He then moved away from the narrow space and back to his bike. He took the helmet and put it back on the motorcycle, starting to look back towards the location, and once again thinking of a plausible and reasonable line for this adventure. He took a pair of glasses that Moises had given him, so that the Teporingos could see what he was seeing, set them on his face and walked towards the establishment, this time, pretty sure that nobody would notice him. Or the dog in his back pack.

As he approached the door, a sound, beautiful and enigmatic was heard. The light tone of a humming echoed with delight. Toño could not help but to try to follow the origin of the song with his eyes, completely forgetting that he was supposed to approach the front door, right at the entrance. A beautiful blonde man, with flowy hair and blue eyes was singing in the establishment. The boy's eyes met him for an instant as Toño grew enraptured by the tune.

For a second he felt as if he was carried by the waters themselves, the feeling of the breeze enveloping him and the gentle embrace of the water surrounding him. He remembered those days, one summer break, when he and his Dad got to visit the beach back when he was only ten years old. What a beautiful and soulful tune this was!

[punsxwebs]

@redhead-reporter semi-plotted out thing (If you want me to take it down so we can flesh this out more lmk I just had a decent idea to start it lmao)

It wasn't uncommon for Jameson to ask him to take photos of things that weren't himself swinging around the city but he usually just left Peter to take his glorified selfies so he could trash on him in the next morning's paper. Still, getting asked to work different jobs was sometimes a nice change of pace.

Apparently, all of his "decent" photographers (He really should be more respectful to the others and they might show up more.) were not available and he was in desperate need of someone who knew how to take a decent photo which meant enter Peter Parker.

Naturally on his way to the job he had to suit up and intervene in a police chase and he was now running just a little late. Jogging up to the site he leaned forward, hands on his knees, as he caught his breath.

"Parker... I know you're used to just taking pictures of one guy who always seems to love to pose for you but that doesn't mean you can take your sweet time getting here."

Lifting his head he offered the man a sheepish smile. "Sorry! There was, uh, some bad traffic... you know how it is..." He offered awkwardly as he rose to his feet prompting an eye roll and a shake of the man's head.

Jabbing his thumb over his shoulder he gave Peter a pointed look. "Just... get a move on, Parker. I'd rather not keep your partner for today waiting any longer if I was you." He sighed before placing a hand on his chest when he went to walk past. "And we take normal pictures here... I don't want to hear how you were hanging from some scaffolding or something looking for a good shot."

"Right... normal pictures... can do." Peter laughed awkwardly patting his shoulder before scooting past him making him shake his head again. He was surprised he was even given this job seeing as he'd seen some of this person's photos before, they were pretty good, this was probably just Jameson being Jameson and insisting on something again.

"Hey!" He called out as he approached the redhead, camera in hand, wait... wasn't this that woman he had saved from being run over the other day? Huh, small world. "Sorry I'm late there was, uh, bad traffic... typical New York stuff, you know?" He chuckled softly rubbing at the back of his neck. "I'm Peter Parker, your partner in crime for today."

[i-heart-hxh]

Do you think Illumi’s comment about how Gon is just dazzling to Killua and a temporary fixation and Hisoka’s line about how transmitters are fickle and their treasures can turn to trash easily were foreshadowing for how Killua has come to see Gon? How at first Gon meant the world to him but now he’s basically done with him because of what happened during the CAA? Togashi could be planning to reunite them, but maybe this was his way of saying that Killua is done with Gon.

Hi! I actually see it in the opposite way to this view, almost.

As the audience I don't think we're supposed to agree with what Illumi is saying--that Killua doesn't deserve to have friends and that he'll ultimately betray them. It doesn't end up matching what happens in the series, nor does it match the overall message of what the series is about, and Illumi is an antagonist whose views the series repeatedly refutes (think: Alluka and how he sees her).

However, I also think that early in the series, Togashi was potentially trying to misdirect the audience with Killua's intentions. Killua early on was much more dangerous and edgy than he becomes as the series goes on, and there were a few pieces of foreshadowing that he might turn on Gon or the main group, which includes Hisoka's statement about Transmuters being fickle and their priorities changing rapidly, as well as Silva making him promise never to betray his friends and then expressing certainty that Killua will come back (as in, he was setting him up for failure because of the needle). There are also a few comparisons of Killua to Hisoka very early on that might fit into this (beyond the Transmuter thing), some even from Killua himself, and the scene with him getting frustrated with the ball game with Netero and then killing those guys as a result.

I believe Togashi laid this expectation down early in the series in order to subvert it and have Killua grow in the opposite direction. Killua felt like a "rival" type character or one who might eventually betray Gon/his friends, but instead he ends up being extraordinarily loyal to Gon (to a fault, even), he gets kinder and emotionally stronger as the series goes on, and he goes to extreme lengths to save Gon even after Gon pushed him away. He actively defies what his family expects of him! Even when he does go back home as Silva predicted, it's in order to break Alluka out of there and leave, and keep his promise to Silva by never betraying his friends--the opposite of what Silva actually wanted to happen when he made that promise with Killua.

Illumi's comment about Gon being "too dazzling for Killua's eyes" actually "comes back" in the form of the You are Light scene, where Killua uses similar language (in the original Japanese version) to describe why he can't look at Gon directly. That whole scene is about Killua comparing himself to Gon and thinking he's not worthy of him. However, Gon ends up falling into darkness himself and only Killua is able to save him--therefore, Killua becomes Gon's "light" right back. Because of what Illumi told Killua and the environment he grew up in, Killua himself didn't have faith in his own ability to be who Gon needed, but he managed it anyway because of how deeply he loves Gon.

He helps break Palm out of her loss of identity after she becomes a Chimera Ant, and becomes Ikalgo's light, too, by befriending him even though they're initially on opposite sides of the war.

We don't know the full reasons for Killua leaving Gon, however I suspect one of the reasons he leaves is in order to protect Gon from Illumi, who very well may pursue and endanger Killua and Alluka. Killua likely also needed a break from Gon after all they went through, but I don't think it'll be forever by any means. I made a post previously about why a reunion and reconciliation between them feels just about inevitable.

So, I absolutely do think those statements about Killua were "planted" intentionally within the series, but for the purpose of him breaking those assumptions rather than living up to them. One of the best things about Killua's character is how he initially seems so much different than he turns out to be. His commitment to and care for those he loves comes from a pure place in spite of the way he was raised, and he grows so much as a person throughout the series. He's a kind and courageous boy. I don't see him leaving Gon as a betrayal or throwing him away or legitimately "replacing" Gon with Alluka--they just came to a point where, for the time being, they had to take diverging paths. But I absolutely think their paths will converge again within the series, assuming Togashi can get that far.

I don't think Togashi is telling a depressing story where these tragic things happen between the two protagonists (who clearly adore each other) and then that's it, their relationship is over and they'll never get to mend the issues between them nor communicate all the things they haven't gotten to say to each other. There's a reason the separation is as brief and complicated as it is--it's intended to leave us with questions, and I believe those questions will be answered someday, assuming the manga is able to reach that point.

[faghubby]

punished

Vicky, my wife of ten years and mother of my two children. opened the door to see me bent over the dining room table as a large black man drove his long thick cock in my ass.

"What is going on here!" She yelled. I tried to get up. But Marcus just pushed me back down into the table and pounded away on my little faggot ass.

"Be done with the cunt in a minute" he told Vicky. Vicky was stunned just stood there watching.

"Vic" I said only to be smacked hand across the ass

"Shut the fuck up bitch" Marcus told me. I didn't dare say another word. Marcus stiffened and grunted as he shoved the full length of his cock in my ass. Pumping his load deep. He pulled out and pulled up his pants.

"All yours" he told Vicky as he let himself out. I stood up my legs tied to the table legs. I was wearing a red bra and stockings. Along with three inch heels. I tried to bend to untie my legs but fell on the floor.

"What the fuck?!" Vicky screamed. "You fucking gay bitch" she looked around evennmore confused by the scene. There was a paddle and two leather belts, along with a bottle of lube and bandage gear. That with me naked on the floor, trying to untie my legs as I babbled about it being a one time thing.

"Shut up" she said disgusted half laughing. She kicked my hand lightly. "Stop that and get up" she ordered me. I tried to stand finally pulling myself up.

"You let men fuck you? spank you?" She held a belt. "Not even sure" she started holding a big 2 inch diameter butt plug. It was still covered in lube. She pushed me down back over the table. She pushed the toy against my ass that was now leaking Marcus cum. My ass sucked it right in.

"Wow" she commented. As I ler out a little wimper. She then walked around the table.

"Don't you dare move" she warned me.

"Vicky I can" I started

"Shut up" she screamed she grabbed a set of leather cuffs and hooked my wrist to one of the legs. Then used another set to hook the other. I could lift myself some but not much. She found the matching panties to the bra I was wearing.

"Open up" she told me and shoved them in my mouth. I don't even think she realized how much she was turning me on. She turned off the light and left. I heard the door close and the car leave. Was she leaving me here for good. Hoping someone else found me. I struggled to get free. But it was a very sturdy table. I was stuck. I cried myself to sleep. What had I done.

It was hours before I head the garage door opening. It woke me up in the silence. Vicky came in obviously had been drinking. I had spit the panties out of my mouth hours ago.

"Still waiting for me cunt" she laughed. I so needed to pee.

"Please Vicky I need to pee" I pleaded. She laughed and looked down at my cock.

"What is this?" She asked grabbing the metal cage and yanking. I screamed.

"Marcus doesn't like to see me get an erection" I wimpered. "So this stops you from getting hard!" She laughed. She let it smack into the table making me groan again. I was about to burst.

"Where the key?" She asked.

"On my dresser" she unhooked one hand then left. I quickly undid my other hand but Marcus nots on the robe on my legs was tight. I struggled getting only one unlocked before I actually peed on the floor.

"You are disgusting" Vicky told me as she returned. "I want this all cleaned up now" she screamed then returned to the bedroom. It was late but I did as she had said and cleaned everything. Scrubbing the floor with disinfectant. I took a shower and removed the plug my ass gapped open after wearing the plug for hours. Only then did I try and go into the bedroom it was locked. I didn't even knock just went and crashed in the guest room. I slept naked not having any clothes but the bra and panties.

I was up before Vicky, actually she didn't emerge from our bedroom till noon. She loomed horribly hung over. I had done some laundry so at least was able to get dressed.

"Can I get you something" I asked. She glared at me then said. There is a mess in the bedroom" I got up and found she had thrown up in the trash can. Looks like most missed. She had also got it on the bed. I cleaned up the floor, took the trash can outside. Then stripped the bed. I had scrubbed the floor and remade the bed by the time. Vicky came back in, only a towel wrapped around her. She had a bruise on her shoulder.

"Are you okay did you fall?" I asked. She glanced at her shoulder. Then smiled.

"No he just liked to bite" she told me getting into bed naked. I noticed another mark on her thigh.

"Bite?" I asked

"Yes, big guy was kinda forceful. A biter, I guess everyone has a kink don't they?" She said glaring at me. I just let her go back to sleep. When I went to check on her a few hours later the door was locked again. I desperately wanted to ask her for the key to my chastity cage but didn't think it was the time.

I let her be, she had cheated on me I guess I deserved that. But what did this mean for us. She emerged from the room again about dinner time. I had made pasta. She devoured a bowl. And then went back to bed with two bottles of water. I heard her lock the door. She didn't emerge until the next morning and then rushed out the door for work with barely a word. No option I wore the chastity cage to work.

When I got home Vicky was home, she normally was home before me so this was normal. I found a garage bag by the door and without thought I threw it away. I found Vicky in the bathroom folding laundry.

"Vicky can I have the key to the chastity cage" I asked just wanting it off I had never worn it this long.

"Why? You don't need it anymore" Vicky said confused.

"What?" I stuttered

"Well your lover obviously doesn't use it for anything, and I certainly an not going to be using it again. So why?" Vicky asked again looking at me. "I may have use of that tounge from time to time but that's it" Vicky added.

"Vick!" I wimpered.

"What you can't expect me to see you as a man after the other night can you?" She asked. "Come here" she patted the bed.

I sat next to her.

"I got rid of all your boy undies too, I mean you like wearing girlie things right?" She said her hand cupping my face.

"I slept with Greg" she confessed. Greg was my best friend he would never.

"Greg wouldn't" I started.

"When I showed him the pics of you getting fucked by your boyfriend he understood why I needed a man. I didn't know he liked to bite though" Vicky explained. "Here put these away" she handed me a pile of bras and panties. I headed towards her dresser.

