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Fighting God in his own home

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something something intro post

carrd || mcyt sideblog || mcyt writing carrd || writing sideblog

ive been on this site longer than some of you have been alive, oh my god

anyway im hawke, 20+, he/they, and I want to talk about robots thank you

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a scene from ‘my heart is gold (my hands are cold)’ by @kaytewrites bc I love it and had to draw something from it 🤧💕

if you like sangcheng, nie bro feels, or curious why nie huaisang is telepathically communicating with a robot cat, pls give it a read!!

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Chapters: 2/5 Fandom: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Fatui Members (Genshin Impact), Electro Cicin Mage (Genshin Impact), Original Character(s) - Character, Fatui Harbinger Members (Genshin Impact), La Signora (Genshin Impact) Additional Tags: Minor Character Death, Snezhnaya (Genshin Impact), please say hello to my new daughter natalia, shes terribly sad and mostly just wants to vibe in a cottage, with her weird electric bees, and maybe explore the world and see what's beyond the horizon Summary:

La Signora takes an interest in Natalia’s training. Natalia receives a blessing (and a curse).

(Natalia, former Fatui Cicin Mage and current adventurer, through the years. For @/genshinfanweek on twitter.)

#genshin impact #genshin oc #genshin oc week #genshinoc #la signora #fatui cicin mage #natalia

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Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Fatui Members (Genshin Impact), Electro Cicin Mage (Genshin Impact), Original Character(s) - Character, Fatui Harbinger Members (Genshin Impact), La Signora (Genshin Impact) Additional Tags: Minor Character Death, Snezhnaya (Genshin Impact), please say hello to my new daughter natalia, shes terribly sad and mostly just wants to vibe in a cottage, with her weird electric bees, and maybe explore the world and see what’s beyond the horizon Summary:

There is a girl in the snow.

There is a girl and a wolf, and both of them are wearing red.

There is a girl and a storm, and she cannot stop, and she cannot be saved by anyone but the wolf.

There is a wolf in the snow.

(Natalia, former Fatui Cicin Mage and current adventurer, through the years. For @/genshinfanweek on twitter.)

#genshin oc #genshin oc week #cicin mage #fatui #genshin impact #natalia

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Niè Huáisāng Characters: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Niè Huáisāng, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Wēn Níng | Wēn Qiónglín, Wēn Qíng (Módào Zǔshī) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Monsters and Hunters, Alternate Universe - Mythical Creatures, Canon-Typical Violence, i wanted to write a fight scene. thats the entire reason this exists, as voted for by twitter, nhs and jc are a deadly duo together n i love them, wei wuxian is here to Cause Problems by Trying To Fix Things, unbetaed Series: Part 2 of promises, promises Summary:

Ambushed in the forest, Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang try to find out who their mysterious attackers outside of Yiling are, without dying in the process, and find some familiar faces along the way.

(a continuation of the hunter!jc and werewolf!nhs au, now with more plot.)

title from lost it to trying by son lux.

#mdzs #sangcheng #nie huaisang #jiang cheng #mo dao zu shi #modao zushi

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ourglass, kayte hawke.

#poem #poetry #lgbt poem #lgbt poets #love

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Niè Huáisāng Characters: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Niè Huáisāng, Niè Míngjué, Niè Zōnghuī, Jiāng Yànlí Additional Tags: no beta we thrive like men, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Alternate Universe - Mecha, Minor Character Death, (it's just some random baddies its fine), Canon-Typical Violence, Sunshot Campaign, Pre-Relationship, meet cute: save ur grade school crush from being a prisoner of war Series: Part 2 of the dark between stars (mdzs mech au) Summary:

A snap of violet light across the screen; he sees the camera shudder. The blurry figures of two white-and-red Wen mechs stomp on scene with the fury of the fire their reactors spit at the world around them; he can just barely make out the shape of the purple mech slinking between them, looking for all the world like a breathtaking whirlwind.

It takes Huaisang another moment of watching to realize, oh, that’s Jiang Wanyin.

And another to realize: oh, he’s losing.

 Nie Huaisang is a late bloomer. Jiang Cheng may have bitten off more than he can chew. Nie Mingjue just wants his brother to be safe.

#sangcheng #nie huaisang #jiang cheng #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #happy birthday nie huaisang ily bb

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Lán Jǐngyí, Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī, Jīn Líng | Jīn Rúlán Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Mecha, Self-Indulgent, i wanted a mech au, i'm gonna make a mech au, love my single brain cell squad junior trio Summary:

This is the sixth time Jin Ling has skipped dinner mess. This week.

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a snippet from a mecha AU for MDZS.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #modao zushi #jin ling #lan sizhui #lan jingyi #IM OBSESSED WITH A MECH AU FOR THIS AIGHT ITS JUST #SO GOOD

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find/give/fall || kayte kelsey

#poem #poetry #love #spilled ink #lgbt poetry #lgbt poet #feeling Very Soft in this chilli's this morning

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Taryon Darrington & Cassandra de Rolo Characters: Cassandra de Rolo, Taryon Darrington Additional Tags: cass needs more friends and so does tary, Im Here To Provide Content For My Favorite BroTP If It Kills Me, traumatized people being traumatized together: the fic, also: vox machina are actually kinda awful to people sometimes: the fic Summary:

Whitestone air is always cold. It blows through the open window, carrying new-spring scents with it, along with the rustle of leaves. Outside, in the courtyard, she can see Vex’ahlia and Trinket play-fighting. Trinket bats Vex to the ground gently and then lays down on her, and even from up here, three stories high, Cassandra can hear her laughter.

