#Sorry jtavington

[frozenartscapes]

I just wanted to tell you how much I love Power Moms. El as a doting, protective adoptive mom is my favorite thing ever.

Thank you! I’m glad you like it!

Honestly, the thing that really stood out to me about El was the fact that she is really kind and protective of the people she cares about once you get past her cold exterior. My exposure to FE3H wasn’t exactly conventional - because I don’t have a Switch but I still wanted to learn more about the characters, I just looked up videos on Youtube. So rather than getting bits and pieces of Edelgard’s character through a game playthrough, I got it all more or less right upfront.

And what I found, especially in her support conversations, is that she really does care about the people she interacts with. She sees Lysithea struggling to clean up and not only makes sure the girl is ok but offers to do the work instead. She knows Bernadetta’s terrified of her so she tries to take that into account whenever they interact, even if Bernie’s reactions can get a little frustrating. She’s even considerate to religious people like Manuela, concerned about whether or not her actions would be good for them in the long run.

Yes, she’s a very driven, headstrong and unyielding person. Yes, some of her philosophies aren’t exactly morally pure. And yes, some of her actions were pretty terrible, but the person underneath that horned crown isn’t a heartless monster. Given what she’s been through - having to watch the only people she’s ever loved slowly tortured to death one by one - I wouldn’t call her heartless so much as brokenhearted. Her heart has been shattered and reassembled by her drive for justice for her dead family, but it’s fragile. Like a broken vase that’s been glued back together with craft glue. She built up walls to protect her heart, to keep it from breaking again because there was no guarantee she’d be able to fix again.

I think in the Blue Lions/Golden Deer/Church routes, her heart does break. She’s left alone, surrounded only by people either using her or pushing her toward bad decisions, and it ultimately leads to her downfall. In the Black Eagles route, however, she gains a new family. Her Eagles, whether she wants it or not, slowly chip away at those walls around her heart. Byleth takes a freaking sledgehammer to it. But then they provide a proper glue. They start to heal what was broken. They give her something to fight for that isn’t just revenge disguised as justice.

So it makes sense, then, that after the war El would start to give more of her heart to others. Now that it’s been healing. Now that the fear of losing the people she loves isn’t as prominent. And then she finds this girl. This girl who is like a ghost of herself and her siblings that never made it out of that dungeon. El’s in a position now where she can help. She can take that broken heart of the girl and start to mend it just like her friends, no - family - had done for her.

She’ll be everything she ever wanted to have when she was first pulled out of the dark. She’ll be kind. She’ll be comforting. She’ll be protective. But, most importantly, she’ll be loving. Because love was all she ever truly needed.

#power moms #edelgard #fire emblem #fe three houses #sorry this turned into a bit of a ramble #i just have so many feelings for el #jtavington

[tishinada]

I’ve been way behind on Tumblr recently (both because of work and trying to get ahead on my writing a little for once.) And I think I’ve had several people tag me for the Tumblr crush challenge. I’m SO sorry I let this slide. I believe I was named by @shecamefromwildspace, @kunoichi-ume, and @rainofaugustsith. Thank you so much!

https://giphy.com/gifs/dancing-happy-cartoons-10UeedrT5MIfPG

And if I missed any others, I apologize profusely.

Tumblr crushes  but these are just some of the people that have made Tumblr a better place for me. :D (a list that’s sadly incomplete for lack of time): @r2smuse, @curiousartemis, @razrogue, @morlanwen,  @salaciouscrumpet, @aliyamirat, @celith-wraine, @jtavington, @melissagt, @rinskiroo, @cavalier-life, @triaelf9, @riajade01, @wrathetc, @cinlat, @shecamefromwildspace, @kunoichi-ume, @rainofaugustsith, @thievinghippo, @inyri and @faerunner

[omegastation]

jtavington replied to your post “I’m debating whether or not to keep going with ME1 transcripts or...”

Do it in whatever order you like

Yeah I don't really care much what people think about my order, but I do care about having good transcripts so yeah. Therum first. I'll have to load my previous playthrough and record everything all over again. Sigh.

edit: meant the “how dare you do it in one order you prefer, how dare you play it your way” crowd, not you all sorry

#jtavington

[jennawynn]

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1. Describe yourself how you would describe a character you’re introducing. 

She came into the room singing a song, the tune recognizable if not-well sung but the lyrics changed to whatever she had on her mind at the moment. This time, it was Bette Midler, “and I won’t be hungry anymore... because I’m goin’ to the fast food drive through, gonna get diiiiinner, goin’ to the fast foo-” She interrupted herself and laughed, her skin flushing deep red in embarrassment. She adjusted the sit of her glasses on her nose. “Sorry for your eardrums.” 

4. Are there any other fic writers you admire? If so, who and why? 

There are many and trying to list them all would take forever and I’d still forget someone so I’m going to focus on a couple that have earned admiration for things tangential to their actual writing because that’s what I feel like doing and this is my answer so :P @jtavington is one. I actually had a long, very interesting conversation a day or two ago about Unstable Equilibrium and it reminded me so much of not only the fic I loved (and how I had no idea how you were going to pull it off but I had faith you would) but also the incredible toll it took on the person behind it. There were a lot of really shitty people in the comments of that fic but the strength to keep coming back and putting figurative pen to paper for as long as you did... I admire that. You know, I can’t even narrow down the other one. All the fic writers I know who have published... I own several books by people I talk to here and the fact that those exist, the fact that you had the courage to put yourself out there for critique and potential failure... I sure as hell admire that. It’s terrifying, but seeing that it has been done has made me want to follow and do it myself. For that matter, ALL fic writers who publish their fics even if it’s just on ao3, ffn, tumblr, whatever... it takes courage to put your work out there for consumption, never knowing what someone’s going to say. So good for you all. 

7. Inspiration, time, or motivation. Choose two.

Time and motivation. Those are always the two things I’m lacking when Fieldwork’s not updating. Either I have no time or I’m not motivated enough to do that instead of one of my other things. Inspiration... I don’t know, I kind of feel like it comes when I’m working. If I have the time and motivation to think, the inspiration will follow eventually.

15. Your guilty writing pleasure?

I’m not sure I have one? 

20. 4 sentences from your work that you’re proud of.

Oh man... no. lol I don’t know if I could do four sentences, but maybe four words? 

“Korra began to sing.”

It’s the last line of the big reveal at the end of chapter 41 of Fieldwork and it’s just... simple, but at the same time, the culmination of so much that I had been building towards. When I wrote it, it just hit like a bag of bricks and I sat back and stopped writing because I knew, even though the chapter was short, that had to be a break point. Especially out of context, it looks like nothing, but the weight of it in the fic was so heavy and I hope my readers felt it as much as I did. 

#pbw #thank you! #ask meme #fell-dragon-domain

[blueraith]

I love AO3, but it is currently sleeping outside right now after throwing up on the carpet and regurgitating the long comment I wrote. Bad AO3. Now I have to wait until after work before rewriting it.

#Unstable Equilibrium #fanfiction #Sorry jtavington #:(