"Silly those are yours" Vicky told me. I looked down and realized she was serious and placed them in my empty underwear drawer.

"I would like to meet your lover, what is his name?" Vicky continued

"Marcus" I said softly

"He has a big cock, is he gay. I mean does he fuck woman as well?' Vicky asked.

"I don't think so" I told her. In kind of a trance. Was this all happening?

she took my phone and called Marcus.

"Hello whore" he answered the phone with.

"This is the whore's wife Vicky "she told him.

"You want me to stop fucking the slut?" He asked with a chuckle.

"No, not at all. He seemed to enjoy it "she told him. "I think he like it if you fucked him even more" I listened as the two of them started to make decisions and a schedule of my life. I tried twice to interrupt but was silenced before I could speak.

Vicky gave up any marital rights, giving them over to Marcus. She promised to make me more femine for him as well. I found myself meeting Marcus two to three times a week. Vicky had hired a contractor to build a bedroom and bathroom in the basement. It even had its own entrance. As soon as it was done I moved into it. She had designed the room with hidden anchor points, the room was also done in pink and light blue colors. And the closet full of woman's clothes in my size. Marcus could come and go privately. Vicky didn't hide that I was a sissy fag. And openly slept with other men.

Marcus even started taking me put as his little sissy bitch in public. Even making me service some of his friends. We have been married for 15 more years. Where I don't think I have seen Vicky naked in all that time. We have both gone thru several lovers.

[last-sprout]

Last Sprout Dev Diary - Dec 20, 2024

Hello again, welcome to this week's dev diary! I finally (finally) got the upgrade system functional this week, which means that we're one-ish system away from the game loop being essentially complete! I'll briefly talk about the system itself, but as it exists it's pretty basic, so afterwards I'll write a bit about all the hidden things that crop up when you try to develop things like this.

Last week was a short one, if you want to read it you can do so here.

Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed outweighs the fear of death.

Getting Upgrades

On the surface a system like this is pretty simple. When you hold down the interact button, you slurp up all the xp in the area, and that increments a counter.

That counter is tracked by a Leveler script, which contains the formula to calculate level up thresholds. Once the value of the counter is higher than the value of the threshold, the Leveler invokes an event called OnLevelUp, and it sends its attached entity along to a UI that handles grabbing the upgrade cards, displaying them, listening for input, and then passing the mod back to the entity to apply it.

Because the upgrade ui doesn't need any knowledge about the game world, anything can say "hey I leveled up," and it will dole out the upgrades as needed.

We're basically done with this, right?

So why does it look kinda bad?

I don't think it's hard to see that a lot of parts in this clip are a little janky and awkward, right? I'm gonna take some time to break down everything that's gone into making it look like this, and how many tiny decisions are involved in relatively simple builds.

First of all, the text! There's obvious decisions: What font to use? we have a custom one that I think looks really cool, but it's missing a lot of unicode characters, which means that if we were to localize this to any language that uses another script, or even just diacritics, we'd need a second font for that, which means we need to find one with robust unicode support that matches the aesthetics. Plus, it needs to look good at the same size as the english text, or we need to make separate sizing and kerning settings. Also, there's no guarantee that the text will be particularly close to the same length in every language, so we need to be prepared for longer or shorter title bars.

How do we display the text? I opted for a teletype effect that plays after the animation ends, but I could also fade them in word-by-word or line-by-line. I could just have the text appear all at once, but you either need to find some way to hide the text in areas where the card animation is still see-through, or you need to drop it in after the animation, both of which have downsides. You also need to determine dynamic sizing - some upgrades have a lot more text than others - do you have the text auto-size? If so, what boundaries do you use? It looks weird when one card's body text is much larger or smaller than the others, so there's a limit on how much you can have the text resized. If the text gets too small, people playing in a window or on smaller screens will have trouble reading it!

Not to mention we probably want to have an option for accessibility that lets you switch out the font for a dyslexia-accessible one, so all the previous considerations apply there too. From a user interface perspective, the transition to leveling up is a little jarring - how does one smoothly switch between gameplay and leveling? When do you allow that trigger to happen? If you have it happen automatically you risk disrupting the player at a critical moment, if you have it function on button press you risk a player outright forgetting about levels, or dying with levels banked, both of which are feel-bads.

Behind the scenes, you also have to decide how to shuffle the upgrades, especially as they get weirder. If you have a rare upgrade that outright removes your ranged weapon, how do you make sure that ranged-exclusive upgrades don't appear in the pool anymore? To be honest, I could go on for a while still, but I think this gets the point across - everything in a game is complicated, and even if a player doesn't realize it, these decisions have a cumulative impact over the length of a 20-40 hour game. Even using really good tools like TextMeshPro still leave a ton of design decisions that a code package can't make for you. When it all comes together it's pretty incredible, but it requires an absolute ton of tiny tweaks and bugfixes in the meantime.

I felt like this needed one more gif to space out the text but I didn't have any ideas so here's Many Twiggs.

As per usual, feel free to send asks here or to @oneominousvalbatross, and thanks for reading this! There won't be a dev diary next week, we're taking some time off to avoid burning out after 6 months of grinding, but I'll be back in the new year to talk about cool visual effects!

[sharpth1ng]

how do you manage to write ~5k word chapters, currently attempting to write a fic myself and damn is it hard

Honestly and truly I think it gets easier the more you flesh out the world it exists in, and this just takes time. When I was first writing Debaser it was a lot harder to write at the volume I do now because I just didn't know what more belonged in a given chapter or scene. When I wrote chapter 7 it felt crazy long at something like 7K and now I have several 18-20k words under my belt.

Mostly this happens in chapters that have a lot of meaty events to sink your teeth into. If you have multiple running plot lines, like one main plotline and then several smaller side plots running alongside you have a lot that you can use to fill things out.

You just keep checking in with those side plots as you go, I often do this after bigger events in the main plotline because it gives a little bit of breathing room before the next big event. Side plots like that are also a good opportunity to set things up for your main plot in advance, which makes for a satisfying narrative. For the reader its like dominos falling into place (this is something I really like as a reader).

The other thing that makes a chapter long is when you need to work in an emotional arc. This happens to me a lot with Billy, who is a character that takes a lot of convincing to get to a state where he's likely to do the thing you want him to. I had to put Stu in a coma to get Billy to say he loved him, yk? So sometimes it's just a process of needing to figure out exactly what needs to happen to put a character in a particular mental state that can make for a long ass chapter.

But I would also say it's ok to have shorter chapters sometimes (or all the time). Not all of them need to be the same length and it's more important to make sure that the chapter does everything you need it to. Don't force yourself to make it longer if the pacing already feels good and the important events are there. There's value in concision too!

As a writer I'm also fighting the urge to make everything long to match the crazy ass 20k chapters. I just don't think that would actually serve the story, so I try to monitor my writing for unnecessary bloat as well. I want the details to matter, I don't want you to feel like glossing over them because you know it doesn't have any bearing on the plot or characters.

[isa-ghost]

Hi! I was wondering if you have any tips for outlining your story?

I’m trying to work on one, but it doesn’t really want to cooperate with me when I try to outline.

Do you have any tips for what works for you?

I would say don't force it, most importantly. You won't be satisfied and it won't come out great if your heart and mind just aren't in it. Get your inspiration and creative muse going first.

I genuinely don't know how the fuck I got my plot as fleshed out as it is, I got hella lucky it kept going. It was very fuck it we ball.

I will say, I often reread what I already had planned before letting my little brain movie continue.

I can picture things in my head really clearly, so basically my brain gave me a movie of the first 5 chapters and I just let it "yes and" itself until it just kept going. Or I got specific scenes that popped into my head and then wrote from where I left off and pushed things in a direction that could make the scene true in a way that made sense and flowed well.

From there, I knew I needed to resolve conflicts I'd established ("how does Phil get EK out of his body?"), come back to certain plot points I'd planted the seeds of ("so how is Phil doing while the group is planning his rescue?"), or cover "well what's going on with x during this time?" type stuff ("how is Missa taking care of the kids on his own while this is all going on?"). So over time, I'd make sure to either devote a whole chapter or just a scene to cover the thing, whatever length felt right.

As soon as I get a rough idea of what major points I want to cover, the rest comes organically as I'm writing. For example, in Chapter 3, I did not plot the Pissa date thoroughly. My plan said "fluffy distraction date, but hes hallucinating," and eventually "Phil hallucinates an enderman which exposes he's not doing well so he confesses everything to Missa bc he can't bring himself to lie to him." I didn't plan them visiting an event venue, going on a picnic, taking pictures, anything casual they talked about before that point. I let it come out in the moment and allowed the pieces to just fall into place because over-planning something can sometimes choke the life out of it.

Though that could just be what works for me because I'm taking over a decade of roleplaying skills and fitting them to a fic. A lot of the scenes I write come out the same way I'd start a roleplay. You can see it most in the start of a chapter, because both require setting the scene before puppeting the character(s) within it.

And obligatory mention that the process isn't always linear, flowing perfectly, etc. Shit takes time and the first draft is not gonna be your last, even if only a single detail changes later. Don't expect perfection the first time, you'll limit yourself and you won't be satisfied later. It could straight up kill your motivation to write the thing at all. I've deleted whole paragraphs of text in chapter 4 because even though they were written beautifully, it wasn't what I wanted or didn't match my plan.

So basically:

Ride as long as you can on the initial idea. Milk as much Where Does This Go / What Happens Next from it as possible

Play to your strengths when writing. If you're good at describing setting or atmosphere, go nuts. If you're good at writing dialogue, weaponize that. Whatever you're best at writing, lean into that and it'll make your story shine.

Keep the things you need to conclude satisfyingly in mind. Figure out how you want to resolve the conflict(s) you've started, then steer the plot in that direction however you see fit. If you establish certain things, decide if you Need or Want to actually write it out rather than imply it happening/being done/whatever.

Make sure the events that connect two plot points together flow well and make sense, but leave room for improvising because things that unfold organically are important in order to avoid having a plot feel too "mechanical" so to speak. Not to mention things that miraculously fall into place and just fit in perfectly are super rewarding and motivating.

Don't be precious with your ideas. If something doesn't fit, suck it up and delete it (you can always copy/paste it elsewhere to keep it in case it works later on, or you're just so damn proud of what you wrote that you don't want to banish it to the void). Chances are when you rewrite the scene or steer it in a more logical direction, you'll write something you like even more. If you don't, sometimes sacrifices must be made and you can refine the new thing until it's to your liking as many times as you want. OR you can commit to the new thing you wrote, but make sure to make all the changes to your plot and such necessary to have that thing make sense and flow well with the rest of what you're writing.

And very important: If you're writing for something that has a Canon, make sure what you're doing makes sense for the character. Don't have a "he would not fucking say that" / "he does not have the emotional intelligence for that" (HUGE ONE. Modern fandom has a massive problem with bitching about characters not communicating, but if the character would not spill their guts to someone, don't fuckin do it!! Miscommunication sucks, but lack of communication is a device that often benefits plot and creates conflict necessary for an interesting story!!) / etc moment. Dig into the character's brain and understand how they work, take what you know about how they are in situations and in general and apply that. Binge read character analysis for help, your best resources are your fellow fandom mates who are insane about their little guys. Consult them if you can't find any analyses, they'll write you a whole essay often times. Characterization is extremely important and many readers just straight up won't read your thing if you're butchering their special guy. For example, Phil is deeply allergic to sharing his burdens and hates the idea of putting his friends in danger. Obviously I'm not gonna have him venting to anyone who'll listen that he's being possessed by a god they don't even know of and that he needs their help. Even when you're writing an AU, that will rarely ever make the character's canon way of being irrelevant, you just have to think about how those traits would look in your universe/specific situation. There's still even more nuance to this I won't cover, but just keep in mind that writing a character accurately matters!

[thedawningofthehour]

Making Fun of Rich People Round 2

This one's a little bit different. This house is in Arizona, listed for a clean 20 mil, eight bedrooms ten baths, 16,000 square feet. The outside is really nothing special, looks like every other southwestern wanna-be movie star mansion so let's

Kicking things off with a bang.

You know. I can't even say anything bad about this. Like, the other house, they were people who clearly had more money than taste and built their house as a shrine to their bank accounts. It was not meant to live in, but to prove their wealth. It was ridiculous and stupid and they deserved to be made fun of.