“I don’t think they mean to, not really,” Taryon murmurs, half-spoken into his tea. It ripples against his breath, almost threatens to splash into his face with how close he holds it as he speaks.

originally published in the Folk Tales of Exandria zine.

@folktalesofexandria

#critical role #cassandra de rolo #taryon darrington #cr1 #cr season one #critical role season 1 #love these rich kids getting along

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The promised financials breakdown is here!

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A little belatedly - all copies of Folk Tales of Exandria were shipped on January 20th! Those of you who ordered them should have gotten a notification from BigCartel, but I can definitely confirm they’re on their way. For those of you in the UK and Europe, they should either have arrived or be arriving very soon; for those of you elsewhere, they should theoretically be arriving some time this week (though I feel that may be ambitious for Australia and some of the more distant reaches of Asia).

So! One year, thirteen fics, one book, thirty orders, fifty minutes at the post office, and two people mistaking me for a postal worker from the sheer volume of parcels I had with me, and we are done. Thank you so much to all our writers - I (very literally) couldn’t have done this without them, and appreciate their patience with the delays, their tolerance of my continual pestering, and the wonderful fanfiction they’ve all produced. Thank you, too, to everyone who preordered the zine, and especially to our mystery donor who very kindly bought two copies of the zine to be given to authors. We’d never have been able to do a print run without all of you, and I’m so amazingly grateful for your financial support (and emotional support! It’s such a lovely feeling to know there are people out there who love something you’re doing enough to pay for it.

Regarding finances: we actually ended up in the red on this project (mostly because the books were 50g heavier than expected, which pushed shipping up a price bracket), so there will unfortunately be no donation to either 826LA or the OTW - though I’d always encourage any Critter reading this to support both of these wonderful projects if they have the means. I’ll be posting a breakdown of our income and how we spent it in the next few days, for the purposes of transparency.

I’ll keep checking this blog for the next month or two, just to make sure everything’s running smoothly, and to reblog any photos people post of their shiny new zine. If you have any issues, please do get in touch with us either here or at [email protected], and we’ll do what we can to help. Other than that - from me, and @notalwaysweak, and all the writers, thank you, and goodbye. <3

-Sparx

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Apologies for the low quality photos (my phone camera and the lighting in my room are both suboptimal), but they’re here! The Folk Tales of Exandria physical copies have arrived, and they’re beautiful. The photos here really don’t do them justice.

Most of these bad boys have been parcelled up and are ready to ship - they should be going out Saturday 18th January, at which point I’ll have more information about the shipping times you can expect depending on where in the world you are. I’m just waiting on the last of the envelopes I need… (Amazon, in its wisdom, sent me most of the envelopes I ordered, and then sent me 50 micro-SD card holders in lieu of the rest.) At that point, I’ll also give you all a breakdown of the money we’ve gotten, and where we’ve spent it, in the interests of transparency.

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us to this point - our wonderful authors who’ve written the fics, everyone who’s bought a copy and given us the money to get these printed, and especially to the mystery donor who donated two extra copies to our authors. This has been one hell of a year-long ride, and I’m so excited for everyone to finally be able to hold the end results in their hands!

-sparx

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vignette || foxglove

She does not say I love you.

Foxglove watches Tzila as she works; her hands are fast on a datapad, faster still on the old, clicky mechanical keyboard she keeps with her. Her dark fingers are long, tapered; she knows firsthand the strength of those digits, gripped tight to her hand or her shirt. She watches callouses stretch over her knuckles and the sides of her fingers as she types. She stands at her left side; it is always the left side where Tzila drops her datapads, her mugs of tea, her styluses. She holds them until Tzila needs them again. When their hands brush, she feels the calloused pads of Tzila's fingers drag lines on her palm. Thank you, lisichka echoes in her ears.

She does not say I love you.

She watches Tzila in their mornings as they break their fast; she is perfidious and persnickety about her order, except when she has not slept well or at all. Then, she shoves protein bars in her mouth with little regard for crumbs, stares listlessly at one datapad or another. There is only one thing living in a gravity well is good for, she says, and it's crumbs. Foxglove nods intently. Tzila snorts into her tea. Foxglove watches the way her hair slides over her shoulders while it is not bound high on her head, the way the light presses against it and makes it shine.

She does not say I love you. 

(She does not need to.)

#original fiction #lancer #lancer ttrpg #mech pilots #foxglove #hello! please blame my friends for giving me emotions about my characters and their characters! #foxglove is my Child and i want nothing more than for her to be held gently by the Absolute Force Of Nature And Complete Mess That Is Tzila #Anyway #please enjoy\

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And that’s all, folks!

Not all of our fics, of course, there’s a few we didn’t preview - we’ve got to leave a little mystery, after all - but that’s it for the pre-orders. They’re officially closed, so we can move on to the next phase: distribution.

Thank you to everyone who ordered a copy, and a special, massive thanks to the very kind person who ordered two extra copies to go to the writers. You’re amazing.

The next steps are now to purchase the books, and then get them all shipped out. We’ll post some pictures when we’ve got actual physical copies, and let you all know when we get them shipped, so you can know when to expect them.

As always - any questions or comments, just message us here, or see out ‘contact us’ page for more ways to get in touch.