These people. These people know their house is ugly. They know that table was an obscene waste of money. They know that couch screams "my coke dealer was redecorating." They do not care. They love bringing people in and watching their expressions of horror. They rub their hands together gleefully as people try to think of a compliment that isn't too obviously pulled out of their ass.

I mean, come on. That green chandelier, they're absolutely trolling us.

And I'm going to be honest, this looks like a living room I'd actually feel comfortable hanging out in. I can see someone on that couch eating ice cream out of the carton at 3 AM. People sit on that rug and play board games on that table. These people furnished their house to live in, not to display.

I am still going to tease them about it, however.

I'm laughing with them, not at them.

Is it just the angle or does that bed seem super short?

I...don't even know what I'm looking at here. I think this is the closet?

No, okay, they have a whole mall outlet store in here. This is like that one scene in Princess Diaries 2 except Julie Andrews would politely show herself out.

Why the marble. Why do you need a sitting area in your closet.

I will admit, I'm disappointed that the owner of such an interesting house has this many black pumps. I get that they go with everything, but-that's the point. They're universal. You don't need over a dozen of them. I expected better shoes.

Nobody:

Rich People: "make the bathroom...ROUND."

fr, their insanity always seems to come out full-force in the bathroom. I legitimately think rich people might not poop or bathe, because it's always some crazy shit that would be incredibly uncomfortable or downright impossible to use.

Another thing I've noticed, rich people all seem to want bathroom doors that open to the outside. Why?!

Especially when this is the outside they're opening up to!

Seriously, what is the point of this?! You're buck naked and decide to go have a smoke next to some cactuses and your giant patio geode. That's all that's out here. Why. Why.

Actually, it looks like there's little paths, which...just makes this worse, honestly. Imagine you're taking a leisurely stroll through the cactus garden and you pass your parents' bathroom patio, getting a full view of your mom taking a bath through the floor-length windows.

"Yes, in our dining hall with the light fixture that looks like birthday sparklers and our collection of Totally Real cactuses."

I've seen designers rag on those unfinished wood tables before, and while I didn't really agree with them at the time I kind of do now. I think this would look cool as like, a side table or accent table, but on a dining table it's just kind of awkward.

This is the same room, they just kept panning out.

While I made fun of the other house for their grand piano, I have no doubt that someone in this family is a drug-fueled musician. This room looks mega-comfy to lay back and watch a movie in, and I love the sheep.

I'm just...in awe of the audacity.

They didn't even try to match. Didn't even pretend like they cared. And I'm not gonna lie, the red countertop is doing something for me.

"When we want the bugs to join us for dinner."

I can't stress this enough, they have multiple patio sets.

See, the last people didn't show off all their alcohol at their bar because they thought it looked more refined not to. These guys probably have art supplies tucked away in their bar just to keep you on your toes. (they don't need a bar, these are the kind of people who carry flasks around with them)

So like...objectively, this bathroom is hideous. It's way too much, the feather thing is ridiculous, that cabinet is ugly as sin.

But I kind of love it?

Just a reminder: this is in Arizona.

...I have nothing to say here.

WHAT IS UP WITH RICH PEOPLE AND THEIR UGLY BATHROOMS?!

Again with the doorway to the outside! And I see this a lot, but so many rich people bathrooms don't have storage spaces?! Like, look at those sinks. What.

More to my theory that rich people don't have any need for bathrooms.

This is the bedroom I wanted as a thirteen-year-old and just now realized I still do.

THE WALLPAPER IS EVEN BIRBS!

Like, I can't even make fun of this. I am just in awe. This entire house looks if sixth grade me had access to the Sims 3 Create-A-Style and the motherlode cheat, and I honestly love that for them. I hope these people find a new house to be extremely fucking cool in.

Leaving with these calming lemons in the backyard! Pay no attention to all the bathrooms that open up directly to the garden.

[scorching-earth]

Dungeon Maker Demon lords as Yuu!

As a way to tide my creativity over, time to do something literally no one knows about nor wants! The demon lords have landed in twisted wonderland and have a bad case of amnesia.

Warning there will be spoilers for twisted wonderland…  and like there's barely any story in Dungeon Maker but i will be referring to what little it has for one of the characters. So I guess spoilers for Dungeon Maker? (dude you don't need to know anything about Dungeon Maker. I just rant about how much I hate Luca. at the end it’s not headcanons anymore. So if you don't want to sit through my boring ass lecture on how much I hate Luca. you can skip the last “headcanon”)

Tw: sexual-ish content (no NSFW! Just innuendos, and photos of bathing suits), amnesia, mentions of mass murder.

Lilith

“All I know is my name is Lilith. What's yours cutie?” “*wink* I can show you a good time.” “hm? Oh need something hun?” “oh flirting back, bold move there.”

Oh boy does this Yuu know how to flirt, Yuu will flirt with anything with a pulse that isn't under the age of 16. Man, woman, or other as long as it’s over sixteen is not safe. Yuu just keeps trying seduction techniques. If no one cares that’s fine, to Yuu it’s for the sport of it. Innuendos and lewd remarks are also common. Using sexual body language to pull poor saps in. Does Yuu want to do the do? Who knows! no one’s ever given them the time of day.

Yuu’s also super attractive! Well kinda expected… Why would someone be such a player if they weren't? They tend to use their looks to their advantage to get what they want. Blinking their eyes at the right time. Almost always getting out of situations with a slap on the wrist. A silver tongue can do wonders on the right people. Yuu knows when it is not acceptable to NOT flirt. Understanding there are times it just makes people uncomfortable. Also stopping when people say it’s uncomfortable. Consent is sexy after all! At least that's what Yuu says.

Leadership style: every single one of the Yuu’s have extremely good leadership skills. So how do we differentiate? Showing off the styles! Yuu uses charming words and compliments to instill loyalty. If you hear Yuu dish out orders it’s like a seductive whisper promising great things. No one is immune to Yuu’s charm. When I said Yuu had a silver tongue I wasn't lying.

Let me set the scene: you, a presumed human, have been living at this school for the past few months. You remember nothing but your name. And have no recollection of a past beyond being trapped in a coffin for a few seconds. You help the people around you and fight horrible monsters. So when you wake up with a pair of bright pink horns. a thin pink tail AND small black wings. You would panic as well. That was the day Yuu found out that. NO they are not human, and yes they are a succubus… welp guess all the compulsive flirting was a part of Yuu’s biology.

So after figuring out what exactly Yuu was, Yuu accidentally also found out what they're magic was. Who knew Yuu could summoning a pink whip that forces anyone hit by it to obey you every command? Scary… Yuu holds onto this thing like it will end the world. Considering it has ended worlds… not that Yuu knows that in their still amnesic state. Yuu’s never tried to use it, keeping it strapped to their hip. Yuu hopes they never have to use it. 

Favorite students: Cater matches Yuu’s energy very well. He also knows when to tell Yuu off once they start flirting way too much. Yet the two just click. Cater totally posts pictures of Yuu to get more followers on magicam. Yuu’s fine with it so why not exploit it? Yuu can also see how Cater keeps them at arm's length. Yeah there's one other skill Yuu naturally has. It’s to just tell when people are not being genuine. Yuu’s slowly trying to untangle Cater’s issues.

Least favorite students: Kalim is too dense! Only taking Yuu’s flirting at face value. Yuu’s not going to take advantage of someone who doesn't understand what they truly are saying. That is to say Yuu doesn't hate Kalim. The two get along great. But for Yuu to hold you favorably you have to at least flirt back.

Elizabeth

“No, it’s fine!” “ugh is it hard walking for you as well?” “my mouth is watering?” “... I'm what?”

Yuu has a lot of medical issues. Iron deficiency, vitamin D deficiency. It doesn't help that Yuu hates the sun. it doesn't hurt them or anything… It's just annoying. The Sun’s just too bright or too hot. Yuu needed a lot of blood transfusions. Spending most of their time in the infirmary. It gets really bad considering walking is hard for Yuu. getting up after class causes them to fall over. They are envious of other students who don't have the medical issues they have. Who can run, and jump without having to worry if they're going to be able to get up afterwards. 

Even with Yuu’s issues Yuu really excels in their studies. Yuu could even be called the top of the school. able to beat anyone in a battle of the minds. Yuu even beat Leona in chess. “Yuu’s intelligence is the only good thing about them.” that is what NRC’s students say, and what Yuu thinks of themself. Their lack of magic hurts them as they watch students do the impossible…

Leadership style: Yuu’s intelligence extends past school subjects. Bleeding out into being extremely adept at strategic warfare and tactical thought. Being a strategist that comes once every millenia. Using sound logic to crush any opposition. Yuu’s a tactical genius. 

Setting the scene: Yuu’s fallin after trying to keep up with Ace and Deuce for the tenth time of that day. Both boys care for Yuu and try to help them up. It just so happened that they were near a brier bush… and Ace accidentally cut his hand on the thorns. After they help Yuu’s drooling. “Hey Yuu you ok? You uh look…” Ace didn't get to finish his sentence before Yuu licked the blood off the wound. Both brushed it off as Yuu was their friend. Yet the odd thing for the next hour Yuu never complained about it being hard to walk… after that Yuu had to at least try something out. So the next day when Yuu was in the infirmary. When the nurse was getting IV ready Yuu took the blood pack, and bit down. Considering how most people don't do this there was a panic. Yet after tons of questions and Yuu feeling better then they have ever. They found out Yuu was a vampire 

It took a while but Yuu found out they had Hemokinesis. The ability to manipulate blood. Yuu’s now terrified of them self. It’s scary too scary. Knowing you can manipulate blood. Yuu’s been too tempted to take blood from unsuspecting students. Yet holds themself back. Yuu doesn't know the limits of this ability… and they're scared to know. because it could be very telling about their past. Something they haven't thought about too much. Until now, just what kind of person were they? And how horrible they were that the sun doesn't hurt them at all? The only way that could be is if they had taken lives. 

Favorite students: Lilia had always comforted Yuu about their condition when everyone still thought it was medical. Saying how they had talents that no one else had. The way he hangs from the ceiling was comforting and a bit nostalgic for some reason. So when they found out about Yuu’s vampire lineage Yuu became worried that people would leave them out of fear. Yet everyone stayed. Lilia was the one to explain it “if you wanted to hurt us you would have done so already.”

Least favorite students: Floyed. Yuu could not run very well. And while yes merpeople aren't very good at running. Floyed has long legs, Yuu doesn't. Yuu couldent run away from him in book 2. Dring book two Yuu had so many issues in the sea trying to get that picture. Floyed quite literally swam circles around Yuu. Floyed gave Yuu so many issues. Yet when the truth of what Yuu really was got out. Floyed get annoyed when Yuu for the first time out rain him. And it felt like an huge accomplishment for Yuu.

Rebecca

“What’s wrong with me?” “Did you see that?” “AHHH! G-g-ghosts!” “...dark magic…undead…”

Yuu’s skin is pale grey, pointy ears, and bone white hair. They look unnatural. Yuu also smells like dirt for some reason. Yuu looks like how Ramshackle sounds. Is Yuu a fey? Well Yuu doesn't know. But Yuu’s red eyes clearly see things no one else can. Yuu claims the ghosts don't look like marshmallows and more like corpses. Often being too scared to face the ghosts that work at NRC. Yet for some reason the ghosts of the school gravitate towards Yuu.

Yuu’s very adept at magic theory. Almost as if Yuu is a mage them self. That's ridiculous. Yuu’s never used magic. The mirror also said they have no soul so it’s not like they can use magic. Yuu’s just good at magic theory. There's been plenty of non-magic users who’s good at magic theory.

Leadership style: Yuu gives out clear and concise orders. Treating the people around them as if they're going to follow the orders. Not accounting if anyone doesn't want to do them. And I mean the last time someone didn't do that they got seriously hurt during one of the over blot fights. So everyone just follows the orders. Some people do complan yet Yuu ignores all comments. 

Setting the scene: Sam’s store has always been an interesting place for Yuu. the magic items have always intrigued. Cursed or not Yuu is fascinated by magic. Sam knows this, and likes to show Yuu magic items that in theory could work. Today he wanted to show them an object that glows when touched by the undead. Yet no one can raise the dead. Magic has lim- why is it glowing so bright when Yuu’s touching it. So Sam decided to give it to Yuu to figure out since it reacted so highly to Yuu’s presence. Only to contact his shadow friends about what the hell was happening. One thing led to another, and Yuu’s truth was revealed. Yuu’s a litch. Someone with such strong magic they came back from the dead and now live in a timeless limbo.

Ok so many people freaked out after finding out Yuu not only died, but CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD! Yuu was so excited when Crowley gave them a magic pen. Yuu held back on doing any magic until the end of the day in which they went out back of ramshackle. To test out some experimental magic… ok how about a simple summoning spell? I mean if Yuu’s a litch it’s possible to bring the dead back right, and well yup that’s a walking skeleton. Currently standing at the ready for orders. Then it dawned on Yuu, they summoned that skeleton a little too easily. Who’s to say that they didn't hurt people to continue their magic research in the past.

Favorite students: Idia and Yuu get along too well. They both babble on about experimental magics and magic machines. When Idia found out Yuu was a Litch! Something that should be impossible. Someone didn't open the door to the underworld right?! When Yuu told Idia they raised the dead. The poor teen fainted when he saw the skeleton servant. Idia is tempted to ask Yuu if they could possibly bring his brother back.yet at the same time he’s worried what the result could end up being.

Least favorite students: Azul leave Yuu ALONE! So what if he wanted to contact Yuu before the truth was out. Yuu didn't want to write spells for anyone but themself. When the truth came out Azul got more pushy. If Yuu came back from the dead they must have an unbelievable amount of magic! And when Yuu’s ability to summon the dead got out Azul became relentless, any small favor would constitute rights to Yuu’s magic. Yuu’s dodge all attempts so far. But Yuu’s been more inconvenienced more than usual. Almost as if someone is trying to get Yuu to owe them a favor.

Emma

“Say that to my face!” “Come on now, let’s talk with our fists!” “Raghhhh!” “you need help picking something up, sure I’ll help!”

Yuu is freakishly strong. Yuu’s clearly a beast man cow with the bovine horns sprouting up from there head. And their cow-like tail. The only thing that sticks out? Their color. I've never heard of a pink cow. Perhaps Yuu’s half fey or something. It would explain their high magic talent. Yuu loves helping out with a massive grin on their face.

Yuu adores cute things. Often gushing about baby chicks, or making flower crowns. Yuu is so girly it hurts. They actually hate the uniform for how uncute it is. Yet even with all of these qualities. People forget that Yuu has a very short temper, and is quick to violence. Often huffing and hitting first before asking questions.

Leadership style: Yuu uses their temper to their advantage. Anyone steps out of line a glare down at whoever decided to make a mess of Yuu’s plan. Yuu’s total dominance over strength has them the strongest physically over anyone else. Don't take Yuu as a fool, they are just as good at planning fights as they are at fighting.

Setting the scene: With everyone thinking Yuu is a beast man everyone thought that was all. No one needed more questions about it, yet Yuu felt like it was wrong. Their coloring doesn't follow how the beast man should look. There are no pink wolf beast men. So why is Yuu the odd one out? And after a DNA sample and an extremely old book. Yuu’s minotaur hartige was found. Who would have known that Yuu's anger issues were genetic?

Yuu’s favorite way to use magic is to enhance their already ridiculous natural strength. Yet this doesn't just apply to them they can enhance others. Just the caveat of a bit of their own wrath also gets transferred. But what's that compared to being able to lift up a truck!

Favorite students: Lilia just gets Yuu on a spiritual level. Dressing in cute outfits is the beast. The two gossip. And Yuu helps Lilia with anything he needs… as long as it requires physical power. Lilia and Yuu look like besties. And sometimes it feels like they are. Ace and Deuce do get jealous of the two’s friendship. Ace is meant to be the best friend! And Deuce is worried that Yuu will forget about him.

Least favorite students: Yuu never wanted to dislike anybody. Nope, not at all. But god dammit “Leona get you ass up right now! Our test is in three minutes!” yup Yuu hates how nonchalant Leona is about practically everything. Not citing it as his lack of motivation but just seeing it as him being lazy. Yuu’s pretty simple with everything outside of battle so why is he so unmotivated?!

Tania

“Let’s turn the heat up!” “I don't know why I’m on fire… what do you mean there's another student who looks like me?” “I have a burning hot will!” “so that is what makes me different”

A burning hot will that could never be extinguished. Liking to live life on the edge Yuu’s life is exciting. Something about being in the center of chaos is nostalgic. Getting a little too close to fire for people’s liking. Yuu’s strange, that's for sure. 

For how normal they look. Their hair is made up of fire. Othering them from most of the other students. That was until Yuu was told another student had hair like theres and his a was blue fire. So uh wasn't exactly a normal meeting having someone breaking into your room asking you what you were. the two have actually gotten close. Even though Yuu terrifies Idia. 

Leadership style: using a burning passion and just a little bit of force. Loudly yelling out orders from the fort line Yuu’s no normal leader that's for sure. Most expect for someone as weak and magicless as Yuu they would get hurt in the Overblot fights…

Setting the scene: And you wouldn't be wrong. Yuu’s been injured a little too much. Let me set the scene: you're in book 3 and Yuu’s in the front line fighting Azul themself. And losing horribly for the sheer fact Azul is actually a lot stronger than people give him credit for. Then Yuu's keeping him back… *snap*. And Yuu’s body breaks in half due to the sheer force exuded on it. Yuu’s at least paralyzed for life, and their friends don't even have the time to mourn their death. They have to focus on Azul. well Azul’s beaten eventually. And Yuu’s friends start to mourn them as Yuu’s last moments are spent in total numbness. And as Yuu closes their eyes… Yuu’s body gets hot. Very hot. Like Yuu’s on fire. No seriously Yuu’s on fire and everyone is panicking. As Yuu’s body becomes ash. Before reforming. Yuu’s a pure fire elemental. 

Yuu’s ability to make fire. Any kind. Like white hot fire, purple, blue, oranges, Yuu’s fire can be as hot as the sun… Yuu’s tried it away from everyone else. And such destructive power… it is… so just who was Yuu? Yuu’s getting worried about their own past.

Favorite students: Ace and Yuu’s friendship has been an eternal constant. The two get along very well and Yuu’s never going to forget Ace. When Yuu was still wondering what they truly were Ace was there to help them relax. When Yuu’s resurrection happened the first to nearly die due to relief was Ace. These two are stuck at the hip.

Least favorite students: man so many dower and people to bring passion to. Yuu truly has mixed feelings about Idia’s lifestyle. They know that pushing him to get out of his dorm could backfire, and yet they do it anyway. Yuu wants Idia to get out more and not have to stay in his dorm all day.

Floria

“See, it's harmless.” “your crushing the flowers!” “Oh my, aren't you all sweet.” “I’m… what?”

Yuu has an extreme affinity for anything nature related, often being found in the botanical garden or outside in the forest. Often getting upset when people crush flowers, or litter. Yuu’s not going to get mad if someone steps on grass, but don’t destroy the natural beauty around you. And it’s hard to argue. 

Animals and fairies tend to gravitate towards Yuu. This dose induced the fey; they just naturally gravitated towards Yuu. leaving them in a good relationship with the Diasomnia dorm. It’s harmless, the student feels like they are looking for something, and finds that something when they find Yuu. That has raised some suspicions, why would they naturally try and seek Yuu out?

Leadership style: Yuu uses kind words and general affirmations to make someone follow their commands. A “please” and “thanks you” tend to follow up on any orders Yuu gives out. Yuu also generally has a sweet demeanor.

Setting the scene: ok so it was a while and after a lot of quetoning. During the first day of spring wherever Yuu stopped flowers were soon to follow. While this would normally be considered minor. Some of the flowers they make literally tear through the floor and sprout up from underneath them. And the size of some of these flowers! When Yuu stood in place for too long a rose the size of Heartslabyul dorm grew. This all accumulated in the Head mage decided that continuing to call Yuu human was more trouble than it was worth. He could actually get insurance if Yuu was found to be a powerful fey. As after various rituals and long nights as well as several repair bills. Crowley cracked the code. Calling Yuu a fey wasn't wrong per say. But uh…. Yuu was a dryad not fey. Crowley cured the land at which Yuu now walked.

Magic: to call Yuu a classic dryad was not right. Yuu was more of a spirit of nature than a nature spirit. Yuu cans grow, control, and revive plants. The extent at which this power of theirs gose. Well Yuu hasn't found a limit yet. Such powerful magic makes Yuu nigh unstoppable. No wonder why such magical creatures were attracted to Yuu.

Favorite students: Malleus Draconia And Yuu get along so well you could say they were dating and half the school would say. “Yah that sounds right.”. Not that they are. The two are purely friends. Malleus didn't know why he gravitated to Yuu for no reason after the two first met. Yet the two became fast friends monolonging to each other about their specialized interests. 

Least favorite students: Ortho is a good kid. He truly is yet the fact that he’s not a natural being irks Yuu only a little bit. She can't hate the kid… but she can say she doesn't like him either right? It’s a bit of a strained smile as Yuu looks at Ortho. Yet their opinion could change if Ortho tried to help the environment.

Marielle

“Huff* Huff* hey let me keep up!” “The sea is so beautiful I wish I were a mermaid so I could swim in it all day.” “You mean we're going underwater and can breathe underwater!” “hahaha this feels so natural! What do you mean I’ve chag- Oh my! It’s gorgeous!”

An avid lover of all things ocean, sea and underwater. Who stares at the aquariums in Octavinellefor hours. To Yuu the sea is the most beautiful thing to ever exist. Any creature big or small is gorgeous in their own right and has their own place in the circle of life. Yuu looks at the merpeople and can't help but feel jealous of them. 

Yuu has an affinity for anything ocean related, like merpeople. As such merpeople naturally gravitate towards Yuu, and Yuu gushes about how amazon the merpeople are. Yuu often asks questions about what it is like to live under the ocean. What society is like down there, and what they use as currency. Yuu asks so many questions. 

Leadership style: Yuu’s leadership style is quite lax. Often letting other people take the reigns but calling out to them. Like saying where weak spots are. Or if they are about to be hit. Yuu takes a hands off approach to calculate and learn what weak spots an enemy has and what openings they have as well.

Setting the scene: when book 3 rolled around and Yuu had to go underwater to get the photo Yuu was more then just ecstatic. Yuu could barely sit still in class. So when Acee and Deuce dragged Yuu and Jack to the ocean Yuu gladly followed. Unlike everyone else though… Yuu didn't suffer from lack of air after drinking the potion yet still entered anyway. I mean they drank the potion. So entering the ocean and looking at the sites that they had only dreamed of. One could not fault Yuu for not noticing their tail sooner. Yuu was a mermaid. 

Magic: controlling anything related to the ocean, sea, and underwater comes naturally to Yuu. The ocean itself is Yuu’s domain. Such amazing control. Yuu’s almost worried that they could control mer people. And Yuu never wants to try and see if they can. It would scare them too much if they were good at it as well. It paints a scary picture of their past. Also Yuu can just make themself a pair of legs whenever. Doesn't mean Yuu’s good at using them though running iters Yuu out.

Favorite students: Jade, Floyd, Azul. They are all dear to Yuu. they lived in the ocean before they knew that they too used to live in the ocean. Yuu’s smart enough to know that they shouldn't make a deal with Azul. That doesn't mean that they can't be Azul’s friend. And Azul sort of echoes that statement. Sort of grateful for Yuu, their compliments to him mean more to him then he lets on. So Yuu’s friendship is valuable to him.

Least favorite students: Yuu doesn't like Vil. he’s too arrogant. He is not as pretty as the sea yet acts like he is. The two kinda butt heads. since both are actually quite stubborn. It’s hard to tell who’s won in any situation when the two get into a fight. Vil’s poison making is annoying and dangerous for the environment. And Yuu will always make a point to sneer whenever Yuu sees Vil making poison. 

Irea

“No one is as intelligent as I am!” “hmf, beg for my help then maybe I’ll help you.” “Do you think your opinion matters to me?” “Naturally I wasn't surprised.”

Yuu is arrogant. Super extremely arrogant. One could forgive them if they were strong. But since Yuu is a magicless human all they really can brag about is being smart. And with the battle of the ego’s being this whole school’s main plot. So yuu’s often disregard or out right teased for how arrogant they are. Yet for some reason it never gets to Yuu. 

Yuu’s extremely unwilling to help other people normally having to be threatened into assisting anyone, or having to have people grovel at their feet. To say Yuu is a bit of a bastard is not untrue. Yuu’s personality is horrible so the only thing that they have for them is their looks and smarts. Their Haughty attitude has gotten them in plenty of trouble with other students. Yet Yuu only sometimes looks away, and say thanks to people who help them get out of trouble. 

Leadership style: to say Yuu give out orders is an understatement. Yuu gives out commands. It feels like Yuu’s looking down on everyone as Yuu commands them to follow their plan exactly as described. And every time it works Yuu just pats their own back with a smug look. 

Setting the scene: Yuu’s been keeping to themself a little too long. Ace and Deuce are the only people who truly keep up with their horrible personality. The small thank you’s were enough for those two to keep being friends. So when those two got in trouble for being Yuu’s friends. It pissed Yuu off. Yuu clenched their hands. “These two are under my protection. Who are you to hurt them!” Yuu yelled as lightning struck whoever planned this whole thing. Realizing something as they looked behind them. A halo appeared, one too big to belong to an angle. I guess Yuu’s haughty attitude wasn't unfounded. Yuu is the god of lightning 

Magic: control every part of electricity and natural disasters id uh kinds overkill. But Yuu's a GOD so uh I guess it makes sense. How else am I meant to explain how op Yuu is? Yuu has no downside to their power. Yet there's something sinister about Yuu.

Favorite students: Rook is too much of an enabler… he just gives those with an ego too big more fuel to their fire. So when Yuu was revealed to be a GOD. yah that went over as well as you expected. Rook just piling on praise and Yuu soaking it all up. Vil was indeed jealous so what if that darn perfect is god. Their personality is horrible. 

Least favorite students: literally anyone who doesn't compliment them or think they're lower then Yuu. so over half the cast… grate… Yuu has a particular rivalry with Malleus. Who the hell is this fairy to look down on Yuu so subtly. It pisses Yuu off. Yuu should be looking down on him! He acts as if looking down on Yuu is the most natural thing. Pissing Yuu off even more. So the shock when Malleus found out he’s been looking down on a GOD. yah that took him a minute to process.

Viper

“Fight me you punk!” “I don't trust anything I can't solve with my fists.” “You suck really badly, you know that right?” “I’m a what?”

Yuu’s such a war monger. Always looking for fights and taking the slight hint of aggression as a personal challenge. Using any dirty trick they can win a fight. There's no respect for Yuu. Honer who’s her? Yuu’s a fighting machen who’s had to be pulled back by complete strangers. Yuu’s looking to fight anyone and everyone. 

Other than that Yuu’s got a strange affinity for making poisons. It’s odd considering Yuu likes fist to fist combat. I think the only thing that can cure Yuu’s murder boner is making poison. Because during that there dead calm, focused, and even relaxed. It’s a shocking contrast seeing them so calm. Normally when they walk they look like they are about to pounce on the first person they see. Yet when they're carrying a vile poison it looks like they are the most composed scientist in the world. 

Leadership style: RUNNNNNNN INNNNNNN! You want a command? Get the hell out of my way! Yup Yuu’s a bit of a berserker. Normally using their extremely good tactical skills to fight alone and win. Yuu’s the front line fighter giving others commands like “support me.” or “get your ass out of here.”

Setting the scene: it’s book 5 and Vil has started poisoning the food everyone eats, and for the sake of plot. Let’s just say Yuu’s also been affected by the poison. Yuu didn't want to follow one of the orders since Yuu’s going to play by their own rules until they die, yet they dont die from poison. instead their hair starts moving on its own! Is that hissing! Yup Yuu is a gorgon snake.

Magic: a gorgon snake with both a high tolerance to poison and who’s magic is to inflict any sort of poison they want on their enemies. Yuu’s realization of this kinda scares them. If they had magic like this why is fist fighting such a central thing to them… Yuu stopped fighting after realizing what they are. After all, what the hell could they have possibly done in their past.

Favorite students: Jack is too good of a sparring partner to give up. So Yuu pays nice and by his rules. And Jack respects him for this. Yet can't help but sigh watching Yuu play dirty tricks on others. 

Least favorite students: in yet another installment of “stop stalking me rook.” Yuu’s been followed by rook after you know they're gorgon lineage has been revealed. Yuu’s now glad to have so many eyes makes it easier to spot the bastard and beat him up for spying on them.

*sigh* do i have to?

Luca

“:*nod*” “sure I’ll help.” “... huh?” “get away!”

The only demon lord in the game with a cannon personality. And that personality is a cardboard box. Notice how I said only one. That is because I’ve given everyone a personality based on their design. Their species aren't even confirmed. So I had to make it up on the spot. But the last one is the most anti-climatic. No you know what these headcanons are just going to be me complaining in the most entertaining way possible. *grabs Luca and throws him across the room*

This dude is a visual novel protagonist, no seriously he is. The story mode of this game has you playing as the most basic dude ever moreover. Normally you can get at least some milinge out of dialog options. You could pick a funny one or a serious one. It’s why I actually love Persona 5’s protagonist even though he’s basically the same thing. His dialogue options give him personality. Hell twisted wonderland’s makes Yuu sound clueless, scared, sometimes even sassy. Not everyone loves these options. People make their own Yuusona’s as a result of that. The story is entertaining and people make up their MC to think up new story beats. But even Dungeon Maker’s story is boring and just kinda there. This is a roguelite mobile game. So truly the story is only meh. It’s the gameplay I like. Luca is the only person you could play in the story mode. While in every other game mode you can pick from every single other demon lord Including Luca.

Leadership style: this man would just give out orders. Like boring ass “Hey do that.” or “attack there” boring. I will never get over how this guy’s secretary follows him.

Here’s where I get into the semantics of how a good character design can tell you a lot about them. I think the only good part of Luca is his character design. He’s clearly a demon like Lilith is a succubus. Yet if you look closely in some of his outfits you can see he uses shadows shaped as thorns. Which Is a great translation of his thorn build in game. That's where the parts I can control stop. because once more he's only demon lord in the game with a cannon personality

I will touch on gameplay aspects here. The game as its name implies a dungeon Builder. Where you're protecting a Demon lord from waves of hero’s each demon lord has four skills you can use. Each demon lord is themed around one of the game's core buffs/debuffs. Luca as i previously stated was built around thorns, and armor. A purely defensive build. In the end though you’ll end up gett a little bit of everything on your demon lord 

Any sort of character interaction between him and other characters would probably fall in the same way I normally do MC charters. I make sure it’s up to reader interpretation. If you go back and read some of my other works you’ll find I like keeping MC’s dislikes vague at least. MCs are meant to be self inserts most of the time so I like to translate that a bit into my writing. 

for keeping up with my angry ranting about a fictional character that literally no one has ever heard of you get this!

Bonus: 

Secretary

“I hoped you washed your hands before touching me.” “Master, I have returned for you.” “my dear leader, you've lost your memories. I shall get them back.” “Now do you understand we shall destroy this world as we have for so many others!”

Truth of the past revealed. And the secretary has come back for her demon lord. The secretary is clearly this close to losing it, Because these people are being so friendly with her boss. to call out that they were a bringer of destruction wherever they went and destroyed worlds. It’s clear that they are not in that mindset. It's almost like they have the same DISGUSTING mindset as those heroes. That tried to kill them. It’s alright all that she has to do is subtly nudge memories out of her Master’s head.

Now after fully regaining memories there is a very important voice to be made. Choice one is to stop all they have done, and give up to go continue their conquest. To continue to destroy the words. The secretary is most pleased with this being the choice. The second choice is laying down arms. Who said we needed to fight? We can just stay here and make friends. This is the secretary’s most hated option. The last one. Why stop at one Secretary? Bring the boys into the loop. Show them what true power is. Have them learn from your army! Adapt and overcome hardships. The devil stone is powerful enough to bring them back perfectly fine.

[morethanaloveinterest]

A Reverent Review of Padme's Costumes on ROTS

Let's look at all the costumes Padme wears in Revenge of the Sith and try not to cry.

This is the first costume we see Padme wearing in this movie. She wears it to wait for Anakin and then tell him that she is pregnant. It's not the first time she's worn buns, but these are the closest to Leia's and it makes sense for her to wear them when pregnant. She is also wearing dark clothes and wrapped up thoroughly in a cloak because she is hiding a lot - both her relationship with Anakin and her pregnancy.

Female representation: 10/10 I mean, she's very covered up, but can't complain.

Practicality: 9/10 Presumably moving around is a little impractical but it works great for what she's doing.

Here is the third nightgown we see Padme wearing. Unlike the other two, it is not white. Virginal white, some might say. The color reflects her married status, as does the bare shoulders.

Female representation: 9/10 It's a nightgown, so obviously going to be more revealing than other clothes. However, it makes sense as something Padme would wear, what with the detailing and the length.

Practicality: 8/10 Again, nightgowns are not the most practical. I'm sure she could manage to get up to some adventures if needed.

Padme wears this to meet with some other senators in a deleted scene and then talk to Anakin about what side they're really on. It matches the complexity of her other formal senatorial gowns while also hiding her pregnancy effectively. Her headdress is less elaborate but clearly different from her previous buns - she is definitely at work now.

Female representation: 9/10 You know, I am going to dock a point for having a pregnant woman have to wear something so voluminous to hide it. But it is nice to see a pregnant lady wear something so lovely.

Practicality: 7/10 As with her other gowns, it is probably fine and she could manage, but this one is especially large and difficult to maneuver in, I would imagine.

Padme wears this in her apartment presumably casually. Like most of her daywear in this movie, it is a dark color. Unlike her previous gown, it shows off her baby bump in a very flattering way.

Female representation: 10/10 A great representation of what a pregnant lady might wear in this universe. Padme would definitely wear this of her own volition.

Practicality: 9/10 Not the most practical dress she's worn, but the skirt is not so voluminous or dragging on the floor, and the sleeves are closely fitted under the lace shawl. So I think she could do whatever she wanted to in this.

Padme wears this in a more formal setting than the previous one, which explains how voluminous it is to hide her pregnancy. The belt is pretty but otherwise it seems more like a cloak than a dress.

Female representation: 9/10 can I drop a point because I just don't really like it? I understand the in-universe explanation for the design but Padme would not like being under all that weight while in a delicate condition.

Practicality: 7/10 Probably less than her other gowns but about the same the previous one of this design.

Nightgown #4! I really like this one. Again, it is not white because she is married. The blue reminds me of Naboo, the lake district where she and Anakin fell in love. I really like the detailing on this nightgown and the opening for her belly is a great touch.

Female representation: 10/10 I can not think of a better nightgown for a lady, especially a pregnant one to wear.

Practicality: 8/10 Still a nightgown, but pretty good for all that.

She wears this gown to the final senate meeting, where she gets one of the best lines in Star Wars. The structure is more like her queen's costumes and emphasizes her important position in the government. It also sort of resembles what Palpatine wears, which makes sense as she represents his opposite. And her halo-like headdress emphasizes how she could be the angle on Anakin's shoulder to Palpatine's devil.

Female representation: 10/10 Perfect for her last official senatorial gown. It hides her pregnancy without looking like she's wearing a tent, which is nice.

Practicality: 8/10 Likely no more practical than her other state gowns.

Can it be, Nightgown #5? At least leisure-wear. Her robe is similar to the one from the last movie but not, I believe, exactly the same. Her nightgown is now purple and I wish we had seen her wear that color more often.

Female representation: 10/10 Another great nightgown for our pregnant leading lady.

Practicality: 8/10 I mean, it is still a nightgown.

Padme wears this to go make a final plea to her husband to come back to her. It is similar to her action scene outfit at the end of the previous movie, though a darker color.

Female representation: 10/10 This is by far the most comfortable she looks in any of her pregnancy outfits. It would stretch in the needed areas but not leave her dealing with a lot of excess fabric.

Practicality: 10/10 Definitely the most practical thing she wears for the whole movie. Both because of her condition and to go potentially get into some adventures on Mustafar.

Padme's final gown, which she wears for the funeral. It's giving strong Ophelia vibes and that makes sense, given the similar reasons for their demise. It's very beautiful and tragic.

Female representation: 10/10 Okay, I mean, if we have to look at a deceased woman, it could be worse. She looks like she's in a fairy tale, Snow White or Sleeping Beauty, and that's a lovely way to go out.

Practicality: 8/10 I can't really tell, to be honest, since she is obviously only ever laying down in it. But I'm sure it's fine. I'm not crying at all.

If you enjoyed this, check out my Star Wars for the Girlies Series (Padme episode out now!)

[revretch]

Hey! Big fan of your work - I've recently started delving into Blender animation, is there any way you could share the workflow u use when animating stuff?

Of course, but be warned that my workflow is highly idiosyncratic!

First off: Rigging. How I do it depends on exactly what I'm animating. If I'm rigging Sophodra, Gregorsa, or one of the humans, I'll use Rigify, which ships with Blender (though you'll have to enable it in add-ons). It's free, and for roughly human-shaped figures, it gets the job done.

For the other insects, and especially for the arachnids, it gets a little harder. See, arachnid limbs have a lot of joints, and most rigging add-ons aren't equipped to handle limbs more than three bones long--and I definitely wouldn't want to set up inverse kinematics for that many legs manually. So for those, I use an add-on called FreeIK, which you can get on Blender Market for only $30 (but be sure to read the docs!): https://blendermarket.com/products/freeik

FreeIK is amazing! It uses a method called "ephemeral rigging," which lets me pin any bone in place whenever I please, making it much more like animating a puppet and allowing a much finer level of control than traditional rigs. Sadly, that can be a little too much control on some model--hips on humanoid rigs will shoot out at random. For something like a spider, however, it's absolutely perfect! (I recommend using it in tandem with Selection Sets, another add-on that ships with Blender, to keep track of which bones you want pinned.)

Moving on from rigging, I also use an add-on called Onion Skin Tools. This one is only $10 on Blender Market: https://blendermarket.com/products/onion-skin-tools

As the name suggests, it lets you use onion skinning like in 2D animation. I couldn't imagine doing a walk cycle without it! With its help, I'm easily able to make a repeating walk cycle that loops in place while I move a parent empty around. (And if you're using FreeIK, you'll definitely want to be using a parent empty for placement. It's powerful, but bones can start behaving unpredictably if you get too far from the model's origin. I use two nested parent empties--one for walking, parented in turn to a master empty used for general placement.)

As of work on episode seven, I've also start incorporating Grease Pencil. Grease Pencil is an excellent tool all around, allowing you to do 2D animation in Blender! My style is cel-shaded enough that I can combine it with 2D. Not only do I use it for storyboard reference, but I also use it to draw on top of the scene, for where the 3D just isn't cutting it. I import the storyboards and other drawings with an add-on I made myself--Blender by default only lets you import black-and-white shapes, but my add-on imports as strokes, and can handle color: https://github.com/revereche/lineart_to_gp

I've also started incorporating AnimAll, which is fantastic (and also ships with Blender!). Shapekeys are already powerful tools, allow you to tweak the mesh manually when the rig isn't doing what you need. AnimAll lets you give each Shapekey multiple frames, so you don't need to set up a ton of Shapekeys to do one complex chain of movement. (Be warned it can cause file bloat, though, so use it wisely!)

As for the workflow itself, I go in this order, more or less (after writing the script and making any needed model adjustments, of course):

1.) Storyboarding. Since it's just me, they don't need to be great quality. The most important thing is making sure of the placements, getting the poses down in gestural strokes, and most importantly, getting the expressions just right.

2.) Recording voices. This can also be done before storyboarding, but I like to be sure of the scene flow before I commit. I used to start with rough placeholder voices, but ended up with awkward timing when the length of the final lines didn't match the original well enough. (Good thing none of my characters lip sync!) So, now I do the final audio on this step.

3.) Staging. Previously, this meant eyeballing the storyboard while I roughly placed the characters in the scene. Now, I import the storyboards in a Grease Pencil parented to the camera, so I can pose the characters to the storyboards more precisely. It preserves vivid gestures that would be easily lost in the CG stage otherwise!

4.) Props and backgrounds. Sometimes, I put this off until after animation, but it's really best to do it now. This can be mesh objects, planes I've painted on--or, often, planes I've painted on and extruded partially into mesh. I like to use Geometry Nodes for mesh wherever possible, especially when instancing many objects! It makes dealing with tons of vines (and humans) much easier. Also experiment with Shader Nodes, since generated textures are crisper than you would get with anything but very large texture images. (And if you're using Cycles, don't overlook displacement! Though you'll have to remember to turn that on in the sidebar preferences. That said, I mostly use Eevee, but am starting to look into Cycles for backgrounds.)

5.) Finally, final animation! I've already put the rough poses down, so I begin by cleaning those up, then adding any needed transitional poses. Then, I manually tweak the speed of the tweening, and offset the movements of parts that drag or bounce more than the rest (e.g. antennae). When a character needs to stand mostly still, I'll add a very slight bob for a moving hold, so they don't look like a mannequin.

After this, I render the image sequences, then put them all together in a video sequencing file. There, I add the citation blips, credits, and Gregorsa's Notes, as well as do some editing in post. Then, it's time to render the final video!

Hope that helps. I wish you luck in your future Blender endeavors!

[bosstoaster]

How do you write long stories? Like, 20k+ ? I always have these grand ideas of how I'd like to write a fic that carries grander themes, like a plot against someone that's investigated or a slow burn romance literally anything that feels like it needs to be long to match the content? Like a 5k murder mystery would be over so quickly it'd lose impact? But I can never find the words or inspiration for what should happen in all the "in-between" moments. I can think of things for the beginning and end and a couple of scenes in the middle and it all comes out to about 8-10k. And I can never think of what to put between those scenes. I've got so many disjointed fics I've written over the years that have remained drafts because I don't know how to elevate them from scenes into stories? The pieces don't fit well enough together to turn it into something more epic. It remains a small fic :/ Any advice at all on this? I remember you saying a rough word count of all your fics combined over the past couple years and being flabbergasted by the number. Extraordinary. I'd love to be able to write long fics 🙏 sorry for the ramble!

(Current total AO3 word count is just over 2.75 million words, which doesn't count the 350k-ish in drafts, or fics on account accounts. But anyhow.) I had the same problem for a really long time, actually! Like, genuinely a decade of fic writing through middle and high school. The answer might be different for different people, but one thing really changed the game for me.

Outlines. Outlines are essential for longer stories, by my book.

What I do is I have an idea for a fic, usually a scene or like, an image of a ~vibe.~ From there I ask myself the first question. What do I want from this? Is it a cute romcom situation? Is it a sexy horror story about taming a monster? Is it a surrealist horror story? What do I want someone else to feel when reading this?

When I have that answer, I can answer the next questions: is this an AU or a canon fic? An AU means that your first chapter is probably going to be setting up the differences from canon. Canon means you have to tell your readers when we are in canon and set up how we got to the Situation (or jump into it, if you're feeling spicy.)

With that answer, we have an approximate starting location. It's fic, so we know where your audience is. How do we get from there to what you want to write about? What needs to happen for your fic to occur? For example, in my vampire fic, step one was turning/killing Dave. Okay, so you have your fic in a state where you're ready to run wild with your premise. Here's the actual meat of your questions.

How do I determine what goes in between the start and the scenes I want to write?

Usually one of a few ways

What needs to occur to get to the scenes I want to write? What makes the characters act in a way I want them to, but isn't out of character? Do they need to be hurt? Emotionally compromised? Worn down? How does THAT happen?

What makes logical, in character sense for the characters to do? Given any of the scenes and conflicts you have planned, what would be their next move/concern?

What SLAPS? What scenes add to the feeling I want the audience to have? For example, if this is a rom com, what scenes would make it clear they should get together, or would work well emotionally? If it's a cozy mystery, what clever things does the main character notice that tell you more about the weird cast of suspects? If it's a horror, what makes the situation more tense?

The point of an outline is literally to fill in these gaps. And there's no stress! You can change stuff or ignore it down the line. You're just drawing a basic map for yourself to know the directions you need to go. Just put down ideas, and if they don't work, erase it and try again.

Many vary a lot in length depending on how much detail I already have in my head, how long the fic is, and how complex the story will be. The Vampire sequel outline is six pages long (very long), while most of them are a page or so.

Here's the vampire sequel outline, speaking of. For that, what I had at the start was a) the boys testing what it means to be a vampire and b) Vamp kidnapping Dave. That's all. The rest I made up during the outline.

Without outlines, I would have no idea where I'm going in a fic, so I'd get through what I had then stall out and get writers block and dither and run in circles and eventually give up.

Respect the power of the outline.

[lifmera]

Hello! I adore your writing! May I please have a match up for Hazbin Hotel, Chainsaw man and Sally face if it’s not too much trouble? I'm demisexual 27 year old plus sized woman. I’m 5"7 with fairly wide hips that dip to more narrow center and broad shoulders. My eyes are pale green bordering yellow with short almost shoulder length dark brown hair that is an orange blond from the top of my ears down. I have a septum piercing, two sets of ear piercings and glasses in sort of an aviator style that I forget to wear. I'm a little buff under all this fluff as I am a baker by trade. But I have been dealing with a shoulder injury has kinda left me feeling a bit fragile and frustrated. I've been told I'm fairly pretty but I just kinda don't see myself that by conventional standards. I'm not really self conscious about my body, I am just a large animal and people will just have to deal with that. I prefer to dress comfortably but if I can I enjoy wearing jumpsuits as well as black dresses.

I would describe my personality as caring but very direct. I Tend to prioritize others well being over my own. However, I am working on ensuring I take care of myself just as well. I tend to be reserved around other people but once I get comfortable I tend to ramble on my interests in short bursts, primarily around biology, cryptids, animation and practical effects. Honestly I enjoy being a bit aggressive with my friends- usually intimidation play or picking up people to help make them feel a little small. Admittedly when I feel comfortable around someone I prefer feeling small and protected if I’m not needed for comfort. I have many creative hobbies, primarily sketching, painting, sculpting, and crocheting. One of my favorite things to do is wildlife drawings. Though I find it difficult to hold on to my passions for prolonged periods of time, if someone I'm close to is passionate about something- I'm completely enthralled and try to be as supportive as possible. I love word play, often trying to force puns where they don't fit. I love horror and thriller movies and have a decent tolerance for gore but to be perfectly honest I have a hard time with handling prolonged scenes with people actively suffering.

This sounds a little silly but I imagine if I was a demon in hell I would probably resemble something of a chimera. I do apologize if this is a bit of a long submission! Thank you so much for your time!! 💚

I read sally face and started tweaking….

God i love sally face. AND THANK YOUUUUU.

.. I’ve decided to pair you with… ALASTOR, DENJI & LARRY JOHNSON!

Let’s be real. I think at first you’d remind him of his dear old mimzy. Before she died anyways, and obviously not dependent on him to fight your battles.

Alastor would find your rambling interesting, and he’d honestly probably learn something he hasn’t before? like “wow! Thats new.”

He’d want to learn more about your interests, also because he’s the radio demon, and doesn’t seem to really know much about the modern world- or care for it. But he IS based off a wendigo. So i’d think he’d find it interesting!

He LOVES when you paint, draw, crochet for hum! It reminds him or his own mother, and he’d probably become attached to you.

He’d also enjoy it if you did all of this, while he’s broadcasting too. He’s not able to always be there, but if he is, he’ll want to be with you.

Alastor would LOVE to watch horror movies, but if it makes you uncomfortable, or a scene does, he will pay no mind and skip it. Not like theres anything new he hasn’t seen.

If you were a chimera. He definitely would’ve been surprised at your look! Like- “oh ! Thats new.”

Ok … Denji time..

This man would NEVER JUDGE YOU. He can’t even bag someone.

Honestly i think he’d prefer someone chubbier, he’d LOVE to give hugs.

I think Denji would be a very physical touchy person, esp after what happened with… everyone. It’d help him protect you :)

When he found out about your shoulder injury? He was on your ass all day, every day. You don’t get away!

He loves that you take care of others, but this man is always hurt. He’d rather you be okay than he is!

He would love to listen to you ramble. Denji knows when to shut up, and i think he would enjoy listening!

Okay i know I’ve said this before but denji WILL make you draw pictures of you and him together- or he’ll draw them himself. Like stick figures holding hands!

If you crochet him something? Over the MOON. If its a piece of clothing he’s always wearing it. If its a plushie? He’s sleeping with it at night.

Denji would be indifferent to horror movies. I think he’d prefer comedy. He’s seen enough! :(

NOW LARRY 💛

I feel like i shouldn’t have to explain.

He’d LOVE YOU. You remind him of his friends :)

Your personality allows his to come out! He loves that you care for his friends, and his well being cause we know damn well he doesn’t.

Larry is a Listener instead of a talker. He’d love to listen to you ramble and ask questions while he’s painting! His favorite things at the same time!!

You draw with him, you paint, you crochet? Holy SHIT!!!! HE’D BE IN LOVE. Like! Okay !!! I LOVE YOU!!! 🧡🧡

I think he doesn’t mind any movie you guys watch. As long as it’s a mean of being able to cuddle with you on the couch and watch a movie.

He definitely finds your puns funny.

~~~

I HOPE THIS WAS OKAY!!!

[harpershigh]

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About the themes in this blog:

My only no-gos in what regards to writing are: Alzheimer, Dementia, Parkinson, and other neurological degenerative diseases, including temporary conditions such as Delirium. I will not read nor write those, and I'd like it to be tagged if we're mutuals and these ever pops up in your blog.

As for other themes I won't write (but these ones I have no problem reading, or interacting with characters who go through them, and they don't need to be tagged): Self-harm, suicide or suicide ideation, character death. Read more about this here in this post: ABOUT THE THEMES IN THIS BLOG

Shipping:

My Jaheira is open for shipping, come kiss the grandma. Be warned though, that it will be a slowburn because she's emotionally constipated. If you're a shameless ship whore like me, we can have threads set at different points in their relationship so we don’t have to wait for them to stop being idiots before we get to the good romance stuff.

Regarding OCs:

This blog is super OC-friendly! I’d love to meet your blorbos, hear about their relationships, and explore the dynamics you have in mind with Jaheira. The more you share, the better we can plot together!

Although love OCs, I have personal reservations about self-inserts due to past experiences. Interacting with them makes me very uncomfortable, so please respect that and don’t insist.

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I'm not mutuals-only. Bring on your ideas or send a rp meme and we can interact;

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NSFW allowed, but I'd rather have it under a "read more" cut (because yes I write at work :D );

Be warned that I'm a complete clown irl so no matter how traumatic and angst our thread is, I will probably send you a meme about it. Let me know if it's not your vibe and I'll refrain from doing so;

I will never bug you about a reply, and none of my interactions comes with any kind of pressure. Take all the time you need in our threads, and in our communication out of the character too;

Don't need to match styles or length in replies;

Feel free to drop any thread at any given time, you don't even need to warn me, I'll never be mad about it or most probably I won't remember it;

I can write only in portuguese, english or spanish. Unfortunately I can't comprehend any other languages :(

Although I try to keep Jaheira as canon-compliant as possible, I'm all in for crossovers, AUs and canon-divergent lore characters;

Feel free to take small liberties such as a change of scene/scenario/introduce more characters, and even describe minor reactions of my muse (a look, a shift in the attention, a sigh, etc), specially if previously plotted, but please don't write away all of my muse's actions/speeches;

Multiverse, multiship, polyship, crossover, rarepairing, crackships friendly. That means: each ship and dynamic happens in a separate timeline of its own, unless stated otherwise and properly plotted with all the muns involved;

No rush on replies! I'm a slow writer, mostly because I write first in my mother tongue and then translate it to english... So yeah, please be patient with me. Also, I'm pretty laid-back, so no need to feel pressured to reply quickly, be it in threads or in DMs. I'm super low-maintenance too — if we don't talk for months, I'll still reply like no time has passed.

NO DRAMA. I don't want to know what XYZ said on a Discord server; I don't want to read a full thread on Twitter about your bickering. Don't try to guilt me into stop taking to someone. Don't tag me in callout posts. Don't come to my inbox to talk shit about other people, especially if they're POC. Whatever your personal problems with others are, DON'T INVOLVE ME.

NO RACISM, HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA, ETC. I can, of course, interact with biased characters, but DON'T make it an excuse to be an asshole in the real world.

ADDENDUM: Don't "softblock" me. I use mostly Tumblr mobile, so most of times I'll just think I unfollowed you unintentionally (because the app does that) and I will follow again. Either ignore me or hard block me at once.

[recurring-polynya]

Writing/Art Update 12.5.2023

It took me all week, but I did, finally, finish Chapter 5.

I had two great wordcount weeks in a row. This was not a great wordcount week. I did spend a lot of time thinking about my fanfic, and plotting and outlining. These are not normally activities that I enjoy, but it honestly wasn't so bad. I decided that I didn't want to keep proceeding forward until I had decided how this thing is going to end. If you've ever read any of my writing advice posts, you'll know that I nearly always advise deciding how the fanfic will end before you start writing the fanfic. The only reason I didn't take my own advice is because I usually don't need to. While I am infamously bad at ending individual scenes and chapters, I nearly always know how a fanfic is going to end, and this time I just...didn't?

Anyway, I thought about it all week and thought up some scenes I would like to do and thought about the character arcs and motivations I wanted my three mains to go through in the second half of this fanfic, and I also thought about characters whom I felt had not gotten enough screentime. All of these things were easier than coming up with an ending, but I did eventually come up with an idea for my last few scenes, and I think it's good enough that the rest will fill itself in as I go. We are definitely shaping up to be 9 chapters and an epilogue, which means I am now slightly over halfway done? Yay? It still feels frustrating because the front half is pretty self-contained and I want to show it to people, but I cannot, it needs to wait but there's soooooo muuuuuuch left to goooooooo.

Anyway, let's focus on the positive! I added 2,939 (new) words to Chapter 5, bringing it up to 10,160, the longest chapter so far, but not egregiously so. I added one scene which is both unnecessary and dreadful. It ruins the pacing at the end of the chapter, it goofs up my alternating narrator structure, and it's just extremely weird. Also, if I cut it, the chapter length will better match the other ones. I wrote a note in my outline "this scene is bad and you should delete it." Will I? Readers, I likely will not. This is fanfic and when you write fanfic, you can just make people read unnecessary scenes about Renji and Iba's dirtbag friendship and they can't do anything about it because I do not receive any sort of compensation for this. I promise that if I come to my senses and actually ax, I will post it here. In other news, everyone who loved the Squad Six-gets-universal-healthcare scene from Hearts will be overjoyed to learn that this one features a bit in which Ukitake-and-Yumichika-discuss-the-Gotei-13-procurement-process. Once again, I do not get paid.

I also spent some time this week fixing up the portion of Chapter 6 that I had already written. Some of it needs to be fully reworked, but there was a significant chunk that could be pretty much pasted in with a little minor editing.

That brings the wordcount for this week to 17,423 for Part B, or 54,296 overall (+10,207 for the week). That is...that is starting to become a fanfic.

It's also December, and there's a lot of stuff going on, so I'm really trying to not be too ambitious in my goal-setting, but I'm hoping that maybe I'll be able to get through Chapter 7 by the end of the year.

I did a drawing tutorial this week. It was okay. I'm kinda 🫠about drawing lately, but sometimes I can only really concentrate on one thing at a time.

[exitthedoughnut]

Particle Accelerator // Marvel

About Me and My Writing

Hi, you can call me Malibu (or w/e floats thine boat). I'm in my late twenties, my pronouns are she/her. I am both queer myself and obviously queer friendly. I'm not always consistently around due to both some environmental circumstances and personal struggles (it's the mental illness).

My writing style is third person present tense. I do have the ability to write in past tense if present tense bothers you. I can write anywhere from 200 words to about 3,000 (I don't measure in paragraphs as I play a little fast and loose with the definition of "paragraph" aksjdfhg).

While I don't expect you to mirror/length-match me, I am asking for someone who is comfortable writing detailed, literate posts. Not every post has to be 800w, I often dip low in my word count during dialogue heavy scenes. And I'm not asking for perfect spelling every time, lord knows I have a myriad of typos and I don't re-read my posts when I get excited. But I'm asking for the basics.

I am not caught up on the MCU. I just watched Multiverse of Madness last week, which is about where I'm at. I'll have a more comprehensive list of what I do and don't know a little later in the post.

The Rules

Since I'm in my late-late twenties, I'm looking for someone who is at least 23 themselves, but it'd be even better if you were 25+

In this house we double. If you don't know what doubling means, it means that I write both my character and who you want me to write for you, and you write your character and who I want you to write for me. It's a fairness thing derived from the old days of "canon x oc is SO selfish and unfair" which is why old farts like me say it's for "balancing" or "tit for tat" or whatever, since I've seen a lot of confused people lately. If I'm asking for canon x oc, it's only right I offer the same (or whatever it is you want) in return. Something I am completely capable of, I don't know why people make such a big deal out of lying on their fainting couch and claiming they can't do two sets of characters at once. Especially when they're totally okay with writing out background characters at the same time??

I will even triple for you, if you're in the market for a love triangle or a polyam OT3. You do not in any way have to triple in return, in fact I'd prefer if you didn't.

I also am completely comfortable writing as much space filling NPCs and canons as we need. I never let a scene go empty, and I'm happy to write surrounding characters. In fact I do it automatically. Sometimes people are surprised by this. I used to admin group roleplays.

At this time I am not looking for any NSFW content in my roleplays. I fade to black, and I won't be bullied into doing otherwise. (Dick jokes and talking about the fact adults do fuck is fine though, fading to black doesn't mean instant prude status)

I am however alright with like, a bit of violence. About Witcher 3's level is as far as I'm comfortable going: Fights can get messy as a treat if we want, we just don't need to go body horror with the organs, right?

Limits: Are very important, do not forget them. I do not want drugs, alcohol, smoking, vaping, or substance abuse to feature in or out of character. I don't want to see memes about it, I don't want to write about it. Nothing. I should not have to justify this, but my hobby and the dms of people I hope to be friends with is literally the only place I can ask to be a safe space. Because it is everywhere. I'm not judging people, I don't care what you do. I just don't want to hear about it, because I can't escape it anywhere else. I also am not wild about sexual assault, or the community's standard limits list of: pedophilia, incest, bestiality, etc. Leave all of that at the door, thank you. Rule number one of the salon is don't be nasty and you know that!

The mediums I use are: Discord and Email (I'm not keen on writing here on tumblr, but I'd be happy to idk, make a private Proboard or something?)

New rule: Please do not show me AI art of your character. Don't use an AI generator about it if you plan to write with me. Find a picrew or a dress up doll or some random picture on Pinterest. Hell just give me a paragraph description if you have to.

When you message me, do not just ask for my Discord or my Email. Do not just ask if I'm still looking, don't just say hey. The first message is a first impression, make it a good one. Tell me about yourself, tell me who you want me to write for you, what you're thinking, if you're picking up what I am putting down. Put some personality into it: This isn't a job, it's a hobby, it should sound like it when you talk to me. In this same vein, I'd prefer said first impressions are conducted over email, but messaging me on tumblr is fine too I suppose

Characters and "Plots"

First of all, in regards to sexuality / gender / canon / oc identities, everything is peachy keen! M/F, F//, M//, Trans, NB, Canon/OC, Canon//, OC// are all fine by me ♡

My side will be M/F Canon/OC, but you are welcome to request anything you would like. This is Build-A-Bitch and you can, in fact, have it your way.

My side is also M/F in a distinctly queer way. My OC is under the ace umbrella, as well as someone who doesn’t entirely conform to gender, so take that as you will ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I will make you an OC, I will play multiple Canons for you, you can write as any gender identity or sexuality as you please. Just rub the lamp and make your wish! I will write almost any Canon for you, barring noted exceptions.

That out of the way, here's what I'm looking for!

I am looking for you to write: Tony Stark against my OC. I would particularly love to write for you: Steve, Bucky, Quill, Peter (Parker, MCU or Insomniac), Rocket (I will not make him a human), Drax, Stephen, Sam, Yuri (Watanabe, Insomniac), May (MCU), Mantis, Quentin Beck (Insomniac), Yelena, Natasha, Agatha, damn near anyone your gay heart desires Who I'm not particularly keen to write: Thanos, Quentin Beck (MCU), Tony Stark (duh)

And here's some plot jumping off points I've got rattling around in here, my favorites I'll mark w a heart scale out of five:

Iron Man 2008 ♥♥♥♥♥

My OC x Pre-established, Pre-Afghanistan Tony and working through the films? His life? An AU? W/e, but starting in 2008 Iron Man

Now I know a lot of people tend to cringe at pre-established or in general think it’s boring. But I don’t mean they were already like super together and had had a full character arc and everything prior to the roleplay ever starting. What I mean by this is I want to play with a plot where my OC and Tony were acquainted (preferably as friends with benefits) prior to his abduction in by the Ten Rings. During his time away my OC will realize oops! She accidentally fell in love with the emotionally unavailable playboy she was supposed to be having a not serious relationship with! And now he’s probably dead. Cue emotional turmoil! I like to pick the plot up at and start the roleplay when he comes home from Afghanistan, and work through the no doubt complicated feelings going on, building their relationship throughout the timeline. I’m not asking for insta-love. I’m just asking for two people who know each other and now have a whole lot of baggage to haul out of the basement thanks to someone’s near death experience.  I’m also not looking for this idea some people have that a roleplay ends with a couple getting together. I don’t want to artificially postpone them getting together, but again I’m not asking for insta-love. Just for something to evolve naturally. I’m sure that’s all obvious but I have had people try to withhold them from dating for esoteric reasons, and I just want to cover my bases since this is the most frequently misunderstood plot I want to do. Now obviously, this is very self indulgent. I would never dream of asking for this for my side without being willing to absolutely reciprocate. If you have a Marvel bae you want to work through the films with or some other self indulgent ask you never get to use, ask away. I am happy to do whatever you want for your side in exchange. I also recognize this is disgustingly self indulgent, but what is roleplay if not the wish fulfillment hobby? Naturally, in return, I am happy to write whatever self indulgent AU you are after!

Guardians of the Galaxy (1, 2, Game, whatever!) ♥♥♥♥♥

General space shenanigans. Tony + his found family the Guardians is extremely important to me.

I absolutely adore throwing Tony and my OC up into the cold, unforgiving expanse of space to be picked up by the Guardians. Them acting as a found family for Tony just means a lot to me, especially with how the writers for the MCU just. Refused to make the Avengers friends? If they won’t let the Avengers be friends, then I’ll give Tony friends by way of the Guardians god damn it. (Yes, him being Friends with Rocket and Nebula in Endgame was very important to me, thank you for asking) I am perfectly happy with your side being either from Earth or from space! Although this idea revolves around the Guardians, please don’t feel like your love interest has to be from the space scape, as I am ready and willing to find a way to drop kick everyone into space regardless of where your love interest comes from. If curious! My most commonly utilized plot involves the Collector hiring someone, be it the Guardians or another faction, to scoop up Tony. Frequently the reasoning is either A) Tony’s suit and reactor is unique, and he’s interested, or B) he’s interested in getting him as a gladiator present for his brother, the Grandmaster's, birthday. We don’t have to use this idea, I am happy to come up with others, brainstorm something together if you like But I know people often wonder how I plan to get them up there, and that one’s a pretty sure bet.

Potential Firefly influence?

Either instead or or in addition to the thoughts above, we could add some Firefly spice into this? Firefly is cowboys in space, let’s be real, and Quill gives a lot of pretending at being a space cowboy energy. I think kind of slapping him with some Mal energy could be really fun if you want him as a love interest.  Not required! Just something I’ve talked about with some people before and I am pretty fond of.

Miscellaneous

I'm also currently in Chapter 7 of the 2021 video game! And I love it a lot so far. I don't know anything about the comics (but want to start reading them soooon especially the arc where Tony is with them 🥺) and we don't at all have to stick to the MCU version of the Guardians (especially since I have my own headcanon version of Quill rattling around in my head that's 100% not Crisp Rat askjdhfg) I just love the Guardians as a concept. I love space families, I love Firefly and Star Trek is one of my favorite childhood series as well, and I love all the space stuff in Steven Universe, etc etc. I just love space settings LOL esp slice of life space settings (ST:TNG my beloved)

Insomniac's Spider-Man ♥♥♥

So I’m like too in love with this game. As someone who never read the comics, and didn’t really get into Tobey’s Spider-Man and catch the bug like my sibling did, I feel like with this game I finally get it, you know? Spider-Man is one of the most popular superheroes, and I wasn’t like. On the hype train. But now I’m on the hype train.  I’m unfortunately not really sure what I want to do with these games. All I know is that I love them, and I’d trade several organs to be able to write Insomniac’s Peter for you. I want to write him so so bad I just think he’s wonderful. I also love Yuri but not nearly as much as Peter.  We could follow the games, maybe do some pre-game stuff with Peter? Explore some of the 8 years prior to the game of him being Spidey? Maybe expand on some of the lore tidbits we get throughout the game in dialogue and mostly the backpack collectables? We could also do some post-game (any of the three) stuff. We could rewrite some of the game! We could save some characters maybe. I’m not sure! I’d love to explore literally anything with this, so if you have something in mind please let me know!  I’d love to figure out some ways to incorporate other Marvel characters too, just because seeing all the little nods and hints in the games to other villains or heroes or the dialogue tied to certain landmarks, or Otto getting bankrolled by Advanced Idea Mechanics: that shit was thrilling. I’d love to find a way to do more of this, even if it’s just figuring out how we slam dunk Iron Man into the scene. 

Thor: Ragnarok ♥♥

Science Bro reunion on the planet of trash is very good, ten outta ten. Love to slam dunk people into Sakaar.

I don’t have a whole lot more to say about this honestly? Other than we can also throw in whatever canon you want that isn’t normally there. Want the Guardians to show up? Carol? Want to slam dunk your bae in the gladiator ring too? Regardless of the movie I’m anchoring a plot to, I will throw anyone and everyone into the ring if you want.

Spoiled Princess gets anything she asks for, details at eleven.

I also have an AU where my OC (still human) was adopted by the Grandmaster as a baby, and is essentially the princess of trash planet, and Sakaar is where she meets Tony. Typically I have her ask her dad to spare Tony by way of insisting that he has a champion in the Hulk, why can’t she ever have a champion? He can’t just melt stick everything she takes an interest in! Other than that not much to say, I feel like Ragnarok is a pretty straight forward setting. Most of the ideas for this one would come about in talking it out with you.

Multiverse Stuff ♥♥♥♥?

Loosey goosey thoughts

I have a few multiverse ideas, one of which is original but could also be tied to NWH if we wanted. Another one involves TVA/Loki s1 stuff. We could probably swing something DSMOM related! Most of it deals with my OC having been involved with a Tony (be it MCU or some other universe's Tony), and loses him. Then typically she either tries to find a way to fix it (TVA intervenes) or she goes on a grief fueled vigilante spree and gets somehow knocked into a new dimension (original/nwh) where she can stop this universe's Tony from suffering the same fate, blah blah blah. It's all pretty loose and idk how super attached I am to it, but I came up with it because I was sad about IWEG and watching Phase 4 is hard LOL I also have a Spider-AU for my OC (who is normally just a civilian and doesn't have any powers other than This Stick She Found™), because who among us didn't make a Spider AU after seeing Spider-Verse LOL

Marvel Rivals ♥♥

Hero shooter go brrrr

I don't even know. I don't even know! All I know is every time I hear a Tony voice line I make noises like a wounded dog because I love him so so so so much. And there's LORE? THERE'S FANFIC???? IN MY HERO SHOOTER??? RIGHT THERE IN THE HERO PAGE? I haven't read them all yet bc I've been like. Too excited. About it. Too hyped about actual fiction I can read in the heroes tab. But fuck if I'm not like frothing at the mouth about this game, I played both the Alpha and the Beta and now I'm just. Losing my mind in the full release. Everyone is so cool?????? Holy shit?????

Marvel's Avengers (Crystal Dynamics, 2020) ♥♥♥♥

THE HATERS WERE WRONG

(i'm copying this from somewhere else and i'm too lazy to do proper sentence caps, sorryyyyy) HELP? HELLO??? i know. this game. has so many problems. i know this game had so many problems and was such a disappointment it was delisted from digital storefronts and the only way to play it now is if you already owned it, or you can find a disc copy. i know. i know the rituals are intricate. but i got the disc for christmas '23 i think and finally got around to putting it in and h e lP?? i'm playing the reassmble campaign for transparency (as.......... in my opinion, i know others felt differently but in my opinion the combat. mm. sucks. LMAO) and im losing my mind. i'm going feral. i literally cannot??? handle it?? i'm beside myself and i know, i know, it's a really big and embarrassing reaction for what is probably in all likelihood a mid game that needed more time in the oven to cook and didn't get it BUT THE CHARACTER WRITING..... I LOVE THEM YOUR HONOR?? I REALLY LOVE THEM??? it feels like for once (as someone again w primary knowledge in the mcu) they understood that...these people are... friends???? the way bruce and tony have like. beef. but they TALK IT OUT? THEY OVERCOME THEIR DIFFERENCES? THEY APOLOGIZE??? not to mention it's got that like. bbrrrrr supers are bad we're using the media to make you think supers are dangerous kind of fictional politics i go apeshit for and JARVIS! JARVIS IS IN THIS GAME! AND HE'S IMPORTANT??? LIKE HE ALWAYS SHOULD'VE BEEN??? HE'S A MAIN FUCKING CHARACTER jarvis is like. my second favorite marvel character ever and i have many loud passionate opinions about jarvis and that he's here and part of the team and adored by the team? and respected???? is everything to me THAT TONY AND JARVIS GET TO BE OPENLY AFFECTIONATE TO EACH OTHER AND ACKNOWLEDGE EACH OTHER'S IMPORTANCE IN THEIR LIVES???? REVOLUTIONARY that's his little guy that's his little guy he should get to be that way !!! (what they did to their rship in the mcu post-vision i will never forgive i s2g. i love vision. as his own separate character, they didn't have to tear jarvis to shreds like that) i would love to do something with the reassemble campaign or something like it or even if we don't plot anything in this game if you're like. aware. if you've played/watched the game hell that's good enough for me i'm just going batshit insane over the character writing, mundane and thin on the ground as it is ;; ;; like this bruce is so good??? hes??? oh my god??? i wanna write this bruce SO badly if you have ever wanted to hulk smash this man please please pLEASE LET ME WRITE THIS BRUCE FOR YOU???? PLEAAASSEEE okay i'm done begging i think idk what else to say here except im like. salivating over this game i've been so embarrassing in my friends dms about it aslkjdhfg

Alternate Universe ♥♥♥♥

I'm always always always super down for an AU. We could use other media as the AU (Star Trek, Gargoyles, Disney/Fairytales, Indiana Jones, Anime, Jurassic Park, Steven Universe - literally name it, if I know it I can probably get hype about workshopping an AU) For more generic tropes/genres I loooove Fantasy AUs, D&D AUs, I love space and robots and sci-fi, I super love spies!! Like oh my gosh spy AUs are some of my favorites. It's like spies, fantasy, space slice of life, and androids are probably my four favorite genres? I'm super down for anything though. I also looove monster AUs, like vampire Tony?? Hello???? You could probably suggest anything and I'd be happy to babble about it. Magical Girls? Dungeon Meshi? Baldur's Gate? (though that's just Gale. Let's be real with ourselves. alkjhdjkg it's 100% why I am romancing Gale) I'm a slut and a whore for AUs aslkjdhfg and I am also a slut and a whore for tending to have like Six AUs I talk about all at the same time with partners who are tolerant of that behavior slkjdfg

Okay !! That should take care of the plot and characters section, onto the last little bit!

What Media Do I Know?

MCU:

Where I'm At:

Phases 1-3, Wandavision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Loki Season 1 (but not S2 yet!), Shang-Chi, a few episodes of What If, Hawkeye, Eternals, No Way Home, Multiverse of Madness, GOTG Holiday Special

What I'd Prefer Not to Do:

IWEG. At least in the way it was shown to us. I'd prefer to just nuke it from existence entirely through plot points that circumvent it altogether, but I understand the blip is like. important or whatever to most of Phase 4 aslkdhjfg so if you want to do something in P4, we can workshop this.

Other Marvel Entries:

Insomniac's Spider-Man, Miles Morales, and Spider-Man 2

Chapter 7 of Squeenix's Guardians of the Galaxy (2021)

Deadpool, Deadpool 2 (though I didn't care for the second film) I haven't seen the third yet since it's in theaters and since covid I don't go to those, but I'll see it eventually 🤷

Days of Future's Past, X-Men First Class

Into the Spider-Verse, but not Across the Spider-Verse yet

Marvel Rivals! Yeah there's not a lot of content there but I also really like the dialogue writing alskshjdfg (and as an Overwatch fan I'm used to this like No Content But Somehow the Voice Lines Make It Worth It vibe lmao

I own Squeenix's Avengers, TTG's GOTG, and the Iron Man VR game that I all plan to play but haven't yet

Alright, I think that's probably it!

Hope to hear from you guys, but if I don't, good luck on your searches!

And for those who stuck around to the end and are interested in contacting me, here is my email that you can do that at:

beachcityshores (at) gmail (dot) com

(sorry for it not being very copy-pasteable, trying to avoid you know whats just scraping my email and spamming me)

We can totally RP via Discord, but you gotta get my handle by talking to me first. I'm getting tired of handing out my disco only to be hit with "hi i saw your ad :)" great what do you want [insert something I didn't ask for here]

If you're gonna make me pull teeth at least pay me a dentist's salary first <33

Bye!